Exchange 2016: Enable Extended Protection

In this tutorial, I will explain to you how to activate extended protection (Exchange Extended Protection) on Exchange 2016 (and 2019 if you do not have CU14 which automatically activates it) which will allow you to protect yourself from CVE-2024 -21410. Exchange Extended Protection is in fact an enhanced security configuration for Exchange 2016 / …

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Exchange 2013: Installation and configuration

Introduction In this tutorial, we will see how to install Exchange 2013 on a Windows 2012R2 server. A complete tutorial on Exchange 2016 is available, installation and configuration is similar. Prerequisites To install Exchange 2013, you must: When installing Exchange, a schema update is performed. Installation d’Exchange 2013 Installing the roles and features needed for …

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IIS ARR – configuration to use self-signed certificates on target server

In this new tutorial dedicated to IIS ARR, I will explain how to configure ARR in order to be able to use a self-signed certificate on the target server. In the previous tutorial, I explained how to do an SSL dump, in this configuration the target server is in HTTP, which means that the request …

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Exchange: send emails externally from a connector

In this tutorial, I will explain how to configure a receive connector to send emails outside your organization from Exchange. You have already configured a receive connector on Exchange in order to be able to receive e-mails from applications, copiers or any other devices. Now you need to send mail to external addresses (gmail.com, outlook.com …

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Exchange 2016/2019: change a mailbox database in PowerShell

In this tutorial, I will explain how to change a mailbox database in Exchange 2016/2019 using PowerShell and the Cmdlet New-MoveRequest. If you don’t like command lines, it’s always possible to do it from the graphical user interface (ECP): Exchange: change a database mailbox. Personally, I prefer to do it in PowerShell which requires less …

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Exchange 2016/2019 – convert a mailbox to a shared mailbox

In this tutorial, I will explain how to convert a “normal” mailbox into a shared mailbox. The main difference between a user mailbox and a shared mailbox is that the latter is linked to an Active Directory user account which is deactivated, therefore more “secure”. The other interest is that these mailboxes do not need …

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Exchange: add a database in PowerShell

Dans ce tutoriel, je vais vous expliquer comment ajouter une base de données sur un serveur Exchange en PowerShell. The use of PowerShell saves time because several manipulations are to be done, enter go through the ECP then on the list of services to restart a service for consideration. Add a database to Exchange in …

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