Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Here is another short review. I am often asked which anti-spam / email security product I would recommend and what my experience with it has been. There are countless solutions on the market and almost the entire spectrum is covered: special hardware appliances, VMs, Windows or Linux, software that runs directly on the Exchange ... Read more
The Austrian company Proxmox has published the spam filter "Mail Gateway" as open source under the GNU AGPL v3 license. This means that the spam filter can be used free of charge. I've been looking for a SPAM filter for test environments for a while now, so I'm taking a closer look at the Proxmox solution. Here is an overview of the ... Read more
I was looking for a tool for the administration and automation of Active Directory and Exchange, and I got stuck with Softerra Adaxes, which I am currently testing in more detail. So here are a few impressions. First of all, a few screenshots from the installation: An account must be created for the service, which ... Read more
The first day of the Microsoft Technical Summit 2014 in Berlin is drawing to a close. Time for a brief summary. The keynote was quite interesting to listen to. Satya Nadella gave it in person: Now the key note is not the most interesting thing about the event for me. The subsequent presentation by Jeff Woolsey was ... Read more
With its Web Application Firewall, Barracuda also offers a way to publish Exchange securely on the Internet. I have tried out the latest version and tested it with Exchange 2013. Barracuda offers a demo version for download. Here is the initial setup: After the VMware appliance has been started, you can log in with the user "admin" and the password "admin". Read more
At the end of last year, I started looking for a replacement for Forefront TMG and found a few very interesting solutions: Part 1: KEMP Edge Security Pack Part 2: Sophos UTM 9.1 Part 3: Windows Server 2012 R2 + ARR 2.5 Part 4: Windows Server 2012 R2 + Web Application Proxy Part 5: Debian 7 ... Read more
I was looking for a good and simple SPAM filter that also works with Exchange 2013. Of course, I prefer products that require little effort to get them up and running. Precisely because anti-SPAM can be a sensitive issue, I wanted a solution that was easy to administer and ... Read more
