Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
If you want to use existing Active Directory groups or contacts with Exchange 2016, you must activate them for use via email. It is not possible to activate existing Active Directory groups and contacts via the Exchange Admin Center. However, it is easy and straightforward via the Exchange Management Shell. Here is a short HowTo: In this case there is ... Read more
I started this site 7 years ago and have now published over 700 articles/posts here. "Back then" I imagined this site to look something like this: Since I stumble across interesting problems from time to time, I decided to create this blog. So this site should mainly offer practical content, I put ... Read more
Sophos has today released an update with the version number 9.503-3 for Sophos UTM. The update is intended to fix a total of 33 problems. Unfortunately, Sophos has not been so lucky with updates for the UTM in the past, so the last update fixed some problems, but also caused new ones. Unfortunately, this makes extensive testing ... Read more
The Exchange Management Shell makes it easy to export mailboxes to a PST file. This short article shows how it works. In order for mailboxes to be exported (and also imported), the user performing the export must first be assigned an RBAC role; for the Administrator user, this is done with the following command: New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role "Mailbox Import ... Read more
When trying to change the Active Directory password of a user via Outlook Web Access (OWA), the following error message may appear on an Exchange 2016 server: You are not authorized to change your password The following error message may also appear in this context when changing the password: The password you entered does not meet the minimum security requirements For this ... Read more
Exchange 2016 already has a built-in "malware filter". I took the liberty of carrying out a small test. I simply redirected the first 6 emails from a quarantine in which a virus / Trojan had previously been found: Sophos UTM E-Mail Protection dutifully rejected all the virus mails. Was also ... Read more
The meeting of the Exchange User Group OWL (EUGO) will take place on Friday, August 11, 2017. If you want to join us spontaneously, you can register now: Exchange User Group OWL (EUGO) The EUGO has been around for almost a year now and we are now meeting for the fourth time in a relaxed atmosphere. ... Read more
Ingo Gegenwarth has published a very interesting article regarding Exchange on HP Proliant Gen9 servers on his blog "The clueless guy". The article deals with possible performance problems when Exchange is installed directly on HP servers and the default BIOS settings are kept: Exchange performance:HP NUMA BIOS settings So for HP servers and Exchange we recommend ... Read more
As Michel reported on networkguy.de, the HTTP proxy of the UTM has been crashing at irregular intervals since today. A corresponding mail lands in the inbox: Http proxy not running - restarted The problem is due to a faulty pattern update for the UTM which was rolled out by Sophos. In the meantime, a corrected pattern has been published (u2d-appctrl43-9.42). Here is the corresponding ... Read more
The e-mail pickup directory is no longer used very often, but today was another case with a somewhat more special software... The e-mail pickup directory is a normal folder in the file system that is monitored by Exchange for new e-mails, if an e-mail lands in this folder, Exchange will try to deliver the mail. ... Read more
