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Today my Office programs would no longer start. Apparently a previous update went wrong. When starting Outlook and all other Office programs, the message "Office is being updated. Please wait a moment": After a short wait, the following error message appears, none of the Office programs start: The system event log shows the ... Read more
After renewing the Exchange backend certificate, frequent channel error messages may appear in the event log if the POP3 service of the Exchange server is used. The following two error messages may appear after the certificate has been changed: Source: Schannel Event ID: 36871 Level: Error Fatal error while creating the client credentials for TLS. The internal error status ... Read more
Microsoft today released new security updates for all Exchange Server versions that are still supported. The updates address a total of 3 vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-17083 | Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2020-17084 | Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2020-17085 | Microsoft Exchange Server Denial of Service Vulnerability As two of the vulnerabilities allow remote code execution, it is recommended to ... Read more
Here is another error that can lead to despair, as there are some suggestions for a solution on the net, but they didn't help me. I had to install Exchange 2016 CU 17 for a customer and, as many people know, .NET Framework 4.8 is required for this. However, as the customer still ... Read more
In a somewhat older article, I already mentioned InfluxDB, Grafana and Telegraf. Grafana makes it easy to create attractive dashboards for all kinds of systems. The three tools mentioned are often used for the dashboards, InfluxDB as a database for storing the metrics, Grafana and displaying the dashboards and Telegraf to ... Read more
I have just uploaded version 3.8 (code name Leslie). This is the first version that has a "code name" because Leslie (the Leslie) was kind enough to dig through the many lines of PowerShell code and found and reported some bugs. The following bug fixes are included in version 3.8: updatereport.ps1: The module showed the ... Read more
Last week there was a small raffle here in which there were 2 books to be won. The raffle has now ended and the winners have already been chosen. I have already notified the winners Stefan and Michael by e-mail. If one or both winners do not respond within a week, a new draw will be held, ... Read more
At the virtual Ignite 2020 conference, Microsoft announced a series of new on-prem versions for SharePoint, Skype4Business, Project Server and Exchange Server. A new Office version was also announced. This article summarizes the information known so far about the next Exchange Server version (vNext) (unfortunately it is not much yet). Microsoft is planning ... Read more
Yesterday, Microsoft released a new security update for Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019. The update closes the vulnerability CVE-2020-16969. The vulnerability can be exploited with a specially crafted email, so the update should be installed promptly. The update is classified as "Important". Microsoft describes the vulnerability as follows: An information disclosure vulnerability exists in ... Read more
After a long time there is something to win again. MITP Verlag kindly sent me 4 books, which can now be won as two sets in a small raffle. First of all, many thanks to MITP for providing the books! To take part in this little raffle, all you have to do is ... Read more
