UPDATE: Microsoft released a FIX resolving this SSL vulnerability in our software ! MS15-031: Vulnerability in SChannel could allow security feature bypass: March 10, 2015 https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3046049 Hi all,   Here is a note about the impact of FREAK (Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Key - CVE-2015-0204) vulnerability on Exchange (Microsoft Security Advisory 3046015 - Vulnerability in...

Hi all ! Meet the NetSH Cheat Sheet Excel – this Excel spreadsheet is a tool, but also a document, and a walkthru, which is intended to help people to use NetSH to perform common operations on the network interfaces and properties like setting IP addresses, chosing between automatically assign an IP address (DHCP) or...

  Hi all,   the official TechNet most important performance counters list to monitor for Exchange 2013 is now available !   The good news is that since Exchange 2013 is now a single box (-ish as separable CAS role is merely just a protocol forwarder), the counters to monitor are now simplified down to...

Update: added a slightly modified version of the script to dump these way quicker by using the -ADPropertiesOnly switch along with the Get-WhicheverVirtualDirectory commandlets - this switch doesn’t work on Exchange 2007, only works on Exchange 2010 and 2013 (and hopefully Exchange 2016 ;-)) and only reads the URLs in the local GC instead of reading...

 Exchange 2010 SP3 RollUp 8 Version 2 (V2) is now released ! Link below.  Update on 12th December from the Exchange Team Blog:Exchange Server 2010 SP3 Update Rollup 8 has been re-released to the Microsoft download center resolving a regression discovered in the initial release. The update RU8 package corrects the issue which impacted users connecting...

 YaY, public version big jumping from v2.2 to v2.7 for many cool features and fixes, thanks Julian Burger, Microsoft Application Developper !Quote from the site:RDCMan manages multiple remote desktop connections. It is useful for managing server labs or large server farms where you need regular access to each machine such as automated checkin systems and...

  The security update MS014-066 was released last Tuesday with the normal patch Tuesday releases and very little mention was made of it.   It addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft’s implementation of Secure Channel (SChannel) that is used to establish SSL connections.  If this vulnerability is exploited an attacker could run code remotely on servers and/or workstations...

  Thanks Macster and Festivalman for this tip ! Before applying this TCP Ack solution, the below conditions must be met:- OWA connection and mail browsing is very fine, whereas an Outlook online mode (i.e. not cached mode) connectivity is quite sluggish when mailboxes are on Exchange 2013… - If OWA is slow as well, then the...

 Hi all, a quick word about this SSL 3.0 vulnerability and Exchange Server, as there is nothing specific to Exchange regarding our recommendations. Microsoft Suggested Actions to mitigate or eliminate the SSL 3.0 vulnerability are to disable 3.0 usage on clients (browsers, devices) and servers, although this vulnerability is not a huge security threat, in the sense...

    Intro: In this article, I’ll provide a quick reference guide and an Excel-based tool that allows you to build monitoring consoles using HTML without being a scripting star.  I call it the Document-Tool-Walkthrough (DTW). This is a new concept document/tool built using Excel that can help you to build System Monitor consoles that...