Active Directory

Setting up a small Exchange 2016 organization (part 2)

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In part 1, the Active Directory and DNS have already been installed and configured. In the second part, the Exchange Server is now installed in the test environment. Here once again is the environment that will be set up: The IP addresses of the two servers for an overview: DC 172.16.100.12/24 Exchange: 172.16.100.13/24 In the first part, I already mentioned that I had installed the Windows ... Read more

Setting up a small Exchange 2016 organization (part 1)

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As already announced here, here is the detailed configuration for my Exchange 2016 organization. The aim is to set up this environment: I am using one of my test domains (frankysweb.org), which is hosted by Strato. I am starting from scratch, only the following things are already prepared: 2 x Windows Server 2012 R2 as ... Read more

Find user accounts in nested groups

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Does anyone else have this problem, or is it just me? Every now and then I get stuck: Somewhere there is a distribution group which in turn contains other distribution groups as members, as can be seen here in the example: In practice, there are usually distribution groups such as "Finance", and then "Finance - ... Read more

Active Directory and Exchange automation with Softerra Adaxes

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I was looking for a tool for the administration and automation of Active Directory and Exchange, and I got stuck with Softerra Adaxes, which I am currently testing in more detail. So here are a few impressions. First of all, a few screenshots from the installation: An account must be created for the service, which ... Read more

Exchange Reporter 2.1 released

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I have just released version 2.1 of the Exchange Reporter. The most important changes: Integration in Exchange Monitor or as a standalone website Information on the Active Directory is now displayed separately Revised documentation Support for F5 Big IP LTM (Local Traffic Manager) Various bug fixes have also been incorporated, the most noticeable of which was probably the confusion in the ... Read more

Reports on the certification body by e-mail

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Another addition to the *Reporter family, the CA Reporter is ready. CA Reporter creates a report on the certification authority and its certificates in a very similar way to Exchange Reporter. The following functions are included so far: Status of the CA Status of the root certification authority certificate Status of the revocation lists Users with access to the CA Overview of certificate templates Overview of certificates that have already expired ... Read more

Active Directory: Resetting passwords for multiple users via Powershell

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If you want to quickly reset a large number of passwords, you can use Powershell to do this. With a small adjustment, you can also read in a CSV file with users and reset the passwords to a default password: $userlist= @() do { $input = (Read-Host "AD User") if ($input -ne '') {$userlist += $input} } until ($input -eq '') ... Read more

Exchange 2013: Switch authentication to Kerberos

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By default, connections from Outlook to Exchange 2013 are authenticated with NTLM. However, in environments with several CAS servers and many clients, NTLM generates unnecessary load on the DCs, precisely because load balancers no longer have to worry about persistence. It is better to use Kerberos authentication here so that not every CAS server has to re-authenticate the connection ... Read more

Active Directory: List users in nested groups

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I like the best practices when it comes to assigning groups and users to resources, but unfortunately you can't see at first glance which user actually has access, or which user is in a chain of nested groups. Therefore I have written a small script which can recursively trigger groups, permissions on folders and mailboxes. ... Read more