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Sophos has been offering the successor to the UTM, called Sophos XG, for some time now. Sophos's advertising slogan: The next thing in next-gen: ultimate firewall performance, security and control So far, I've steered clear of Sophos XG, as a lot of things didn't really work smoothly in my last test. My last test is ... Read more
At the end of last year, I had already written an article on the topic of RPCoverHTTP, better known as Outlook Anywhere: Exchange 2016: Is RPCoverHTTP still needed? I therefore switched off Outlook Anywhere in my environment in December 2016. I have not encountered any problems so far. Outlook 2016 works perfectly with MAPIoverHTTP. So now that over two ... Read more
After Part 1 described how to create a backup with the Windows Server backup and Part 2 how to restore a mailbox from the backup, Part 3 now describes the other options. You don't always want to overwrite an existing mailbox with the mailbox from the backup, other options for restoring are described below. ... Read more
The second article in this series is about restoring a mailbox from the data backup that was created in part 1 with the Windows Server backup. The procedure is the same for many backup tools and essentially consists of writing the mailbox database back to a restore database and restoring the required data from it. The procedure described here ... Read more
This series of articles is about backing up and restoring Exchange databases and mailboxes using Windows Server Backup. The test environment consists of a Windows Server 2016 with Exchange 2016 on which the Windows feature "Windows Server Backup" has been installed. The Windows Server Backup is a simple tool with which Windows Server and Exchange can be backed up and ... Read more
Support for Exchange 2007 ends after 10 years on 11.04.2017. From April there will therefore no longer be any technical support, bug and security fixes or time zone updates for Exchange 2007. Anyone still using Exchange 2007 should therefore migrate as quickly as possible. Exchange 2007 cannot be migrated directly to Exchange 2016. The ... Read more
I admit it. In one of my test environments, I've now been caught out too. I've forgotten the password... But it's actually a good thing, because I can see if the good old workaround via "Utilman" still works. The good news: Yes, it still works! Here again the way how ... Read more
I am currently configuring the base template for Windows Server 2016. I would like to create Windows Server 2016 VMs based on this template in the future. Please feel free to post any tips on useful settings for the standard installation in the comments. I will gradually expand this article until the template is complete. ... Read more
As promised, I'm adding the Jetstress test here to compare ReFS and NTFS. I tested once with a database and logs on one volume and 4 databases with separate log and database volumes (8 volumes). All volumes of the Windows VM were stored on the same XtremIO LUN. There were no other changes. ... Read more
I have already carried out a speed comparison between ReFS and NTFS. Exchange 2016: Testing storage performance with Jetstress (comparing NTFS to ReFS) Part 1 Exchange 2016: Testing storage performance with Jetstress (comparing NTFS to ReFS) Part 2 Exchange 2016: Testing storage performance with Jetstress (comparing NTFS to ReFS) Part 3 I have performed the test ... Read more
