Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Last Monday I published a revised version of the Exchange Certificate Assistant. The last version previously only supported Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016. The current version now also supports Windows Server 2012 R2 and Exchange 2013. Also new is the possibility to send the notification mails with authentication on the SMTP server. In addition, ... Read more
Microsoft has published an article on Exchange Server and Spectre (speculative execution side-channel). As this is a vulnerability in the processors, Exchange Server is also affected. There are a few things to note. Microsoft writes the following: As these are hardware level attacks targeting x64-based and x86-based processor systems, all supported versions of ... Read more
The Exchange Message Tracking Logs are not only helpful to analyze MailFlow problems, but are also great for generating statistics. My script "Exchange Reporter" uses the message tracking logs to generate some statistics on received/sent mails. The Message Tracking GUI is also based on the Message Tracking Logs. The Exchange Reporter ... Read more
In an earlier article, I had already pointed out that it is important to consider the NET dependencies of Exchange. In theory, all Exchange updates are cumulative, i.e. the current CU contains the complete installation files as well as all previous patches. The CU can therefore be used to perform a new installation or to update an existing installation. In ... Read more
New updates have been released for all Exchange Server versions. Exchange 2010 is also included. Click here to download directly: Exchange Server 2016 CU8 Exchange Server 2013 CU19 Exchange Server 2010 UR 19 Click here for details of the changes: Exchange Server 2016 CU8 Exchange Server 2013 CU19 Exchange Server 2010 UR 19 ... Read more
Microsoft already released a security update for Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 on 12.12.17. This is not the quarterly CU, but a fix for a vulnerability in Outlook Web Access (OWA). The CVE for the vulnerability can be found here: CVE-2017-11932 | Microsoft Exchange Spoofing Vulnerability The update is rated "Important". Microsoft describes ... Read more
Anyone who discovers the event with the ID 40025 in the Event Viewer of an Exchange Server has no immediate cause for concern, but should take action: Source: MSExchangeIS ID: 40025 Database "Database Name" ("Database GUID") has been offline-repaired (by eseutil.exe) one or more times in the past. However, although this ensures database-level logical consistency and may permit ... Read more
An interesting problem was pointed out to me today. A reader reported the directory "TransportRoles\data\Temp\UnifiedContent" within the Exchange installation directory, which contains a lot of data and keeps filling up the hard disk. I then had a look at my private installation and was also able to find some very old data in the directory in question. Here is a screenshot ... Read more
I have already described the problem in another article: Users receive an undeliverability report (NDR) when trying to send to mailboxes or distribution lists. The field code in the NDR is "550 5.1.1 RESOLVER.ADR.ExRecipNotFound; not found'. Here is an example of such an NDR: The problem occurs, for example, when a distribution list is migrated to a shared mailbox ... Read more
In the previous article, I had already shown how to create new virtual directories for OWA, for example. However, the Exchange Management Shell was always used to recreate them. But what happens if the Exchange Management Shell no longer starts? If the virtual directories have to be recreated and the Exchange Management Shell no longer starts, what ... Read more
