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OAB Improvements in Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 5
Cumulative Update 5 (CU5) for Exchange Server 2013 will be released soonTM, but before that happens, I wanted to make you aware of a behavior change in the Offline Address Book that is shipping in CU5....
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Site Resilience Impact on Availability
This article continues the analysis I started in my previous article, DAG: beyond the “A”.We all understand that a good technology solution must have high levels of availability, and that simplicity...
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Protecting against Rogue Administrators
Occasionally I am asked the following question – how can I protect the messaging environment from a rogue administrator? There are essentially two concerns being asked in this question:How do I protect...
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Those pesky lazy indices
In Exchange 2013 there are indices within a given mailbox database. The indices are created, maintained, and deleted by the Information Store Worker Process associated with a given database. These...
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Introducing Microsoft Ignite – meet us in Chicago
This morning on The Official Microsoft Blog, we revealed more details about our unified technology event for event for enterprises in May. The event will be known as Microsoft Ignite. If you are one of...
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Come get your Calculator Updates!
Today, we released updated versions of both the Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator and the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator.The Exchange 2010 version is an incremental...
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OAB Improvements in Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 7
Note: Cumulative Update 7 (CU7) for Exchange Server 2013 will be released soonTM.Back in May, I discussed the changes we introduced in Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 5. Specifically with CU5 and...
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On-Premises Legacy Public Folder Coexistence for Exchange 2013 Cumulative...
What are we talking about today?In Exchange 2013 CU5 (yes 5, V, cinco, fem, and cinque) we started implementing changes to how Legacy Public Folder endpoint discovery will be performed by Outlook (for...
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Concerning Trends Discovered During Several Critical Escalations
Over the last several months, I have been involved in several critical customer escalations (what we refer to as critsits) for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013. As a result of my involvement, I have...
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Using an Azure VM as a DAG Witness Server
Update 8/13/15: Since publication of this blog post, there have been change in our Azure support statement related to Exchange Server. Please see KB 2721672 for more information.I’m happy to announce...
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OWA Forms Based Auth Logoff Changes in Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 9 –...
Update - 2/9/15: Since publishing this blog we made a decision to push one aspect of this change to CU9 to allow some partners a little more time to adapt to this new behavior. The new signout.aspx...
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Get the inside scoop on Exchange at Microsoft Ignite
This morning we published the first look at the Ignite session catalog providing you a better view of what to expect at Ignite. Ignite brings together the Exchange Conference with TechEd and other...
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Configuring Multiple OWA/ECP Virtual Directories on the Exchange 2013 Client...
We have previously published guidance for setting up multiple OWA and ECP virtual directories for Exchange Server 2007 and 2010, and now it is the turn of Exchange Server 2013.The eagle eyed amongst...
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Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2010 Coexistence with Kerberos Authentication
In April 2011, I documented our recommendation around utilizing Kerberos authentication for MAPI clients to address scalability limits with NTLM authentication. The solution leverages deploying an...
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Exchange On-Premises TAP accepting nominations (again)
It has been almost exactly two years now that we had a post about our Exchange On-Premises TAP program and how you can (and why you would want to) nominate yourself for the program. Well, the time is...
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Managed Availability Responders
Responders are the final critical part of Managed Availability. Recall that Probes are how Monitors obtain accurate information about the experience your users are receiving. Responders are what the...
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Be the first to learn what’s next for Exchange and Office 365 at Microsoft...
This morning we released the complete list of sessions offered at Microsoft Ignite, including the full list of Exchange sessions. Ignite is the premier event for the Exchange community, bringing...
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Coming soon: A first look at Exchange Server 2016
Less than three weeks to go until Microsoft Ignite kicks off in Chicago! Based on how many members of the sellout crowd have identified themselves as Microsoft Exchange Conference alumni, it looks like...
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Generating user message profiles for use with the Exchange Calculators
Greetings Exchange Community! My name is Dan Sheehan, and I work as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft, specializing in Microsoft Exchange. As a long time Exchange engineer I am an avid PowerShell...
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Exchange 2013 Calculator Updates
Today, we released an updated version of the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator.In addition to numerous bug fixes, this version includes new functionality: CPU utilization table,...
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