. We know a lot of you have been waiting for this, and so it is with great excitement that we announce that Exchange Server 2013 RTM Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) has been released to the web and is available for immediate! This is the first release using the.
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In addition to this article, the Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 are also available. Note: Article links that may not have been available at the time of this post's publishing are now available. Updated, including Release Notes, is now available on TechNet. CU1 is the minimum version of Exchange 2013 required for on-premises coexistence with supported legacy Exchange Server versions. The final build number for CU1 is 15.0.620.29. For more information on coexistence, check out the documentation, and this covering deployment of and coexistence with Exchange Server 2013.
Upgrading/Deploying Cumulative Update 1 Unlike previous versions, cumulative updates do not use the rollup infrastructure; cumulative updates are actually full builds of the product, meaning that when you want to deploy a new server, you simply use the latest cumulative update build available and do not necessarily need to apply additional Exchange Server updates. Active Directory Preparation Prior to upgrading or deploying the new build onto a server, you will need to update Active Directory. For those of you with a diverse Active Directory permissions model you will want to perform the following steps:.
Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 includes schema changes. Therefore, you will need to execute setup.exe /PrepareSchema /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms. Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 includes enterprise Active Directory changes (e.g., RBAC roles have been updated to support new cmdlets and/or properties). Therefore, you will need to execute setup.exe /PrepareAD /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms. Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 includes changes to the permissions within the domain partition (e.g., Exchange Servers have been granted the ability to modify msExchActiveSyncDevices class on inetOrgPerson objects).
Therefore, you will need to execute setup.exe /PrepareDomain /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms in each domain containing Exchange servers or mailboxes. Note: Unlike previous versions, in Exchange 2013, you cannot uninstall a single role from a multi-role server. For example, if you deploy the CAS and MBX roles on a single machine, you cannot later execute setup to remove the CAS role; you can only uninstall all server roles. Mailbox Sizes in Exchange Server 2013 As you start migrating your mailboxes to Exchange 2013, one thing you may notice is that your mailboxes appear to be larger post move.
As you can imagine, with hosting millions of mailboxes in Office 365, accurate storage reporting is essential, just like in your on-premises deployments. One of the learnings that we accrued into the on-premises product is ensuring that the mailbox usage statistics are more closely aligned with the capacity usage within the Mailbox database. The impact of reporting space more accurately means that mailbox quota limits may need to be adjusted prior to the mailbox move so that users are not locked out of their mailbox during the migration process. Our improved space calculations may result in a mailbox’s reported size increasing on average of 30% when the mailbox is moved from a legacy version of Exchange to Exchange 2013. For example, if a mailbox is reported as 10GB in size on Exchange Server 2010, then when the mailbox is moved to Exchange 2013, it may be reported as 13GB. This does not mean that migrating to Exchange 2013 will increase your capacity footprint by 30% per mailbox; it only means that the statistics are including more data about the space the mailbox consumes.
30% is an average value, based on what we have experienced in Exchange Online. Customers with pilot mailboxes should determine what their own average increase value may be as some environments may see higher or lower values depending on the most prevalent type of email within their mailboxes. Again, this does not mean there will be an increase in the size of the database file on disk; only the attribution of space to each mailbox will increase. New Functionality Included in Cumulative Update 1 Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the RTM release of Exchange 2013.
Some of the more notable enhancements are identified below. Address Book Policies As discussed recently, an Address Book Policy Routing Agent has been included in Exchange 2013 RTM CU1. For all the juicy details, see. Groups can once again manage groups! In Exchange 2010 you could not use a group as an owner for another group for membership management.
Instead you had to deploy explicit permissions on groups or use a as a workaround. Since Exchange 2010’s release both Microsoft Support and the Exchange Product Group received resounding feedback on the need for this capability.
The good news is that with Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 groups can once again be owners of groups for membership management. Public Folder Favorites Access through Outlook Web App In Exchange Server 2013 RTM there was no way to access Public Folder content through Outlook Web App. In CU1 you will now have access to Public Folders you have added as favorites via your favorites menu either in Outlook or Outlook Web App. However, this access is limited to Public Folders stored on Exchange Server 2013. Figure 3: Adding a Public Folder as a favorite in Outlook Web App in Exchange Server 2013 RTM CU1 Remember, you cannot start creating Public Folders on Exchange Server 2013 until all users have been migrated to Exchange Server 2013. For how to migrate from legacy Public Folders to Exchange Server 2013 Public Folders, see.
