I get this question often from various levels of technical people. They typically have experience with Exchange servers, and they know that after a successful backup Exchange will truncate or cleanup it’s database log files. They mistakenly think that SQL will do the same. Let’s explore why each of these takes place and what is going on here. Historically … [Read more...]
Faster Mailbox moves on Exchange 2013
I’ve been involved in a large 2500 seat Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 migration and consolidation project recently. During the mailbox moves, I found that often the move requests were being stalled with a status of RelinquishedWLMStalled. I tried to change many things to improve the migration including modifying the MSExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config file to … [Read more...]
How to do Exchange 2013 Migration Without Migrating Public Folders
We’ve been doing a number of migrations from SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 over to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials + Exchange 2013., or other variations. So far all the clients have needed to migrate their public folders which is a long and complicated process that really is a pain. Recently we’ve had the need to migrate a client that has no Public Folders in their Exchange … [Read more...]
What Exchange versions are supported with Windows Server 2012 Essentials?
Microsoft designed Windows Server 2012 Essentials to work with onpremise Exchange server installations. Below is the list of Exchange versions they support with the WS2012E console integration and the ARRconfig tools. Exchange 2010 SP1 Exchange 2010 SP2 Exchange 2013 Personally, I’ve not tried Exchange 2013 as yet, so can’t vouch for it, but I will try it … [Read more...]
Help – My Exchange Services are Disabled!
Ok – so this has been seen a few times now. Long story short though is that when Exchange applies a Service Pack or Update Rollup, it sets a number of services to Disabled so that it can replace the exes involved. I’ve seen it where for whatever reason however the installation fails without notice. You think everything is ok till you reboot it and then you … [Read more...]