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How to use Stellar Repair for Exchange to Recover a Corrupted EDB File

This post was Sponsored by Stellar, you can learn more about their EDB Recovery Tool here. Exchange Server is Microsoft’s enterprise email, calendaring, contact, scheduling, and collaboration platform. It is an enterprise-class server that is primarily focused on sending, receiving, and storing email messages for all of the users in the organization. The current version...

Last Update: Oct 06, 2022

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Exchange Cumulative Updates and Distribution List Upgrades

Last Update: May 23, 2022

The quarterly cumulative updates for Exchange Server quietly appeared with little fuss this week. Meanwhile, in cloud land, Office 365 continues the crusade to eradicate distribution lists with new bulk conversions to Office 365 Groups.

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Microsoft Exchange Server Cumulative Updates will Shift to a Biannual Release Cycle

Microsoft has announced that the Exchange Server cumulative updates (CUs) are switching to a biannual release schedule. The company currently releases CUs quarterly, but this slow release cycle will allow organizations to keep their Exchange servers up-to-date more easily. “We are moving to a release cadence of two CUs per year – releasing in H1…

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Microsoft Releases ‘One-Click’ HAFNIUM Mitigation Tool

Microsoft has a new tool that will make installing a temporary patch much easier to block known HANFIUM attacks.

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Microsoft Open Sources ESE, the Extensible Storage Engine

In a surprise development, Microsoft has released the source code for the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) on GitHub. Fans of the non-SQL database engine, which has powered every version of Exchange since the initial 4.0 release twenty-five years ago, now have the chance to peruse the ESE code. Although Microsoft isn’t accepting suggestions to improve…

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Decision Point: Exchange 2016 Exits Mainstream Support Soon

Put October 13 In Your Diary Time passes and products age, except in the cloud where renewal is an ongoing process. For Exchange Server 2016, Microsoft is keen for you to know that it reaches the end of mainstream support on October 13, 2020. Extended support for Exchange 2016 ceases on October 14, 2025. Exiting…

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CVE-2020-0688 Puts Focus on Exchange On-Premises Vulnerabilities

The revelations that Exchange Server has had a vulnerability in the Exchange Control Panel since Exchange 2010 shocked some. Microsoft has patched CVE-2020-0688, but the problem gives on-premises administrators something to think about as they look to the long-term future of their email service. Staying on-premises is an option, but going to the cloud might be more secure.

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Exchange and the Turla LightNeuron Attack

Turla, a Russian cyber-espionage group is reported as being behind an attack on Exchange on-premises servers that uses transport agents to capture and process messages for selected users. It’s an attack vector that hasn’t been seen before and raises the question of how often administrators should review transport agents active on their servers. The important point is that unless your network is compromised, hackers cannot install transport agents on Exchange servers and this attack is more theoretical than practical.

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Stick or Stay: Should I Upgrade to Exchange 2019?

Exchange 2019 has been around for six months. It’s a good time to consider if on-premises organizations should upgrade or stick with the version of Exchange they run today. Exchange 2019 is a solid release, even if Microsoft’s engineering efforts are largely focused on the cloud these days. Of course, moving to Exchange Online is an option too, but perhaps not for the dedicated on-premises deployments.

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Exchange Privilege Elevation Vulnerability Addressed by Microsoft Patches

The recent exposure of a privilege elevation vulnerability that exists in the control Exchange has over Active Directory and EWS push notifications is fixed by cumulative updates for Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016, and Exchange 2019 and a roll-up update for Exchange 2010 SP3. These changes mark an architectural modification for Exchange, something that Microsoft is loathe to do outside major releases. Install the updates now!

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