Exchange 2013.
- November 15, 2014
Exchange 2013 Performance Monitoring: What to Watch and When to Worry
Exchange 2013’s new Information Store architecture — where each database runs in its own worker process (Microsoft.Exchange.Store.Worker.exe) — changes what you monitor compared to Exchange …
- September 30, 2014
Planning Your Exchange 2013 to Office 365 Migration: Lessons from the Field
By late 2014, Office 365 had matured to the point where the question wasn’t “should we consider it” but “when do we move.” Organizations that had just completed Exchange …
- August 22, 2014
Exchange 2013 Mail Flow Troubleshooting: A Methodical Approach
Mail flow issues are the highest-urgency Exchange problem category — users notice immediately when email stops working, and everyone assumes it’s the mail server’s fault even when …
- May 9, 2014
Exchange 2013 Storage: Disk Layout, Sizing, and What Goes Wrong
Exchange 2013 was designed to tolerate slower, cheaper storage better than any previous version. Microsoft optimized it heavily for JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) in large enterprise deployments. For …
- February 18, 2014
Exchange 2013 Certificate Management: The Part Nobody Documents Well
Certificate issues are the most consistent source of Exchange 2013 headaches I’ve encountered across different organizations. The platform handles certificates in a specific, opinionated way — …
- December 3, 2013
Exchange 2013 Managed Availability: Friend or Enemy?
Managed Availability is one of Exchange 2013’s most significant operational changes — and one of the least understood. It’s a built-in health monitoring and self-healing framework that …
- October 14, 2013
Exchange 2013 Database Troubleshooting: Dirty Shutdown and ESEUtil
At some point, you will open the Exchange Admin Center or EMS and find a database in a dismounted state. If you’re lucky, it’s a managed availability-triggered failover that resolved …
- July 8, 2013
Exchange 2013 DAG Design for Mid-Size Organizations
Database Availability Groups in Exchange 2013 are the right answer for most organizations that need mailbox redundancy. But “you should use a DAG” is where most guidance stops, and the …
- April 12, 2013
Exchange 2013: Migrating from 2010 and What We Didn't Expect
Exchange 2013 launched with a significantly revamped architecture, and when the organization I was supporting decided to move off Exchange 2010, I expected a relatively clean migration path. …