Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Unfortunately, Exchange still does not offer a convenient way to send e-mails to other e-mail addresses. If users should be able to send mails with different e-mail addresses, additional mailboxes can be created and linked to the user. Recently, however, I received a question as to how a user can still send e-mails under several e-mail ... Read more
This article is about the design of OWA, which can be customized to your personal wishes or corporate identity using your own login page and theme/skin. However, there are a few things to consider, see also the notes at the end of the article. OWA login page The OWA login page can be customized with ... Read more
This time Andi and I are a little earlier, after we were unfortunately only able to announce the date for the previous EUGO meeting at very short notice, the date for the next meeting follows now: Friday 11.08.2017 19:30 Allegro Habichtshöhe in Bielefeld Bodelschwinghstr. 79 33604 Bielefeld Link: Google Maps Link: Website Allegro Habichtshöhe Since we ... Read more
Feature updates for Windows Server 2016 will also be released twice a year in the near future. This means that the update behavior is similar to Windows 10. However, Windows Server 2016 will offer the option of selecting the "Long-term Servicing Channel", which means that new features will only be released every two to three years. ... Read more
Sophos has released an update for Sophos UTM 9.5, which fixes quite a few bugs. The update has the version number 9.501-5 and is just under 221 MB in size. If you are not yet offered the update via the Up2Date service, you can also download it directly here: http://ftp.astaro.de/UTM/v9/up2date/ At the bottom of the page you will find the update from ... Read more
Unfortunately, some blogs or websites that I like to read do not offer e-mail notifications when there are new posts or articles. But since most websites provide an RSS feed, I made a little PowerShell script that sends an email when there is new content. The small script processes several RSS feeds and ... Read more
From time to time I receive emails from people who want to get started with Exchange Server. Reading through this blog from the first to the last article would be a start, but it might take a little too long. However, there are a few online trainings as videos that can serve as a basis. Here is a small selection: The offer ... Read more
In addition to Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 also transfers a lot of data to Microsoft. In many companies, this chatty behavior of the current Windows versions is probably undesirable. Microsoft seems to be well aware of this and has published extensive documentation on which services transfer data to Microsoft. The documentation is available here: Manage connections ... Read more
I wanted to put a new UniFi AccessPoint from Ubiquiti into operation today. My existing AccessPoints are in the same subnet (and VLAN) as the UniFi Controller, so so far there have been no problems connecting the AccessPoints to the Controller. However, the new AccessPoint should now be in a different subnet and VLAN. So that ... Read more
I have started to create a small PowerShell script to help detect invalid or orphaned group policies. The first version of the script searches for group policies that are not connected to an OU, have no security filtering or have all GPO settings disabled. I will add more functions to the script in the future and publish it as ... Read more
