Sophos UTM 9.1 now with Outlook Anywhere support via WAF

The long-awaited update for Sophos UTM was released today. Michel has published a detailed article with changes. With regard to Exchange, this feature is particularly interesting: WAF: Outlook Anywhere Passthrough Support 15089 Support for Outlook Anywhere via the Webapplication Firewall The Webapplication Firewall now supports Outlook Anywhere (RPCoverHTTPS). I will test it ... Read more

Exchange 2013: Test system with Database Availbility Group (DAG) and Kemp load balancers

I have created a test environment with Kemp load balancers and an Exchange 2013 DAG, as the posts are a bit longer, I have split them up. To make it easier to find them again, here is a table of contents with the corresponding links: Part 1: Description of the test environment and Exchange 2013 installation Part 2: Configuration of the Kemp load balancers for HA (High ... Read more

Exchange 2013: Test system with Database Availability Group (DAG) and Kemp load balancers (part 4)

In parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series of articles, we have already installed the Exchange servers, configured the load balancers for HA and created a DAG. Now the Exchange configuration for load balancing and the actual load balancer configuration are still missing to make the Exchange CAS role highly available. We will take care of this in this article. So let's take care of ... Read more

Exchange 2013: Test system with Database Availability Group (DAG) and Kemp load balancers (part 2)

The Exchange servers have already been installed in part 1, in this part the Kemp load balancers are configured for HA operation. First, the default IP is changed to an address for the test network And then the default gateway: And the DNS servers I select "LB1" as the host name so that the devices can be identified more easily Then ... Read more

Professional firewall for private use

I've already told you a bit about what my private infrastructure looks like. I use a Sophos UTM as my firewall, which has replaced my old Fritzbox. Michel has kindly put the hardware configuration for the UTM online on his blog: http://networkguy.de/?p=269 I have the same hardware except for the SSD. My ... Read more

Powershell: List overlong file paths

Overlong file paths can become a problem during migrations and backup/restore processes. A file path must not normally be longer than 260 characters. However, sometimes this limit is exceeded. This small Powershell script can be used to identify such long paths: #Directory or volume to be checked: $Directory = "D:\Shares" #PPath to CSV file for ... Read more

Exchange 2013 now available

Exchange 2013 is now available to the general public. A 180-day trial version can be downloaded here: http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/evalcenter/hh973395.aspx Information on the system requirements can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/aa996719(EXCHG.150) Currently Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007 cannot yet be migrated to Exchange 2013, as Service Pack 3 for Exchange 2010 and the corresponding rollup for Exchange 2007 ... Read more

Exchange 2013: Publish web services via Forefront TMG

Greg Taylor has published a nice guide to publishing Exchange 2013 web services on the Exchange Team Blog. All nicely illustrated with pictures. Unfortunately, Forefront TMG has been discontinued and support for Forefront UAG and Exchange 2013 is not yet available. http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/11/21/publishing-exchange-server-2013-using-tmg.aspx

Exchange 2010: Dynamic IP and Exchange web services (OWA, Active Sync, Autodiscover, etc)

My blog has now moved to a new hoster, availability and performance have made this step necessary (primarily availability). My blog is now hosted at Strato and Strato offers a nice feature that makes it much easier for me to use the Exchange web services. First, let me tell you a bit about the technology that ... Read more

New Exchange Reporter version

I have just finished the new Exchange Reporter version, I have fixed 2 bugs from version 1.1 that occurred especially in environments with high mail volume. Also the update notification is working again. If you find any bugs, please post in the forum. Thank you very much. Here you can download the current version: https://www.frankysweb.de/?page_id=706 Thank you very much ... Read more