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Exchange 2019 CU11 Released

Exchange 2019 CU11 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 CU11 Released”

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Exchange 2016 CU22 Released

Exchange 2016 CU22 has been released to the Microsoft download centre!  Exchange 2016 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 2016 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange 2013 h… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU22 Released”

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Exchange Online Transport Rule Audit

Impact Of Not Enabling ETR Audit

This is a topic that still comes up when doing email investigations.  After there has been an issue, we want to perform analysis to determine what may have happened any potentially why certain security controls did not act the way we expected.

With email one example would be around the audit information collected when an Exchange Online transport rule acts upon a message.

It is common to see that ad… Read the rest “Exchange Online Transport Rule Audit”

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Is Exchange Fully Updated? If Not, Go Update Now

The Exchange team just posted that the September 2021 updates are going to be slightly delayed.  The priority will always be to ship quality updates rather than force it out to meet a specific day.

You can look at the announcement, and Nino's additional comments here:

Delay of September 2021 Cumulative Update for Exchange Server - Microsoft Tech Community

This means that we have a little bit more tim… Read the rest “Is Exchange Fully Updated? If Not, Go Update Now”

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Unable to Prepare Schema For Exchange Server 2019–Forest Functional Level

Imagine that you have spent weeks planning for your upgrade to Exchange 2019.  There are no unsupported down-level versions of Exchange, only Exchange 2016 is present.  Those pesky public folders were also taken out behind the farmer's shed never to return.  That only taken 15 or so years, but hey life is a journey...

 

Imagine your surprise when you go to perform step #1 which is extending the… Read the rest “Unable to Prepare Schema For Exchange Server 2019–Forest Functional Level”

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Updating to RDCMan 2.8

RDCMan 2.7 Version

Now that we have a new version of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan), I wanted to list out some of my initial thoughts and upgrade experience as I did encounter  a couple of minor bumps.  Please add a comment if you are running into issues as well please.

Like many other administrators, I heavily used RDCMan 2.2 and 2.7 over the last 11 years.  This was my primary tool for managing a wide r… Read the rest “Updating to RDCMan 2.8”

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Exchange 2019 CU10 Released

Exchange 2019 CU10 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 CU10 Released”

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Exchange 2016 CU21 Released

Exchange 2016 CU21 has been released to the Microsoft download centre!  Exchange 2016 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 2016 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange 2013 h… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU21 Released”

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Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.81

Finally we have good news for all fans of the Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) tool!    It has risen from the ashes, and is now part of Sysinternals.

Over the years RDCMan built up a strong user base as it was a simple but powerful utility to manage connections to multiple machines.  Sure, if you have three or four servers to manage you can get by with saved .rdp files or use the Universa… Read the rest “Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.81”

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New And Advanced Azure AD Connect Topics

Azure AD Connect Password Hash Sync

There have been some recent feature additions to Azure AD Connect.  If we look at the Azure AD Connection Version History  after a brief hiatus, there are newer versions as of March 2021.  At the time of witing, the latest version is 1.6.4.0 and was released on the 31st May 2021.

There are multiple new features and changes in this build.

  • Updated ADSyncTools PowerShell module
  • Defaults to V2 synchronisati
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