NoSpamProxy: Dashboards with Grafana

Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf can also be used to create attractive dashboards for statistics or monitoring for the NoSpamProxy e-mail security gateway. For the dashboards, the Windows performance counters for NoSpamProxy can be sent to an InfluxDB using Telegraf. The data can then be displayed on a dashboard using Grafana. Here is an example ... Read more

Exchange Server: Which transport rules are applied to a mail?

Exchange transport rules can be used to perform certain actions when receiving or sending emails. For example, mails can be redirected, rejected or provided with a disclaimer using a transport rule. There are many ways to implement certain actions for mails using transport rules, but with many transport rules it can quickly become a little confusing and it is not always clear which ... Read more

Happy New Year!

2020 is finally over and welcome to 2021 - it can only get better! With this in mind: Happy New Year! I wish all visitors, readers, supporters and friends a happy and healthy new year, may all your wishes and resolutions come true. As the fireworks at the turn of the year had to be largely canceled, there are ... Read more

Merry Christmas

Once again, the year is drawing to a close. To be honest, I don't look back on 2020 with a single tear, and the reason for that is probably well known. Next year will definitely be better! For now, however, I'll be celebrating Christmas with my family, as far as this is safe and possible. I therefore wish all friends, readers and ... Read more

Exchange Server: New updates available (December 2020)

The latest CUs for Exchange Server for 2020 were released by Microsoft today. They fix the problem that no attachments can be downloaded from other mailboxes via OWA and that Outlook only displayed a maximum of 175 results in cached mode. This limit has now been raised to 1000 results. The previous security updates are ... Read more

Ookla Speedtest.net and PowerShell

The company Ookla, with the well-known site speedtest.net for testing internet speed, also offers tools for the command line. The tool itself can deliver the output in JSON format and is therefore very suitable for passing the data on to various other applications. This allows you to create a nice overview of the Internet connection speed. I have a ... Read more

Exchange Server: New security updates for all Exchange versions

Microsoft has released security updates for a number of vulnerabilities in Exchange Server today, and there is also an update for Exchange 2010. The following vulnerabilities are closed for Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019: CVE-2020-17117 | Microsoft Exchange Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2020-17132 | Microsoft Exchange Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2020-17141 | Microsoft Exchange Remote Code ... Read more

Exchange: Channel 36888 / 36871 error after renewing the BackEnd certificate

After renewing the Exchange backend certificate, frequent channel error messages may appear in the event log if the POP3 service of the Exchange server is used. The following two error messages may appear after the certificate has been changed: Source: Schannel Event ID: 36871 Level: Error Fatal error while creating the client credentials for TLS. The internal error status ... Read more

Exchange Server: New security updates (November 2020)

Microsoft today released new security updates for all Exchange Server versions that are still supported. The updates address a total of 3 vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-17083 | Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2020-17084 | Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2020-17085 | Microsoft Exchange Server Denial of Service Vulnerability As two of the vulnerabilities allow remote code execution, it is recommended to ... Read more