Exchange Admin Center Enhancements The (EAC) has been enhanced and now includes Unified Messaging management, improvements in the migration UI allowing more migration options reducing the gap between PowerShell and the UI, and general overall improvements in the user experience for consistency and simplification based on customer feedback. High Availability and Monitoring Enhancements There are have been several enhancements in the high availability and Managed Availability space. In particular:. The algorithm now honors MaximumActiveDatabases. Auto-reseed now supports disks that have.
Many have been updated and improved over the RTM release. cmdlet has been streamlined and its performance has been optimized. Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 will support the Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM); this management pack will be available at a later date. This management pack is supported on SCOM 2007 R2 and SCOM 2012. On behalf of the Exchange Product Group, thanks again for your continued support and patience, and please keep the feedback coming. I'm getting performance counters errors after installing.
Errors like this: Performance counter updating error. Counter name is Current Connected Sessions, category name is MSExchangeRemotePowershell. Optional code: 3. Exception: The exception thrown is: System.InvalidOperationException: The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly. At System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.InitializeImpl at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.getRawValue at Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.ExPerformanceCounter.setRawValue(Int64 value) Last worker process info: System.ArgumentException: Process with an Id of 12248 is not running.
At System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessById(Int32 processId) at Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.ExPerformanceCounter.GetLastWorkerProcessInfo Processes running while Performance counter failed to update: Performance Counters Layout information: FileMappingNotFoundException for category MSExchangeRemotePowershell: Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.FileMappingNotFoundException: Cound not open File mapping for name Globalnetfxcustomperfcounters.1.0msexchangeremotepowershell. Error Details: 2 at Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.FileMapping.OpenFileMapping(String name, Boolean writable) at Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterMemoryMappedFile.Initialize(String fileMappingName, Boolean writable) at Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.ExPerformanceCounter.GetAllInstancesLayout(String categoryName). We just finished a CU1 deploy at a greenfield site (sole Exchange 2013 RTM).
Happy to report that once we figured out the prerequisites needed on Server 2012, running the AD prep steps, and then CU1 itself that our Exchange 2013 RTM to CU1 update was successful. We are now getting some weirdness in the Event Logs such as service failure and restart attempts with (service already started) on MS Exchange RPC Client Access Service. Exchange Search Service seems to be crashing, and then we are getting MSExchangeFASTSearch exception errors.
While the above seems to have been introduced with CU1, the fact that OWA now performs a LOT better than before and MIME based PDF attachments via copiers are no longer killed has brought some happiness to our client!:) Philip. Well, this CU1 setup has been a f.
On one exchange server it failed at first because I had set the powershell execution policy through GPO. If you do, setup will not only fail, but it will if run again constantly deactivate all exchange related services and then fail when it tries restarting them.
Still trying to install on the second exchange server. I get this: Mailbox role: Client Access service FAILED The following error was generated when '$error.Clear; Start-SetupProcess -Name 'iisreset' -Args '/noforce /timeout:120' ' was run: 'Process execution failed with exit code 1052.' The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete. More details can be found in ExchangeSetup.log located in the:ExchangeSetupLogs folder.
How about some more quality out of Redmond? If you have the RTM version of Exchange 2013 and you are upgrading to CU1 you may run into an issue with the UCMA 4.0 not being the correct version. Originally the UCMA 4.0 version was a 'Preview' version (5.0.8132.0) which was downloaded from. Now the CU1 requirements looks like it has the same UCMA 4.0 component listed as a requirement, but the download is located. The version of this UCMA is now 5.0.8308.0. It would be nice if there was some reference on this post or the Release Notes that this is something to be aware of.
WARNING: Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 changed the behavior on where MonitoringMailboxes (HealthMailbox) are created. In RTM, they were created in the default container for the Root Domain (usually, in the 'Users' container).
