Next week I'll be at the Microsoft Exchange Conference 2014!!!

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Microsoft Exchange Conference 2014 will start in a week! As with the previous version I’ll be there too! For those attending, this is my MEC2014 profile (login required). I’ll arriving Saturday late evening and I’ll leave the next Saturday in the afternoon. Unfortunately no solo sessions, but I will certanly be there for The UC Architects Live session (code: ARC.IN.306 currently planned on wednesday afternoon)! Between the official event parties etc., ENow will also sponsor a The UC Architects party!!! Registration is required and

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Updated – Exchange 2013 DAG, Windows Server 2012 R2 and VMware vSphere? Check support!

Reading Time: 2 minutes UPDATED 28/3/2024: See update below article. A little heads up. While working on an extensive design including Exchange Server 2013 with Service Pack 1 installed on Windows Server 2012 R2, my eye caught a comment in the Facebook group Exchange Server 2013 (Facebook login required). VMwares vSphere 5.1 and higher are shown to be validated by Microsofts Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) to run Windows Server 2012 R2 VM’s. The hypervisor needs to be validated also as a requirement for

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Be careful with Outlook customizations! Use AutoDiscover!

Reading Time: 2 minutes During a migration from Exchange 2007 to 2013, we moved several mailboxes as pilot users. Coexistence was fully configured and on my test machine everything worked fine. However, the pilot users had trouble connecting with Exchange 2013 after their mailbox was successfully moved to Exchange 2013 servers. OWA and ActiveSync worked without any hitch. The problem was that Outlook would update its server settings, even though (internal) AutoDiscover worked perfectly. Outlook seemed to retain its settings for Exchange 2007, which

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The UC Architects Episode 35: Service Packed! is available now!

Reading Time: 2 minutes A few days ago episode 35 of The UC Architects podcast went live! Service Packed! With Steve Goodman hosting, joined by John Cook, Michael Van Hybrid, Michel de Rooij, Serkan Varoglu, Ståle Hansen and yours truly. Our editor was the legendary Andrew Price. In this episode we talk (a lot) about Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1, a quick review of the new features and the detected Transport bug and how we feel about that one. If you have plans

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