Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
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
I have now received several emails with questions about the Exchange backend certificate, so here is a short article about it. In most cases, the backend certificate was deleted during cleanup. The following article deals with the function and necessity of the backend certificate and also how to restore it if it has been accidentally deleted. What ... Read more
In my private environment with a Sophos UTM 9.508-10, I have always had the problem that the recipient verification of Email Protection via Active Directory did not work. In the live log of Email Protection, the following warning was always displayed: Warning: ACL "warn" statement skipped: condition test deferred: failed to bind the LDAP connection ... Read more
Just for your information: In one month the Mainstream Support for Exchange 2013 will end. The Extended Support will then run until 11.04.2023: Source: Microsoft product lifecycle With the start of Extended Support, there will essentially be no more new features for Exchange 2013. Extended Support will only include security updates and bug fixes. Read more
I can now announce that the current version of the Certificate Assistant for Let's Encrypüt now also supports Exchange 2010 and Server 2008 R2. I have updated the download again and there are now 3 versions of the script included: So the following operating systems are now supported: Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows ... Read more
Sophos recently released an update for UTM 9.5. With this update, the email protection algorithms have also been adapted with regard to the signing of emails using S/MIME: S/MIME Encryption updates: This release brings changes to the S/MIME feature to fully conform with new GDPR regulatory requirements for encryption. Core to these changes are new algorithms ... Read more
I recently encountered the problem of converting a cloud-only shared mailbox into a user mailbox in a customer project. However, since the Active Directory (AD) is synchronized with Azure Active Directory (AAD), I have described the procedure here. First you have to connect to the Exchange Online PowerShell to ... Read more
Last Monday I published a revised version of the Exchange Certificate Assistant. The last version previously only supported Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016. The current version now also supports Windows Server 2012 R2 and Exchange 2013. Also new is the possibility to send the notification mails with authentication on the SMTP server. In addition, ... Read more
