Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
In this article I describe the migration from Exchange Server 2010 to Exchange Server 2013. I have created the following test environment for the migration: Test environment DC01 is a Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller that provides the Active Directory forest "frankysweb.local". Exchange 2010 SP3 on Server 2008 R2 is installed on Server EX2010. The Service Pack 3 ... Read more
As previously announced, CU1 for Exchange 2013 was released today. The update now also supports coexistence between Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2007/2010. Details about the CU1 can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/04/02/released-exchange-server-2013-rtm-cumulative-update-1.aspx The Technet articles have not yet been updated. The CU1 includes the complete Exchange setup package. This means that existing Exchange 2013 ... Read more
I am curious whether the date will be kept. The CU1 for Exchange 2013 has been announced for 02.04.2013. CU1 enables Exchange 2007/2010 servers to coexist with Exchange 2013. CU1 will then also support the migration from Exchange 2007/2010 to Exchange 2013. http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/25/exchange-2013-rtm-cu1-status.aspx Time to prepare the test environments
I use PRTG to monitor my systems, and the monitoring options are many and varied. PRTG even comes with a whole set of sensors for Exchange. At first glance, you'll be overwhelmed, PRTG comes with over 100 sensors for a single Exchange server. However, after I pruned the sensors a little, I realized that ... Read more
I have already reported on the Sophos UTM Firewall, which is even free for private use. Unfortunately, there was the restriction that the Web Application Firewall previously did not provide Outlook Anywhere support. But now that Forefront TMG has been discontinued, other manufacturers seem to be jumping on the bandwagon and adding Outlook Anywhere support to their products. Read more
Exchange Web Services (EWS) are becoming increasingly important. With the EWS, applications are able to access many of the Exchange functions. The EWS interface has been implemented since Exchange 2007. I know many applications that still access Exchange via MAPI, all these applications will no longer be Exchange 2013 compatible, as the protocol will only be ... Read more
Some time ago I already described a problem with the value "MailNickname", which leads to the address lists not being updated. The same problem can occur with e-mail activated public folders. The background is that in Exchange 2003 times the mail nickname (alias) was still allowed to contain special characters such as spaces etc.. With Exchange 2010 ... Read more
The popular Jetstress tool has been released for Exchange 2013. It can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36849 Jetstress can be used to analyze database performance so that bottlenecks or performance problems can be identified before the server goes live. Unfortunately, Loadgen is not yet available for Exchange 2013.
Anyone who has followed my howtos (Server 2008R2-Exchange 2010 and Server 2012-Exchange 2013) for an internal certification authority and SAN certificates may also want to issue certificates with a validity of more than 2 years. A validity of more than 2 years can already be specified in the certificate template. However, the certificates are still only valid for ... Read more
In this series of articles, I set up a highly available test environment with Kemp load balancers. As it was a test environment, I was more interested in the function than the optimum. However, there are a few things that can be tweaked to optimize the environment. Here are the most important ones: Switch on stateful failover and reduce HA timeouts: ... Read more
