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Group policies make an admin's life easier and can be created with little effort. The advantage is obvious: registry settings can be easily distributed to many computers using group policies. The following article contains a short HowTo on how to create group policies yourself using the free "old-school" tool "ADMX-Migrator". Foreword Also for Exchange Server ... Read more
The Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) is basically a DRM system. DRM is often used by streaming services to ensure that a piece of music can only be played if there is a corresponding subscription. AD RMS uses a very similar concept, files are provided with a license and encrypted. About ... Read more
In the fourth part of the expansion of the small Exchange organization, it's DAG's turn. The domain controller and Sophos UTM are already running redundantly and the second Exchange server has also been prepared. To ensure that the failure of an Exchange server or the failure of the Hyper-V / ESX server can also be intercepted, an Exchange DAG (Database ... Read more
Part 3 of the expansion of the small Exchange organization deals with the installation and configuration of the second Exchange server. Installing the second Exchange server The installation of the second Exchange server can almost be copied from this article, the configuration of the VM and the installation are completely identical: Setting up a small Exchange 2016 organization (part 2) The only ... Read more
In the first part of the expansion of the small Exchange organization, the Active Directory was already designed redundantly. In this article, it's the Sophos UTM's turn. Unfortunately, in my test environment, the Fritzbox in front of the UTM forms a single point of failure. The existing UTM installation is extended by a ... Read more
In the previous articles, a very small Exchange organization was set up and the question was raised as to whether an environment for a higher number of users and better availability can be subsequently created from this. A higher number of users can of course also be mapped with a Singe Server solution if the resources are sufficient. In the case of ... Read more
In the last few days I have described the structure of a small Exchange organization as I use it privately. To make it easier to find the articles, here is an overview of the articles: Part 1: Installation Active Directory and configuration DNS Part 2: Installation Exchange Server 2016 CU 2 Part 3: Configuration Exchange Server incl. certificate ... Read more
The last part of this series of articles is about connecting the Exchange organization to the Internet. This requires a few more steps. I have already described the configuration of the Web Application Firewall of the UTM in detail here and the configuration is copied one-to-one from the article. A small note: This complete ... Read more
The setup of the small Exchange 2016 organization for small businesses and test environments is now quite advanced. The fourth part of this article series is about the Sophos UTM. The network configuration is as follows: The Fritzbox establishes the Internet connection, the WAN port of the UTM is connected to a LAN port of the Fritzbox ... Read more
In the first and second part of this series of articles, the AD and DNS of the Exchange organization have already been installed and configured. Exchange 2016 was then installed in part 2. This part is about the Exchange 2016 configuration. To make it a little easier, here is a description of the environment that will be installed: Preface Before it ... Read more
