Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
A warning about Exchange Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 has appeared on the Exchange Team Blog. On Windows Server 2016, the IIS (specifically w3wp.exe) may crash. A fix for Windows Server 2016 is in progress. Until the update is released, it is not recommended to use Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016. Read more
This is the last part of the series of articles "Configuring certificates" for Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange 2016. The previous parts can be found here: Configuring certificates Part 1 Configuring certificates Part 2 Note: This part also builds on Part 1 and Part 2, so please be sure to read the first two parts first. This part is about ... Read more
This is the second part of the article series. As already announced in the first part, this article deals with the configuration. Important: Be sure to read the first part first, as this article builds directly on it. Exchange 2016 configuration The first part ended with the considerations for the URLs to be used to access Exchange. For the sake of simplicity ... Read more
I now receive emails every day with questions about certificates and/or Outlook Anywhere. The questions about Outlook Anywhere are usually also related to the certificates. In most cases, the emails end with a sentence similar to this one: Certificates are a red rag for me! The sentence comes from a mail that I received today ... Read more
Thanks to Autodiscover, it is easy to set up Outlook profiles for Exchange Server. Users only have to click "Next" a few times and the corresponding profile is created. The following dialogs should therefore be familiar to most people: However, since no user interaction is required here in the case of Exchange Server and a correct Autodiscover configuration and ... Read more
A virus scanner has also been included since Exchange 2013. As with most other virus scanners, the signatures must also be updated here. Problems can occur when updating the signatures, especially if Exchange is not installed on the C: drive. The following entry can then be found in the event log: Source: FIPFS Event ID: 6027 MS Filtering ... Read more
I have just installed a new Exchange 2016 CU3 in my Exchange organization. However, after the configuration, Outlook 2016 could not establish a connection, but asked for login information: The first assumption was that something was wrong with Autodiscover and I might have forgotten to configure a URL correctly. However, a quick test of the autodiscover configuration was ... Read more
Deleting an Exchange database requires more than just moving the user mailboxes to a new database. Exchange databases also contain system mailboxes that are not displayed in the EAC. When trying to delete or remove an Exchange database, the following error message appears: This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, ... 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
