Exchange Team Blog anounced new update for Exchange Server 2013 Deployment Assistant
The following new scenarios were added to Exchange Server 2013 Deployment Assistant
If you have installed SP3 for Microsoft Exchange 2010 you can experience an issue with database copy status.
When activating a passive copy of an Exchange 2010 SP3 database via PowerShell or the Exchange Management Console, the mounted database will dismount without issue and the passive copy will mount. While at the initializing stage on the now passive copy, the database copy status will change to a failed state.
The status message for the database copy shows failed, and the log indicates:
“The Microsoft Exchange Replication service encountered an error while inspecting the logs and database for DB\Server on startup. Error: File check failed : Logfile ‘f:\logs\DB\Enn.log’ is generation 2024; however the expected generation is 2004.”
Those of you, who still use belows following system, should know that all of those products reach end of their extended support window next year at April 8th 2014
Also Windows Server 2003 will reach end of support at April 14th 2015.
Make sure that you are able to migrate to a supported product prior to the support expiration date. Security updates willnot be provided for products that are not supported.
On Microsoft websites, you can find scripts to migrate public folders from Exchange 2007 or 2010 to Exchange 2013 CU1.
Scripts can be downloaded here:
Microsoft Exchange 2013 Public Folders Migration Scripts
Microsoft announced the official dates and location for the next MEC.
As you can read at www.iammec.com next Microsoft Exchange Conference will be held in Austin, Texas, from March 31st to April 2nd.
Soon more information will be available at website.
With CU1 for Microsoft Exchange 2013, Microsoft released offline help files for Exchange 2013 CU1.
Files are available as offline, so you can view them without any problems, without access to the Internet.
You can download the files from the website:
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Help
Files are divided into two distributions of Microsoft Exchange 2013:
Today 04/02/2013 Microsoft released CU1 for Microsoft Exchange 2013
Cumulative Update 1 for Microsoft Exchange 2013 can be downloaded here:
Description of Cumulative Update 1 for Exchange Server 2013
CU1 for Microsoft Exchange 2013 is the last step for Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2010 SP3 coexistence.
What we need for coexistence Microsoft Exchange 2013 and Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3 ?
CU1 for Microsoft Exchange 2013.
As Microsoft announced before, it should be available in Q1 of 2013.
Unfortunalely CU1 for Microsoft Exchange 2013 is delayed and now as we can read at Exchange Team Blog, CU1 is currently planned for April 2nd.
As the Exchange Team Blog indicated, they need time to improve functionality coexistence with Microsoft Exchange 2010.
This is a little disappointing, that CU1 has problems with coexistence with Exchange 2010, because this should be main feature which we need.
So now when we see how “good” were latest Rollups for Microsoft Exchange 2010, maybe we should be fear CU1 and new features which it will bring.
Ignige Website, presents new webcast about Exchange 2013 deployment, and coexistence.
From webcast you can learn how to setup an Exchange Server 2013 on-premises deployment with coexistence amongst Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. In addition to understanding how Exchange Server 2013 architectural changes enable more flexible network designs, we will discuss tips and best practices for a smooth transition to Exchange Server 2013.
Webcast takes about 50 minutes.
Yesterday Microsoft announced that Microsoft Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool 2.0 will be replaced by tool OffCAT.
Microsoft Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool 2.0 (OCAT)
New tool you can download here:
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