Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
I recently described the setup of a small Exchange organization including the setup of Sophos UTM 9.4 for the publication of Exchange web services. In the comments to the posts, people asked about the possibility of performing authentication directly on the UTM and not first on the Exchange server. Microsoft Forefront TMG also had this function. ... Read more
In the last few days I have described the structure of a small Exchange organization as I use it privately. To make it easier to find the articles, here is an overview of the articles: Part 1: Installation Active Directory and configuration DNS Part 2: Installation Exchange Server 2016 CU 2 Part 3: Configuration Exchange Server incl. certificate ... Read more
The last part of this series of articles is about connecting the Exchange organization to the Internet. This requires a few more steps. I have already described the configuration of the Web Application Firewall of the UTM in detail here and the configuration is copied one-to-one from the article. A small note: This complete ... Read more
The setup of the small Exchange 2016 organization for small businesses and test environments is now quite advanced. The fourth part of this article series is about the Sophos UTM. The network configuration is as follows: The Fritzbox establishes the Internet connection, the WAN port of the UTM is connected to a LAN port of the Fritzbox ... Read more
In the first and second part of this series of articles, the AD and DNS of the Exchange organization have already been installed and configured. Exchange 2016 was then installed in part 2. This part is about the Exchange 2016 configuration. To make it a little easier, here is a description of the environment that will be installed: Preface Before it ... Read more
In part 1, the Active Directory and DNS have already been installed and configured. In the second part, the Exchange Server is now installed in the test environment. Here once again is the environment that will be set up: The IP addresses of the two servers for an overview: DC 172.16.100.12/24 Exchange: 172.16.100.13/24 In the first part, I already mentioned that I had installed the Windows ... Read more
As already announced here, here is the detailed configuration for my Exchange 2016 organization. The aim is to set up this environment: I am using one of my test domains (frankysweb.org), which is hosted by Strato. I am starting from scratch, only the following things are already prepared: 2 x Windows Server 2012 R2 as ... Read more
I often receive questions like this one (from a few collected mails): I don't have a fixed IP address, but would like to run my own Exchange server, is that possible? I want to set up an Exchange test environment at home, how do you do that? I have a very small customer who wants to use Exchange, what do I need? Since these questions ... 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
