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Category: Exchange

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest June 2013

    June was the month of waiting for Exchange 2013 CU2, but lots of other things deserved discussion and featured in my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. Here’s what happened during the month: Outlook Web App 2013 and its morphing user interface (June 27): Microsoft gave Outlook Web App yet another…

  • Early access versions of Exchange 2013 Inside Out now available

    O’Reilly has made early access versions of Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability and Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Clients, Connectivity and UM available for $39.99 each. The deal lasts until July 3. Early access editions allow you to get electronic access to the raw and unedited (well, edited but not completely…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest May 2013

    May 2013 produced some thoughts about site mailboxes, CU1 improvements, planning tools, and even a Windows Phone application in the Exchange Unwashed Blog. Here’s what happened in detail. Using an Office 365 free trial domain to test software (May 30): Sometimes it is just difficult to get all the parts…

  • Exchange Unwashed digest: April 2013

    April 2013 saw the appearance of Exchange 2013 CU1 to release the restrictions that had previously stopped anyone running a “legacy” version of Exchange from installing Exchange 2013 into an existing organization. More stuff happened during April too, and some was even discussed in my “Exchange Unwashed” blog, as explained…

  • Low book prices don’t reflect the work involved

    I wonder whether I should feel offended that Amazon.com has priced Paul Robichaux’s book, “Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Inside Out: Connectivity, Clients, and UM” at $30.21 whereas my book “Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability” is cheaper at $27.26. I pointed out to Paul that his…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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,…