Category: Exchange

In part two of this series I want to share the changes that have been made to PowerShell with the release of CU1 for Exchange Server 2013 RTM. As with many other releases by Microsoft, PowerShell also gets new commands and sometimes has commands that are deprecated or removed because they are no longer needed…

I began writing this article to concentrate on the changes made in just OWA. Then I started to look at the EAC and noticed changes there as well. So this article the first in a series of posts over the next week or so that will cover changes that are in the new Exchange 2013…

A few months back I created a script to assist in the installation of Exchange 2013 RTM on Windows 2008 and 2012. This same script needed some slight modification now as the allowable version of UCMA (Unified Communications Managed API) has changed to a newer version then what was required in RTM. I’ve also had…

With the change to Exchange 2013 Cumulative Updates, Microsoft has made finding your current Exchange server version much easier. No longer will you need a PowerShell script to see which Roll-up Update you are on if you have Exchange 2007 SP3 or Exchange 2010 SP2, for example. How do you find your Exchange version? The…

In this post I am going to go through the steps on adding a new database to Exchange 2013 CU1. While this would seem like a very basic task for any Exchange environment, there is a bit of a surprise for those who were using the RTM version of Exchange Server 2013. Log into the…

Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 was released yesterday to the great delight of many Exchange engineers and consultants. One of the little noticed changes in the prerequisites that need to be installed. A while back I created a script to install all the requirements for an Exchange 2013 RTM server. This script included code for UCMA….

Find the information on the Exchange Team Blog. Take time to read the article as there is lots of useful information. Also, the Release Notes should be read as well. Look for an in-depth article on my blog soon.

Sent Items. Seems like such an innocuous part of your Outlook experience. Sent Items is simply the place where your emails are stored after you’ve sent them to a recipient. Why is this important? It helps the end user keep track of the messages he/she have sent using their mail system. Simple enough right? Well,…

While researching an article for the new Sent Items Management feature which I will post here soon, I ran into an interesting change in Exchange 2010 OWA after SP3 was applied. In a new message, the spellchecker button has been removed. Exchange 2010 SP2 Exchange 2010 SP3