And, we will continue with our on-premises releases of both SharePoint Server and Exchange Server on our traditional 2-3 year release cadence. We’ll also continue supporting hybrid deployments spanning both cloud and on prem technologies.
http://blogs.office.com/2014/02/17/transforming-work-transforming-office/
Exchange 2013 SP1 is expected to have a new protocol implementation called MapiHttp. To help you understand this better at this stage, Joe Warren, Principal Software Developer, delivered a presentation covering the Exchange 2013 MAPIHttp protocol implementation and answered some questions.
You can view and download the presentation from here.
I have written before about the case of a missing shortcut for Exchange PowerShell here http://blogs.technet.com/b/nawar/archive/2010/09/03/exchange-management-shell-ems-missing-after-applying-exchange-2010-sp1.aspx
Today while working onsite with a customer trying to executing some Exchange PowerShell commands , we started getting the following
“'Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010' is not installed on this machine.”
The first thing we did was to verify that the ConnectFunctions.ps1 , RemoteExchange.ps1 and CommonConnectFunctions.ps1 files are present in the %ExchangeInstallPath%\bin directory.
NOTE : If these files are missing, you can copy the files from the Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack installation media (depending on the service pack you are using) to the %ExchangeInstallPath%\bin directory.
These files are present in the \setup\serverroles\common folder.
Since those files existed on the server that we were having the problem with , we proceeded to check the Exchange registered snap-ins with the following command from the Exchange PowerShell:
Get-PSSnapin –Registered
For Exchange 2010 this should return
Name : Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010
PSVersion : 1.0
Description : Admin Tasks for the Exchange Server
Name : Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Setup
PSVersion : 1.0
Description : Setup Tasks for the Exchange Server
Name : Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Powershell.Support
PSVersion : 1.0
Description : Support Tasks for the Exchange Server
In our case it only returned
Name : Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Setup
PSVersion : 1.0
Description : Setup Tasks for the Exchange Server
Looking at the following registry key on the server (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\PowerShellSnapIns\) showed only the registry key related to setup, which means we need to manually create the other two registry keys to solve the broken Exchange PowerShell problem.
The easiest way to do this is by exporting two missing resitry key from a healthy server , but you need to make sure that the install path is exactly the same and servers are running the same version, if the installation path is not the same you can change to match the path on your broken server after exporting the key .
The actual keys are below , but as I mentioned before make sure that the installation path of exchange from server you export from matches the exchange installation path of the server you are importing to
Admin
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\PowerShellSnapIns\Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010]
"CustomPSSnapInType"="Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.AdminPSSnapIn"
"ApplicationBase"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft\\Exchange Server\\V14\\bin"
"AssemblyName"="Microsoft.Exchange.PowerShell.Configuration, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
"Description"="Admin Tasks for the Exchange Server"
"ModuleName"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft\\Exchange Server\\V14\\bin\\Microsoft.Exchange.PowerShell.Configuration.dll"
"PowerShellVersion"="1.0"
"Vendor"="Microsoft Corporation"
"Version"="14.0.0.0"
Support
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\PowerShellSnapIns\Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Powershell.Support]
"CustomPSSnapInType"="Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Powershell.Support.SupportPSSnapIn"
"ApplicationBase"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft\\Exchange Server\\V14\\bin"
"AssemblyName"="Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Powershell.Support, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
"Description"="Support Tasks for the Exchange Server"
"ModuleName"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft\\Exchange Server\\V14\\bin\\Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Powershell.Support.dll"
"PowerShellVersion"="1.0"
"Vendor"="Microsoft Corporation"
"Version"="14.0.0.0"
Exchange 2013 CU3
The Exchange team is announcing today the availability of our most recent quarterly servicing update to Exchange Server 2013. Cumulative Update 3 for Exchange Server 2013 and updated UM Language Packs are now available on the Microsoft Download Center. Cumulative Update 3 includes fixes for customer reported issues, minor product enhancements and previously released security bulletins. A complete list of customer reported issues resolved in Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 3 can be found in Knowledge Base Article KB 2892464.
Our next update for Exchange 2013, Cumulative Update 4, will be released as Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1. Customers who are accustomed to deploying Cumulative Updates should consider Exchange 2013 SP1 to be equivalent to CU4 and deploy as normal.
Exchange 2010 SP3 Rollup 3
The Exchange team is announcing today the availability of Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. Update Rollup 3 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins. Update Rollup 3 is not considered a security release as it contains no new previously unreleased security bulletins. A complete list of issues resolved in Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 Update Rollup 3 may be found in KB2891587.
The big news is here :)
Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 Coming in Early 2014
Few notable improvements are:
For further details , check the Exchange team blog @ http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/11/20/exchange-server-2013-service-pack-1-coming-in-early-2014.aspx