Since the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Exchange 2013, you have been waiting for our sizing and capacity planning guidance. This is the first official release of our guidance in this area, and updates to our TechNet content will follow in a future milestone. As we continue to learn more from our own internal deployments…
Year: 2013
Public Folders and Exchange Online
Update 6/5/2013: We have updated the blog post to add the link to the first TechNet document on public folder Hybrid scenarios. “You mean… this is really happening?” Last November we gave you a teaser about public folders in the new Exchange. We explained how public folders were given a lot of attention to bring…
Introducing Message Analyzer, an SMTP header analysis tool in Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer
Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a web-based tool that provides administrators and end users with the ability to run connectivity diagnostics for our servers to test common issues with Microsoft Exchange, Lync and Office 365. The tool started as Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer, and based on your feedback we’ve continued to add functionality…
Troubleshoot your Exchange 2010 database backup functionality with VSSTester script
Download Frequently in support, we encounter several backup related calls for Exchange 2010 databases. A sample of common issues we hear from our customers are: “My backup software is not able to take a successful snapshot of the databases” “My backups have been failing for quite a while. I have several thousand log files consuming…
Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups and Disk Sector Sizes
These days, some customers are deploying Exchange databases and log files on advanced format (4K) drives. Although these drives support a physical sector size of 4096, many vendors are emulating 512 byte sectors in order to maintain backwards compatibility with application and operating systems. This is known as 512 byte emulation (512e). Windows 2008 and…
Updated: Exchange Server 2013 Deployment Assistant
We’re happy to announce updates to the Exchange Server 2013 Deployment Assistant! We’ve updated the Deployment Assistant to include the following new scenarios: Upgrading from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 Upgrading from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Configuring an Exchange 2013-based hybrid deployment for Exchange 2007 organizations These new scenarios provide step-by-step guidance about how…
Troubleshooting Rapid Growth in Databases and Transaction Log Files in Exchange Server 2007 and 2010
A few years back, a very detailed blog post was released on Troubleshooting Exchange 2007 Store Log/Database growth issues. We wanted to revisit this topic with Exchange 2010 in mind. While the troubleshooting steps needed are virtually the same, we thought it would be useful to condense the steps a bit, make a few updates…
Preserving Activation Blocks After Performing DAG Member Maintenance
In Exchange 2010, when a database availability group (DAG) member needs service, it can be placed into maintenance mode. Exchange 2010 includes scripts the StartDagServerMaintenance.ps1 and StopDagServerMaintenace.ps1 scripts to place/remove a DAG member from maintenance mode. For a summary of what these scripts do, see this post. Within a DAG, it is not uncommon to…
Sending common or canned responses from a shared or repository mailbox
As a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE), I assist companies with Lotus Notes and GroupWise migrations to Exchange/Outlook environments and have found that different applications act differently. One of the common questions is: Can Outlook/Exchange send canned responses from a common mailbox? The answer is yes, but it is done a little differently than other…
Released: Exchange Server 2013 RTM Cumulative Update 1
download release notes We know a lot of you have been waiting for this, and so it is with great excitement that we announce that Exchange Server 2013 RTM Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) has been released to the web and is available for immediate download! This is the first release using the new servicing model…