We are now at the end of the Exchange 2013 RTM support lifecycle phase. Yes, it really has been two years since Exchange 2013 was released….. At this time Exchange 2013 RTM, CU1, CU2 and CU3 are no longer supported. Customers should be on a recent Exchange 2013 build. Exchange 2013 CU4 is also known…
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Viewing Exchange 2013 Public Folders In OWA
The Exchange team have been working very hard to develop the feature set of modern public folders. Exchange 2013 CU8 added multiple scale increases. In addition, CU8 also added a feature to allow viewing modern public folders in Exchange 2013 OWA. Calendar and Contact Modern Public Folders favourites added in Outlook are now accessible in…
Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Script
One of the recent additions to the TechNet script gallery was this nifty little contribution from Marc Nivens. This script reports on OS, system, and hardware information in addition to the Exchange 2013 sizing recommendations on TechNet. It can be ran remotely, against a single server or a group of servers. It takes some of…
Exchange 2013 Network Port Reference
There have been a few requests for an Exchange 2013 network port reference article. Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 both had sections on TechNet with that title. While the port reference is good to obtain a high level understand what Exchange is doing, many deployments would then start to deploy firewalls which blocked network traffic…
Exchange 2013 CU8 Released
Exchange 2013 CU8 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2013 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2013 and can be used to install a fresh server or to…
Update 015-027 Revised (3002657)
In the March 2015 security bulletin, update 15-027 was released. This is to address a vulnerability in the Netlogon component of windows that could allow spoofing. The security bulleting for 015-027 is available in the Security TechCenter. KB 3002657 provides details of the update. Please be aware that the update has been revised, and version…
How To Check Exchange Schema And Object Values In AD
This content was extracted from a separate upcoming Exchange 2013 schema post to maintain focus on viewing the Exchange schema attributes. Exchange 2013 admins should assume that a Cumulative Update (CU) will have AD schema updates. The release notes and release blog post will discuss this in detail for each CU. This is very similar…
Exchange 2013 Workshop Links – February 2015
This is link throw down for items that we discussed in a recent Exchange 2013 workshop. Well, actually two workshops. Depending upon which one you attended the additional links will be slightly different. Exchange 2013 Client Connectivity in an Exchange 2013 Coexistence Environment Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2010 Coexistence with Kerberos Authentication – beware…
Exchange ActiveSync Script To Grandfather Existing Devices
As mentioned in the previous posts in this services, the configuration of Exchange ActiveSync was something that is commonly overlooked by many a consultant. Exchange ActiveSync allows any user to synchronise any device by default. If this is what your organisation wants to do, then you are good to go. If not, then changes must…
Retrieving Packets Received Discarded Perfmon Counter From Multiple Servers–Updated February 2015
On the Retrieving Packets Received Discarded Perfmon Counter From Multiple Servers post, Tim commented that he had found the script very useful when troubleshooting discarded packets on Exchange 2013 DAG servers. Using PowerShell it is very easy to extend the search to discover which other servers are impacted by the packets received discarded issue. Since…