Microsoft Technical Summit 2015: Presentations are available

All presentations from the Microsoft Technical Summit 2015 are available online. The videos can also be downloaded directly: http://www.microsoft.com/germany/technical-summit/nachlese-2015.aspx The presentations are also available for most of the talks. So if you missed the MSTS or would like to watch the tracks again, you now have the opportunity to do so.

Exchange 2016: Allow anonymous relay (5.7.54 Unable to Relay)

Some applications or devices require an anonymous relay to be able to send mails. However, a distinction must be made here between internal relay and external relay. The internal relay, i.e. the anonymous sending of mails to the domains accepted by Exchange, works out-of-the-box: The external relay, i.e. the sending of mails to external users without authentication, however ... Read more

Microsoft Technical Summit 2015 - A summary

The Microsoft Technical Summit 2015 in Darmstadt ended yesterday. Here is my personal conclusion As last year, there were some exciting presentations in which some in-depth information and insights into Microsoft technologies were given. I personally thought the location was better than last year and I think this time everyone ... Read more

Howto: Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016

To make the series of articles "Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016" easier to find and in the right order, here are the direct links: Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 1 Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 2 Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 3 Please note that this is only ... Read more

Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 (Part 3)

Here is the third and final part of the migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016. Part 1 and Part 2 can be found here: Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 1 Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 2 In this part we clean up and uninstall Exchange 2010. Removing the Exchange 2010 databases ... Read more

Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 (Part 2)

Here is the second part of the migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016. The first part can be found here: Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 1 In this article, the public folders and the mailboxes are migrated. The migration of the public folders can only be done with downtime, so read first, then plan :-) ... Read more

Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 (Part 1)

Foreword Exchange 2016 has been available in its final version since 01.10. Many people will have skipped Exchange 2013 and are currently still using Exchange 2010, for those it is time to plan the migration to Exchange 2016. Exchange 2016 will be the last version to which you can migrate directly from Exchange 2010. This ... Read more

Quick & Dirty: Inventory HP C7000 Blade Enclosure via PowerShell

Here is another small script from the Quick & Dirty series. If you use HP Blade Enclosures and want to have a quick and easy overview of which blades are in which enclosures, the following script could be useful for you. The script queries all registered blade enclosures and lists the blades per enclosure ... Read more

SHA1 certificates will be blocked earlier than previously announced

Anyone who has not yet thought about replacing their SHA1 certificates with SHA256 (also known as SHA2) should not wait too much longer. Microsoft has announced that it will no longer support SHA1 certificates from June 2016 and will therefore block them. A corresponding entry can be found here: http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/11/04/sha-1-deprecation-update/ Mozilla has also ... Read more