Category Archives: Exchange 2013

Busy week, lots of commentary about Exchange 2013

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Tony Redmond

It’s been a busy week. First, I ran into an Exchange 2013 bug (shock, horror, cover the eyes of any watching children) when MRS stubbornly refused to export the contents of a mailbox to a PST using the New-MailboxExportRequest cmdlet. … Continue reading →

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Missing functionality in Exchange 2013 EAC

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Tony Redmond

I’ve spent quite a bit of time going through the new browser-based Exchange Administration Center (EAC), the replacement for the now aged Exchange Management Console (EMC) in Exchange 2013 to create content for Microsoft Exchange 2013 Inside Out. As I’ve gone … Continue reading →

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Applying a retention policy to control Exchange 2013 Health Mailboxes (or trying to, anyway)

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Tony Redmond

Reading Jeff Guillet’s ExBPA blog the other day, I came across an entry describing a solution for the problem posed by Exchange 2013’s health mailboxes when journaling. The health mailboxes are new in Exchange 2013 and are used by the … Continue reading →

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Microsoft withdraws problematic updates from WSUS, but no cause to celebrate

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Tony Redmond

Yesterday I published a note on WindowsITPro.com describing the confusion that erupted when Microsoft issued KB2506143 (for Windows 2008 R2 SP1) and KB2506146 (for Windows 2008 SP2) through WSUS, a step that normally indicates to system administrators that the fixes … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2013 EAC showing some frayed edges

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Tony Redmond

Last July I wrote about the Exchange Administration Center (EAC) and how it was being introduced in Exchange 2013 to replace the creaking and slow Exchange Management Console (EMC) as featured in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007. Now that we’ve … Continue reading →

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“Exchange Unwashed” November 2012 digest

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Tony Redmond

November was another busy month for the “Exchange Unwashed” blog. Here’s the digest of the articles that were published. Visio stencils released but no news of Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 or TechNet updates (November 29). Microsoft released a very useful … Continue reading →

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Microsoft increases prices for Office products – time to chat with your sales rep

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft customers probably didn’t enjoy reading about the new prices for Office 2013 products that are reportedly on the way from December 1. The date is important because that’s when the Office 2013 versions of applications like Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, … Continue reading →

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Kemp reveals LoadMaster changes after Microsoft drops TMG

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Tony Redmond

In my post that discusses the notion of creating protocol-specific namespaces for use with Exchange 2013, I wondered what the load balancing vendors would react to the changing landscape of the Exchange world. Of course, it’s not just the new … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2013 and the case for protocol-specific namespaces

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Tony Redmond

Perhaps the Exchange developers were unaware of the law of unintended consequences when they decided to change Exchange’s load balancing requirement from layer 7 to layer 4 of the network stack. For the most part, the change is wonderful. For … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest for October 2012

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Tony Redmond

October 2012 was quite a busy month for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsItPro.com with 11 articles appearing. Here’s the regular monthly digest: Exchange 2013 reduces number of mounted databases to 50 (October 30). I wonder how many companies run … Continue reading →

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