Let's Encrypt: Free wildcard certificates from January 2018

Let's Encrypt announced today that free wildcard certificates will also be issued from January 2018. Wildcard certificates (e.g. *.frankysweb.de) can be used to secure an entire domain via SSL with one certificate. With other certification authorities, wildcard certificates cost quite a bit of money, the cheapest wildcard certificate I know so far is just under 280 EUR for ... Read more

Quick & Dirty: Copy Active Directory groups from user to user

I have created a small GUI that copies Active Directory groups from one user to another user. With the script you can quickly transfer all groups of a user to another user account: The GUI is only very rudimentary, you can select a source user account and a target user account, a click on "Copy groups from source to target ... Read more

Exchange Toolbox for Exchange Server 2016

I received a lot of feedback on the first beta version of the Exchange Toolbox and was able to fix several problems as a result. Now there is a new version that mainly fixes problems, but also integrates message tracking. The goal of the Exchange Tool Box is to provide a small and handy GUI for quick troubleshooting. However, there are currently ... Read more

Exchange Server: New updates (June 2017)

New updates have been released for all Exchange Server versions. Click here to download directly: Exchange Server 2016 CU6 Exchange Server 2013 CU17 Click here for details of the changes: Exchange Server 2016 CU6 Exchange Server 2013 CU17 Article about the updates on the Exchange Team Blog: Released: June 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates ... Read more

Exchange 2016: Delegate the management of telephone numbers (RBAC)

If you want to delegate the management of telephone numbers to certain persons or groups, you can use the Exchange feature "Role Based Access Control (RBAC)". RBAC can be used to grant users or groups access to the Exchange Admin Center, where these users can only perform previously defined actions. Using the following example, a user can ... Read more

Exchange 2016: Sending under an alternative e-mail address

Unfortunately, Exchange still does not offer a convenient way to send e-mails to other e-mail addresses. If users should be able to send mails with different e-mail addresses, additional mailboxes can be created and linked to the user. Recently, however, I received a question as to how a user can still send e-mails under several e-mail ... Read more

EUGO: Date for the next meeting has been set

This time Andi and I are a little earlier, after we were unfortunately only able to announce the date for the previous EUGO meeting at very short notice, the date for the next meeting follows now: Friday 11.08.2017 19:30 Allegro Habichtshöhe in Bielefeld Bodelschwinghstr. 79 33604 Bielefeld Link: Google Maps Link: Website Allegro Habichtshöhe Since we ... Read more