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Issue: You'd like to copy the allowed IP address list from one Receive Connector to another.  I've found myself in this situation when I was creating identical receiving connectors on multiple Exchange servers or wanting to copy the long allowed IP list from a legacy Exchange  server to a new Exchange 2013 server. Solution: Using the following powershell commands you can copy the IP addresses from one receive connector to another set-ReceiveConnector “MAILSVR2\anonymous relay connector MAILSVR2” Read more [...]

Issue: You receive the following error when attempting to install an Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update (CU): Error: Setup can't continue with the upgrade because the bbwinsdr (1200), mmc (15404), mmc (15848) has open files. Close the process, and then restart Setup. For more information, visit: https://technet.microsoft.com/library(EXCHG.150)/ms.exch.setupreadiness.ProcessNeedsToBeClosedOnUpgrade.aspx Resolution: In order to resolve this error, close all open windows, stop any services related Read more [...]

Exchange 2013 CU11 was released on 12/10/2015.  CU11 does not contain any schema updates but may contain new RBAC definitions. Update: The current version of Exchange 2013 is CU12, released in May 2016.  For more information see this link. Remember, you can install Exchange 2013 from the CU Rollup itself, saving time (CU12 rollup links above). Noteworthy issues resolved in CU11: After applying CU8 you may experience a large IOPS write increase for FolderUpdateGroup on your Read more [...]

Exchange 2013 CU10 was released September 15th.  Cumulative Update 10 or higher is required to co-exist with Exchange 2016.  CU10 does not require a schema update unless you were running a version of Exchange 2013 older than CU7. Warning: CU10 contains an issue introduced in CU8 where there is an increased IOPS write load that can cause mail delivery delays to the mailbox database.  I'd recommend skipping CU10 and installing CU11, CU12, or newer as this issue was fixed in CU11. For convenience, Read more [...]

Issue: OWA HTTP redirection breaks after upgrading from Exchange 2013 CU7 to Exchange 2013 CU8. Solution: I reviewed all the settings in IIS related to HTTP redirection and several settings reverted to the default Exch/IIS values while many settings remained intact from when I first setup Exchange 2013 OWA HTTP Redirection. Here are the settings that I changed in order to make HTTP redirection work again, hopefully this can save you the work of re-doing all the settings: - default website Read more [...]