Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 news!

Reading Time: 2 minutes So, no Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) news but as promised by the Exchange Team they posted Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) news on the Exchange Team blog! It is coming early 2014, which I interpret as the first quarter of 2014. Because I now think CU3 will be released somewhere around early December (hint), I think SP1 could hit us around March. But I’ve been wrong before There are some features mentioned: Windows Server 2012 R2 Support This is

November 19, 2013 Dave Stork Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Update Leave a comment

Can we expect Exchange 2013 CU3 and 2010 SP3 RU3 soon? Keep watching KB2891587 and KB2892464!

Reading Time: 3 minutes UPDATE 2013/11/20: It looks like the links currently don’t work anymore, possibly because they referenced a non-released update. That’s too bad, but even when the update is not available yet this kind of information is still quite valuable (something I pointed out in a comment on the Exchange Team Blog The Road Ahead post) Just about an hour ago I saw a bunch of Knowledge base articles published for Exchange 2013 issues. All of them are fixed by Cumulative Update

November 19, 2013 Dave Stork Question of the day, Update, Windows 8/10, Windows Deployment Leave a comment

Windows 8.1 Enterprise upgrade: You can’t keep apps?

Reading Time: 2 minutes I was postponing my work laptop Windows 8 Enterprise upgrade to 8.1, because I assumed I would have to install every app over again. My Windows 8 Pro upgrade to 8.1 on my personal desktop didn’t go as smooth as I had hoped. I had to install every (desktop) application again, as I did not have the option to “Keep Windows settings, personal files, and applications” but only “Keep personal files only (data only)” or “Nothing”. Now, I didn’t update

November 11, 2013 Dave Stork Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Management, Question of the day, Security Leave a comment

Exchange RBAC might be more granular than you think

Reading Time: 2 minutes Most Exchange admins probably know (or should know ) the permission model since Exchange 2010 is Role Based Access Control, RBAC for short. With it, you can regulate quite granularly what admins and end-user are able to do, without the hassles of Access Control Lists (ACLs). However, it recently became clear that it might be more granular than you think. You can allow only certain types of PowerShell Cmdlets, have only change rights on a certain Organizational Unit (OU)or types

November 8, 2013 Dave Stork ActiveSync, Events, Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Lync, Office 365, OWA, Unified Messaging, Windows Phone / Mobile Devices Leave a comment

I will be presenting at the NGN Exchange evening event on 25th November

Reading Time: 2 minutes On the 25th of November the Dutch usergroup NGN (Netwerk Gebruikersgroep Nederland) will organize an Exchange themed evening event and I'm one of the speakers. I'm extra excited as it will be held at the OGD ICT Diensten head office in Delft, my employer! My session will be about Exchange and mobile devices, focused on ActiveSync but also on Outlook Web App and the OWA App for iPad/iPhone. A very interesting and currently relevant topic, if I say so myself