The New Exchange Reaches RTM!

re: The New Exchange Reaches RTM!

Franky — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:57:01 GMT

Hi, first of all: great work, thank you!

just a little question: technet says "installation on core server is not supported", but can i remove the gui after exchange installation? that would be a nice feature.

thx, franky

re: The New Exchange Reaches RTM!

Dave — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:56:42 GMT

It would be useful if they updated the features of EOL to allow for retry's on failed mailbox migrations as part of a batch when performing a cutover migration - THIS IS A REAL PAIN

re: The New Exchange Reaches RTM!

Alan — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:07:38 GMT

We have a problem! Anyone planning to upgrade from 2007, be warned of the following:

There is a known problem with installing Exchange 2010 in a domain including 2007 in that it "upgrades" your public folders so that you can no longer remove them in 2007; you get an error along the lines of:

"Object is read only because it was created by a future version of Exchange"

The fix, and only way to then remove it, is to use the Remove-PublicFolderDatabase PS command from the 2010 server.

Now to spin on to 2013, the only way to create a new 2013 Public Folder is to first delete the old 2007 ones and as soon as you have added 2013 to the domain, guess what you can’t! And what’s more, because 2013 doesn’t have Public Folder databases it no longer has the Remove-PublicFolderDatabase command!

So what now? Can’t delete in in 2007 or 2013 and can’t move forward with 2013 until I do!!!

re: The New Exchange Reaches RTM!

randomtech — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:24:39 GMT

Can anyone answer my questions #3-5 and new question 6 below?

Let me expand a bit on my original question #4. Now that the server editions for server 2012 have changed what are the specific requirements for high availability in Exchange 2013? In Exchange 2010 I believe it was required to have Server Enterprise Edition to have HA for the CAS role right? Now we do not have the same roles nor do we have an Enterprise Edition of the OS. Will we require the Datacenter Edition? Will Standard Edition work? I have to make some licensing decisions ASAP so an answer would be appreciated.

We have several customer scenarios where for various reasons we are eager to move. This mostly revolves around hardware deployment issues. (eg - We know we have to replace servers now and would like to minimize the number of migrations, upgrades, redeployments, need to additional hardware, etc.)

Questions:

3) If "co-existence" is out of the question, is a complete "migration" from an existing XS2K10 to XS2K13 RTM possible? Is we accept downtime to get a migration done can we actually do it or is migration also dependent on "co-existence"? Is this documented anywhere?

4) Is there any specific information on deployment of diversity for all roles (Both in single site and over a WAN)? Load balancer requirements etc?

5) I am interested in hearing anyone's experience\knowledge about supported Microsoft or third-party apps for backup (eg Symantec BackupExec, CA Arcserve), Antivirus (eg symantec, TrendMicro, others), and antispam (eg GFI Mailessentials), fax integration (eg GFI FaxMaker). As usual these are probably the blocking issues fro actual production.

6) Let me add a question 6. What exactly would I need in the way of load balancer(s) in various scenarios. It sued to be that the general consensus was that you had to get a hardware load balancer becuase the windows load balancing service was not a good solution. How is taht in Exchange 2013 now? What woudl be required to support HA in a single site environment? What would be required to support full HA in a two-site (geographically diverse) environment?

re: The New Exchange Reaches RTM!

Gilles — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:55:40 GMT

Cool for Exchange 2013, but why send it to RTM before all existing customer are able to migrate.

This is just like if the new exchange doesn't exist.

re: The New Exchange Reaches RTM!

steve siyavaya — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:24:37 GMT

@Xuanxo: If you uninstall your Exchange 2010 Server cleanly then you will be able to install Exchange 2013. I have done this in my test lab and there were no problems.

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Xuanxo — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:13:06 GMT

I have a test environment with Exchange 2010 SP2 installed on it. It means that the schema was updated during tghe installation for supporting the Exchange version

When I try an Exchange 2013 RTM setup /prepareschema command, I get the following error:

"Prerequisites Analysis FAILED

All Exchange 2010 servers must have Exchange 2010 service pack 3 or later installed"

Does anyone know if it is possible to run this after uninstall the Exchange 2010 server? or if, unfortunatelly it is not possible to install Exchange 2013 RTM in a schema which was previously updated for running Exchange 2010?

I have in mind to remove my Exchange server next monday, but I'd appreciate if someone has tried this before and tell me how it has finished.

thanks

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Lol is this right? — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 11:18:56 GMT

So, core-installation is not supported but the webinterface seemed like a good idea?

Come one guys, where's your heads at?

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QVP — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:35:24 GMT

Is this some kind of a joke?? Where's Alan Funt?

What's the point of this? We can't install it for another 8 months or so anyway!

re: The New Exchange Reaches RTM!

Arjan Mensch — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:11:45 GMT

Congrats Team! And happy to see it's now downloadable as well. Guess all we need now is EX2010SP3 :) Any ETA on that guys?

Cheers