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The long-awaited update for Sophos UTM was released today. Michel has published a detailed article with changes. With regard to Exchange, this feature is particularly interesting: WAF: Outlook Anywhere Passthrough Support 15089 Support for Outlook Anywhere via the Webapplication Firewall The Webapplication Firewall now supports Outlook Anywhere (RPCoverHTTPS). I will test it ... Read more
The out-of-office assistant can also be conveniently managed via Exchange Management Shell, so if a user has forgotten to switch on the assistant before going on vacation... Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration frank -AutoReplyState Enabled -InternalMessage "I'm not here" -ExternalMessage "Dear customer I'll be back soon" to switch off Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration frank -AutoReplyState Disabled You could also build a nice template, ... Read more
I have already reported on the logging of the Client Access service here. Today I had a specific case in which there were repeated connection errors or interruptions. I therefore created a script that extracts all errors from the RCA log into a CSV file. However, the script is in the category Quick & ... Read more
Hello dear readers, maybe some of you know my Exchange Reporter for Exchange 2010. Michael Kunesch has pointed out to me that there are some problems with Exchange 2013. According to feedback from some users, the update function and the installation are also a bit tricky. Since I have not found the time for a long time now to ... Read more
A simple Powershell command can be used to display the backup status of the mailbox databases Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | ft name,LastFullBackup,LastIncrementalBackup,BackupInProgress In this example, the time of the last full backup and the last incremental backup is displayed. It also shows whether the database is currently being backed up.
If you want to find out which users connect to the Client Access Server, you will find a corresponding log file on the CAS server under the path "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Logging\RPC Client Access" Here you will find corresponding logs which also contain the SID of the user who has connected to the CAS server This information can be important if, for example, ... Read more
In this article I describe the migration from Exchange Server 2010 to Exchange Server 2013. I have created the following test environment for the migration: Test environment DC01 is a Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller that provides the Active Directory forest "frankysweb.local". Exchange 2010 SP3 on Server 2008 R2 is installed on Server EX2010. The Service Pack 3 ... Read more
As previously announced, CU1 for Exchange 2013 was released today. The update now also supports coexistence between Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2007/2010. Details about the CU1 can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/04/02/released-exchange-server-2013-rtm-cumulative-update-1.aspx The Technet articles have not yet been updated. The CU1 includes the complete Exchange setup package. This means that existing Exchange 2013 ... Read more
I am curious whether the date will be kept. The CU1 for Exchange 2013 has been announced for 02.04.2013. CU1 enables Exchange 2007/2010 servers to coexist with Exchange 2013. CU1 will then also support the migration from Exchange 2007/2010 to Exchange 2013. http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/25/exchange-2013-rtm-cu1-status.aspx Time to prepare the test environments
I use PRTG to monitor my systems, and the monitoring options are many and varied. PRTG even comes with a whole set of sensors for Exchange. At first glance, you'll be overwhelmed, PRTG comes with over 100 sensors for a single Exchange server. However, after I pruned the sensors a little, I realized that ... Read more
