Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Today at the Ignite online conference, Microsoft announced the next version of Exchange, SharePoint, Project Server and Skype4Business for the second half of 2021. So the cat is out of the bag, there will be another Exchange Server version for on-prem use next year. A new Office version is also planned for next year. Read more
Originally I had given up the plan to write another white paper on the subject of "Exchange and certificates". However, there still seem to be very frequent problems with the configuration of certificates in connection with Exchange servers. There are already a few articles and scripts here, so now a comprehensive whitepaper on the subject will follow ... Read more
The annual Microsoft Ignite conference will take place online this year. Participation is even free of charge this year, interested parties can register for free at the following link and take part in the online conference between 22.09 and 24.09.2020: https://myignite.microsoft.com/home In addition to many other interesting presentations, there will also be a few sessions on Exchange Server. ... Read more
Microsoft has released new Cumulative Updates (CU) for Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 today: Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 7 (KB4571787), VLSC Download Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 18 (KB4571788), Download, The Exchange 2019 CU 7 is also already available for download via MyVisualStudio. Here is a list of the fixed issues: 4570248 "Get-CASMailbox" uses a ... Read more
Microsoft has released a security update for Exchange Server 2019 and Exchange 2016 to close a vulnerability classified as "critical". Specifically, it concerns the vulnerability CVE-2020-16875: A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Exchange server due to improper validation of cmdlet arguments. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code ... Read more
Once an Exchange 2019 server has been configured, an SSL certificate needs to be installed. To configure the certificate correctly, the hostnames that are relevant for the certificate must be determined. The following script reads the hostnames from the configured URLs of the virtual directories and displays the corresponding hostnames in the Exchange Management Shell ... Read more
During an Exchange migration, the "old" Exchange server may not be able to deliver mails to the new Exchange server. This happened during an Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2019 migration. Mails on the Exchange 2013 server to mailboxes that had already been migrated to Exchange 2019 could not be delivered. The ... Read more
I have received a request from a customer that he would like to have his meeting rooms sorted or displayed by location. How can I implement this requirement? I implemented it with address lists and a custom attribute. The first step is to create the address lists by location, as shown here in the example Bielefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and ... Read more
The update for the Sophos UTM was already released on 05.08.20, but since it is not yet distributed everywhere via Up2Date, there is still a small note about the update. The last update for the UTM was released in April, if I have counted correctly, the Sophos XG has 7 updates in the relevant period ... Read more
Somehow it doesn't seem like that long ago, but the end of mainstream support for Exchange 2016 is actually approaching. From October 14, 2020, Exchange 2016 will be in the Extended Support phase, which means that there will be no more CUs and only critical security updates and updates for the time zones will be available ... Read more
