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

• Becoming an Exchange MVP;
• MVP Summit 2013 in Seattle;
• TechEd North America 2013 in New Orleans;
• (Finally) meeting in person with many of the Exchange fellows and PG and peers at the aforementioned events;
• The UC Architects podcast increasing popularity;
• Finding time to write some (popular) scripts which were on the to-do list;
• Cancellation of the MCM/MCSM certification;
• Going from 0 abroad travel for business per year to 5 (Denmark, UK, Thailand, USA);
• After working with mostly local customers in the past few years, participating again in a long-term international project with expats, offshoring and local IT teams.

The end of a year is also a time of lists. I’d like to share with you some of EighTwOne statistics of 2013, in the blog’s 4th year running. The statistics come directly from the site and without additional observations apart from that Exchange 2010 still seems to be highly popular when looking for information.

• Number of views in 2013: 287,548 (Total 870,823)
• Number of posts in 2013: 89 (total 409)
• Busiest day of 2013: February 13th, 1,893 views
• Top post of 2013: YAII (or Yet Another IOS Issue) (Update)

Apart from the Archives, Versions, Builds and Dates, Schema Versions and Toolkit pages, these were the Top Posts of 2013:

• Limiting Exchange 2010 Database Cache
• Limiting Exchange 2010 SP1 Database Cache
• Exchange Message Size Limits
• Exchange 2010 SP1 Network Ports Diagram v0.31
• Exchange ActiveSync and Inheritable Permissions issue
• Thoughts on “VMware Zimbra vs Microsoft Exchange”

All time Top Posts:

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

All time Top Scripts:

• Exchange 2013 Unattended Installation Script
• Removing Duplicate Items from a Mailbox
• Fixing Well-Known Folders
• Removing Messages by Message Class from Mailbox
• Pre-staging the Cluster Name Object (CNO)

Top 5 visitor countries of 2013:

• United States (84,869)
• United Kingdom (23,838)
• Germany (21,338)
• Netherlands (15,768)
• Canada (11,322)

Top 5 referrers of 2013:

• social.technet.microsoft.com (TechNet forum)
• exchangeserverpro.com (Paul Cunningham)
• Twitter
• blogs.technet.com (Microsoft blogs)
• community.spiceworks.com (community)

Top 5 search terms of 2013:

• isinteg exchange 2010
• exchange versions
• zimbra vs exchange
• role based access control
• msexcheseparamcachesizemax