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…
TechEd 2014
Looks like TechEd 2014 will be in Houston Texas from May 12-15, 2014. See here for more information:TechEd North America Official Site
Log Parser Studio 2.0
Microsoft has released a new version of the Log Parser Studio – EHLO blog page. What did Microsoft add to this version of the software? Here is the look from the previous 1.0 version:
Exchange 2013 Health and Server Reports (PS) – Part 2
In the second part of the series we’ll explore the get-serverhealth PowerShell command and what information can be delved in Exchange 2013 with it. So what is the get-serverhealth command good for? For starters, let’s look at the command and its output:
Exchange 2013 Health and Server Reports (PS) – Part 1
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 introduced new monitoring of the Exchange subsystem, which was also improved by the release of CU1. This feature is known as Managed Availability. A good description of this feature can be found on the Exchange Team blog in this post – http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/09/21/lessons-from-the-datacenter-managed-availability.aspx. What my blog post concentrates on is how to…
Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1 Released
Looks like the first Rollup Update for Exchange 2010 SP3 has been release by Microsoft’s Exchange Team. See the EHLO blog article here. You can download the update here and read the Description here. Interesting highlights from the below list: 2814847 – Rapid growth in transaction logs, CPU use, and memory consumption in Exchange Server…
