Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Foreword In the first part of this article, a new Active Directory was installed. So far, however, there is only one domain controller. In order to keep the Active Directory available in the event of a server failure, at least two domain controllers should be installed for each domain. In this article, the second domain controller is installed and configured. Preparation The preparations ... Read more
And 2016 is already over. Happy New Year! FrankysWeb even set a small record in 2016. The number of visitors has risen every year so far, but 2016 was the first time that the number of visitors exceeded 1 million per year. I'm curious to see if this figure can be maintained or even increased in 2017. ... Read more
I have somewhat neglected the topic of Active Directory here recently, so here is an easy introduction to the topic. Foreword This article is about the installation of a new Active Directory on a greenfield site. In this test environment there is so far only one server that has been upgraded to a domain controller. Read more
RPCoverHTTP, better known as Outlook Anywhere, was introduced with Exchange Server 2003. RPCoverHTTP is used to connect Outlook to Exchange Server without a VPN, but it was not always easy to realize or implement. Essentially, RPCoverHTTP tunnels the remote procedure calls via the http protocol to transport RPC over the Internet. The ... Read more
I wish you all a Merry Christmas. Stay healthy and have a few wonderful days with your loved ones. Think to yourselves, I have seen the Christ Child! He came out of the forest, his little hat full of snow, his little nose frozen red. His little hands hurt, because he was carrying a heavy sack, dragging and bumping behind him. Read more
Today a new update for Sophos UTM was released, actually there are two updates: The two updates can be downloaded here: http://ftp.astaro.de/UTM/v9/up2date/ Here are the release notes: Fix [NUTM-2392]: [AWS] Allow the user to select the security group to port during conversion Fix [NUTM-5327]: [AWS] Confd object missing after instance recovery in HA ... Read more
In this article, I already wrote that the new REST Api already works with local Exchange 2016 from CU3. The REST Api is a fairly new interface that was initially only available in Office 365 or Exchange Online. As of today (20.12.2016), I could not find any precise information as to whether this interface is available for local ... Read more
At the Technical Summit 2016, Siggi Jagott revealed that the REST API will also be available for local (on-premises) Exchange servers: Microsoft Technical Summit 2016 - Home at last Markus read the article and drew my attention to a comment on the Exchange Team Blog: On-Premises Architectural Requirements for the REST API The article ... Read more
My blog has been accessible via HTTPS for a relatively long time now, but until now the unsecured HTTP version has always been available. This was due to links pointing to http://, which broke the encryption. Various incoming links from other websites also point to http://www.frankysweb.de and not to https://www.frankysweb.de. For this reason I have quite ... Read more
New updates for all Exchange Server versions were released today. Click here to download directly: Exchange Server 2016 CU4 Exchange Server 2013 CU15 Exchange Server 2010 SP3 UR16 Exchange Server 2007 SP3 UR 22 Click here for details of the changes: Exchange Server 2016 CU4 Exchange Server 2013 CU15 Exchange Server 2010 SP3 ... Read more
