Migrating Public Folders from 2007/2010 to 2013 requires quite a different process than any previous Public Folder migrations. With the architectural changes made in 2013 this should be no surprise as we now need to replicate data from a database to a mailbox. As with all migrations there are sometimes things that are out of…
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Microsoft Exchange Server
MMCUG Kick Off Meeting
After nearly two years in hiatus, the Midwest Messaging and Collaboration User Group (MMCUG) is meeting again! This is a bit of a late notice as the meeting is tomorrow (August 21) from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM. More information on the meeting can be found at this site. We will have food, presentations, and…
Migrating Public Folders to 2013 from 2010
So, you’ve installed your shiny new Exchange 2013 Server into your Exchange Org. Now you need to get it prepped for your users to migrate and you want to get a copy of your Public Folder data over to 2013. How do you do this since Public Folder replication is no longer an option? Public…
New Rollup Updates Released
Looks like a series of updates have been released by Microsoft for various versions of Exchange Server. See this article from the Exchange Team at Microsoft. Here is the list of updates: Update Rollup 11 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2 Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010…
Outlook Compatibility with Exchange 20xx
This past weekend I moved all of my personal mailboxes from Exchange 2010 SP3 to Exchange Server 2013 CU2. On my client workstation I use Office 2007, which incidentally will be the next software at home to get . What this upgrade brought to me was the normal pain of a user migration where one…
Exchange 2013 Logging – Part 1
In this multi-part blog series I review the various logging directories and associated files that are present in Exchange 2013 RTM CU1. With Exchange 2013, logging has gone up a another level. Under the logging directory there are numerous folders containing these log files, which is why Microsoft recommends having a 30 GB volume for…
Exchange 2013 CU2 – Out Now
For those of you on top of the latest update news, you know that CU2 was released this week. Full notes on the update are located here. As with any release from Microsoft’s Exchange team, there seems to be constant tinkering with the available features in PowerShell. Here are some PowerShell commands that have been…
Exchange 2013 ActiveSync and Diagnostic Logging
So. You’ve got Exchange 2013 now right? CU1? (Why not CU2? … it’s out now…) Well, either way you’re using Exchange 2013. Now all of your users want to connect their iPhones, Androids, Windows Phone, and BlackBerries to your shiny new server. As you deploy them, 90-99% go perfect. No issues, no complaints…. But then…
MVP for Exchange Server!
I am happy to say that I have been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award! Dear Damian Scoles, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2013 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your…
Exchange 2010 SP2 to SP3 Org Prep error
At home I run an Exchange 2010 Server for my personal emails. I also use it for testing scripts and other features in Exchange. Recently I’ve been involved in quite a few Exchange 2013 designs/deployments and decided that I needed to upgrade my home server as well. Since my server was running SP2 I knew…
