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Tag: Exchange 2010 SP2

  • Exploring Exchange 2010 SP2 RU3

    On May 29, 2012, the Exchange Customer Experience Team (CXP) released Roll-up Update 3 (RU3) for Exchange 2010 SP2. RU3 comes some six weeks after its RU2 predecessor (April 16) and as always among the 42 individual fixes, this update contains an eclectic mixture of ho-hum and important fixes. My…

  • Analyzing what’s in the Exchange 2010 SP2 RU1 update

    Microsoft released Exchange 2010 SP2 RU1 (roll-up update 1 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2, or version 14.2.283.3) on Monday, February 13, 2012. As you probably know, a roll-up update provides a complete set of fixes for a software product and once applied, brings a product as up-to-date in terms…

  • December 2011 articles posted on WindowsITPro.com

    Happy New Year to all! This post lists the articles that I posted to my WindowsITPro.com blog during December 2011. Enjoy! Reporting Exchange Server 2010 Client Access Licenses (December 29) discusses the two types of Client Access Licenses (CALs) supported by Exchange 2010 and offers some advice as to how you…

  • Installing Exchange 2010 SP2

    By now you’ll have read the news that Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Exchange 2010. If not, you can read my article on WindowsITPro.com and then go and fetch the necessary bits from the Microsoft Download Center. Installing SP2 is a relatively straightforward affair and Exchange 2010…

  • Exchange General Manager speaks at DevConnections

    Good technology conferences allow attendees to meet movers and shakers in the industry, specifically people who are relevant to the technical interests of the attendees. I think that the Exchange Connections conference has a good record in this respect and so it was that Kevin Allison, General Manager of Exchange…

  • Answering questions from SearchExchange about Office 365 deployments

    Last week I sat down (in virtual terms) with Matt Gervais, site editor of SearchExchange.com to discuss some questions arising from a recent survey that they had done of Exchange customers to determine their attitude to Office 365.  You can download the taped conversation at your leisure. The questions I was…

  • Chatting about Exchange 2010 SP2 and Office 365 with Matt Gervais

    Last week, Matt Gervais, site editor of SearchExchange.com, tracked me down in France to chat about my views about Exchange 2010 SP2, Office 365, virtualizing Exchange, and whether Exchange administrators are threatened by the cloud. Matt captured our conversation in a podcast, which you can now download from SearchExchange.com. Now…

  • Exchange 2010 SP2: Not the headline release that SP1 was

    As part of their announcements at TechEd, Microsoft revealed the worst secret in the Exchange world and told us that they’re working on Exchange 2010 SP2. The software is still in a restricted beta and won’t be available for some time yet, but the outline of the new features is solid…

  • A peek into the future from Exchange’s General Manager

    One of the joys of attending a conference as a speaker is the chance to listen to others once your session is over. My keynote at TEC was at 8AM on Monday morning so I had most of Monday and Tuesday to pick other sessions to attend before I had…