Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
In the first part of the expansion of the small Exchange organization, the Active Directory was already designed redundantly. In this article, it's the Sophos UTM's turn. Unfortunately, in my test environment, the Fritzbox in front of the UTM forms a single point of failure. The existing UTM installation is extended by a ... Read more
Microsoft is again looking for courageous companies who want to test beta versions of Exchange Server. The TAP program (Technology Adoption Program) has been around for quite a long time and is looking for companies that want to use early versions of Exchange Server in their productive environment: Exchange On-Premises TAP Program accepting nominations That's right, it's about the production environment, not ... Read more
In the previous articles, a very small Exchange organization was set up and the question was raised as to whether an environment for a higher number of users and better availability can be subsequently created from this. A higher number of users can of course also be mapped with a Singe Server solution if the resources are sufficient. In the case of ... Read more
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
Microsoft has announced the release date for Windows Server 2016. According to Microsoft, the final version of Windows Server 2016 will be available at the Ignite conference. Ignite will take place from 26.09.2016 to 30.09.2016 in Atlanta. Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 will also be released to coincide with Microsoft's largest in-house exhibition. A ... 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
