Category: Exchange

In the final part of the series on new PowerShell cmdlets in Exchange Server 2013 Preview I will cover any cmdlet outside of GET and SET commands. Here are the remaining commands: Here are some examples of the commands above. Browse TechNet for more information on each one.

In the process of decommissioning Exchange 2003 after moving all the mailboxes to Exchange 2010 we experienced an issue with the OAB generation. A pair of events, 1028 and 1018, would appear in the event logs: (1028)

For Part 2 of this series I am concentrating on the new SET commands available in Exchange Server 2013 Preview. To get a list of the SET based commands simply type in (in the Exchange Server Management Shell): get-command set*

The Exchange Server 2013 Preview has been out for a month or so and I’ve been trying it out in a lab environment. At the same time I’ve been working on some complex PowerShell scripts for the consulting gigs I am working on. As such I thought I would spend some time on the new…

With the introduction of Exchange Server 2013 Preview, Microsoft has made some changes to the Windows Services that are required to run Exchange. Please remember this is a Preview (BETA) version of Exchange Server and anything written here could change once the product goes RTM (Released To Manufacturer). A couple of noticible changes are the removal of the…

The script I created to check for Exchange Server 2013 Preview prerequisites has been modified to check for either Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or Windows Server 2012 Preview operating systems. Download the updated script here.

After noticing the lack of a script to help install the Exchange Server 2013 Preview prerequisites and creating a basic one for Windows 2008 R2 SP1 OS installs, I’ve taken a few days to make some major updates. The script now checks for either Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or Windows Server 2012 Preview for…

See the Exchange Team blog here for information: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/08/14/released-update-rollup-4-for-exchange-2010-service-pack-2.aspx See the Roll-Up Update page here – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2706690 Download the Roll-Up Update here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30478 Twenty two updates were included in this Roll-Up Update. Quick run down of the updates:

In my previous post I wrote a script to install all the Exchange Server 2013 Preview prerequisites. This post is a follow-up to that script. This new script will do a quick check on what should be installed for either the CAS or the Mailbox role for Windows 2008 R2 SP1. Sample results will look…

*** UPDATE *** Just corrected some issues with one of the prereq’s not installing. Also corrected grammar and misspellings. While building my lab for Exchange 2013 Preview I was struck by how much of a pain the prerequisite installation was for my lab so I began working on an install script to handle this.   I…