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How to upgrade Exchange 2010 to SP3

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Simplified process: 1) Copy the Exchange 2010 SP3 media to the hard drive of your Exchange server(s) 2) Right click the setup.exe and click ‘run-as-administrator’ 3) Proceed through the upgrade process and reboot the server at the end Note: I recommend upgrading servers one at a time. More complex environments:  If you are upgrading an Exchange 2010 DAG to SP3 you can follow these steps for installing Exchange Service Packs and Rollups on DAG Members.  If you have servers with Read more [...]

What’s new in Exchange 2016

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Microsoft will be releasing Exchange 2016 during Q2 or Q3 2015. Teams, efficiency and information management (compliance, archiving, etc). Here are some of the main issues and solutions offered in Exchange 2016: Issue: sending attachments causes versioning issues and confusion Exchange 2016 Solution: 2016 will offer a new approach to dealing with attachments and collaboration, making sending links easier and managing versioning easier.  I always felt like many companies use Exchange as Read more [...]

empty ‘white space’ in Exchange database

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A common question I receive from customers is "What happens to the Exchange database when we delete or move mailboxes out of it?" Answer: Moving the data out will create empty white space in the database. The DB won't become smaller on disk, however it will be full of empty space so as new data is added it will fill the empty space and the database size on disk will only increase once all the empty space is filled. I know thats a complex answer, I didn't design the DB : ) If you want to get Read more [...]

Exchange 2013: Setup can’t use domain controller, belongs to Active Directory site SITENAME

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Issue: When installing Exchange 2013 or a 2013 Cumulative Update you receive the following error: "Setup can't use the domain controller because it belongs to Active Directory site SITENAME. Setup must use a domain controller in the same site as this computer COMPUTERNAME" Cause: The setup process is attempting to perform a /prepareschema or /preparead in order to update AD schema for the version of Exchange or CU being installed.  Further, forstprep and domainprep must be ran on a machine Read more [...]

Exchange 2013 CU9

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Exchange 2013 CU9 (Cumulative Update 9) was released on 6/16/2015 and is a very recent release of Exchange 2013, however the most recent release is CU12 which was released in May 2016. Warning: CU9 contains an issue that was introduced in CU8 where there is an increased IOPS write load that can cause mail delivery delays to the mailbox database.  For this reason I would not install CU9 and would recommend installing at least CU11 which was the release that resolved this issue. Where to Read more [...]