In CU1 they are created in the 'Exchange System Objects/Monitoring Mailboxes' container. This causes an issue when removing Mailbox Databases: when a HealthMailbox connects to ActiveSync to test searchive health, a subcontainer is created for their pseudo-ActiveSync Device. When removing a Mailbox Database, the Exchange Trusted Subsystem attempt to delete the mailbox, but fails. This is because the Exchange Trusted Subsystem DO NOT have the 'Delete Subtree' permissions in this container/user objects.This causes the Cmdlet to issue a warning that the Mailbox Couldn't be deleted. Shame One possible resolution (I haven't tested yet) is to grand the DeleteSubTree permission to the ETS group on the Monitoring Mailboxes container and apply to user/inetOrgPerson objects. Update on the previous warning: actually, this is the 'Exchange Servers' group which has an explicit DENY on the 'Exchange System Objects' container for the 'DeleteSubTree' permission.
Since Exchange Servers belong to that group, they are indeed prevented to delete objects when they have a subobject (DeleteTree method in ADSI). So adding permissions for the ETS group is useless unless permissions are EXPLICITELY GRANTED on each HealthMailbox object, or if the explicit deny is removed from the 'Exchange System Objects' container. @Steve and others – here are the values you can use to validate successful preparation of Active Directory. I'm working to get this information updated in the topic ASAP. In the Configuration naming context, verify that the msExchProductId property in the CN=,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC= container is set to 15.00.620.029.
Note: If the msExchProductId property is set to 15.00.620.029, Active Directory has been successfully prepared. You don’t need to check any of remaining values in this list. The information below is for information purposes only and for those who separate the PrepareSchema and PrepareAD steps. In the Schema naming context, verify that the rangeUpper property on ms-Exch-Schema-Verision-Pt is set to 15254. In the Configuration naming context, verify that the objectVersion property in the CN=,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC= container is set to 15614. In the Default naming context, verify that the objectVersion property in the Microsoft Exchange System Objects container under DC=. I have deployed 2 pilots for coexistence with Exchange 2007 and 1 Production environment in progress.
I have the following problems: 1. In production environment, once mailboxes are moved from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013, outlook 2007 clients cannot connect and always keep asking password (same behaviour that I had on coexistence from ex2007 and ex2013 RTM). In pilot environments I don't have this problem. Configuration of Outlook Anywhere and Autodiscovery as well as Virtual Directories and Certificates are identical and they are done according documentation with CU1. Once mailboxes are moved from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013, mailboxes cannot be moved back to Exchange 2007. The migration task starts and then shows 'total mailbox 0, synced 0, finalized 0, failed 0' and no error in return.
Thanks for the suggestion, I will folloup on forums. Just for information for other people I think we Isolated the problem, but I am working with Microsoft Support to better understand.
Actually we tested Outlook 2007 SP3 with Outlook.exe newest version 12.0.6668.5000 (updated today with a Windows Update on the computers). This version DOES NOT WORK either with NTLM or BASIC authentication of Outlook Anywhere. Older version 12.0.6607.1000 works perfectly with either NTLM and BASIC. Pretty strange huh?:-). I updated a single server running Exchange 2013 RTM last night without issue; however, I am now finding OWA is very flakey. When I select an existing message I see this: 'Error: Your request can't be completed right now.
Please try again later.' In the message body. Eventually the message body will display but this is quite irritating. I'll have to take a look on the server and see what errors (if any) are happening there. When I create a new message I may also get this error when I click Send'. Another bugy release.
I know this was delayed, but really it should have been delayed another month at least. We had one server where, as Benoit suggests in this thread, had to have the entire EWS rebuilt. Now the latest is we are waiting on a post CU1 patch in order to backup the system.
For some reason the backups are no longer working in this release, but they were in the rtm. OWA seems flakey and public folder support really doesn't work. Sharepoint integration for discovery also doesn't seem to work. Total failure as far as I'm concerned. Exchange people have spent way too much time worrying about the cloud offerings and it shows. The on-premise version of Exchange, as it stands now, is the buggyst version of Exchange I've ever tried to use. My only question is that will exchange finally get it right with cu2 or do we have to start looking at some other options here?
