For all of who wait for a first SP before you deploy new version of Exchange Server, think again. While Microsoft will still ship Service Packs for Exchange, they also decided to go with more frequent updates, released quarterly, in order to fix most significant bugs, but also to provide new functionalities.
Yesterday, Cumulative Update 2 for Exchange Server 2013 was released, and besides fixing some known (and unknown) bugs, it provides pretty much of new and enhanced functionalities. In these areas, Microsoft has provided new or improved functionalities:
Per-server database support
OWA Redirection
High Availability
Managed Availability
Cmdlet Help
OWA Search Improvements
Malware Filter Rules
CU2 can be downloaded here: Exchange Server 2013 CU2. As before, this is full install, rather then just an incremental upgrade, but you can use it for both purposes – green field installation or upgrade of existing Exchange 2013. Microsoft still didn’t publish release notes for CU2, but pretty good overview of what’s new can be found here.
Author: ddamir
Damir Dizdarevic is a b.sc.math and IT professional. He works as a manager of MS CPLS Learning Center in Logosoft Sarajevo, and as a lecturer and author of MOC courses. Occasionally, he also works as a system designer for complex enterprise environments. He is a founding member and president of Bosnian Microsoft Community. He has been working with Microsoft platforms for the last 17 years and he is particularly specialized in Windows Server, Exchange Server, mobility and virtualization.
Microsoft awarded him with the Most Valuable Professional – MVP status for his outstanding contribution in sharing knowledge about Microsoft Server products, large number of lectures he delivered, and for his high technical competence. Damir owns several technical certificates (MCSE, MCTS, MCITP, and MCT) for Windows Server 2012, 2008 R2, Exchange Server 2010, Security and Hyper-V.
He is regular presenter on conferences in ex-Yu region. On Microsoft Sinergija conference, for previous 7 years, each time he was graded as one of top three speakers. On a Bosnian MS conference, he is the best speaker for last two years. He is also a regular and highly graded presenter on other Microsoft conferences in region such as NT Conference (Slovenia), Microsoft Vizija (Macedonia), Microsoft Windays (Croatia), MS Technet, Mobility Day, KulenDayz etc.
Damir is one of very few trainers in Europe who works as an author and reviewer of official MOC courses. In previous year, he was authoring courses 20417 (Upgrading Skills to Windows Server 2012), 20414 (Implementing an Advanced Server Infrastructure), 20412( Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services) and 20410 (Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012). Also, he was authoring System Center 2012 courses and currently he is working on Exchange Server 2013 and Windows Server 2012 R2 courses.
In addition, he has been working for 16 years now as one of the editors of BiH IT magazine INFO, where he published more than 300 technical articles, and he is also writing for the famous Windows ITPro Magazine (some of his work can be found at: http://windowsitpro.com/author/damir-dizdarevic).
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