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Part 1 of this article series only dealt with the test environment for an Exchange 2016 / Office 365 hybrid scenario. This part now deals with the preparation of Office 365 and the frankysweb.org domain. What is hybrid mode I still need to explain a little about hybrid mode: What is hybrid mode anyway? Read more
I have now received a lot of inquiries about Exchange and hybrid mode with Office 365. I have therefore decided to focus more on the topic of Office 365 in conjunction with local Exchange servers in the future. Here is the first article on Exchange 2016 in conjunction with Office 365 and hybrid mode. In ... Read more
The following mail reached me a few days ago and I think the solution could also help others. It concerns a single Exchange 2016 server on Windows Server 2012 R2. Here is an excerpt of the problem from the email: But now I'm at the end of my tether and wanted to find out if ... Read more
I have had the following problem several times and have fallen for it again. I would therefore like to briefly describe the problem: The Exchange Management Shell of an Exchange 2016 server no longer wanted to connect and only showed errors. It was also no longer possible to log in using ECA. This problem is already quite ... Read more
I have just uploaded a new version of the Message Tracking GUI for Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2013. The current version fixes the problem that no results were displayed for English operating systems when the start and/or end date was set. The problem was in the formatting of the date. There was a place in the script that changed the date format to ... Read more
The following problem has been around for a very long time: users should use standardized signatures for emails, preferably across all devices and clients. Until now, this has required additional software to create and manage signatures. Exchange Server itself only offers the option of centrally managing signatures for OWA. For Outlook and ... Read more
I have now received several emails with questions about the Exchange backend certificate, so here is a short article about it. In most cases, the backend certificate was deleted during cleanup. The following article deals with the function and necessity of the backend certificate and also how to restore it if it has been accidentally deleted. What ... Read more
Last Monday I published a revised version of the Exchange Certificate Assistant. The last version previously only supported Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016. The current version now also supports Windows Server 2012 R2 and Exchange 2013. Also new is the possibility to send the notification mails with authentication on the SMTP server. In addition, ... Read more
I have started to revise the "Exchange Certificate Assistant". The previous version is no longer compatible with the current ACMESharp module and therefore requires an old version of the module. However, since some relevant parts of the ACMESharp module have changed in the meantime, it is time for a new version of the "Exchange Certificate Assistant". I have updated the "Certificate ... Read more
Anyone using Exchange 2016 in conjunction with a wildcard certificate should also configure the receive and send connectors accordingly. This may also be necessary for SAN certificates. If the SAN certificate contains the domain name as the "Common Name (issued for)" and not the corresponding server name of the Exchange server, problems may occur, for example, when encrypting the SMTP connection using STARTTLS. ... Read more
