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The following lines can be used to establish a connection to the Office 365 Exchange Management Shell: $Creds = Get-Credential $PSsession = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri -Credential $creds -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $PSsession Nothing else needs to be installed on the local PC. A list of all commands can be obtained with "get-command". Attention: Not all commands are ... Read more
A certification authority is quickly installed under Windows Server. Essentially, the "Certification authority" role is added, "Next" is clicked a few times and you have a CA that can issue all possible certificates. So you have a PKI, which works, but is bad. A PKI and its CAs need to be well planned, and this involves ... Read more
After installing Service Pack 1 for Exchange 2013, the following error may occur: 451 4.7.0 Temporary server error. Please try again later. PRX5 The transport service crashes as soon as a mail is being delivered. The cause of this problem is incorrect XML data: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2938053/en-us Microsoft provides a fix-it tool for this, ... Read more
I have just updated the Exchange Reporter version for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013:
I have fixed two bugs:
A small note: The size of the graphics in the report can be adjusted according to preference, simply search for the lines beginning with "new-cylinderchart" (bar charts) or "new-piechart" (pie charts) and change the first two values (width x height).
In most environments, the Windows Event Viewer is a good first port of call to identify ActiveSync problems. In environments with multiple CAS servers, the logs of each CAS server must be checked. The Windows Event Log can be filtered by the source "MSExchange ActiveSync" for this purpose: Parallel to the event display, the general function can also be checked using the test CMDlet ... Read more
The new Exchange Reporter 2010 version is based on the Exchange Reporter 2013 project. In future, both versions will be merged into one version. In contrast to Exchange Reporter version 1.2, version 1.3 offers several advantages: Customizable interval Modular structure Support for VMware As of version 1.3, Exchange Reporter can be run on a client with Exchange Management ... Read more
You can also manage Office 365 via PowerShell, which is of course particularly interesting for your own scripts: First download and install the "Microsoft Online Services Login Wizard": http://www.microsoft.com/de-DE/download/details.aspx?id=39267 For an operating system in German, the following registry entry must also be set (in my case it was necessary): Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSOIdentityCRL] "MSOIDCRLVersion"="7.250.4551.0" Without the registry ... Read more
Foreword Some time ago, I had already tested some alternatives to Forefront TMG. I had already tested an older version of Sophos UTM. However, version 9.2 is now available, in which the web application firewall (WAF) has been significantly improved according to Sophos. I therefore took a closer look at Sophos UTM. ... Read more
Interesting ruling from the Bonn Regional Court: Users of business emails must check SPAM folders (Read more on Heise.de) So you should be careful if the SPAM filter automatically moves emails to the junk mail folder. To be on the safe side as an administrator, it is probably better to deactivate this function.
From time to time it can be quite helpful to be able to access snapshots of drives, be it to quickly restore a file or to compare the contents of two files. A VSS snapshot can always be made accessible without having to restore the snapshot. However, there are two different ways, depending on the attributes ... Read more
