Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
In the first and second part of this series of articles, the AD and DNS of the Exchange organization have already been installed and configured. Exchange 2016 was then installed in part 2. This part is about the Exchange 2016 configuration. To make it a little easier, here is a description of the environment that will be installed: Preface Before it ... Read more
In part 1, the Active Directory and DNS have already been installed and configured. In the second part, the Exchange Server is now installed in the test environment. Here once again is the environment that will be set up: The IP addresses of the two servers for an overview: DC 172.16.100.12/24 Exchange: 172.16.100.13/24 In the first part, I already mentioned that I had installed the Windows ... Read more
As already announced here, here is the detailed configuration for my Exchange 2016 organization. The aim is to set up this environment: I am using one of my test domains (frankysweb.org), which is hosted by Strato. I am starting from scratch, only the following things are already prepared: 2 x Windows Server 2012 R2 as ... Read more
I often receive questions like this one (from a few collected mails): I don't have a fixed IP address, but would like to run my own Exchange server, is that possible? I want to set up an Exchange test environment at home, how do you do that? I have a very small customer who wants to use Exchange, what do I need? Since these questions ... Read more
From time to time there are problems with the out-of-office assistant. I recently had an interesting problem with the out-of-office messages, and I would like to share the solution with you. The out-of-office assistant was set up correctly by the user and the mail tips were also visible in Outlook for internal users. However, no e-mail was sent about the absence, neither to internal users nor ... Read more
The Microsoft Technical Summit 2016 will take place again this year in Darmstadt. You can already block the date from 06.12. to 08.12.2016 in your calendar. The largest German Microsoft conference for developers and IT professionals is entering its third round. In December, national and international experts will once again take to the stage at the ... Read more
In addition to Let's Encrypt, StartSSL also offers free SAN certificates for up to 5 domains with a term of 1 year for free. The certificates are supported by all common browsers and devices. The advantage of StartSSL over Let's Encrypt is that the certificates are valid for 1 year, compared to only 3 months with Let's Encrypt. The certificates must be ... Read more
Testing, testing, testing and checking requirements As Exchange is a central and important system in many companies, it is advisable to test new updates in a test environment. The test environment should correspond as closely as possible to the productive environment. Of course, other applications/processes/services that are dependent on Exchange must also be tested as far as possible. ... Read more
New updates for Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2016 were released today. Click here to download directly: Exchange Server 2016 CU 2 Exchange Server 2013 CU 13 CU13 for Exchange 2013 and CU2 for Exchange 2016 bring .NET 4.6.1 support and fix a problem when migrating public folders that could lead to data loss. Read more
FrankysWeb now looks a little different. The differences are not that big, but something has changed in the design. I still like the colors, so I've left it as it is for the most part. However, the layout has changed a bit. The content area has become a little wider ... Read more
