Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Anyone who discovers the event with the ID 40025 in the Event Viewer of an Exchange Server has no immediate cause for concern, but should take action: Source: MSExchangeIS ID: 40025 Database "Database Name" ("Database GUID") has been offline-repaired (by eseutil.exe) one or more times in the past. However, although this ensures database-level logical consistency and may permit ... Read more
Microsoft has released a new Technical Preview of Project Honolulu (version 1711). Project Honolulu is a web console for the management of Windows servers. In other words, a kind of "Server Manager" in the browser. Although it is still a technical preview that is not yet ready for productive use, it is possible to use it ... Read more
An interesting problem was pointed out to me today. A reader reported the directory "TransportRoles\data\Temp\UnifiedContent" within the Exchange installation directory, which contains a lot of data and keeps filling up the hard disk. I then had a look at my private installation and was also able to find some very old data in the directory in question. Here is a screenshot ... Read more
Sophos released a new update for the Sophos UTM on 21.11.2017 which fixes numerous problems. For me, the update is not yet offered via Up2Date. Here is a list of the fixed problems: NUTM-8651: [AWS] AWS Permission for "Import Via Amazon Credentials" NUTM-7678: [Access & Identity] Pluto dies with coredump at L2TP connections NUTM-8211: [Access ... Read more
From time to time I receive emails or inquiries about environments in which Outlook frequently or even permanently asks for login information. Some users and administrators even seem to have come to believe that Outlook's constant requests for user names and passwords are normal. The good news is that the permanent request for user and ... Read more
Unfortunately, the Microsoft Technical Summit, as it took place last year in Darmstadt, no longer exists. Instead, there will be the Microsoft Tech Summit in Frankfurt at the beginning of 2018: The Microsoft Tech Summit is a 2-day event and participation is free of charge. However, the Tech Summit cannot be compared with the Technical Summit. The Tech ... Read more
The concept of "Server Component States" was introduced with Exchange 2013. The Server Component States provide detailed control over the status of the components that make up an Exchange Server. With Exchange 2016, there is only one installable role (mailbox, edge transport not included). However, the mailbox role consists of various components. ... Read more
Recently, I have been confronted with problems and opinions on the subject of backup and Exchange Server. This is certainly a topic that can be argued about, so I have collected a few statements on the subject of backup: We don't need a backup, we use a DAG We don't need a backup, we have ... Read more
I am not entirely sure whether the following problem also occurs in environments in which standard Windows DNS servers are used. Companies that do not run their DNS infrastructure on Microsoft DNS servers might be interested in the following article. The following behavior of Windows 10 computers could be reproduced on a "non Windows DNS" server: ... Read more
As Microsoft has recently made frequent changes to the semi-annual feature updates (function updates), it is not easy to keep track of everything. I would therefore like to clarify a few points in this article: 1. explanation of terms/general information Microsoft has renamed the update channels. Previously there was "Current Branch (CB)" and "Current Branch for Business (CBB)". This became ... Read more
