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New updates have been released for all Exchange Server versions. Click here to download directly: Exchange Server 2016 CU6 Exchange Server 2013 CU17 Click here for details of the changes: Exchange Server 2016 CU6 Exchange Server 2013 CU17 Article about the updates on the Exchange Team Blog: Released: June 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates ... Read more
If you want to delegate the management of telephone numbers to certain persons or groups, you can use the Exchange feature "Role Based Access Control (RBAC)". RBAC can be used to grant users or groups access to the Exchange Admin Center, where these users can only perform previously defined actions. Using the following example, a user can ... Read more
Unfortunately, Exchange still does not offer a convenient way to send e-mails to other e-mail addresses. If users should be able to send mails with different e-mail addresses, additional mailboxes can be created and linked to the user. Recently, however, I received a question as to how a user can still send e-mails under several e-mail ... Read more
This article is about the design of OWA, which can be customized to your personal wishes or corporate identity using your own login page and theme/skin. However, there are a few things to consider, see also the notes at the end of the article. OWA login page The OWA login page can be customized with ... Read more
From time to time I receive emails from people who want to get started with Exchange Server. Reading through this blog from the first to the last article would be a start, but it might take a little too long. However, there are a few online trainings as videos that can serve as a basis. Here is a small selection: The offer ... Read more
The status of individual Exchange protocols can be easily determined via a URL. This is particularly interesting for load balancers, as it is easy to determine whether the protocol is available on the respective server. Querying the respective URLs is more meaningful than simply checking whether the port on the Exchange server is still open, but ... Read more
Introduction This article contains my favorites for general adjustments to the Exchange environment after or during installation. The hardening measures described below are very general, so they can be applied to existing and new environments. The measures relate to the Exchange server and the operating system itself, whether the measures are ... Read more
The .NET Framework 4.7 has been available for about a month and is expected to be distributed soon via Windows Update. Even though .NET 4.7 is already supported on Windows Server, you should be careful with Exchange Servers. Here is the current support matrix for Windows Server and .NET 4.7: The .NET Framework 4.7 is supported on the following Windows Server ... Read more
After the "Exchange 2016 Autodiscover Whitepaper" was very well received and has over 6000 downloads, there was a small vote from April to May on a new topic for the next whitepaper. A total of 637 people took part in the vote, with the topic "Exchange and certificates" receiving the most votes. Here is the final ... Read more
I have just uploaded the new version of the Message Tracking GUI and fixed two issues that have been bothering many users. The following issues have been fixed: On small screen resolutions, the window is now resizable and shows scrollbars when needed The recipients are now correctly entered into the CVS file The current version can be downloaded here ... Read more
