Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
In this post, I described that my PCs did not receive a Windows 10 Anniversary Update via Windows Update. I had installed the update manually. A mistake, as I have now discovered: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/08/23/powershell-dsc-broken-in-kb3176932/ Exactly one day after my update, the information was published that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) had problems with the PowerShell DSC ... 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
For a change, a small problem again today. The "Server" service on a Windows Server 2012 R2 file server could no longer be started, which meant that none of the shares were accessible. Only this warning could be found in the "Application" event log: Source: Server Event ID: 2511 The server service could not restore the share share name because ... Read more
I have already published some approaches to getting the ransomware plague under control here: https://www.frankysweb.de/windows-fileserver-vor-ransomware-crypto-locker-schuetzen/ https://www.frankysweb.de/windows-fileserver-vor-ransomware-schuetzen-update/ https://www.frankysweb.de/locky-verseuchte-clients-identifizieren/ https://www.frankysweb.de/clients-vor-infektion-mit-ransomware-schuetzen-locky-cryptolocker/ However, I also receive many emails every day asking what else is possible. I have to say: It depends... The scripts in the articles don't work in every environment, but probably have to be ... Read more
In these two articles, I already presented a way to protect Windows file servers from Locky and other ransomware: https://www.frankysweb.de/windows-fileserver-vor-ransomware-crypto-locker-schuetzen/ https://www.frankysweb.de/windows-fileserver-vor-ransomware-schuetzen-update/ Tobbi has also implemented the idea for Netapp Filer: http://www.tobbis-blog.de/netapp-ontap-fileserver-gegen-ransomware-abschotten/ But there are still the clients, from which most of the danger emanates. The faster the computers are identified that are infected with ... Read more
This blog runs on WordPress and is hosted by Strato. Although there are countless backup plug-ins for WordPress, I have not yet found one that meets my requirements. I just want to store a backup of the WordPress mySQL database on my NAS and not make my NAS publicly available on the Internet via FTP or SSH. Read more
Here is another small script from the Quick and Dirty series. The script was actually created to monitor an AntiSPAM gateway, which was often overloaded and no longer processed any mails. Unfortunately, "text-only" mails without hyperlinks or other content turned out not to be very meaningful, because they were practically always ... Read more
Does anyone else have this problem, or is it just me? Every now and then I get stuck: Somewhere there is a distribution group which in turn contains other distribution groups as members, as can be seen here in the example: In practice, there are usually distribution groups such as "Finance", and then "Finance - ... Read more
I have just uploaded the new version of "Exchange Reporter". Since a few new features have been added, I have put together a new major version. Here are the highlights: Multilingual (German and English) Exchange 2016 compatible Visual customization of the report and the console output New functions (major update) First multilingual version (German and English) Visual customization ... Read more
I love PowerShell, but I can't really make friends with the syntax highlighting, I think the colors are badly chosen, or it's my eyes, it could also be: But honestly, gray or light green on a dark blue background? For me a "somewhat" difficult color choice.you could change the background now, but it will ... Read more