Is there a process for rolling back CU1? So there is no way to uninstall an update, we can't in-place upgrade anything, and support is only good for the current and one single cu back? Sorry, I have to say that was a very, very poor design decision. This is going to make my job much harder. Well, now I'm off to install a brand new Exchange server, go through all the configuration, migrate all my mailboxes to it, and then decommission the original one. Hours of work because you can't rollback an update.
Rolling back updates is something we've been able to do for the past 20 years, so pardon me if I say this is a surprising change and degraded feature-set we've come to expect over the years. Where is Sent Items Management? This feature was put into Exchange 2010 SP3 formally, but forgotten in Exchange 2010 RTM CU1? How did that one get past QA? Imagine telling your customer that yes, you have this great feature in SP3 and once we install SP3 you will be able to upgrade to 2013. However, if you go to Exchange 2013, you will lose this same great feature.
While I understand that Sent Items Management is not a game changer or a show stopper of a feature, it still makes the point that CU1 still seems rushed even with the late release date. I would also like to add that according to the EAC, when I add a new database I need to restart the Information Store service on the server. How do I get past the 50 database limit? In Exchange 2010 you could create up to 100 databases.
Now with the new improved Exchange 2013 engine we can only have 50? So, what's the trick to raising this limit? How do we get team mailboxes working from an owa client?
How can we view more than about 20 folders in offline mode? We have execs with hundreds of folders and OWA offline mode is not going to work unless we can access all folders offline. How can we adjust the available folders to sync offline? When are you going to replace all the neat troubleshooting tools that were in the Exchange 2010 toolbox and add them into the EAC? What did I just read? 2013 has a 50 database limit now? When did this change?
At our company we have six Exchange 2010 servers. Due to RPO and RTO requirements, we have to create multiple D.A.G. With many databases. We're maxed right up with the primary databases, secondary copies, and a third copy as well.
If the 50 GB database limit is true, then we can not upgrade to 2013 because it would mean we'd have to deploy 12 Exchange servers to do the same task. This also means that if we want a 3-copy DAG solution, we can't deploy over 16 primary databases on a single Exchange 2013 server. I had no idea Exchange 2013 was so limited.
Is this really true? Is there a workaround or is there an expectation in the next service pack that this limit will be raised? Haven't stuck my oar out here for a while: A roll back plan is important in any upgrade/update plan, critical to many clients in fact. Considering the numerous issues in E2010 HFRU's, being able to back out was a saving grace many a time for many of my clients. Hopefully you'll see the light and common sense going forward to switch back. I couldn't care less about spending some extra time installing a rollup after a new installation, but now you're breaking your own MOF rules for Operation Management and patch management.
15 years of managing exchange with many heated discussions with engineers, but I'm really truly disappointed and dismayed with this course. I see why you might like this idea, I see the benefits I do, but this is poor direction to go. Korbin – you are EXACTLY correct. I remember the old WOSSA (Windows Operating Systems and Services Architecture) and Architecture examswaaaay back in the day when I was passing the MCSD track for VB5. Microsoft has thrown out a number of their own previous interface recommendations that were there for a very good reason! It is simply astonishing to me that in the year 2013 we're having conversations about products that can't co-exist with previous versions, don't provide any method of rollbacks, and can't be upgraded in-place. I'm speechless honestly.
I really speaks volumes to the state of things at Microsoft. @manf0001 – the reason why there is no in-place upgrade is that it is super-complex. In last several versions of Exchange, we have been making significant changes to database engine for example (amongst other things), rewriting significant parts of Exchange into managed code etc.
It would be a very large work to enable in-place upgrades. Having been there though in the past, we have learned that despite our best efforts, if in-place upgrades go wrong, the recovery is much more painful than having to move the mailbox back, as the server can be in a semi-installed state. Lessons we learned in support showed us that it is not necessarily something that does anyone any favors. Nino Bilic: I completely agree and understand why Microsoft abandoned In-place version upgrades, it has always made a lot of sense to move to new gear when you upgrade the messaging system. I've been working with Microsoft messaging products since Courier days and there were times when the upgrade in place worked and then after a while it didn't make any sense. HOWEVER, this new 'All In' update process might equates to an In-Place ugprade, which is mystifying. There is no way to roll back, it either works or it doesn't work.
