Today Exchange Team released updated security updates for both Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 and Exchange 2013 RTM CU2. Release of Exchange 2013 CU2 on the Microsoft Exchange. 2010 Exchange 2010 Sp2 Exchange 2010 SP3 Exchange 2013 Exchange 2013 CU2 Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator Exchange 2013 SP1 Exchange distribution group.
From the Exchange Team. 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. In addition to this article, the Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 are also available. More information can be found; as always please read the section prior to downloading!!
Server Deployment Updates and Changes (Read First) Once the preparatory steps are completed, you can then deploy CU1 and start your coexistence journey. If this is your first Exchange 2013 server deployment, you will need to deploy both an Exchange 2013 Client Access Server and an Exchange 2013 Mailbox Server into the organization. As explained in, CAS 2013 is simply an authentication and proxy/redirection server; all data processing (including the execution of remote PowerShell cmdlets) occurs on the Mailbox server. You can either deploy a multi-role server or each role separately (just remember if you deploy them separately, you cannot manage the Exchange 2013 environment until you install both roles). If you already deployed Exchange 2013 RTM code and want to upgrade to CU1, you will run setup.exe /m:upgrade from a command line after completing the Active Directory preparatory steps or run through the GUI installer.
Deploying future cumulative updates will operate in the same manner. Notes: - 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.
When you deploy the first Exchange 2013 Mailbox server in an existing Exchange organization, a new default Offline Address Book is created. If your environment contains only Exchange 2007, and you upgrade to Exchange 2013, keep in mind you cannot deploy Exchange 2010 in that environment at a later time. If you foresee a need to deploy Exchange 2010 servers into your environment, deploy an Exchange 2010 multi-role server (with all four servers roles) prior to executing Exchange 2013 setup.exe /PrepareAD - 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. As you start migrating your mailboxes to Exchange 2013, one thing you may notice is that your mailboxes appear to be larger post move.
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. New Functionality Included in Cumulative Update 1 - Address Book Policy Routing Agent has been included in Exchange 2013 RTM CU1.
Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 groups can once again be owners of groups for membership management. Public Folder Favourites Access through Outlook Web App - Exchange Admin Center (EAC) has been enhanced and now includes Unified Messaging management.
High Availability and Monitoring Enhancements - The Best Copy Selection algorithm now honors MaximumActiveDatabases. Auto-reseed now supports disks that have Bitlocker encryption. Many probes, monitors, and responders have been updated and improved over the RTM release. Get-HealthReport cmdlet has been streamlined and its performance has been optimized.
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Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 will support the Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).Scott (beam me up) Schnoll has posted an update on.
I began writing this article to concentrate on the changes made in just OWA. Then I started to look at the EAC and noticed changes there as well. So this article the first in a series of posts over the next week or so that will cover changes that are in the new Exchange 2013 CU1 release. The goal is to show the changes/improvements that Microsoft as made from RTM to CU1.
I am also of the opinion that Tony Redmond nailed it on the head with this where he declares that CU1 is what RTM should have been. From the EHLO (Exchange Team) blog:.
Coexistence with Exchange 2010 SP3 and Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10 is supported now. AD Schema update is included in the install. Update is now a full install and not just a patch like the Rollup Updates from Exchange 2010. If you do not have Exchange 2013 RTM installed, CU1 will create a new Offline Address Book) OAB. Clients relying on this will perform a full download of the new OAB. Need both roles in order to manage your Exchange 2013 environment.
These roles do not need to be on the same server. Mailbox sizes ‘increase’ in Exchange 2013 from previous versions of Exchange. This has to do with some calculation changes that Microsoft has made in the calculation of the true space usage by a mailbox. Address Book Policy Routing Agent has been added with CU1.
Groups can manage groups. A feature that had been removed is now back. Groups make management so much easier and prevents issues you might have when a group manager has been removed and you have to make each change individually instead of with one change. Public folders are now visible in OWA. This will be limited to Exchange 2013 Public Folders.
As with any Microsoft release there are changes/modifications that are not as well documented or ‘featured’. Things that affect the user experience are noted if they are major (i.e. Public folders availability in OWA 2013 CU1), but minor changes are not. In the next secion of the article, Here are some of the changes I’ve seen in my use of the new Exchange 2013 CU1 (. changes are from RTM to CU1). I am not pretending that this is a full and completed list of all the changes that were made by Microsoft.
This is simply a list of the changes I’ve noticed since the release came out last week. All tests were completed with Internet Explorer 10 (IE10). Change 1 In the upper right hand corner of OWA once you log in, clicking on the gear button brings up a differently ordered menu listing in CU1 then RTM. Exchange 2013 RTM Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 Change 2 A little deeper into OWA we find that the contacts page has been changes as well. To get here you need to click on People button in the upper right hand corner of OWA. Here are the changes made here as well: Exchange 2013 RTM Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 Seems to be just a different way to display the same information. Change 3 Wipe Device looks like it was removed from the Mobile Devices menu in OWA.
This might simply be because I have no mobile devices connected to this account yet. I will update this article once I get a device hooked up to the mailbox on my Exchange 2013 CU1 server. Exchange 2013 RTM Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 Change 4 Check Names functionality has been added to new messages in OWA. This is very useful as it provides a quicker way to verify your recipient list is correct. Exchange 2013 RTM Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 Change 5 The ability to add a room to a new meeting request was added to the first screen instead of having to go to the Scheduling Assistant in the RTM version of OWA. Exchange 2013 RTM Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 Change 6 When creating a new appointment in OWA 2013, CU1 now allow a user to choose which calendar to place the new appointment in. If you manage multiple calenders from OWA, this will simplify this task.
Exchange 2013 RTM Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 Change 7 A nice feature added with CU1 is the revealing of which Distribution Lists that you own. This allows you to see which ones you managed from the OWA interface. Exchange 2013 RTM Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 Change 8 A new Calendar Troubleshooter has been added to OWA with the release of CU 1.
With this feature a user could potentially track down any logs relating to a particular calendar item they are having an issue with. Exchange 2013 RTM This feature does not exists at all. Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 Change 9 Default font for OWA went from a size 10 Tahoma to a size 12 Calibri. I would imagine this is to mimic the default settings for Office. Exchange 2013 RTM Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 Cosmetic Changes In going from RTM to CU1 for Exchange 2013, Microsoft also made some cosmetic changes in the hopes of giving OWA a more polished look. I wish these had been added to RTM and not CU1 as they seemed to have been an after thought for the RTM version of 2013. Exchange 2013 RTM Exchange 2013 RTM Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 Summary While this is not meant to be a comprehensive list, I hope that by this post alone you can see the many changes that Microsoft has made to polishing up their Exchange 2013 product.