Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Today I had another problem that almost made me despair. I'm supposed to migrate an Exchange 2013 environment to Exchange 2016. Not difficult so far. But Exchange 2016 cost me a few more gray hairs today. Error: During the installation or the schema extension, the Exchange server displayed the following error message: An ... Read more
Unfortunately, Exchange Server does not offer a build-in option to clearly display the status of the environment or certain performance parameters on a dashboard. Even many monitoring tools quickly reach their limits when it comes to clearly displaying the number of emails received or sent, for example. In this series of articles, I would therefore like to take a look at ELK, or the Elastic Stack ... Read more
Most users manage the absence notifications themselves via Outlook. Before a planned absence, such as vacation, the user enters the desired message and, if necessary, specifies a deputy. In addition, the helpdesk or a user's line manager should usually also be able to enter an absence notification for users; this is usually useful for an unplanned absence, ... Read more
In my last article about a free S/MIME certificate for signing and encrypting emails, I made a stupid mistake. In the last article, I recommended the CA DGNCert, which offers free S/MIME certificates, but the CA itself is not stored as a "Trusted Root Certification Authority" in Windows. So as long as the root certificate is not manually ... Read more
The updates for Windows Server which were released on February 19, 2019 after the regular patchday are also important for Exchange Server running on Windows Server 2016. Specifically, it is about a problem that has existed since September 2018: KB4457127 causes problems on DCs in connection with Exchange KB4457127 causes problems after installation ... Read more
Here is another short review. I am often asked which anti-spam / email security product I would recommend and what my experience with it has been. There are countless solutions on the market and almost the entire spectrum is covered: special hardware appliances, VMs, Windows or Linux, software that runs directly on the Exchange ... Read more
Jan Kappen has written a great HowTo on the subject of Grafana, InfluxDB and PowerShell. Jan describes the installation, configuration and use of Grafana and InfluxDB on his blog: Grafana, InfluxDB and Windows PowerShell - Part 1 Grafana, InfluxDB and Windows PowerShell - Part 2 Grafana, InfluxDB and Windows PowerShell - Part 3 Grafana, InfluxDB and Windows ... Read more
New updates have just been released for all supported Exchange Server versions, which also fix the critical vulnerability from CVE-2018-8581. The updates should therefore be installed as soon as possible, as an exploit for this vulnerability has existed for some time. Click here to download the updates for Exchange 2010, 2013 and 2016: Cumulative Update 12 ... Read more
Today Sophos has released an update for Sophos UTM 9.6. The update raises the version number to 9.601-5. The update is a maintenance release, which requires a restart of the UTM, AccessPoints and REDs (the AccessPoint and REDs also perform a firmware update). The following problems are solved with the update ... Read more
I have already received several emails regarding the monitoring of Sophos EMail Protection. As I also use email protection in my private environment, this topic is also of interest to me. The UTM's Mail Manager already provides a very useful overview, but it is not very practical to have this overview permanently open in the browser. Read more
