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  • Busy week, lots of commentary about Exchange 2013

    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. The job would get to the 10% stage where the…

  • Missing functionality in Exchange 2013 EAC

    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 through the various sections of EAC, I’ve noted where bits…

  • Exchange 2013 EAC showing some frayed edges

    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 had some time to assess the finished object, as shipped…

  • “Exchange Unwashed” November 2012 digest

    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 update of the Visio stencils that many use to create…

  • Kemp reveals LoadMaster changes after Microsoft drops TMG

    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 slimmed-down and nearly stateless Client Access Server (CAS) that creates…

  • Analyzing Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5

    Microsoft has re-released Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 (v2) – This update should fix the DAG problem that was reported soon after the original release. However, protect yourself by making sure to test RU5 thoroughly before it goes anywhere near a production server! RU5 V2 does not include KB2748870 and it seems…

  • Exchange 2013 and the case for protocol-specific namespaces

    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 some, especially those who have to manage systems that cater…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest for October 2012

    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 an Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG) with more than…

  • Outlook Anywhere coming to a CAS server near you soon

    If you’re running Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 today and want to introduce Exchange 2013 at some point in the future (subject to code being available to permit version interoperability – see below), you’re going to have to put Exchange 2013 Client Access Servers (CAS) into operation. Ideally, the Exchange…

  • Protecting Exchange mailbox databases against rogue administrators

    Jürgen Hasslauer gave an interesting talk at The Experts Conference (TEC) in Barcelona covering the features included in Exchange 2013 to monitor and control access to sensitive data. The talk was based on his experience of assessing Exchange against the requirements of a German government customer that is migrating from…