Frank Zöchling

Frank Zöchling has been writing about Microsoft Exchange Server, PowerShell and Active Directory since 2011. Easy to understand HowTos and troubleshooting are the goal. Frank Zöchling is also the founder of the EUGO: Exchange User Group OWL.

T-Online Mail Server on various SPAM blacklists

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The T-Online mail servers are currently on several SPAM blacklists, which is why mails from T-Online servers are currently often declared as SPAM or rejected directly. So if you are a T-Online customer and possibly use the mail servers as an Exchange Smarthost, you should switch to another provider if possible. The whole article can be found on Heise.de: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/T-Online-Mailserver-von-Blacklistings-betroffen-1341226.html

Exchange 2010: Address lists/address books cannot be updated Event 9331 and 9335

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When migrating from Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010, it can happen that the address lists and the offline address book cannot be created or updated on Exchange 2010. The reason for this are spaces in the alias of the public system folders. These two error messages are generated in the event log of the Exchange 2010 server: Event ID: ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Migration Exchange 2003 / Exchange 2010 Event ID 14029

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When migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010, there are often problems with the replication of public folders. However, I have frequently encountered problems with the replication of the free/busy times of Exchange. Exchange also reports this with an error in the event log of the Exchange 2010 server. The following event log entry ... Read more

Exchange 2010 SP1: Update Rollup 5 available

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The Exchange 2010 SP1 Update Rollup 5 has been released, an overview of which problems have been fixed can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2582113 The UR5 can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de-de/details.aspx?familyid=731d0ebd-f094-4a37-aafa-78e1052780c5&displaylang=de

Exchange 2010: Which Exchange service is needed for what?

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Exchange 2010 installs a whole range of new services during installation. I will explain here what each service is used for. 21 New services are installed on an Exchange Multi Role Server Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology This service is used to retrieve the topology information of the Active Directory. With this service, the Active Directory location and ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Dial-Tone Recovery

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#In this article I have described how to restore an Exchange database, but this should only be the last choice of an administrator to restore Exchange functionality. If the complete database has to be restored from the backup, the Dial-Tone procedure can be used. What is the difference between a normal ... Read more

Exchange 2010: SAN certificate and internal certification authority (CA)

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In this HowTo I describe how to install an internal certification authority and how to have a SAN certificate issued for Exchange. This HowTo is not intended for a productive environment. The implementation of a certification authority must be planned carefully. In my test environment I have installed 2 Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, 1 DC + CA ... Read more

BTW: Interesting judgment regarding the employer's access to e-mails

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I stumbled across this article today: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Urteil-Arbeitgeber-darf-auf-dienstliche-E-Mails-eines-Arbeitnehmers-zugreifen-1287540.html I think you should take note of the ruling, because administrators in particular may be forced to operate in legal gray areas. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerparagraf I don't want to spark any political or legal discussions. Nevertheless, I am interested in the legal situation on topics that affect me directly or indirectly.

Exchange 2010 SP1: Update Rollup 4 released again (RU4v2)

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An updated version of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 was released this morning. The update is available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de-de/details.aspx?familyid=4c4dfa39-0f30-4462-a7d6-3c5c782f355d&displaylang=de More details about the update can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/07/27/announcing-the-re-release-of-exchange-2010-sp1-rollup-4.aspx and here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/07/27/an-update-on-exchange-server-2010-sp1-rollup-update-4.aspx If you have already installed the original Rollup 4, you should read these two articles.