Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
When trying to change the Active Directory password of a user via Outlook Web Access (OWA), the following error message may appear on an Exchange 2016 server: You are not authorized to change your password The following error message may also appear in this context when changing the password: The password you entered does not meet the minimum security requirements For this ... Read more
Exchange 2016 already has a built-in "malware filter". I took the liberty of carrying out a small test. I simply redirected the first 6 emails from a quarantine in which a virus / Trojan had previously been found: Sophos UTM E-Mail Protection dutifully rejected all the virus mails. Was also ... Read more
Ingo Gegenwarth has published a very interesting article regarding Exchange on HP Proliant Gen9 servers on his blog "The clueless guy". The article deals with possible performance problems when Exchange is installed directly on HP servers and the default BIOS settings are kept: Exchange performance:HP NUMA BIOS settings So for HP servers and Exchange we recommend ... Read more
Das E-Mail Pickup Verzeichnis findet zwar nicht mehr häufig Anwendung, aber heute war mal wieder so Fall mit einer etwas spezielleren Software… Beim E-Mail Pickup Verzeichnis handelt es sich um einen normalen Ordner im Filesystem der von Exchange auf neue E-Mail überwacht wird, landet eine E-Mail in diesem Ordner, wird Exchange versuchen die Mail zuzustellen. … Read more
In this article, I already presented a small script that checks the Exchange HealthCheck URLs. Since I use PRTG for monitoring in my private environment, I used a separate sensor for the HealthCheck URLs. PRTG comes with a whole range of sensors for Exchange Server, but due to the limitation of 100 ... Read more
A little tip on the side as the question has already been asked several times: Do I also have to consider .NET Framework when installing Exchange Updates (CUs)? Simple answer: Yes! Here is the somewhat more detailed answer: Unsupported NET Framework versions in conjunction with Exchange Server can be quite problematic, as has already been shown in the past: https://www.frankysweb.de/net-framework-4-6-1-nicht-auf-exchange-servern-installieren/ The NET ... Read more
With CU6 for Exchange 2016, Microsoft is bringing back a function that has been sorely missed. Specifically, it concerns the behavior of sent mails in shared mailboxes or proxy mailboxes. Let's assume that the users Frank and Hans are accessing a shared mailbox with the name Info: Hans and Frank have ... Read more
I received a lot of feedback on the first beta version of the Exchange Toolbox and was able to fix several problems as a result. Now there is a new version that mainly fixes problems, but also integrates message tracking. The goal of the Exchange Tool Box is to provide a small and handy GUI for quick troubleshooting. However, there are currently ... Read more
Wer das Verwalten von Telefonnummern an bestimmte Personen oder Gruppen delegieren möchte, kann dazu das Exchange Feature “Role Based Access Control (RBAC)“ verwenden. Benutzer oder Gruppen kann mittels RBAC der Zugriff auf das Exchange Admin Center gewährt werden, wo diese Benutzer allerdings nur zuvor festgelegte Aktionen durchführen dürfen. Anhand des folgenden Beispiels kann einem Benutzer … Read more
Unfortunately, Exchange still does not offer a convenient way to send e-mails to other e-mail addresses. If users should be able to send mails with different e-mail addresses, additional mailboxes can be created and linked to the user. Recently, however, I received a question as to how a user can still send e-mails under several e-mail ... Read more