The number of issues with CU1 are incredible and you've left customers with no easy way to roll back. It is illogical and off the mark. Worse, right now there doesn't seem to be any acknowlegement of these issues and 'we're on it' and 'we'll keep you posted' with an ETA on fixes. Couldn’t disagree more! The whole notion about 'modern public folder' and 'polished OWA' is just nonsense, respectfully. OWA display is simply awful! ZERO taste in color options.
(The entire universe is about options, not limitations!) 3. The text is hard to see even with 20/20 vision 4.
The interface is very unpleasant. Free email providers offer far more aesthetics and flexibility than OWA with Exchange 2013 6. In OWA, the address list is hard to find 7. Managing Public Folders is not an option in OWA. It was fine in 2010 but useless in 2013. Someone had to break it!
If User A creates a Public Folder (PF) using Outlook 2010 client, that A does not (NOT) see that PF in OWA. Unless user A goes to subscribe that PF. The situation is not funny when we are talking about hundreds of PFs. In MAC, EVERY PF, had to be subscribed in Outlook. Now the same is true on OWA! Speaking of MAC, they are going beyond retina display while OWA is going the other way!
What's wrong with selecting a group of users and enabling their email address? You can’t multi select users to mail-enable with highly polished Exchange 2013! The Exchange Admin Center web should reflect EAC, not ECP (Exchange Control Panel) 13. So much empty space on EAC, but there is no space to add additional properties for users. How does that make sense? I dont think so!: The whole Office 2013 color scheme is a tragedy.
Huge amounts of screen space wasted by bright white. 90% of some screens are just a wasteland of white screaming into your brain and giving you a headache. OWA2013 is the same way, and you are correct, there are many problems.
Public Folders are broken, plain and simple. Shared mailboxes don't even work at all, so you can just throw that feature right out of your current plans. Even the OWA offline mode is a joke as it will only sync 20 folders and no more. If you look on the Technet forums you will see hundreds and hundreds of complaints about this same thing. It's a cruel joke that is being played on us Exchange Administrators, that's for sure. Release products WAY before they are ready and spend the next year patching things up so we can finally have a RTM-capable experience.
Surely even the Microsoft team can see all the deficiencies in their product. Even with CU1. Exchange 2013 Address Book Policy Routing Agent Issue with Mailboxes Hidden From the Address Lists When the AddressBookPolicyRoutingEnabled attribute is enabled by running Set-TransportConfig -AddressBookPolicyRoutingEnabled $True, I am having an issue with delivery failures for mailboxes that are hidden from the address book. I receive the following undeliverable message: ‘532 5.3.2 STOREDRV.Deliver; Missing or bad StoreDriver MDB properties’ If I disable the AddressBookPolicyRoutingEnabled attribute by running Set-TransportConfig -AddressBookPolicyRoutingEnabled $False then emails are successfully delivered to the mailbox that is hidden from the address list.
I followed the installation instructions here: Below is the status of the ABP Routing Agent on my Hub Transport/Mailbox server: Enabled: True Priority: 5 TransportAgentFactory: Microsoft.Exchange.Transport.Agent.AddressBookPolicyRoutingAgent.AddressBookPolicyRoutingAgentFactory AssemblyPath: C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerV15TransportRolesagentsAddressBookPolicyRoutingAgentMicrosoft.Exchange.Transport.Agent.AddressBookPolicyRoutingAgent.dll Identity: ABP Routing Agent IsValid: True ObjectState: New Has anyone else run into this issue yet? 'Don't blame the Exchange team. I'm sure they had to release this by a certain date which Microsoft has imposed.' Imagine releasing a product and knowing that your customers can't install it alongside the previous version. How can anyone overlook critical system functionality?
