Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
The setup of the small Exchange 2016 organization for small businesses and test environments is now quite advanced. The fourth part of this article series is about the Sophos UTM. The network configuration is as follows: The Fritzbox establishes the Internet connection, the WAN port of the UTM is connected to a LAN port of the Fritzbox ... Read more
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
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
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
Today is the day, I have just uploaded version 3.2 of the Exchange Reporter. In the current version, I was able to correct many errors thanks to many comments. Many thanks at this point to all those who have reported errors. I would especially like to thank Ajdin, who not only found most of the errors, but also ... Read more
Foreword Without Office Online Server integration, the Word document can be downloaded, but it cannot be displayed directly: Installation Under Server 2012 R2, the necessary prerequisites must first be installed, the easiest way as always is with Powershell: Install-WindowsFeature Web-Server,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Static-Content,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-App-Dev,Web-Net-Ext45,Web-Asp-Net45,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Includes,InkandHandwritingServices,Windows-Identity-Foundation The following packages are also required: .NET Framework 4.5.2 Download Visual C++ Redistributable ... Read more
I hate errors in the event log, and event 106 is particularly stubborn. It occurs from time to time. Here is an example: Source: MSExchange Common Event ID: 106 Error updating a performance indicator. The indicator name is 'Percentage of MSAUserNetID Cache hits for last minute', the category name is 'MSExchange Global Locator Processes'. Optional code: 3 Exception: ... Read more
A kind reader asked me if I knew of a way to reset or reinstall the MAPIoverHTTP protocol for Exchange 2016. Although there are ways to reset MAIPoverHTTP, it is questionable whether this would have helped in this case. So here is a little story about the compatibility of Trend Micro Worry Free(!?) 9 and Exchange 2016. ... Read more
