Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Although the virtual directories for the various Exchange web services can be recreated via the "Exchange Admin Center", there are cases where this function reaches its limits. I have simulated such an error for this article. Even after resetting the directory for OWA with the Exchange Admin Center, OWA does not work: Not everything ... Read more
I have just uploaded version 3.3 of the Exchange Reporter. The new version contains so far only a few minor bug fixes: Bugfixes: HPiLOreport.ps1 Bugfixes and error handling (Many thanks to Timbo) Link to download the HPE iLO PowerShell modules fixed UpdateReport.ps1 Switch to HTTPS UTF8 encoding issue fixed Clientinfo.ps1: Bugfix in the display of ActiveSync Devices (Many ... Read more
New updates have been released for all Exchange Server versions. Click here to download directly: Exchange Server 2016 CU7 Exchange Server 2013 CU18 Click here for details of the changes: Exchange Server 2016 CU7 Exchange Server 2013 CU18 Article about the updates on the Exchange Team Blog: Exchange Team Blog For me personally ... Read more
On February 6, 2017, I published the first version of the certificate wizard for Exchange 2016 and Let's Encrypt. The certificate wizard simplifies the process of requesting, renewing and installing an SSL certificate for Exchange 2016. Now, thanks to Bjoern, there is a new version. Bjoern has taken the trouble to make some changes so that the certificate wizard also works with Exchange 2010 and ... Read more
The Exchange Management Shell makes it easy to export mailboxes to a PST file. This short article shows how it works. In order for mailboxes to be exported (and also imported), the user performing the export must first be assigned an RBAC role; for the Administrator user, this is done with the following command: New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role "Mailbox Import ... Read more
Ingo Gegenwarth has published a very interesting article regarding Exchange on HP Proliant Gen9 servers on his blog "The clueless guy". The article deals with possible performance problems when Exchange is installed directly on HP servers and the default BIOS settings are kept: Exchange performance:HP NUMA BIOS settings So for HP servers and Exchange we recommend ... Read more
The e-mail pickup directory is no longer used very often, but today was another case with a somewhat more special software... The e-mail pickup directory is a normal folder in the file system that is monitored by Exchange for new e-mails, if an e-mail lands in this folder, Exchange will try to deliver the mail. ... Read more
Microsoft has released new security updates for Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016. Specifically, it concerns this security vulnerability: This security update fixes a security vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Outlook Web Access (OWA). The vulnerability could allow privilege escalation or spoofing attacks in Microsoft Exchange Server if an attacker sends an email with a specially crafted attachment to a vulnerable Exchange ... Read more
In this article, I already presented a small script that checks the Exchange HealthCheck URLs. Since I use PRTG for monitoring in my private environment, I used a separate sensor for the HealthCheck URLs. PRTG comes with a whole range of sensors for Exchange Server, but due to the limitation of 100 ... Read more
A little tip on the side as the question has already been asked several times: Do I also have to consider .NET Framework when installing Exchange Updates (CUs)? Simple answer: Yes! Here is the somewhat more detailed answer: Unsupported NET Framework versions in conjunction with Exchange Server can be quite problematic, as has already been shown in the past: https://www.frankysweb.de/net-framework-4-6-1-nicht-auf-exchange-servern-installieren/ The NET ... Read more
