**Update - Per the Exchange Team Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/) Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 is currently planned for an April 2nd release. Question 1: I want to deploy Exchange 2013. Can I do this now that 2010 SP3 is out? PFE Answer1: Short answer is “Not if you want to be supported”...

There are a lot of changes that were incorporated into Exchange 2013 both from an Architecture and Operational standpoint. One of these changes is something that can be overlooked very easily so I wanted to point out the reasoning behind this change and what to expect. If you look at the disk space requirements...

The much anticipated Exchange 2010 SP3 has been released along with SP2 RU6 and 2007 SP3 RU10. There are links below to the actual KB articles below. Note the excerpt below about coexistence between Exchange 2010 SP2 and Exchange 2013. NOTE : Exchange 2010 SP 3 allows Exchange 2010 servers to coexist...

I did get a couple of questions from users this month which hopefully I can answer. Again please feel free to contact me through “Email Blog Author” with any Exchange\Lync questions you may have. I will post these questions at the end of every month. Question 1: What steps should I...

When you first install an Exchange 2k13 Mailbox Database you will notice there is a default database named something like below. You can access this by going to the EAC ( https://fe1/ecp ), Servers, Databases or using the EMS command Get-MailboxDatabase. Most Administrators are going to want to...

There has been some confusion about the CNO object creation with Exchange 2013 DAGs that I want to clear up. The documentation was a little unclear with the following statement: "When creating a DAG with Mailbox servers running Windows Server 2012 in an Active Directory environment with Windows Server...