Reading email headers using apps for Outlook

Not too long ago, my fellow Exchange Server MVP Paul Cunningham recently published an article “Email Fundamentals: How to Read Email Message Headers” on his blog. Just like he mentioned, […]

Book Review – Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook (Second Edition)

Among other books that I have reviewed in past, I had pleasure reviewing Mike’s “Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook” when it was release in 2011. So, when PACKT Publishing asked […]

CreateCluster() failed with 0x5 adding members to DAG in Exchange 2013

UPDATE: While TechNet article “Create a Database Availability Group” only mentions Windows 2008 R2 domain controllers, I must thank Scott Schnoll for the following clarification: “Creating an Exchange 2013 DAG […]

Exchange 2013 Setup – Client Access server role readiness check fails

When installing Exchange 2013 servers in complex lab scenario, I decided to separate Mailbox and Client Access server roles to dedicated servers running Windows Server 2012. I installed Mailbox server […]

Outlook must be online or connected…

Testing Exchange 2013 means careful planning of what you are going to test in lab, what you need to test al given scenarios and what is required. One of my […]

Verify Exchange Server Schema Version

UPDATED Feb 25, 2014 to include Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1 information. Since Microsoft has a dedicated TechNet article on this topic, I will no longer update this post. You […]