• SkipAsSource Flag Cleared In Windows 2012

    For a while now I’ve been using the Netsh SkipAsSource Flag to allow multiple IPs on a server and only the primary IP registers in DNS. The previous series of articles in this series are here: Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple...
  • Offline Defrag And DAG Databases, Oh My!

    Even though some of the very old KBs, which now refer to unsupported products, state that taking databases offline to run periodic offline defragmentation with ESEUTIL is not recommended some folks in the field still want to do this. Previously when...
  • How To Check Database White Space In Exchange

    From time to time we need to see how our Exchange databases are doing so that they are being managed proactively.  One aspect is tracking size and the utilization of each database.  At the simplest level we want to ensure that the database and...
  • Exchange 2013 Security Update Available For MS13-061

    Update 14-8-2013: The security update for Exchange 2013 has been temporarily removed due to an issue with the search infrastructure. If you have installed it please refer to article “Update 2874216 breaks the content index in Exchange Server 2013” Update...
  • Exchange 2010 SP3 RU2 Released

    Exchange 2010 SP3 RU2 has been released to resolve the security issues described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-061 . Additionally Exchange 2007 , Exchange 2010 SP2 and Exchange 2013 also received updates to resolve the security issues as mentioned...