All things Exchange
Back with the first few releases of Exchange, product updates were made available via service packs. This continued into the Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 days. It seems like an eternity ago, and dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth, when Exchange 2003 SP2 was released in October of 2005 as a whopping 109 MB download.
Exchange 2007 moved to a different servicing strategy which added a predicti… Read the rest “How To Check Exchange Rollup Version”
Mailstorm.exe was a utility to send multiple test emails to validate and test Exchange in the 5.5 timeframe, and was used on some of the Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses.
The utility is no longer used since relied upon a local Outlook install, and my fuzzy brain recalls issues with moving to "current" versions of Outlook such as Office XP.
This is no great loss as it is easy to send test … Read the rest “Quick Tip – Sending Multiple Test Emails Using PowerShell (AKA Mailstorm)”
Previously Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 were released to the TechNet subscriber download centre. Prior to Windows Server 2012 R2 being tested and validated by the Exchange Product Group, we had asked to pause deployments of 2012 R2 DCs into environments where Exchange was installed.
Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1, Exchange 2010 SP3 RU5 and Exchange 2007 SP3 RU13 were all released today, the 25… Read the rest “Exchange Support For Windows Server 2012 R2”
Via this blog we have discussed the fundamentals of Exchange Autodiscover, and also issues around the Set-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory cmdlet.
At this point the message should be out there with regards to how Outlook functions internally and externally to locate Autodiscover and the difference that having the workstation domain joined makes. Lync on the other hand is a different beastie!
Both the O… Read the rest “Exchange Autodiscover & Lync”
RPC Client Access is the main conduit for Outlook clients communicating to Exchange 2010. So when something happens to it, the impact can be classified as “not good”…..
While Exchange 2010 SP3 RU2 addresses issues with RPC Client Access that may be caused by RPC Client Access threads hanging on a mailbox server that is experiencing issues, there is an additional update that was recently released to … Read the rest “Exchange RPC Client Access Service Crash”
Even though some of the very old KBs, which now refer to unsupported products, state that taking databases offline to run periodic offline defragmentation with ESEUTIL is not recommended some folks in the field still want to do this.
Previously when there was only a single copy of a database, running offline defragmentation would cause minimal impact, apart from the time required to do the defragm… Read the rest “Offline Defrag And DAG Databases, Oh My!”
From time to time we need to see how our Exchange databases are doing so that they are being managed proactively. One aspect is tracking size and the utilization of each database. At the simplest level we want to ensure that the database and transaction log LUNs do not run out of disk space. That would be bad.
Sometimes we want to take a peek at the database, and check that the size of the datab… Read the rest “How To Check Database White Space In Exchange”
Update 14-8-2013: The security update for Exchange 2013 has been temporarily removed due to an issue with the search infrastructure.
If you have installed it please refer to article “Update 2874216 breaks the content index in Exchange Server 2013”
Update 14-8-2013: Please see an update on the Exchange team blog.
Update 27-8-2013: Updated release of the security update for Exchange 2013 CU1 and CU… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Security Update Available For MS13-061”
Exchange 2013 RTM CU2 was noted to have an issue with the permissions of migrated public folders. The Exchange team has released an updated version of CU2 to address this. This replaces the original download for CU2.
The updated build is available from the Microsoft download centre. Knowledgebase article 2859928 contains a description of CU2. As with CU1, it allows on premise installations to co-ex… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 RTM CU2 Updated Build Available”
After seeing several posts and some folks discussing whether or not Exchange supports the Hyper-V Replica feature I thought it would be prudent to address the following:
For some background reading on Hyper-V and the Replica feature; the component poster and downloada… Read the rest “Exchange And Hyper-V Replica Support”