Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
I have now received several emails regarding the migration of domain controllers that are still running an older operating system. Most of the emails are about retaining the IP address of the original domain controller. The environments described in the e-mails were all similar, only the operating system on which the original domain controller was running ... Read more
The SMTP protocol is getting a bit long in the tooth and has often been declared dead, but now it seems to have been dealt its death blow. Exchange 2019 will no longer support SMTP. MAPIoverHTTP and EWS are waiting in the wings as successors. The SMTP protocol for exchanging emails has been around since 1982, so it is only ... Read more
Due to the fact that many of my colleagues have very isolated buildings and mobile phone reception within our offices is more bad than good, it was necessary to look into Vodafone WiFi calling in conjunction with Sophos UTM 9. Vodafone does not use classic SIP as you might think at first. Instead, the UDP ports 500 ... Read more
I have had the following problem several times and have fallen for it again. I would therefore like to briefly describe the problem: The Exchange Management Shell of an Exchange 2016 server no longer wanted to connect and only showed errors. It was also no longer possible to log in using ECA. This problem is already quite ... Read more
Sophos has released a new update for Sophos UTM today. The update is for version 9.508-10 and upgrades the version to 9.509-3. The update fixes these three issues: [NUTM-9619]: [Email] CVE-2018-6789: buffer overflow in base64d function in SMTP listener [NUTM-9698]: [Network] After upgrade to 9.508 in VPC IPsec BGP status shows "state error" ... Read more
The first public preview of Windows Server 2019 has been available for download since the day before yesterday. I had already installed it and started playing around with it. Here is a first vague preview of the new features of Windows Server 2019. Hybrid Cloud One of the main focuses of Windows Server 2019 is the hybrid cloud and ... Read more
Today, Microsoft made the first Technical Preview of Windows Server 2019 publicly available for download. If you want to take a look at the new server operating system in advance, all you need is a free Windows Insider account. The preview has the version number 17623 and can be downloaded here as an ISO and VHDX file: Windows Insider for Business The ... Read more
New updates have been released for all Exchange Server versions. Exchange 2010 is also included. Click here to download directly: Exchange Server 2016 CU9 Exchange Server 2013 CU20 Click here for details of the changes: Exchange Server 2016 CU9 Exchange Server 2013 CU20 Article about the updates on the Exchange Team Blog: ... Read more
I have just uploaded a new version of the Message Tracking GUI for Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2013. The current version fixes the problem that no results were displayed for English operating systems when the start and/or end date was set. The problem was in the formatting of the date. There was a place in the script that changed the date format to ... Read more
The following problem has been around for a very long time: users should use standardized signatures for emails, preferably across all devices and clients. Until now, this has required additional software to create and manage signatures. Exchange Server itself only offers the option of centrally managing signatures for OWA. For Outlook and ... Read more
