Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
New updates have been released for all Exchange Server versions. Click here to download directly: Exchange Server 2016 CU5 Exchange Server 2013 CU16 Exchange Server 2010 SP3 UR17 Exchange Server 2007 SP3 UR23 Click here for details of the changes: Exchange Server 2016 CU5 Exchange Server 2013 CU16 Exchange Server 2010 SP3 UR17 Exchange ... Read more
In this blog post, Thomas Shinder from Microsoft presented the new "Microsoft Security Guide". The article is quite interesting and well worth reading. I was particularly taken with the last section. It says: The Security Update Guide development API can be used to create a report in CVRF format. To use this API, click the ... Read more
Today an important update was released for the following Exchange Server versions: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 14 Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 3 It is interesting to note that the Exchange versions are no longer completely up-to-date. There is already CU4 for Exchange 2016, as well as CU15 for ... Read more
In part 1, the basic configuration of Sophos XG in conjunction with Exchange 2016 has already been carried out, but some configuration work is still missing so that Outlook Anywhere, MAPIoverHTTP and the REST Api also work. As already mentioned in part 1, the Sophos templates for business applications are somewhat outdated, so manual improvements are required here. It is somewhat irritating that ... Read more
Sophos has been offering the successor to the UTM, called Sophos XG, for some time now. Sophos's advertising slogan: The next thing in next-gen: ultimate firewall performance, security and control So far, I've steered clear of Sophos XG, as a lot of things didn't really work smoothly in my last test. My last test is ... Read more
At the end of last year, I had already written an article on the topic of RPCoverHTTP, better known as Outlook Anywhere: Exchange 2016: Is RPCoverHTTP still needed? I therefore switched off Outlook Anywhere in my environment in December 2016. I have not encountered any problems so far. Outlook 2016 works perfectly with MAPIoverHTTP. So now that over two ... Read more
After Part 1 described how to create a backup with the Windows Server backup and Part 2 how to restore a mailbox from the backup, Part 3 now describes the other options. You don't always want to overwrite an existing mailbox with the mailbox from the backup, other options for restoring are described below. ... Read more
The second article in this series is about restoring a mailbox from the data backup that was created in part 1 with the Windows Server backup. The procedure is the same for many backup tools and essentially consists of writing the mailbox database back to a restore database and restoring the required data from it. The procedure described here ... Read more
This series of articles is about backing up and restoring Exchange databases and mailboxes using Windows Server Backup. The test environment consists of a Windows Server 2016 with Exchange 2016 on which the Windows feature "Windows Server Backup" has been installed. The Windows Server Backup is a simple tool with which Windows Server and Exchange can be backed up and ... Read more
As promised, I'm adding the Jetstress test here to compare ReFS and NTFS. I tested once with a database and logs on one volume and 4 databases with separate log and database volumes (8 volumes). All volumes of the Windows VM were stored on the same XtremIO LUN. There were no other changes. ... Read more
