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Warning: All the instructions in the top hits of google for setting up Exchange 2013 HTTP redirection are incomplete, incorrect or both.  The goal of this article is to point out why, followed by providing proper reliable instructions worthy of your time. The bad and why: - Microsoft's instructions don't explain how to 'undo' the redirect setting inherited to the subdirectories or the need to re-check SSL on subdirectories. Here is the link so you know what I'm talking about incase you already Read more [...]

Care needs to be taken when rebooting Exchange DAG Members.  Rebooting an Exchange server that is in a DAG requires switching the active database to the member not being rebooted. 0) Check that all DB's are healthy and check which servers is currently the active server.  Run the following from Exchange Management Shell: Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus * -- At this point if you find there is an Exchange server with no active databases, it is considered a Passive DAG Member and you can reboot Read more [...]

Background: You are deploying Exchange 2013 using the CU7 media and are attempting to run setup /PrepareAD. Issue: You receive the following error: "[ERROR] Access to the path 'C:\Windows\Temp\ExchangeSetup\dsaccessperf.dll' is denied." Note: This error may be contained in the Exchange Setup Logs Solution: 1) delete the "ExchangeSetup" folder contained in C:\Windows\Temp 2) confirm the account you are using is a member of schema admins, enterprise admins and organization management. 3) Read more [...]

Background: You are deploying a new installation of Exchange 2013 using the CU7 media. Issue: you run "setup /preparead" from a command prompt and you see a quick command prompt pop up window that immediately disappears and then nothing happens. You may also find this error in the exchange setup logs: [ERROR] Access to the path 'C:\Windows\Temp\ExchangeSetup\dsaccessperf.dll' is denied. Cause: You may not have included "/iacceptexchangeserverlicenseterms" in the /preparead command, and Read more [...]

Exchange 2013 CU8 (Cumulative Update 8) was released on 3-17-2015.  Note: CU8 has recently been replaced, click here for CU9. Some of the CU8 features we've have heard about so far: CU8 contains the new signout.aspx page, but the code will by default continue to send users logging off to logon.aspx.  The new code can be manually enabled if one chooses.  Once CU9 comes out the new code will be enabled by default. Improved Public Folder migration experience.  Improved throughput Read more [...]