Exchange Team Blog

• Log Parser Studio 2.0 is now available June 17, 2013
  Download Since the initial release of Log Parser Studio (LPS) there have been over 30,000 downloads and thousands of customers use the tool on a daily basis. In Exchange support many of our engineers use the tool to solve real world issues every day and in turn share with our customers, empowering them to solve the same issues themselves moving forward. LPS […]
• What Did Managed Availability Just Do To This Service? June 13, 2013
  We in the Exchange product group get this question from time to time. The first thing we ask in response is always, “What was the customer impact?” In some cases, there is customer impact; these may indicate bugs that we are motivated to fix. However, in most cases there was no customer impact: a service restarted, but no one noticed. We have learned while o […]
• Exchange Server 2013 Architecture Poster PDF Download Available June 11, 2013
  We just released a downloadable PDF version of the Exchange Server 2013 Architecture Poster. This is the poster that we handed out at the Office booth and in various Exchange 2013 breakout sessions last week at TechEd North America 2013 in New Orleans, LA.  We’ll also be handing out printed copies of the poster at TechEd Europe 2013 in Madrid, Spain in a cou […]
• Outlook Connectivity to Office 365 Troubleshooter Now Available June 5, 2013
  Outlook Connectivity to O365 Troubleshooter It is no secret that if you are an Exchange/Office 365 administrator you will no doubt have to troubleshoot Outlook connectivity at some point. Whether you use Exchange Online, on-premises, or some combination of both, you will inevitably have an issue with Outlook performance, connectivity, profile corruption, or […]
• Per-Server Database Limits Explained June 4, 2013
  Over the past year, we have discussed the architectural changes that have been introduced in Exchange Server 2013. I wrote about the reduction in complexity that the new server role architecture introduces, as well as, the one of the new capabilities introduced in Exchange 2013, Managed Availability’s recovery oriented computing. However, we haven’t been cle […]
• The Hybrid Free Busy Troubleshooter Now Available June 3, 2013
  Hybrid Free/Busy troubleshooter As customers move their organization into the Cloud or choose to coexist, there is a need to ensure that some of the basic functionalities users have grown accustomed to, continue to work. While some of you will move all of the users in a cutover fashion which reduces complexity, others will choose a more gradual approach. Thi […]
• Exchange at TechEd North America 2013 May 31, 2013
  TechEd North America 2013 happens next week in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year, there are several Exchange and Office 365 break-out sessions and hands-on labs for IT pros and developers, including sessions on Exchange 2013 high availability, virtualization, hybrid deployments, managed availability, retention, archiving & eDiscovery, DLP, site mailboxes […]
• Released: Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 SP3 May 30, 2013
  Update 6/13/13: we added a known issue with transport rules to the blog post below. Today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 SP3 to the Download Center. Note: Some of the following KB articles may not be available at the time of publishing this post. This update contains fixes for a number of customer-reported and interna […]
• Comparing public folder item counts May 28, 2013
  A question that is often asked of Support in regard to legacy Public Folders is whether they're replicating and how much progress they're making.  The most common scenario arises when the administrator is adding a new Public Folder database to the organization and replicating a large amount of data to it.  What commonly happens is that the administ […]
• Released: Calculator Updates Galore! May 24, 2013
  Today, we have released an updated version of the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator that addresses several issues found since its initial release.  You can view what changes have been made, or download the update directly. In addition, we are releasing an updated version of the Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator as well. You ca […]