Microsoft recently released its quarterly update for Exchange Server 2013, Cumulative Update 5 (CU5), and the successor of Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1 (which is Cumulative Update 4 under the hood). It is a Cumulative Update, so it contains all fixes, features and functionality of earlier CU’s so if you’re installing a fresh Exchange 2013 server or upgrade for example from CU2 there’s no need to install SP1 first. Just start directly installing Exchange 2013 CU5.
Category Archives: Exchange
Exchange 2003 Support comes to an end
With all the buzz going on about end-of-support for Windows XP (April 8, 2014) I suddenly realized there are more Operating Systems and (Server Applications) that are about to hit the end-of-support date.
Exchange 2003
On this side of the pond a lot of customers are still running Exchange 2003. Exchange 2003 Extended support will end on April 8, 2014 as well, just like Windows XP. This means that from this date on Exchange 2003 is no longer supported, and (critical) security fixes will not be released by Microsoft. The product won’t stop working, but personally I think the time is right to start working on an upgrade. Continue reading Exchange 2003 Support comes to an end
VSS Backups in Exchange
During MEC 2014 I delivered a presentation on “Backup, Restore and Disaster Recovery” in Exchange 2013. In two demos I showed replay of transaction log files and an offline backup (see previous post) and what happens when creating a VSS snapshot using the low level tool called Diskshadow. This is todays topic. Continue reading VSS Backups in Exchange
MEC RECAP – It was great
All good things come to an end and that’s also true for MEC 2014. On the day after MEC 2014 it is time to rethink the event. Overall it was an awesome event, despite the dull keynote session although the videos shown there were great, especially the one featuring David Espinoza and Greg Taylor on email innovation:
Replay Transaction Log Files and Offline Backup in Exchange Server
During MEC 2014 I delivered a presentation on “Backup, Restore and Disaster Recovery” in Exchange 2013. The first part of this presentation was about Mailbox databases and its accompanying transaction log files. In this blog I’ll explain a bit how to replay these transaction log files is a recovery scenario.
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Jaap Wesselius 
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