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Jaap is a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps and Services. Jaap is an independent consultant, primarily focusing on Exchange server, Skype for Business and Office 365.
On September 17, 2019 Microsoft released its quarterly updates for Exchange. This time, the updates contain Exchange 2019 Cumulative Update 3 and Exchange 2016 Cumulative Update 14. No updates are released for Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2010.
Over the past 20 years we’ve seen some dramatic changes in Microsoft Exchange Server. Exchange server 2000 was the first version that was using Active Directory, after switching from its own directory that was in Exchange server version 4.0 until version 5.5.
In an earlier blog post I wrote about Autodiscover changes, especially when using Outlook 2016 Click-to-Run.
Everybody receives spam and phishing email. Most of the time they are easy to recognize and just annoying, but sometimes there’s phishing email that’s harder to detect by eye. Imagine you’re the CFO of a company and you receive an email from your CEO where he asks to transfer $ 50,000 to an account. And you cannot talk about it, because it is for an unannounced acquisition.
SSL Certificates in Exchange are widely used, both for encryption of traffic as well as server authentication. Despite the fact they are widely used, a lot of admins still think certificate management is difficult (and expensive). But it is not, let me explain.
On February 12, 2019, Microsoft released its quarterly updates for Exchange server, and in this case Microsoft has released Exchange 2019 CU1, Exchange 2016 CU12, Exchange 2013 CU22 and Exchange 2010 SP3 Update Rollup 26 (although the latter is not really a quarterly update).
Autodiscover was first introduced in Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007 to quickly configure Outlook profiles, based on only the username and password. Outlook connects to the Exchange server, you enter your email address and password, and the Exchange server returns an XML package that Outlook uses to create or change its profile. The first implementation of Autodiscover was in Exchange 2007, but it is still used in Exchange 2019. Of course, there have been some improvements over the years, both in Exchange server as well as in Outlook, but overall the mechanism is the same.