Exchange 2013 RTM CU2 (KB2859928) updated release – fix public folders issue

Cumulative Update 2 for Exchange Server 2013 was re-released yesterday (07/29/2013)

New version of CU2 for Exchange 2013 RTM fixes a serious permission issue when moving modern public folders mailboxes around.

 

We wrote about this in article:

Exchange 2013 CU2 Issue – Public Folder Permissions Loss After PF Mailbox Move

 

Regardless of whether you are using modern public folders, we strongly recommend upgrading to this build of Exchange 2013 RTM CU2.

 

New CU2 has build number: 15.0.712.24 (KB2859928)

and can be downloaded from Microsoft Download Center:

 Cumulative Update 2 for Exchange Server 2013 (KB2859928)

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Exchange 2013 CU2 Issue – Public Folder Permissions Loss After PF Mailbox Move

Exchange Team Blog inform about some issue when you install CU2 for Exchange 2013 and you use Modern Public Folders.

This issue can occur when you move public folder mailboxes.

When you move public folder mailbox it’s possible that you will lost permission structure on some public folders, specially:

  1. If you move (via New-MoveRequest) a secondary public folder (PF) mailbox, the permissions on any public folder (including well known folders) not stored in the secondary PF mailbox would be lost from the secondary PF mailbox and replaced by the default ACL. The original ACLs can be restored via a full synchronization event by executing Update-PublicFolderMailbox -InvokeSynchronizer <Public Folder Mailbox> -FullSync.
  2. If you move (via New-MoveRequest) the primary PF mailbox, the permissions on any public folder (including well known folders) not stored in that public folder mailbox are lost and replaced by the default ACL.

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Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator 5.9

With new CU2 for Exchange 2013 we also received new Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator now in version 5.9

This version reflect changes introduced by installation of CU2 for Exchange 2013 like the increased maximum number of databases per server.

You can download new Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator here:

Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator 5.9

 

And release notes is available here:

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Exchange 2013 CU2 released (KB2859928)

Microsoft announced the release of Exchange 2013 CU2 on the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog.

Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 2 can be downloaded here:

Cumulative Update 2 for Exchange Server 2013 (KB2859928)

 

After installation CU2 you will get version number: 15.0.712.22

 

CU2 contains a number of fixes as well as new/improved features, including:

  • Per-server database support increased back to 100
  • OWA Silent Redirection
  • Addition of the DAG Management service
  • Changes to Managed Availability
  • Improved PowerShell Help Updating
  • OWA Search improvements
  • Malware Filter Rules

 

Description of Cumulative Update 2 for Exchange 2013 you can find below:

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Exchange 2010 CAS RPC & OWA active connections

Sometimes you want to know how many users connect do your Exchange 2010 Client Access Servers. This information is useful then you are using Network Load Balancer or Hardware Load Balancer.
Then you can easily check if it works perfectly.

Information about users connections to specified CAS server you can get from Counters:

  •  MSExchange RpcClientAccess\User Count
  • MSExchange OWA\Current Unique Users

 

You can get value of those counters using Exchange Management Shell and paste following powershell code:

 

$CASServers = Get-ClientAccessServer | select name

Foreach ($srv in $CASServers){
 $RPC = Get-Counter "\MSExchange RpcClientAccess\User Count" -ComputerName $srv.name
 $OWA = Get-Counter "\MSExchange OWA\Current Unique Users" -ComputerName $srv.name
 New-Object PSObject -Property @{
 Server = $srv.name
 "RPC Client Access" = $RPC.CounterSamples[0].CookedValue
 "Outlook Web App" = $OWA.CounterSamples[0].CookedValue
 }
}

 

You only need to have access to all CAS servers, then you will get result like below:

 

CAS_statistics

 

 

Lync Server 2013 Capacity Calculator and Planning Tool

On Microsoft Download Center you can find new two tools for Microsoft Lync Server 2013:

  • Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Planning Tool
  • Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Capacity Calculator

 

Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Planning Tool:

Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Planning Tool

 

Download: Lync 2013 Planning Tool

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