Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
From time to time there are problems with the out-of-office assistant. I recently had an interesting problem with the out-of-office messages, and I would like to share the solution with you. The out-of-office assistant was set up correctly by the user and the mail tips were also visible in Outlook for internal users. However, no e-mail was sent about the absence, neither to internal users nor ... Read more
The Microsoft Technical Summit 2016 will take place again this year in Darmstadt. You can already block the date from 06.12. to 08.12.2016 in your calendar. The largest German Microsoft conference for developers and IT professionals is entering its third round. In December, national and international experts will once again take to the stage at the ... Read more
In addition to Let's Encrypt, StartSSL also offers free SAN certificates for up to 5 domains with a term of 1 year for free. The certificates are supported by all common browsers and devices. The advantage of StartSSL over Let's Encrypt is that the certificates are valid for 1 year, compared to only 3 months with Let's Encrypt. The certificates must be ... 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
FrankysWeb now looks a little different. The differences are not that big, but something has changed in the design. I still like the colors, so I've left it as it is for the most part. However, the layout has changed a bit. The content area has become a little wider ... 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
From time to time, it can be quite useful to know which CAS server is serving how many client connections. This could be helpful for planned updates or problems with the load balancer. There are already some scripts, but they don't work on servers with a German operating system / German Exchange installation, because ... Read more
Here is another interesting Exchange 2013 problem that occurred after someone had "cleaned up". Error situation Outlook no longer connects, access to Exchange Shell and Exchange Administrative Center was also no longer possible. The error occurred after the Exchange Server had a completely wrong date due to a faulty configuration. Even after the problem ... 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
