Want some updates to go with your updates? That’s pretty much what you are getting with the April 2024 Exchange updates. We can split the features which are part of the April 2024 release into two main areas:
The April 2024 HU is available for the following builds of Exchange Server:
On September 30, 2025, the Azure Basic Load Balancer will be retired. For more information, see the official announcement. If you are currently using Basic Load Balancer, make sure to upgrade to Standard Load Balancer prior to the retirement date.
You can use the guidance to upgrade, please ensure that all of the steps are followed when you test and then implement the change. This is due to the fact… Read the rest “Upgrade to Azure Standard Load Balancer”
Unfortunately waves of spam from various onmicrosoft.com domains are a thing. The volume waxes and wanes over time, but this was an annoyance many years ago and remains so even today. Given that any meaningful organisation on the Internet will have their own brand and identity, it is highly unlikey that legitimate email from customers and partners will originate from an onmicrosoft.com address. … Read the rest “Block Incoming OnMicrosoft.com Domains Due To Spam”
You want to run the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) and after clicking the link to the HCW in the admin portal or manually browsing to the shortcut URL you are unable to either launch or install the HCW. Despite using Edge, the HCW application just does not install and/or launch. All you get is the initial prompt to open the file and nothing else.
For example, if we go to the shortcut … Read the rest “Unable To Install or Launch Exchange HCW”
With the release of Exchange 2019 CU14 today, a separate announcement was added to the release post to highlight that only CU23 is supported for Exchange 2016. Exchange Server 2016 is supported until the end of its support in 2025, however in order to receive support and to obtain Security Updates (SUs) you must be running CU23. CU22 and all older releases of Exchange 2016 are no longer supporte… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 – CU23 Now Required”
Exchange 2019 CU14 has been released to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center and the public Microsoft Download site! Exchange 2019 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2019 and can be used to install a fresh server or to upd… Read the rest “Exchange 2019 CU14 Released (2024 H1)”
Below is a repro of a customer situation where the Exchange Healthcheck script was unable to connect to a remote Exchange server. The Healthcheck script would run locally with no issues, and reported a clean bill of health.
Note that the expected output log was not present after running the script.
In the command below, we are trying to remotely assess sever Exch-2019-1
It wa… Read the rest “Exchange Healthcheck Script– Unable to Connect to Server”
Today marks the end of Exchange 2019’s mainstream support. This will likely resurface the discussion about what do we do with on-premises Exchange, where is the next version and do we even still need Exchange Server if all mailboxes are in Exchange Online? While there is a solution to removing the last Exchange Server from on-premises it does have it's caveats and considerations. Please ensure … Read the rest “End of Exchange 2019 Mainstream Support”
It is possible to add a Domain Based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) record for your onmicrosoft.com domain in M365.
Is that a good thing?
Well, your viewpoint may depend on your experiences with this domain. If you actually use the onmicrosoft.com domain to send email, then yes! Adding the DMARC record enables the DMARC alignment check to pass and the mail to be successfu… Read the rest “Enable DMARC For OnMicrosoft.com Domains”
Windows has the ability to easily generate a hash for a given file using the Certutil.exe utility. Administrators may have previously used to this tool when they need to generate TLS certificates or to perform other tasks against AD Certificate Services. As an example of the former, this was a common task for AD FS certificates as described in this post.
To generate the file hash we will use the … Read the rest “How To Generate File Hash Using Certutil”