Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS) and Exchange Server 2016 (Part 2)

In part 1 of this article series, the RMS server was installed, in part 2 we will now look at the configuration. To remind you of the environment from Part 1: Environment The environment in which the Active Directory rights management services are installed looks like this: There are a few users with Outlook 2016, a domain controller, 3 ... Read more

Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS) and Exchange 2016 (Part 1)

The Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) is basically a DRM system. DRM is often used by streaming services to ensure that a piece of music can only be played if there is a corresponding subscription. AD RMS uses a very similar concept, files are provided with a license and encrypted. About ... Read more

Windows 10 Anniversary Update and the PowerShell (Bug)

In this post, I described that my PCs did not receive a Windows 10 Anniversary Update via Windows Update. I had installed the update manually. A mistake, as I have now discovered: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/08/23/powershell-dsc-broken-in-kb3176932/ Exactly one day after my update, the information was published that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) had problems with the PowerShell DSC ... Read more

Microsoft releases PowerShell for Linux and MacOS X

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

Sophos UTM login template for Exchange 2016

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

Sophos UTM and Slack: Connection Trouble

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

Windows Server: Remove orphaned shares (server service does not start)

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

Expansion of the "small exchange organization" - Part 4

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

EUGO: Date and location fixed

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