Category Archives: Exchange 2013

Exchange Unwashed Digest May 2013

Posted on June 12, 2013 by

May 2013 produced some thoughts about site mailboxes, CU1 improvements, planning tools, and even a Windows Phone application in the Exchange Unwashed Blog. Here’s what happened in detail. Using an Office 365 free trial domain to test software (May 30): … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed digest: April 2013

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

April 2013 saw the appearance of Exchange 2013 CU1 to release the restrictions that had previously stopped anyone running a “legacy” version of Exchange from installing Exchange 2013 into an existing organization. More stuff happened during April too, and some … Continue reading →

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Low book prices don’t reflect the work involved

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

I wonder whether I should feel offended that Amazon.com has priced Paul Robichaux’s book, “Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Inside Out: Connectivity, Clients, and UM” at $30.21 whereas my book “Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability” is … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed blog digest March 2013

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

I have been remiss in updating this site with information about posts to my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. All I can say is that WindowsITPro.com has been through the trauma of a content management system (CMS) upgrade. Like all … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2013 Inside Out appears on Amazon

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

The wheels of the publishing market turn in mysterious ways. At least, their ways are mysterious to those who don’t publish books, including the authors who actually write the text. Earlier this month I let you know that O’Reilly will … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability makes an appearance

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

The nice people at O’Reilly Media have posted details of book one of the two-part Exchange 2013 Inside Out set. My book covers the mailbox server and high availability while Paul Robichaux is deep in the process of writing all … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2013 CU1 appears

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

Exchange 2013 CU1 has now appeared. My review of the new release is available on WindowsITPro.com, where I have also posted some notes on the approach needed to update mailbox servers that are members of a Database Availability Group (DAG). … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2013: Stuck messages in OWA’s Drafts folder and DNS

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

One of the common things that OWA users notice about Exchange 2013 is that outgoing messages sometimes appear to get “stuck” in the Drafts folder. Not only do messages seem to linger in Drafts, no trace of the outbound messages … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2013: Using crimson events to track transaction log truncation within a DAG

Posted on March 15, 2013 by

Prior to Exchange 2007, transaction log truncation (removal) used to be a pretty simple affair. A successful good backup would truncate the log set or, if you used circular logging, Exchange used a small set of logs to capture transactions … Continue reading →

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Some side-effects of the Exchange 2013 cumulative update strategy

Posted on March 8, 2013 by

Now that we have had a chance to digest the ramifications of the new cumulative update strategy for Exchange 2013 as laid out by Microsoft, it’s a good time to speculate how things will work in a practical sense. Three … Continue reading →

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