Month: October 2012

Hi There, If you are using Exchange 2013 RTM and even logged as administrator you are trying to create a new in-place discovery and hold and you get everything grayed out on either search query (Figure 01) or in-place hold settings page (Figure 02), don’t think that you have done wrong, you have just forgotten one details… Figure 01 Figure 02 You must have permissions to do it! No worries, it’s a piece of cake using EAC. Here are the steps: Logged on EAC, go to permissions, then admin roles and double click on Discovery Management. Added yourself to the … Continue reading Search query and in-place hold settings grayed out

Hi folks, In this post I would like to point out a couple of cools details while managing Exchange Server 2013 RTM. #1. Alerts During your management process using EAC you may move stuff around among servers and when the process is finished you will receive alerts. The two alerts below are about Move Batch process. #2. Icons on the toolbar We do have a standard icons on the toolbar and you can add more icons! When you click on … (which means More ) you will notice a + button on each line, if you click on those they … Continue reading Exchange Server 2013 EAC .. cool details!

Hi folks, Today’s post on MSExchangeTeam was about the new features of OAB in Exchange Server 2013 and that will improve a lot. Just in case I created a summary for you that is coming from 2007/2010 based on their post. Feature Exchange 2007-2010 Exchange 2013 RTM OAB Generation an specific server by each Mailbox server OAB Generation component Microsoft Exchange System Attendant Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Assistants/ OABGeneratorAssistant OAB files %EXInstall%\ExchangeOAB %EXInstall%\ClientAccess\OAB       All kudos for the information for Bhalchandra Atre who wrote the original post. Besides of the information provided by the MSExchangeTeam post I would like … Continue reading OAB in Exchange Server 2013 by MSExchangeTeam and a few comments

Hi folks, We have so many features in the new release of Exchange Server 2013 and I’m going to start with the feature that allows the administrator to use a CSV to move mailboxes and we are going to use an improvement on the batch mailbox moves. Basically in Exchange Server 2013 the batch move mailbox allows the administrator to manage the archive move process, incremental sync to migrate the changes (pretty cool, uh?), administrator can be alerted by e-mail after the process finishes Let’s go through the process to generate a CSV file (yeah, I don’t want to create … Continue reading Moving Mailboxes using a CSV file in EAC (Exchange Admin Center)

Hi guys, If you want to install Exchange Server 2013 through command-line the process changed a little bit from the previous version, first is most likely that you are going to use PowerShell instead of command prompt, and for that you need to use .\Setup.exe. The second thing is the Setup.exe instead of the setup.com. If you want to install the mailbox role on an existent Exchange Server 2013 organization you just need to run the following command: .\Setup.exe /mode:install /Role:MB /InstallWindowsComponents /IacceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms We have also a new switch called /DisableAMFiltering which allows to turn on or off the anti-malware … Continue reading Using Setup.exe command line to install Exchange Server 2013 RTM

Hi folks, In the previous post we went through the process to install just the software components which is way easier than the Beta setup process however I played around with my LAB here and we can speed up the process a little bit, as follows. If we look at Microsoft documentation we need to run a long PowerShell to add all Windows Features required for the product before getting to the setup however there is a shortcut to bypass that. Basically, it’s all about the order that you perform your actions.. First, download and install the Filter Pack 2.0 … Continue reading Installing ALL pre-requisites Exchange Server 2013 RTM

Hello Exchange 2013 RTM admins! If you are excited as I am you are rushing to your lab to deploy the RTM version, right? So before going there you may be wondering about the pre-requisites to be installed because on the Preview we had tons of them, right? I hope I can make it easier for you, in a standard deployment of a server with both roles: Client Access and Mailbox these are the pre-requisites: Donwload Microsoft filter pack 2.0 http:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=191548 Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 4.0, Core Runtime 64-bit http:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=260990 Donwload Microsoft filter pack 2.0 – SP1 http:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=262358 The … Continue reading Installing Exchange Server 2013 RTM pre-requisites on Windows Server 2012

Folks, It seems that Exchange Server 2013, Lync 2013 and SharePoint were published on Technet       Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://www.andersonpatricio.ca http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese) Twitter: @apatricio

After you complete a new installation of Exchange 2010 or after you add an additional Exchange 2010 server role to an existing Exchange 2010 server, you should complete the post-installation tasks. Because each server role offers several features that you can configure for your organization, make sure that you complete the post-installation tasks for each server role that you install. Download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35395 Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://www.andersonpatricio.ca http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese) Twitter: @apatricio