New focus

It has been long time since I wrote anything on this blog. Short reason is that I have not had time (or taken the time) to do so.

For the people that know me I have switched focus to my second baby “networking” which now is my main focus.

The switchover has been a lot of hard work but in the process I also managed to get the CCIE certification in Route & Switch , now renamed to Enterprise Infrastructure Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert

I have some topics that I will write about in the future so stayed tuned for some articles on mostly Cisco networking stuff.

Exchange Web Access changes name again

Every since Exchange 5.0 introduced access to mailboxes via a webgui, its name has changed several times.
Latest namechange is from Outlook Web App to Outlook on the web.
New features in Outlook on the web
Why the name change ? Your guess is equally good as mine, but I like that I don’t need to educate users about a new URL. It’s still https://..../owa

Exchange server 2016 preview

Today Microsoft released a preview of Exchange server 2016. Read all about it at the Exchange team blog site http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/07/22/announcing-exchange-server-2016-preview.aspx

Documentation is also available here

Exchange patches

New Exchange patches was release today.

Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 8 (build 15.00.1076.009) info is here KB3030080. Download here

Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 Update Rollup 9 info (build 14.03.0235.001) is in KB3030085. Download here

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 Update Rollup 16 (build 8.3.406.0) info is in KB3030086. Download here

As always, read the release notes and test before deploying.

New Exchange patches

UPDATE:
the Exchange 2010 Rollup8 has a bug in it so Microsoft removed the download link and will replace this rollup. If you happen to be fast and already installed KB2986475, Microsoft recomend to uninstall it and wait for the updatged rollup.Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 7 (CU7) is released.
A version 2 of Exchange 2010 SP3 UR8 is now released, download here.
 
Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 7.
Download link and KB2986485
Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3, Update Rollup 8.
Download link and KB2986475
Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3, Update Rollup 15.
Download link and KB2996150
Notice that there is Active directory schema updates that must be applied before installing Exchange 2013 CU7.