If someone did impose this on the Exchange product group, then they should be canned. No developer would want their product shown in this light. I still feel the state of 13 has currently not caught up to the 10 version. The colors are simply god-awful too. Exchange 2013 CU1 Breaks my Transport Agent I have a transport agent that works fine with Exchange 2013 RTM, but no longer installs with Exchange 2013 CU1! Install-transportagent fails with: Error: The TransportAgentFactory type 'xxxxx.yyyyy' doesn't exist. The TransportAgentFactory type must be the Microsoft.NET class type of the transport agent factory.
So I rebuilt the agent with the dlls shipped in CU1, and it installed and worked fine! I am referring to these dlls of course: Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Common.dll Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Transport.dll This is not good enough because I don’t want to redistribute a different agent build for each CU that MS releases. Here are the details of my agent:. VS 2012 C#.NET Framework 4 Project References to the MS DLLs are configured with Specific Version = False.
Mark, Welcome to the wonderful world of massive Exchange bugs that 2013 has introduced. Just wait until you discover all the stress inducing changes to OWA.
I don't think things are going to stabilize enough to deploy this software until Service Pack 1 is released. CU1 is better, but it's obvious to everyone in the community that this product was released too soon due to having to meet the Windows 8/Office2013 launch schedule. Too many broken and or buggy features to be reliable enough to deploy in production. Hey, I'm supporting Ex2010SP3 environment with 1500+ GALs. GALs and Address books are segregated using Address Book Policies introduced in 2010SP2. Multi-tenancy hosting guide for 2010SP2 also says that that GAL limit also was lifted by making linked attributes.=-=- It is no longer necessary to run the makegallinked.exe tool or change the schema definition properties of the GlobalAddressList attribute in Active Directory to enable you to create more than 1000 GALs.
Once you reach the default limit of the GlobalAddressList attribute (approximately 1250 with the Windows Server 2008 Active Directory schema) you will receive a warning that the GAL you are attempting to create will only be accessible by users with a mailbox on Exchange 2010 SP2. NOTE: It is not supported (nor is it necessary) to run the makegallinked.exe tool or change the schema definition properties of the GlobalAddressList attribute in Active Directory in a new Exchange Server 2010 SP2 installation, you simply need to ensure the Active Directory is operating at the correct forest functional level and you use only the 2010 versions of the New-GlobalAddressList cmdlet.=-=- And this makes sense.
I still can create GALs in Ex2010 even I'm way above 1250 limit Unfortunately it is not the case with Exchange 2013. I introduced Ex2013 into this organization. Installation went smoothly. I have working coexistence. What doesn’t work is GALs. I CANNOT create any new GALs. I receive weird error: WARNING: One or more global address lists were missing from the Active Directory attribute.
This is likely caused by using legacy Exchange management tools to create global address lists. And it is failing with statement that 'One or more attribute entries of the object 'CN=Mincrosoft Exchange,CN=' already exists. Looks like Ex2013CU1 'forgot' about removed GAL limitation in Ex2010SP2. It seems that it is missing some GALs (we I have 300 GALs on top of official 1250 limit) and it cannot create new one because it thinks that it already exists, but it is not. Has anyone else ran into this issue.
Is there a potential workaround or fix? Is there quick fix to enable linked attrobute for GlobalAddressList and GLobalAddressList2? Anyone knows if the Public Folder FIASCO is going to be handled a bit more professionally on CU2? There are more limitations on OWA when it comes to managing (or doing anything for that matter) Public Folders than what can be done on PF using OWA – basically close to nothing!! It was fine on 2010 OWA but totally botched up on 2013. I guess the developers were in tuned with old mantra – 'PFs are gonna go to SharePoint' If the direction is 'move to Share Point' then we need to know before we spend more resources on testing 2013.
As of today, Exchange 2013 Deployment Assistant URL still displays that that upgrading from Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 is “COMING SOON!!” This shows that how poorly the internal departments (Exchange Team) are coordinating. So far, in my tests, I found no reasons to upgrade due to so many bugs, limitations, poor OWA design, PF management, and performance hits! Now that multiple roles are running on a single MB server, I noticed a major difference between the performance of Exchange 2010 box and Exchange 2013 box. All the updates are cosmetics (with poor ingredients I must add) and not much to gain.
