Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
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
Microsoft has also made PowerShell available for Linux and MacOS X on GitHub: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell In addition to a DEB package for Ubuntu and an RPM for CentOS, a package for Mac OS X is also available for download. Microsoft has released PowerShell under the MIT license. The Powershell for Linux is therefore OpenSource. I have ... Read more
Slack has a sense of humor, or alternatively a pretty poor sense of self-worth. I received the following error message in the browser as well as in the desktop client: Apologies, we're having some trouble with your web socket connection. We've seen this problem clear up with a restart of Slack, a solution which we suggest to you now only with a great regret and ... Read more
The date and location for the first meeting of the Exchange User Group OWL has now been set. On 23.09.2016 we will meet at 19:30 at the Hotel zur Spitze in Bielefeld Senne Hotel zur Spitze (Google Maps) Hotel zur Spitze (Website) I think the name of the venue says it all and I hope that the first EUGO will also be ... Read more
