Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
As promised, I'm adding the Jetstress test here to compare ReFS and NTFS. I tested once with a database and logs on one volume and 4 databases with separate log and database volumes (8 volumes). All volumes of the Windows VM were stored on the same XtremIO LUN. There were no other changes. ... Read more
I have already carried out a speed comparison between ReFS and NTFS. Exchange 2016: Testing storage performance with Jetstress (comparing NTFS to ReFS) Part 1 Exchange 2016: Testing storage performance with Jetstress (comparing NTFS to ReFS) Part 2 Exchange 2016: Testing storage performance with Jetstress (comparing NTFS to ReFS) Part 3 I have performed the test ... Read more
Foreword The certification authority Let's Encrypt has been offering free certificates for some time now. I wrote an article on this topic back in December 2015, but the Windows client wasn't working reliably at the time, so I had to take a detour via a Linux computer. A little over a year has now passed and I have ... Read more
Foreword The following article describes a way for Active Directory users to change their password on a website. The Windows feature "Web Access for Remote Desktop" is somewhat misused for this purpose. A complete installation and configuration of the Remote Desktop services is not required for this. Note: The method described here is only suitable for changing the known Active Directory ... Read more
Foreword In the first part of this article, a new Active Directory was installed. So far, however, there is only one domain controller. In order to keep the Active Directory available in the event of a server failure, at least two domain controllers should be installed for each domain. In this article, the second domain controller is installed and configured. Preparation The preparations ... Read more
I have somewhat neglected the topic of Active Directory here recently, so here is an easy introduction to the topic. Foreword This article is about the installation of a new Active Directory on a greenfield site. In this test environment there is so far only one server that has been upgraded to a domain controller. Read more
A warning about Exchange Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 has appeared on the Exchange Team Blog. On Windows Server 2016, the IIS (specifically w3wp.exe) may crash. A fix for Windows Server 2016 is in progress. Until the update is released, it is not recommended to use Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016. Read more
I have just installed a new Exchange 2016 CU3 in my Exchange organization. However, after the configuration, Outlook 2016 could not establish a connection, but asked for login information: The first assumption was that something was wrong with Autodiscover and I might have forgotten to configure a URL correctly. However, a quick test of the autodiscover configuration was ... Read more
As of today, Windows Server 2016 is also available in the MSDN subscription: Windows Server 2016 was or is already available as an eval version. However, the demo "only" runs for 180 days. Now Windows Server 2016 is also available in MSDN with corresponding product keys that are not time-limited. I have been waiting for this, now there is an update ... 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
