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Author of a book – PowerShell cookbook

Author of a book – PowerShell cookbook9427EN_MockupCover_Cookbook

If you have missed the news on my twitter, I can tell you that the last 6 months I’ve been busy with writing a book called “Microsoft Exchange 2013 PowerShell Cookbook: second edition” for Packt Publishing. That’s also why the blog not have been updated that much lately, now it’s time to startup with the

Exchange Server 2013 Preview – Part 2: How to do the Basic configuration

Exchange Server 2013 Preview – Part 2: How to do the Basic configurationimage_thumb.png

If you haven’t read it already, I did post a complete guide for installing Exchange 2013, it can be found here. That was part 1, now it’s time for part 2. Which of course is the configuration of the server setup. We have lots of changes between how you configured Exchange 2007/2010 and 2013. First

Exchange Server 2013 Preview – Part 1: Complete guide of how to perform the installation

Exchange Server 2013 Preview – Part 1: Complete guide of how to perform the installationimage.png

Since Exchange Server 2013 beta was released yesterday I’m glad to announce that my first installation is done and here’s a complete walkthrough. My setup is basic, using one server as domain controller, Windows 2008 R2. Initially for Exchange I’m using 3 servers, 1 server for the CAS role and 2 servers for the Mailbox

Update Rollup 2 + Update Rollup 7 released

Update Rollup 2 + Update Rollup 7 releasednewspaper1

Yesterday it was released.. I was waiting for the Update Rollup 2 for Exchange 2010 SP2 since it included a hotfix for Exchange ActiveSync devices regarding the error code 451. If you want to read more about the update, press here. Before deploying this into Production, make sure to test it before in a test

Exchange 2010 SP2 Update Rollup 1 is released

Exchange 2010 SP2 Update Rollup 1 is releasedNEWS

Yesterday Microsoft announced on their Exchange Team blog (URL: http://bit.ly/ynvrHT) that Update Rollup 1 has been released for Exchange 2010 SP2.   Read about what the update roll will fix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2645995 Download link http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28809 Make sure you deploy this update into a test environment before deploying it into production! If you’re looking for feedback, check

Exchange 2010 SP2 released

Exchange 2010 SP2 releasednewspaper1

Today it was announced that Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2010 is released. Many of us were looking forward to it since it will give some feature’s that were requested like GAL segmentation and ABP. Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28190 FYI; there is also a schema update included in this SP, most likely to prepare for O365

Exchange 2010 SP1 Update Rollup 6

Exchange 2010 SP1 Update Rollup 6newspaper1

Some days ago Update Rollup 6 was released for Exchange 2010 SP1 The Exchange team blog posted some short info around it, check for the comments. Most of the time the comments are valuable information regarding issues, if there are any.. http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/10/28/released-update-rollup-6-for-exchange-server-2010-sp1.aspx Download http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27849 KB Info http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2608646 For automatically stop and start the services, check

Exchange 2007 SP3 Update Rollup 5

Exchange 2007 SP3 Update Rollup 5newspaper1

Today Microsoft released Update Rollup 5 for Exchange 2007 SP3 Read about what the update roll will fix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2530488 (the link doesn’t seem right, check the download link below, it points to UR3..) Download link http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27552 Make sure you deploy this update into a test environment before deploying it into production! Leave feedback around the

Exchange 2010 RTM lifecycle

Exchange 2010 RTM lifecyclertm lifecyle

The article is currently updated 9th of September. It seems that Exchange 2010 RTM lifecycle is ending at the 11th of October. So it’s time to update the customer environments at this time so you’re not running out of support. Exchange 2010 SP1 can be found here. Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2615653/

Released: Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange 2007 SP3

  Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2010 SP1 and Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2007 SP3 have been released. Have a look at the team blog here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2011/03/08/458566.aspx For downloading the UR3 Exchange 2010 SP1 directly, go to: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=413b8979-76b8-4be4-a18b-015d025eb368&displaylang=en KB for what issues have been fixed in the update rollup http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2492690 For downloading the UR3