Setting up a small Exchange 2016 organization (part 4)

The setup of the small Exchange 2016 organization for small businesses and test environments is now quite advanced. The fourth part of this article series is about the Sophos UTM. The network configuration is as follows: The Fritzbox establishes the Internet connection, the WAN port of the UTM is connected to a LAN port of the Fritzbox ... Read more

Setting up a small Exchange 2016 organization (part 3)

In the first and second part of this series of articles, the AD and DNS of the Exchange organization have already been installed and configured. Exchange 2016 was then installed in part 2. This part is about the Exchange 2016 configuration. To make it a little easier, here is a description of the environment that will be installed: Preface Before it ... Read more

Find user accounts in nested groups

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

Active Directory and Exchange automation with Softerra Adaxes

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

Active Directory: Inclusion in Active Directory not possible

The following situation arose at a customer: The inclusion of clients in the Active Directory was not possible at one location. It took some time to analyze the error. To make matters worse, there were other DNS problems that first had to be resolved. The Active Directory was to be extended by one location. The new location ... Read more