Happy new year to all my dear readers and followers. It’s been a busy and interesting year for various reasons:

• The release of the Wave 15 products (e.g. Exchange 2013, Lync 2013);
• The start of the UC Architects podcasts;
• Return of the MEC (which unfortunately I was unable to attend);
• Working with people like Jaap Wesselius on several interesting projects;
• My employer ceasing their UC activities forcing me to change jobs sooner than expected.

The end of a year is also a time of lists. I’d like to share with you some of EighTwOne statistics of 2012, the blog’s 3rd year running:

• Number of views in 2012: 284,198 (+30% compared to 2011, total 582,849)
• Number of posts in 2012: 76 (total 319)
• Busiest day of 2012 : July 18th (1,358 views)
• Top post of 2012: Changes in Exchange 2013 Preview

Next to the Main, Versions, Builds and Dates, Schema Versions and Toolkit pages, these were the Top 5 posts of 2012:

• Thoughts on “VMware Zimbra vs Microsoft Exchange”
• Changes in Exchange 2013 Preview
• Discontinued support of ActiveSync in GMail
• Exchange/Lync/Office/Sharepoint 2013 Visio Stencil Available
• Federation Information could not be received ..

Top 5 posts of all time:

• Limiting Exchange 2010 Database Cache
• Limiting Exchange 2010 SP1 Database Cache
• Exchange 2010 SP1 Network Ports Diagram v0.31
• Exchange 2010’s CAS Arrays & NLB
• Exchange Message Size Limits

Top 5 visitor countries of 2012:

• United States of America (29,7%)
• United Kingdom (8,7%)
• Germany (7,1%)
• The Netherlands (4,9%)
• Australia (4,3%)

Top 5 referrers of 2012:

• social.technet.microsoft.com (TechNet forum)
• blogs.technet.com (Microsoft blogs)
• experts-exchange.com (Community)
• bibble-it.com (Ben Lee)
• server-fault.com (Community)

Top 5 search terms of 2012:

• isinteg exchange 2010
• limit exchange 2010 memory usage
• msexcheseparamcachesizemax exchange 2010
• exchange 2010
• exchange 2007 version 8.3 build 83.6