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New updates for all Exchange Server versions were released today. Click here to download directly: Exchange Server 2016 CU4 Exchange Server 2013 CU15 Exchange Server 2010 SP3 UR16 Exchange Server 2007 SP3 UR 22 Click here for details of the changes: Exchange Server 2016 CU4 Exchange Server 2013 CU15 Exchange Server 2010 SP3 ... Read more
I had to stifle a bit of a laugh today when I read this news item here: Data leak in the Telekom Cloud allows access to third-party address books In short: The Telekom Cloud Manager took the name "Global Address List" too literally. As a result, at least one customer was able to view all entries in the address list. With 2300 customers, this ... Read more
After what felt like 300 km of traffic jams on the highway, I'm finally back from the Technical Summit 2016. Just like last year, the Technical Summit 2016 took place in Darmstadt at the Darmstadium. This year, however, there was an innovation: the Community Pre Day was held on December 5 with lots of interesting people and presentations. Unfortunately, there were ... Read more
Shared mailboxes are often used when several people need to have access to a mailbox, for example to work together in a team. However, there are a few things to bear in mind, so this article describes how to set them up and how they work. The following example shows how to set up a shared mailbox: The mailboxes specified under "Users (blue box)" ... Read more
The Exchange Toolbox is a new project of mine to make my life a little easier. In my daily work with Exchange Server I usually only need a few commands or information to check configurations or identify problems. With the Exchange Toolbox I'm trying to create a small tool that will make ... Read more
Just a small warning about the Sophos UTM update 9.408. This update causes several problems. If you run the UTM as a virtual machine on VMware ESXi, it is better not to install the update and wait. The update 9.408 mixes up the assignment of the virtual network cards, this was already a problem when in previous versions ... Read more
Foreword As in the first part of this article series, this is about manually removing an Exchange Server. This procedure may be necessary in "unclean" environments. This procedure should not be used after a migration. A clean uninstallation is the best way to go here. The following cases come into question for manual removal: There have already been ... Read more
The date for the next meeting of the Exchange User Group OWL (EUGO) has been set: Friday 10.02.2017 19:30 Hotel zur Spitze in Bielefeld Senne Windelsbleicher Str. 215 33659 Bielefeld Link: Google Maps Link: Website Hotel zur Spitze Andi and I accept registrations on the following pages: http://asichel.de/eugo/ https://www.frankysweb.de/eugo/ Andi and I are looking forward to ... Read more
Foreword This series of articles deals with the manual removal of an Exchange 2016 server from the Active Directory. This procedure should only be used in special cases. The following cases come into question: There was already an Exchange installation "in the past" that is incomplete or faulty The Exchange server has burned down and cannot be removed via ... Read more
Sophos UTM Email Protection contains a bug where recipient verification is simply skipped. In the case of recipient verification via Active Directory and the query via SSL, no verification of the recipients takes place. Here are the problematic settings: Recipient verification via Active Directory Query of the Active Directory with SSL In the live log of Email Protection ... Read more
