Back with the first few releases of Exchange, product updates were made available via service packs. This continued into the Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 days. It seems like an eternity ago, and dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth, when Exchange 2003 SP2 was released in October of 2005 as a whopping 109 MB download….
Tag: Exchange 2013
Exchange Support For Windows Server 2012 R2
Previously Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 were released to the TechNet subscriber download centre. Prior to Windows Server 2012 R2 being tested and validated by the Exchange Product Group, we had asked to pause deployments of 2012 R2 DCs into environments where Exchange was installed. Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1, Exchange 2010 SP3…
Offline Defrag And DAG Databases, Oh My!
Even though some of the very old KBs, which now refer to unsupported products, state that taking databases offline to run periodic offline defragmentation with ESEUTIL is not recommended some folks in the field still want to do this. Previously when there was only a single copy of a database, running offline defragmentation would cause…
Exchange 2013 Security Update Available For MS13-061
Update 14-8-2013: The security update for Exchange 2013 has been temporarily removed due to an issue with the search infrastructure. If you have installed it please refer to article “Update 2874216 breaks the content index in Exchange Server 2013” Update 14-8-2013: Please see an update on the Exchange team blog. Update 27-8-2013: Updated release of…
Allow Users To Manage Distribution Groups Without Creating New Ones
In a previous post we discussed a scenario where users were delegated the capability to create Mail Enabled Contacts in Active Directory using a custom RBAC role. As part of the solution, we enabled the MyDistributionGroups Role. While this may meet the needs of most organisations it does introduce one issue where users who are…
Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Contact Management
Update 21-11-2013: If you want the additional contact fields to be edited then please review this post. I had an interesting question the other week about solving a business challenge a customer had with regards to delegating the creation of contact objects in Active Directory. In their previous messaging system users were managing their own…
Exchange 2013 RTM CU2 Updated Build Available
Exchange 2013 RTM CU2 was noted to have an issue with the permissions of migrated public folders. The Exchange team has released an updated version of CU2 to address this. This replaces the original download for CU2. The updated build is available from the Microsoft download centre. Knowledgebase article 2859928 contains a description of CU2. …
Exchange And Hyper-V Replica Support
After seeing several posts and some folks discussing whether or not Exchange supports the Hyper-V Replica feature I thought it would be prudent to address the following: Does Exchange Support Hyper-V Replica? Does Hyper-V Support Exchange? How Do I use Exchange and Hyper-V Replica? What Is Hyper-V Replica For some background reading on Hyper-V…
Patching Exchange? Don’t Overlook Outlook
When Microsoft performs an Exchange Risk Assessment Program (ExRAP) with a customer there are several work items related to patching. We discuss how the: Server hardware, firmware and drivers get updated Server OS gets updated Desktop OS gets updated AV gets updated Exchange Service Packs and Rollups get installed Most customers have an appreciation…
Exchange 2013 RTM CU2 Released
Update 12-7-2013: Please note there is an issue with Public Folder Permissions in CU2. Details here. Update 29-7-2013: Please note CU2 has been re-released to resolve the Public Folder issue. Details here. The Exchange team have announced the second instalment of love for Exchange 2013 RTM – Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) is now available…