Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Foreword Exchange 2016 has been available in its final version since 01.10. Many people will have skipped Exchange 2013 and are currently still using Exchange 2010, for those it is time to plan the migration to Exchange 2016. Exchange 2016 will be the last version to which you can migrate directly from Exchange 2010. This ... Read more
Here is another small script from the Quick & Dirty series. If you use HP Blade Enclosures and want to have a quick and easy overview of which blades are in which enclosures, the following script could be useful for you. The script queries all registered blade enclosures and lists the blades per enclosure ... Read more
So, after you had the chance to take part in the competition for one of the 5 Microsoft Press books until yesterday, the winners have been announced today. I would like to thank you once again for all the congratulations and the nice emails. I was really delighted. But now to the winners: One copy each of ... Read more
Anyone who has not yet thought about replacing their SHA1 certificates with SHA256 (also known as SHA2) should not wait too much longer. Microsoft has announced that it will no longer support SHA1 certificates from June 2016 and will therefore block them. A corresponding entry can be found here: http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/11/04/sha-1-deprecation-update/ Mozilla has also ... Read more
The competition for the 5th anniversary ends on 5.11.2015, so if you would like to win one of the 5 books, you can still take part in the prize draw: https://www.frankysweb.de/frankysweb-hat-geburtstag-es-gibt-was-zu-gewinnen/ Exchange Reporter 3.0 is also in the starting blocks and will be published soon. There will also be a small prize draw to mark the release. I would like to take this opportunity to ... Read more
Two articles worth reading on Exchange 2016 coexistence in conjunction with Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 have been published on the Exchange Team Blog. The four articles can be accessed via the following links: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/10/26/client-connectivity-in-an-exchange-2016-coexistence-environment-with-exchange-2010.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/10/28/client-connectivity-in-an-exchange-2016-coexistence-environment-with-exchange-2013.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/10/30/client-connectivity-in-an-exchange-2016-coexistence-environment-with-mixed-exchange-versions.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/10/22/exchange-2016-coexistence-with-kerberos-authentication.aspx The articles cover the topic of coexistence in great detail. I am currently working on an article on the migration from Exchange 2010 to ... Read more
Holger encountered a strange error during the installation of Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2012 R2. The following error message appears immediately after starting Setup.exe: This app cannot be run on your PC Please contact the software publisher to find a suitable version for your PC. Well, that would probably be Microsoft, ... Read more
So sometimes it's like jinxed, the day before yesterday the Exchange 2010 Management Shell didn't want to connect, today the Exchange 2013 Shell doesn't want to anymore... The following error message appears at startup: New-PSSession : [fwex1.frankysweb.local] The following error occurred when connecting to the remote server "fwex1.frankysweb.local": Access denied Further information can be found in the help topic "about_Remote_Troubleshooting". In line:1 ... Read more
The free Microsoft tool EMET can be used to protect Windows installations against many attacks. It can also be installed on Exchange servers. I have not noticed any problems in my tests so far, but detailed tests are essential. Here is a short howto. EMET can be downloaded here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46366 The installation basically consists of clicking "Next" ... Read more
Something new every now and then, today the Exchange Management Shell under Exchange 2010 gave me this error: Warning: Export modules for the current session cannot be generated using Import-PSSession. The red error message also contained a path, but I blacked it out. The solution to the problem is to delete the ... Read more
