Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Some applications or devices require an anonymous relay to be able to send mails. However, a distinction must be made here between internal relay and external relay. The internal relay, i.e. the anonymous sending of mails to the domains accepted by Exchange, works out-of-the-box: The external relay, i.e. the sending of mails to external users without authentication, however ... Read more
The Microsoft Technical Summit 2015 in Darmstadt ended yesterday. Here is my personal conclusion As last year, there were some exciting presentations in which some in-depth information and insights into Microsoft technologies were given. I personally thought the location was better than last year and I think this time everyone ... Read more
To make the series of articles "Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016" easier to find and in the right order, here are the direct links: Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 1 Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 2 Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 3 Please note that this is only ... Read more
Here is the third and final part of the migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016. Part 1 and Part 2 can be found here: Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 1 Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 2 In this part we clean up and uninstall Exchange 2010. Removing the Exchange 2010 databases ... Read more
Here is the second part of the migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016. The first part can be found here: Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 1 In this article, the public folders and the mailboxes are migrated. The migration of the public folders can only be done with downtime, so read first, then plan :-) ... Read more
Foreword Exchange 2016 has been available in its final version since 01.10. Many people will have skipped Exchange 2013 and are currently still using Exchange 2010, for those it is time to plan the migration to Exchange 2016. Exchange 2016 will be the last version to which you can migrate directly from Exchange 2010. This ... Read more
Here is another small script from the Quick & Dirty series. If you use HP Blade Enclosures and want to have a quick and easy overview of which blades are in which enclosures, the following script could be useful for you. The script queries all registered blade enclosures and lists the blades per enclosure ... Read more
So, after you had the chance to take part in the competition for one of the 5 Microsoft Press books until yesterday, the winners have been announced today. I would like to thank you once again for all the congratulations and the nice emails. I was really delighted. But now to the winners: One copy each of ... Read more
Anyone who has not yet thought about replacing their SHA1 certificates with SHA256 (also known as SHA2) should not wait too much longer. Microsoft has announced that it will no longer support SHA1 certificates from June 2016 and will therefore block them. A corresponding entry can be found here: http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/11/04/sha-1-deprecation-update/ Mozilla has also ... Read more
The competition for the 5th anniversary ends on 5.11.2015, so if you would like to win one of the 5 books, you can still take part in the prize draw: https://www.frankysweb.de/frankysweb-hat-geburtstag-es-gibt-was-zu-gewinnen/ Exchange Reporter 3.0 is also in the starting blocks and will be published soon. There will also be a small prize draw to mark the release. I would like to take this opportunity to ... Read more
