The steps are the same, as in the 2010 world. As in Exchange 2010, installation of 2013 Mailbox role creates a new mailbox database with a name “Mailbox Database *”, where * represents a long number. Exchange administrators prefer to follow a naming convention...

One of the big issues that admins had while migrating to Exchange 2010 was the RPC Encryption requirement on CAS servers and Outlook 2003 clients. Outlook 2003 users had to have their RPC encryption turned on for them to get connected to a 2010 mailbox....

My colleague (thanks Kevin), just alerted me to a default setting on ESX 4, which I think is potentially dangerous these days. If you hit Ctrl-Alt-Del on an ESX 4 console, it will reboot the server even if there are running VMs and it doesn’t care if...