A Tale of Two Certificates–SHA1 Certificate Created During Exchange 2016 Installation
The security space is constantly evolving, and while a lot of the recent work has been on moving to TLS 1.2, a previous focus in the industry was to stop …
Exchange 2016
Exchange Setup – Certificate Is Expired – Part Deux
Previously I managed to break one of my labs when replicating a customer situation and then had to fix it as noted in this post from 2017.
This time …
Exchange HCW Detects "Wrong" Version
When running Exchange setup or the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW), I always recommend looking at the version information that is shown on screen. This is part of the gross …
End of Exchange 2016 Mainstream Support
October the 13th 2020 is not only the end of support for Office 2010 and Exchange 2010, it also signals that Exchange 2016 will transition into extended support.
Exchange …
QuickTip – Which Managed Availability Components Are Unhealthy?
Exchange 2013 introduced the Managed Availability feature, so Exchange can self monitor and perform recovery actions upon itself. While this has greatly helped Exchange become more self-healing, one of the …
Exchange 2016 CU18 Released
Exchange 2016 CU18 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 …
September 2020 Security Updates For Exchange 2016 and 2019
Today is patch Tuesday for September 2020, and amongst the updates released today are security fixes for Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019.
More specifically, the fix is only available for …
Local Endpoint Used For Cross-Premises Free Busy Lookup
When troubleshooting cross-premises calendar availability issues, it can be useful to know the name of the local on-premises endpoint which is used. By knowing the path and URL, you can …
Beware the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard Doppelganger
Perhaps the best thing to come to Exchange over the last 10 years was the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW). While many take this feature for granted, if you had to …
Remove-HybridConfiguration Cmdlet
For various reasons, the aforementioned Remove-HybridConfiguration cmdlet has been something that has been something I've had to review recently.
This cmdlet is not present in Exchange 2010, it is only …