Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
True to the motto of the Exchange User Group Berlin: We all get better when we share The Exchange User Group Berlin and the Exchange User Group OWL are now partner communities. Both offline communities are still at the very beginning, but have the same goal: We want to promote direct exchange between administrators, consultants and ... Read more
I have just uploaded the new version of the Message Tracking GUI for Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange 2016. Here is a screenshot of the new GUI: The following functions are currently available: If no server is specified, the mail is searched on all Exchange servers The number of results can be limited (or all results can be displayed) It is possible to ... Read more
A warning about Exchange Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 has appeared on the Exchange Team Blog. On Windows Server 2016, the IIS (specifically w3wp.exe) may crash. A fix for Windows Server 2016 is in progress. Until the update is released, it is not recommended to use Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016. Read more
Some of you have probably already noticed that there is a new subpage called Projects. On this page I publish tools that were either gimmicks or have disappeared from focus. There are currently two tools there that were more or less successful: The Room Display and the Header Analyzer. The room display was once ... Read more
Today, a Windows 2012 server was being a little bitchy to say the least when it came to installing updates. A Windows update had to be installed so that Windows Server 2012 can activate Windows Server 2016 with the KMS role. In order for Server 2012 KMS to activate Windows Server 2016, these two updates are required: Windows Server 2012: KB3058168 ... Read more
This is the last part of the series of articles "Configuring certificates" for Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange 2016. The previous parts can be found here: Configuring certificates Part 1 Configuring certificates Part 2 Note: This part also builds on Part 1 and Part 2, so please be sure to read the first two parts first. This part is about ... Read more
This is the second part of the article series. As already announced in the first part, this article deals with the configuration. Important: Be sure to read the first part first, as this article builds directly on it. Exchange 2016 configuration The first part ended with the considerations for the URLs to be used to access Exchange. For the sake of simplicity ... Read more
I now receive emails every day with questions about certificates and/or Outlook Anywhere. The questions about Outlook Anywhere are usually also related to the certificates. In most cases, the emails end with a sentence similar to this one: Certificates are a red rag for me! The sentence comes from a mail that I received today ... Read more
Thanks to Autodiscover, it is easy to set up Outlook profiles for Exchange Server. Users only have to click "Next" a few times and the corresponding profile is created. The following dialogs should therefore be familiar to most people: However, since no user interaction is required here in the case of Exchange Server and a correct Autodiscover configuration and ... Read more
A virus scanner has also been included since Exchange 2013. As with most other virus scanners, the signatures must also be updated here. Problems can occur when updating the signatures, especially if Exchange is not installed on the C: drive. The following entry can then be found in the event log: Source: FIPFS Event ID: 6027 MS Filtering ... Read more
