Should I Overwrite The Default Exchange SMTP Certificate?
When adding a TLS certificate on an Exchange server, the inevitable prompt will appear to enquire if you wish to overwrite the default SMTP certificate binding. While the UI in …
Messaging
Can You Fix This? Exchange 2013 Setup – Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra Isn’t Installed
There was a request to fix the issue below when installing Exchange 2013 CU23. When running setup the error received was “Installing Exchange Error – Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra isn’t installed“.
If …
April 2021 Exchange Security Updates
Today is patch Tuesday for April 2021 and there are critical Exchange server security updates in the release. You can review all of the affected products on the MSRC blog…
Exchange & TCP/IP Port Range
The below is an interesting result after installing Exchange. The act of installing Exchange will change how TCP/IP operates on the server with respect to ephemeral connections.
This may manifest …
Exchange Setup Fails – Error 3221685616
The saying goes that nothing monitors AD better than Exchange. While the symptom is an Exchange issue, the underlying root cause is typically something else. Though as an added “feature” …
QuickTip – Query Block Mode
Exchange 2010 SP1 introduced the concept of block mode or granular replication. This minimised the time taken for transactions on the active node to be replicated to passive nodes. Since …
Exchange 2019 CU9 Released
Exchange 2019 CU9 has been released to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center! Exchange 2019 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the …
Exchange 2016 CU20 Released
Exchange 2016 CU20 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 …
Install March 2021 Security Update–Exchange 2013 Net Framework 4.7.2
You will have seen the multiple posts and communications around the Hafnium Exchange security issue. One of the most disconcerting issues has been the number of Exchange installs that …
Collected Links For Hafnium – March 2021 Exchange Security Issue
The below are a series of links, tips and some very brief thoughts on Hafnium. I will purposefully not include the content of the other locations as it is changing …