Did anyone notice that Exchange 2013 is actually more similar to Exchange 2003? (Including the removal of 0 with 1). You stated in the article:'When you deploy the first Exchange 2013 Mailbox server in an existing Exchange organization, a new default Offline Address Book is created.' How is generated this new Default Offline Address Book?
It's an exact copy of the existing Default Offline Address Book found, for example, on a legacy Exchange server 2010, or it's simply a totally new Default Offline Address Book? In other words, if I created in Exchange 2010 a Default Offline Address Book customized to contain specific address lists (other than the Dafault GAL), when I install Exchange 2013 how can I migrate that customized Default Offline Address Book to Exchange 2013? I am wondering when CU2 is going to come out that will actually stabilize mail flow. Like many many many others – I have had to set the Hub Transport Service to restart ( which it does about every 4 to 6 hrs a day, every day). Today mail flow on the SMTP receive connector just decided to up and quit.
After 2 reboots it began working again – but the point is – first a foremost Exchange Servers should be able to Send And Receive Mail – Second – Internal Domain Clients should be able to connect. Third and last – External OWA / Phone / And RPC.
This new version – when something breaks – everything breaks. In the past at least I NEVER had to worry about the First TWO Primary functions.
By the Way config was Exchange 2003 – migrated to 2010 – Migrated to 2013 on a Server 2012 box with 12GB Ram Virtualized on Xenserver 6.5. We are just planning our Exchange Server 21013 migration because there is a opportunity to do it as part of other server upgrades. Nothing i read here fills me with any confidence in the product. The concept and execution of how CU works just sounds brain damaged with so many obvious ways to go horribly wrong i can't imagine how it ever got to see the light of day. I too have been using exchange since V4.0 and the starting with 2007 version it has just gone down hill in horrible ways since then and continues to loose some of its best features each edition. Management of exchange is certainly a much greater chore to do basic everyday tasks than ever before.
Microsoft clearly have very little idea of how their product is used in the real world and I suspect a very healthy contempt for those of us who are not happy with what we've been lumped with. Exchange used to be such a good product, it is barely a shadow of its former self. Hi @Brian, there was a question done by @Jjj saying: 'This update does not recognize disabled owa access. If I go into the eac and disable owa, the user still has access.
Owa is really flakey inngeneral and public folder data is not working right either. What a mess exchange has become.'
And you say to check the KB 2835562. I read the article and the workaround suggested is: For on-premises Exchange Server Use Active Directory Users and Computers to disable mailbox access by removing the user’s ability to log on to the Active Directory environment.
To do this, follow these steps:1.Open Active Directory Users and Computers. 2.Locate the user whose information you want to edit. To do this, use the Find feature. Or, browse to the organizational unit to which the user belongs.
3.Double-click the user, and then, in the Properties dialog box, click the Account tab. 4.Under Account options, select Account is disabled, and then click OK. Is it my bad english or I understood to disable the user account??? I mean, disable the user account? What if the user goes to the office, needs to logon to his machine, needs to logon to Lync or any other service that use authentication? (isn’t easier to send the employee on undetermined vacations, delete his user account.
When MS decides to release CU2 we call the employee back 'hey man, vacations are over, come back to work', and we recreate the account? XD XD) Anyways, there are 2 workarounds I see for this situation. If you have domain-joined ISA or TMG, you can put the users exceptions directly in the OWA publishing rule. The above option will only work for Internet users. Any internal user may browse the OWA site bypassing the Publishing server. In this scenario I onced used this feature: URL Authorization Feature Requirements (IIS 7) Create a Deny Rule for URL Authorization (IIS 7) 'Applies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista Create a Deny rule when you want to prevent access to Web content for specific roles, groups, or users.
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If you want to further restrict the actions a client request can take, you can also specify that the server will only evaluate this rule when the client attempts to use certain HTTP verbs—for example, GET or POST.' As the article says, applies to W2008R2. So I don’t know if this would work in W2012 (which has IIS8). But if you have Ex2013 running under W2008R2, feel free to test!!! Honestly, I can’t believe Microsoft recommends to disable the user account! (sorry for my bad english). First of all, I'm not a MS employee.
