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The date for the next meeting of the Exchange User Group OWL (EUGO) has been set: Friday 10.02.2017 19:30 Hotel zur Spitze in Bielefeld Senne Windelsbleicher Str. 215 33659 Bielefeld Link: Google Maps Link: Website Hotel zur Spitze Andi and I accept registrations on the following pages: http://asichel.de/eugo/ https://www.frankysweb.de/eugo/ Andi and I are looking forward to ... Read more
True to the motto of the Exchange User Group Berlin: We all get better when we share The Exchange User Group Berlin and the Exchange User Group OWL are now partner communities. Both offline communities are still at the very beginning, but have the same goal: We want to promote direct exchange between administrators, consultants and ... Read more
Some of you have probably already noticed that there is a new subpage called Projects. On this page I publish tools that were either gimmicks or have disappeared from focus. There are currently two tools there that were more or less successful: The Room Display and the Header Analyzer. The room display was once ... Read more
Since this month, Microsoft has also been distributing Windows updates as update rollups, similar to Exchange Server. Several updates are combined in update rollups. On the one hand, this has the advantage that not countless individual updates have to be installed, but significantly fewer. The disadvantage, however, is that certain updates can no longer be deselected or uninstalled individually. ... Read more
Today I once again had a Windows server that could no longer be backed up via VSS. The creation of a VSS snapshot aborted with the following error message: Volume Shadow Copy Service Error: An unexpected error occurred while calling the routine "ConvertStringSidToSid(S-1-5-21-1629892529-1905228445-1032730592-4125.bak)". hr = 0x80070539, The structure of the security identifier is invalid. . Operation: OnIdentify event Generator data is being collected Context: Execution context: ... Read more
Ignite is over and some recordings of the conference on Exchange Server and Office 365 have already been put online. Here is an overview with the corresponding Youtube links: Unplug with the Microsoft Outlook experts Dive deeper into what's new and what's coming in Outlook on the web Discover Office 365 Groups - ... Read more
Windows Defender is activated by default on Windows Server 2016. As Exchange Server requires some exclusions from the virus scanner, these must also be stored accordingly in Windows Defender. The same applies to virus scanners from other manufacturers. The following note can be found on the Exchange Team Blog: Windows Defender is on by default in Windows Server 2016. Attention to ... Read more
THANK YOU guys that was quick. On July 28th Andi and I met for the first time to talk about the possibility of cooperation. This gave rise to the idea of the Exchange User Group OWL. Barely two months later, the first EUGO meeting took place. First of all, Andi and I would like to thank all participants ... Read more
The Microsoft Technical Summit is taking place for the third time this year. Like last year, there will be presentations on IT Pro and developer topics from December 6 to 8 in Darmstadt. I'm already looking forward to the two days (I'm skipping the workshop day this year). This year there will be a community ... Read more
The Windows 10 Anniversary Update 1607 was not offered for download on my PC with Windows 10 Enterprise Edition via Windows Update. I'm not quite sure if this is supposed to be the case, because I have to admit that I haven't really looked into the new Windows Update policy yet. WinVer still shows ... Read more