Category: Exchange 2013
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Exchange Unwashed blog digest March 2013
I have been remiss in updating this site with information about posts to my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. All I can say is that WindowsITPro.com has been through the trauma of a content management system (CMS) upgrade. Like all technology migrations, people (like me) have been affected by user…
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Exchange 2013 Inside Out appears on Amazon
The wheels of the publishing market turn in mysterious ways. At least, their ways are mysterious to those who don’t publish books, including the authors who actually write the text. Earlier this month I let you know that O’Reilly will soon release draft chapters of my book Microsoft Exchange Server…
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Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability makes an appearance
The nice people at O’Reilly Media have posted details of book one of the two-part Exchange 2013 Inside Out set. My book covers the mailbox server and high availability while Paul Robichaux is deep in the process of writing all about the client access server, clients, and other wonderful topics…
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Exchange 2013 CU1 appears
Exchange 2013 CU1 has now appeared. My review of the new release is available on WindowsITPro.com, where I have also posted some notes on the approach needed to update mailbox servers that are members of a Database Availability Group (DAG). Happy Reading! Tony
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Exchange 2013: Stuck messages in OWA’s Drafts folder and DNS
One of the common things that OWA users notice about Exchange 2013 is that outgoing messages sometimes appear to get “stuck” in the Drafts folder. Not only do messages seem to linger in Drafts, no trace of the outbound messages ever shows up in the Outbox. Or so it seems,…
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Exchange 2013: Using crimson events to track transaction log truncation within a DAG
Prior to Exchange 2007, transaction log truncation (removal) used to be a pretty simple affair. A successful good backup would truncate the log set or, if you used circular logging, Exchange used a small set of logs to capture transactions and would reuse the files once the transactions in the…
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Some side-effects of the Exchange 2013 cumulative update strategy
Now that we have had a chance to digest the ramifications of the new cumulative update strategy for Exchange 2013 as laid out by Microsoft, it’s a good time to speculate how things will work in a practical sense. Three points deserve some debate. The first is the cadence for…
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Can Windows servers consume untreated Internet traffic safely?
Last September, Microsoft dropped a bombshell when they announced that they were dropping development of the Threat Management Gateway (TMG) product along with their decision to cease production of on-premises ant-virus products. The problem for the Exchange community was that TMG had become the de facto choice as a reverse…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest February 2013
February was quite an interesting month, if you like tracking various bugs and arguing whether Exchange 2013 is fit for deployment. Here’s what happened in my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com during the month: Exchange 2010 Datacenter switchover tool (February 26): It’s often difficult to decide on the best possible…
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“Can’t delete email” problem emerges for Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 and Exchange 2010 SP3
Microsoft’s new cumulative update strategy for Exchange 2013 calls for updates to be shipped to customers every thirteen weeks. An expectation exists, at least on the part of Microsoft, that customers will then install the updates soon afterwards, if only to keep their systems in a supported state. Delivering updates…
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