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Actually, I'm unemployed, and doing some freelance jobs for the past 3 months. I'm just giving my opinion about it. Many of the comments I saw in this article, is the complain about not able to perform 'in place upgrades', or roll back the CU version. This is no new for us guys!
Ever since Exchange 2003 (released back in 2003), there was no in place upgrade already. Of course Exchange 2003 is 32bits, and Exchange 2007+ are all x64 (Ex2007 x86 was released, but not supported in production environments). So everyone here, working with Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010, are already used to this situation.
Why are complaining now? Again, this has been going since 2003.
So, again, this is no new for us. I agree with all of you saying there is no rollback option. At least in Exchange 2007/2010, the model was: service packs (full builds) and rollup (update builds). Rollups were able to be removed without affecting the whole product. But talking about SPs, it was not possible. So saying that I update from Exchange 2010 SP1 to SP2, it is the same situation we have now for Exchange 2013.
My suggestion here for Exchange 2013, would be that in some way, we could rollback to the previous CU. If I have been installing like 10 CUs, if I want to remove the #10, at least, I should be able to rollback to CU9. Anyways, the workaround I see here (and the one I used for Exchange 2007/2010) is, before performing any upgrade, to take a full AD backup, and an Exchange backup (more important DBs and Certificates of the server involved).
If I was upgrading, Exchange 2010 SP1 to SP2, and something went wrong in the middle, I could expect that:.attributes in AD may reflect the exchange server in SP1, and some other attributes in SP2.In the server itselft, some exchange binary files could be SP1, or SP2.same for registry information, some could reflect SP1 settings, some SP2 settings, and the famous 'watermarks' in each role. (continuing above comment) So, reaching this point, you can: 1. Restore your AD backup. (all attributes, schema changes, and domain permissions in AD should be back to SP1). Then you can just format the server, reset the Computer account, reinstall the box with same name, rejoin to the domain, and install exchange (with SP1 installation files) with the 'recoverserver' switch. After the installation, just restore your DBs, and certificate.
The server should be, back again, working in SP1. You all may think, 'something that should take an hour at most, will take me 4 or 5', yes, I agree with you. 'this will require a lot of admin interaction, and work with DCs and Exchange', yes, I agree as well. 'In large organizations, restoring AD will cause a replication storm', YES! I agree with you again. 'what about AD changes that were performed during the upgrade time?
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If there was any work done in AD, that would be lost by restoring our back!' , yes, but be honest with me, many times we upgrade Exchange, we demand a maintenance window, and not much changes are done in AD aside the ones we performed, the the possibility is that there are no other changes done. But Is it a valid workaround?
Is it possible to achieve? Are all the procedures in the workaround supported and valid by MS? Yes, they are! So, I know is not easy, but it is a workaround. At least, in the worst case scenario, you still have a contingency plan with this. If you guys have a better workaround, please, share it with us all!! So, that's all.
And at last but not least, if MS would develop a 100% perfect product, there will be no job for us!!! The ones who offer Services, consulting and support!!! XD XD XD (sorry for my bad english again).
Shares 0 Microsoft has. This is a significant update for two reasons. It is the first release of a CU under Microsoft's new. And it is the minimum version of Exchange 2013 required for on-premises co-existence with Exchange 2007 (SP3 UR10) and Exchange 2010 (SP3).
Some important points to note:. Cumulative updates are a full server upgrade, similar to service packs for previous versions of Exchange, not a minor update like an Update Rollup. Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 includes an AD schema update and some AD permissions changes. Read the release notes for full details. There is some preparation required for your existing OAB configuration to ensure the new Exchange 2013 OAB that is created does not cause unwanted network traffic. Aside from the co-existence support and considerations there are also some improvements for existing Exchange 2013 RTM environments.
Address Book Policy Routing Agent has been included. Groups can now be owners/managers of other groups (in a fully supported and easier to manage way). Exchange 2013 OWA can now access Exchange 2013-hosted public folders. A bunch of improvements to the. Several Download Exchange Server 2013 RTM CU1. Deployment Steps: refer to. More coverage:.