Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Ignite is over and some recordings of the conference on Exchange Server and Office 365 have already been put online. Here is an overview with the corresponding Youtube links: Unplug with the Microsoft Outlook experts Dive deeper into what's new and what's coming in Outlook on the web Discover Office 365 Groups - ... Read more
I have already received the following questions about the Noderunner process or statements in one form or another by e-mail: Noderunner.exe consumes almost all the RAM and almost always has 100 % CPU load, what can I do? Here's something more desperate: From day one, the noderunner has been eating up resources we ... Read more
This howto describes the installation of Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016. Note: This article is a bit older. There is an updated version here: Create Active Directory account Windows Server 2016 relies on a stricter user separation. It is therefore not advisable to install the Exchange Server with the "Administrator" user, but to create an ... Read more
Windows Defender is activated by default on Windows Server 2016. As Exchange Server requires some exclusions from the virus scanner, these must also be stored accordingly in Windows Defender. The same applies to virus scanners from other manufacturers. The following note can be found on the Exchange Team Blog: Windows Defender is on by default in Windows Server 2016. Attention to ... Read more
Microsoft released Windows Server 2016 at the start of Ignite in Atlanta. So far, however, the new server operating system can only be downloaded as a demo version (evaluation version): Windows Server 2016 Evaluation The evaluation version is 5 GB in size and is also available in German. As of today, no version is available in MSDN. But I think it will be ... Read more
THANK YOU guys that was quick. On July 28th Andi and I met for the first time to talk about the possibility of cooperation. This gave rise to the idea of the Exchange User Group OWL. Barely two months later, the first EUGO meeting took place. First of all, Andi and I would like to thank all participants ... Read more
Certificate warnings are annoying, regardless of the program. In this case, a remote desktop connection (RDP) warns of an invalid certificate. Everyone is probably familiar with this message: This is a "normal" Windows server, i.e. not a remote desktop host (terminal server), RDP is only activated here for administration purposes. In the standard configuration, Windows uses ... Read more
Today is regular Exchange Patch Day and updates have been released for Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2016. The most important new features at a glance: Windows Server 2016 Support for Exchange 2016 CU 3 .NET Framework 4.6.2 Support for Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2013 Improvements to high availability for Exchange 2016 Installation of updates in local language, ... Read more
Group policies make an admin's life easier and can be created with little effort. The advantage is obvious: registry settings can be easily distributed to many computers using group policies. The following article contains a short HowTo on how to create group policies yourself using the free "old-school" tool "ADMX-Migrator". Foreword Also for Exchange Server ... Read more
The Microsoft Technical Summit is taking place for the third time this year. Like last year, there will be presentations on IT Pro and developer topics from December 6 to 8 in Darmstadt. I'm already looking forward to the two days (I'm skipping the workshop day this year). This year there will be a community ... Read more
