Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
After renewing the certificate for Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2016 (think also for Exchange 2010), the following event occurs after restarting the IIS server: [OWA] Failed to load SSL certificate The login to OWA or ECP is then no longer possible, it appears after entering the user name and password ... Read more
Resource mailboxes are very popular to enable the booking of meeting rooms or company cars. With Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 it has become even easier to manage the rooms. Here is a small howto that works with Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 (For Exchange 2010 you can find the howto here) First of all, via ECP ... Read more
How SPF works SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is a simple method for identifying forged senders and blocking them as SPAM. The way it works is simple: The domain owner (e.g. me with the domain frankysweb.de) publishes a TXT record (SPF record) in the DNS which contains the mail servers from which I send mails. For example, if my mail server ... Read more
Install Exchange 2016 Preview on Windows Server Preview. I admit, this is a gimmick... But it still works: Install Winows Server Technical Preview 2 with local admin tools After the installation, the server manager starts, but no desktop, so install the desktop later: Then install the prerequisites for Exchange 2016: Install-WindowsFeature Net-HTTP-Activation, Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, RSAT-Clustering-Mgmt, ... Read more
If you also encounter the following errors when installing Exchange 2016, I can perhaps save you a bit of searching: Error: The following error was generated when "$error.Clear(); Set-WERRegistryMarkers; " was executed: "Microsoft.Exchange.Provisioning.ProvisioningBrokerException: Error initializing the provisioning level: '"Error initializing the scripting agent: "File not found: 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\CmdletExtensionAgents\ScriptingAgentConfig.xml'.""' -> Microsoft.Exchange.Provisioning.ProvisioningException: "Error initializing ... Read more
The basic configuration of Exchange 2016 is not much different from the configuration of Exchange 2013. In this article there is a short guide that covers the essential points: After installing Exchange 2016, I got into the habit of first renaming the database and moving it to its destination, this is done via shell with the ... Read more
The preview (download) of Exchange is available for download and I have started testing it. This article will first deal with the installation on a Server 2012 R2. In the first step, my test environment only consists of a domain controller on Windows Server 2012 R2 and another VM, also with Windows Server ... Read more
The Exchange 2016 preview has been available for download since today: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48210 The preview is currently only available in English and is just under 1.7 GB in size. The preview even supports co-existence with Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2010. More information about the new features can be found on the Exchange Team Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/07/22/announcing-exchange-server-2016-preview.aspx There is also documentation ... Read more
Here is a video about Exchange 2016 from Ignite with lots of information about the migration, I think it is very worth watching: video.ch9.ms/sessions/ignite/2015/BRK3129-mobile.mp4 And here is another good video about the architecture: Exchange Server Preferred Architecture
There are now 69 Ignite sessions on Exchange and Exchange-related topics available for viewing. It's worth watching! Here is the link: https://myignite.microsoft.com/#/videos/4af86b2a-0a95-e411-b87f-00155d5066d7
