Tag: Updates

Exchange Server 2019 role requirement calculator

Just a reminder, the Exchange Server 2019 role requirement calculator is now only available in the current Cumulative Update download. To obtain the CU downloads, you must have access to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center. The main reason the role requirement calculator ships in the CU’s, is that the Exchange Product Group now owns

Exchange Server June 2019 updates

It worked out this time: 3rd month, 3rd week, on a Tuesday for the Exchange Server product updates. Not a lot of changes, but a couple of items of interest, the first one, the Exchange Product Group (PG) continues to tighten Active Directory security, which I absolutely love. They have added a few deny values,

Can you skip CU’s?

The question isn’t can you but should you. What’s a CU? Starting with Exchange Server 2013, the Exchange Product Group (PG) went to a quarterly updating process titled Cumulative Updates. These CU’s literally uninstall and reinstall Exchange when they are applied to a server. This is one reason a CU install process can take several hours. You’ll want to

Exchange server quarter updates posted early

While the Exchange product group does try and release every 3rd month (March, June, September, December) and 3rd week of that month for quarterly updates, with the chatter about a possible security vulnerability, the Exchange PG is releasing these security fixes for all currently supported Exchange versions as noted on the eHelo blog page. There