Setting up a small Exchange 2016 organization (part 5)

The last part of this series of articles is about connecting the Exchange organization to the Internet. This requires a few more steps. I have already described the configuration of the Web Application Firewall of the UTM in detail here and the configuration is copied one-to-one from the article. A small note: This complete ... Read more

Setting up a small Exchange 2016 organization (part 4)

The setup of the small Exchange 2016 organization for small businesses and test environments is now quite advanced. The fourth part of this article series is about the Sophos UTM. The network configuration is as follows: The Fritzbox establishes the Internet connection, the WAN port of the UTM is connected to a LAN port of the Fritzbox ... Read more

Setting up a small Exchange 2016 organization (part 3)

In the first and second part of this series of articles, the AD and DNS of the Exchange organization have already been installed and configured. Exchange 2016 was then installed in part 2. This part is about the Exchange 2016 configuration. To make it a little easier, here is a description of the environment that will be installed: Preface Before it ... Read more

Setting up a small Exchange 2016 organization (part 2)

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)

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

A look behind the scenes and setting up a test environment

I often receive questions like this one (from a few collected mails): I don't have a fixed IP address, but would like to run my own Exchange server, is that possible? I want to set up an Exchange test environment at home, how do you do that? I have a very small customer who wants to use Exchange, what do I need? Since these questions ... Read more

Free SAN certificates also with StartSSL

In addition to Let's Encrypt, StartSSL also offers free SAN certificates for up to 5 domains with a term of 1 year for free. The certificates are supported by all common browsers and devices. The advantage of StartSSL over Let's Encrypt is that the certificates are valid for 1 year, compared to only 3 months with Let's Encrypt. The certificates must be ... Read more

Exchange Server: HowTo for installing updates

Testing, testing, testing and checking requirements As Exchange is a central and important system in many companies, it is advisable to test new updates in a test environment. The test environment should correspond as closely as possible to the productive environment. Of course, other applications/processes/services that are dependent on Exchange must also be tested as far as possible. ... Read more

New updates for Exchange Server 2013 / 2016

New updates for Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2016 were released today. Click here to download directly: Exchange Server 2016 CU 2 Exchange Server 2013 CU 13 CU13 for Exchange 2013 and CU2 for Exchange 2016 bring .NET 4.6.1 support and fix a problem when migrating public folders that could lead to data loss. Read more

Exchange Reporter 3.2 available

Today is the day, I have just uploaded version 3.2 of the Exchange Reporter. In the current version, I was able to correct many errors thanks to many comments. Many thanks at this point to all those who have reported errors. I would especially like to thank Ajdin, who not only found most of the errors, but also ... Read more