Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Many readers have pointed out to me that the CVE Reporter no longer works. The reason was NIST's switch to the new feed format 2.0. The data in the CVE feed is now structured differently compared to version 1, which made it necessary to adapt the CVE Reporter. I have the new version 1.1 of the CVE Reporter ... Read more
Over the weekend, some readers noticed the first problems on FrankysWeb. Instead of the normal content, a redirect was made directly to a dubious site or to an Amazon store. The problem should now be solved, the cause was ads from a certain provider, which could always be delivered without any problems. Since about ... Read more
At this point I would like to give you an overview of my favorite tools for the overview of e-mail relevant settings and troubleshooting. The tools often help me to analyze and fix problems in the mail flow. Often the problems with sending or receiving emails are not caused by you, but by the sender or ... Read more
Thanks to artificial intelligence, FrankysWeb is now also available in English. Not all posts have been translated yet, but the number is steadily increasing. To read a post in English, you can now switch the language. There is a switch for the language in the ribbon: If the post has already been translated, it will ... Read more
The spam blacklist Nixspam (ix.dnsbl.manitu.net) from iX magazine and the hoster manitu has been switched off. Since 16.01.2025, the DNS blacklist no longer contains any entries. All blacklist responses now only return "no spam" as the result of the check. As the nixspam blacklist was used by many AntiSpam systems, it should now be checked whether the nixspam blacklist is still used for ... Read more
Today I had the requirement to convert a Windows server from Legacy BIOS to UEFI with Secure Boot. It was a virtual machine on an ESXi 8 server. However, the method described should also work with other hypervisors and also with physically installed Windows servers. If in the BIOS of the server or in the ... Read more
I wish all visitors, readers, supporters and friends a happy and healthy new year. I wish you good luck with all your good intentions and may all your wishes come true. Thank you for your support and interest in this blog. I am already looking forward to the new year and the new Exchange version and ... Read more
The announced move from FrankysWeb to a new hoster has been completed. As the site now has significantly more resources and effective caches (Redis Object Cache and FastCGI Page Cache), the site now loads faster. Availability should also be better now that the web server is no longer reaching its performance limits. In the near future I will ... Read more
I wish all friends, readers and supporters a merry and peaceful Christmas, take care of yourselves and stay healthy. I wish all admins who are looking after the well-being of the systems during or between the holidays every success. Take a few days off as soon as possible and treat yourselves and your loved ones to something nice. ... Read more
Between the holidays, some maintenance work will be necessary on this website. FrankysWeb will also be moving to a root server with significantly more power and the domain will also be moved to a new hoster. Unfortunately, the domain move in particular will make this site unavailable. The reason for the outage will be the ... Read more
