Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
The Windows 10 Anniversary Update 1607 was not offered for download on my PC with Windows 10 Enterprise Edition via Windows Update. I'm not quite sure if this is supposed to be the case, because I have to admit that I haven't really looked into the new Windows Update policy yet. WinVer still shows ... Read more
Microsoft has also made PowerShell available for Linux and MacOS X on GitHub: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell In addition to a DEB package for Ubuntu and an RPM for CentOS, a package for Mac OS X is also available for download. Microsoft has released PowerShell under the MIT license. The Powershell for Linux is therefore OpenSource. I have ... Read more
In one of the last articles, I already described how to set up reverse authentication for Sophos UTM. The reverse authentication switches a separate login page in front of the Exchange server (similar to Forefront TMG). Unfortunately, the design of the login page of the UTM is not particularly pretty, in my opinion, ... Read more
Slack has a sense of humor, or alternatively a pretty poor sense of self-worth. I received the following error message in the browser as well as in the desktop client: Apologies, we're having some trouble with your web socket connection. We've seen this problem clear up with a restart of Slack, a solution which we suggest to you now only with a great regret and ... Read more
For a change, a small problem again today. The "Server" service on a Windows Server 2012 R2 file server could no longer be started, which meant that none of the shares were accessible. Only this warning could be found in the "Application" event log: Source: Server Event ID: 2511 The server service could not restore the share share name because ... Read more
In the fourth part of the expansion of the small Exchange organization, it's DAG's turn. The domain controller and Sophos UTM are already running redundantly and the second Exchange server has also been prepared. To ensure that the failure of an Exchange server or the failure of the Hyper-V / ESX server can also be intercepted, an Exchange DAG (Database ... Read more
The date and location for the first meeting of the Exchange User Group OWL has now been set. On 23.09.2016 we will meet at 19:30 at the Hotel zur Spitze in Bielefeld Senne Hotel zur Spitze (Google Maps) Hotel zur Spitze (Website) I think the name of the venue says it all and I hope that the first EUGO will also be ... Read more
Part 3 of the expansion of the small Exchange organization deals with the installation and configuration of the second Exchange server. Installing the second Exchange server The installation of the second Exchange server can almost be copied from this article, the configuration of the VM and the installation are completely identical: Setting up a small Exchange 2016 organization (part 2) The only ... Read more
I have received quite a few emails asking for some kind of Exchange user group or user meeting in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe or NRW region. Unfortunately, as far as I know, there are no such user meetings in the OWL region that focus on Microsoft technologies and products. The good news is that this will change soon! Andres Sichel (Andi's ... Read more
In the first part of the expansion of the small Exchange organization, the Active Directory was already designed redundantly. In this article, it's the Sophos UTM's turn. Unfortunately, in my test environment, the Fritzbox in front of the UTM forms a single point of failure. The existing UTM installation is extended by a ... Read more
