My favorites for error analysis of mail problems

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In this article, I would like to focus less on the error analysis of mail problems and more on tools that provide a quick overview to determine the problem. First of all, there is the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer: https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/ This service offered by Microsoft can be used to test ActiveSync, EWS, Autodiscover and Outlook Anywhere as well as SMTP. The website helps ... Read more

New updates for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013

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New updates for Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2013 were released yesterday: Exchange 2013 CU10: Exchange 2013 UM language packs: http://www.microsoft.com/de-DE/download/details.aspx?id=49045 Exchange 2010 SP3 UR11: http://www.microsoft.com/de-DE/download/details.aspx?id=49043 A list of the changes can be found here: Exchange 2013 CU10: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3078678 Exchange 2010 SP3 UR11: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3078674 Note: UR11 and CU10 are the minimum requirements for coexistence between Exchange 2010/2013 and ... Read more

Exchange 2013/2016: Event ID 2001 Failed to load SSL certificate

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After renewing the certificate for Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2016 (think also for Exchange 2010), the following event occurs after restarting the IIS server: [OWA] Failed to load SSL certificate The login to OWA or ECP is then no longer possible, it appears after entering the user name and password ... Read more

Exchange 2010: 432 4.3.2 STOREDRV.Deliver; recipient thread limit exceeded

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Here again a small guide to fix the following error: 432 4.3.2 STOREDRV.Deliver; recipient thread limit exceeded The error often occurs in Exchange 2010 with journal mailboxes or databases that store a journal mailbox. The above-mentioned error can occur especially with journal mailboxes with a high load. Here you can ... Read more

Add users to groups remotely

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Today there is another useful PowerShell script that can be used to add remote users to local groups on servers or computers. The script expects a CSV file with computer names and then processes the list. The CSV file must be formatted as follows: An example is included in the archive. The first 5 lines ... Read more

Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics

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Microsoft has released its new tool "Advanced Threat Analytics" (ATA). Reason enough to try out the new tool. ATA can be downloaded here in a 90-day demo: https://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/evalcenter/mt228154 By the way, there is also a key in the MSDN subscription: I am testing the whole thing in my Hyper-V playground. The ATA VM requires 2 network cards, and ... Read more

F5 APM: 2-factor authentication not possible with VMware View 6

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This problem doesn't really belong here, but maybe it will help someone anyway. The problem is as follows. If the F5 iApp is used for VMware View and extended accordingly for 2-factor authentication, a "User name or password incorrect" message appears between the two queries. This is a bug that is caused by the F5 ... Read more

Exchange 2013/2016: Create and manage room mailboxes

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Resource mailboxes are very popular to enable the booking of meeting rooms or company cars. With Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 it has become even easier to manage the rooms. Here is a small howto that works with Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 (For Exchange 2010 you can find the howto here) First of all, via ECP ... Read more

Exchange Reporter 2.6: New release

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I have just uploaded version 2.6 of the Exchange Reporter. Some new functions and modules have been added. Office 365 is now also supported, both as a hybrid scenario and exclusively Office 365. There have also been several bug fixes. Here is the changelog: New functions Office365 is now supported (see module o365report.ps1) Setting ... Read more