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Office 2013 SP1 available – Outlook and Lync client

By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 28/02/2014 - 11:35 | News

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After 1 year Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013.

File is for Office 2013 32bit and 64bit

Description of changes included in Office 2013 SP1:

Description of Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1 Changes (Excel sheet)

To download file, use below links:

Download: Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2817430) 32-Bit Edition
Download: Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2817430) 64-Bit Edition
Download: Microsoft Office Language Interface Pack 2013 Service Pack 1 (32- and 64-bit)

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Microsoft Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1 (KB2926248)

By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 25/02/2014 - 23:41 | News

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Exchange Team released today long awaited Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.

This update raises Exchange 2013 version number to 15.0.847.32

Service Pack 1 for Exchange 2013 can be downloaded here:

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

And list of changes can be found here:

Description of Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1

Installation of Service Pack 1 for Exchange 2013 will made changes in Schema and Active Directory.

To apply schema changes run:

setup.exe /PrepareSchema /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms

To apply Active Directory changes run:

setup.exe /PrepareAD /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms

Upgrade to SP1 you can start GUI installer or run:

setup.exe /m:upgrade /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms

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Exchange 2010 SP3 Update Rollup 5 (KB2917508)

By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 25/02/2014 - 23:07 | News

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Today, Exchange Team also released new rollup update for Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3

After installtion of Rollup 5 for Exchange 2010 SP3 your Exchange version number will be raised to 14.3.181.6

Rollup 5 for Exchange 2010 SP3 can be downloaded here:

Update Rollup 5 For Exchange 2010 SP3 (KB2917508)

And description of new rollup you can find here:

Description of Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3

As always we recommend to test this rollup in a test environment first.

Exchange 2007 SP3 Update Rollup 13 (KB2917522)

By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 25/02/2014 - 22:57 | News

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On 25th February 2014 Exchange Team released new rollup update for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP3.

It’s available for 32bit or 64bit systems.

Rollup 13 for Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP3 can be downloaded here:

Update Rollup 13 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (KB2917522)

Informations about changes you can find here:

Description of Update Rollup 13 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

As always, we recommend to install it first in Lab.

Exchange 2010 assign rights to send to restricted distribution groups

By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 24/02/2014 - 03:56 | Tips

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In Microsoft Exchange we can set distribution group as restricted.
Then this distribution group will only accept messages from specified users.

We can set this settings in distribution group properties in tab Mail Flow Settings, Message Delivery Restrictions.

In section Accept messages from select Only senders in the following list and add all users who can send messages to this group.

Messages from other users will be rejected

If we have many of distribution groups with restrictions and we need to assign send rights to this groups then we have a problem.

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Microsoft Outlook cannot change the default folder names using ResetFolderNames

By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 20/02/2014 - 03:10 | Tips

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When you:

connect to a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 mailbox by using Microsoft Outlook.
use the English UI in Outlook, so the default folder names (such as Inbox or Sent Items) are displayed in English.
install a new language pack for Outlook, and then you change the Outlook UI to the new language.
restart Outlook by running the Outlook.exe /ResetFolderNames command to reset the default folder names to the new language.

then folder names in Outlook are not changed to the new language.

To change language you need to use one of those methods:

In Exchange Management Shell run:

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Microsoft Lync Server CU January 2014

By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 18/02/2014 - 12:39 | News

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About a month ago Microsoft released new CU for Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and 2013.

Those updates fixes only bugs from previouse versions, and not introducing new features.

CU for Microsoft Lync Server 2013 you can find below:

Lync Server 2013	5.0.8308.577	2809243	MS Download
Lync Server 2013 Debugging Tools	5.0.8308.577	2905051	MS Download
Lync Server 2013 Resource Kit Tools	5.0.8308.577	2905053	MS Download