Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
I have now received several emails with questions about the Exchange 2016 update process. There are also always various questions in the comments to articles that refer to updates. So here is a short how-to on how to install Exchange updates. What is a Cumulative Update for Exchange? Updates for Exchange are called ... Read more
I stumbled across an interesting workaround for Sophos UTM and Let's Encrypt certificates today: https://github.com/rklomp/sophos-utm-letsencrypt René has taken the trouble to create a script that can automatically renew Let's Encrypt certificates on Sophos UTM. The implementation is relatively simple and worked right away in my test environment. Since the ... Read more
New updates have been released for all Exchange Server versions. Click here to download directly: Exchange Server 2016 CU5 Exchange Server 2013 CU16 Exchange Server 2010 SP3 UR17 Exchange Server 2007 SP3 UR23 Click here for details of the changes: Exchange Server 2016 CU5 Exchange Server 2013 CU16 Exchange Server 2010 SP3 UR17 Exchange ... Read more
In this blog post, Thomas Shinder from Microsoft presented the new "Microsoft Security Guide". The article is quite interesting and well worth reading. I was particularly taken with the last section. It says: The Security Update Guide development API can be used to create a report in CVRF format. To use this API, click the ... Read more
Today an important update was released for the following Exchange Server versions: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 14 Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 3 It is interesting to note that the Exchange versions are no longer completely up-to-date. There is already CU4 for Exchange 2016, as well as CU15 for ... Read more
Here is an interesting article about two ActiveSync bugs that are currently occurring in connection with Apple iOS: How to hunt down an EAS bug The article is very interesting, as it goes deep into error analysis. Very worth reading from my point of view. I can understand both problems and am also waiting for an update, although ... Read more
In part 1, the basic configuration of Sophos XG in conjunction with Exchange 2016 has already been carried out, but some configuration work is still missing so that Outlook Anywhere, MAPIoverHTTP and the REST Api also work. As already mentioned in part 1, the Sophos templates for business applications are somewhat outdated, so manual improvements are required here. It is somewhat irritating that ... Read more
Sophos has been offering the successor to the UTM, called Sophos XG, for some time now. Sophos's advertising slogan: The next thing in next-gen: ultimate firewall performance, security and control So far, I've steered clear of Sophos XG, as a lot of things didn't really work smoothly in my last test. My last test is ... Read more
At the end of last year, I had already written an article on the topic of RPCoverHTTP, better known as Outlook Anywhere: Exchange 2016: Is RPCoverHTTP still needed? I therefore switched off Outlook Anywhere in my environment in December 2016. I have not encountered any problems so far. Outlook 2016 works perfectly with MAPIoverHTTP. So now that over two ... Read more
After Part 1 described how to create a backup with the Windows Server backup and Part 2 how to restore a mailbox from the backup, Part 3 now describes the other options. You don't always want to overwrite an existing mailbox with the mailbox from the backup, other options for restoring are described below. ... Read more
