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January 2023 Exchange Server Security Updates

Andres Bohren
Hi All, Just a few hours Ago the January 2023 Exchange Server Security Updates have been released. Released: January 2023 Exchange Server Security Updates In my case i have downloaded the Security Update 5 for Exchange 2016 CU23 Security Update For Exchange Server 2016 CU23 SU5 (KB5022143) Then run the Security Update When you run the HealthChecker and it has found an update close and reopen Exchange Management Shell after the update.

PowerToys v0.66.0 released

Andres Bohren
Hi All, Just a few days ago, Microsoft has released the Version v0.66.0 of theyr PowerToys. As always, there are a plenty of news. PowerToys Release v0.66.0 Highlights PowerToy utilities now ship with self-contained .NET 7, meaning it’s not necessary to install .NET as part of the installer and it’s easier to keep up to date. It’s possible to pick which of the installed OCR languages is used by Text Extractor by selecting it in the right-click context menu.

Exchange Online Role Based Access Control (RBAC) for Applications

Andres Bohren
Hi All On December 01 Microsoft has announced in the Exchange Team Blog that they Support Role Based Access Control (RBAC) for Applications in Exchange Online. The most important Takeaways are: The Preview is now available to all customers in our worldwide multi-tenant environment, and we expect to reach general availability in H1 2023 This feature extends our current RBAC model and will replace the current Application Access Policy feature. Service Principals representing apps must be manually created in Exchange Online during the Preview, but this process will be automated to offer a more efficient user experience at GA The Preview provides two resource scoping mechanisms, both of which are supported by Exchange RBAC: management scopes, and admin units Blog Articles

DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA)

Andres Bohren
Hi All, Do you know the Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) DNS Records? With these Records you can control what CA can issue Certificates for your domain. DNS Certification Authority Authorization CAA implementation mandatory for all certificate authorities by September 2017. RFC 8659 DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Resource Record That Record means no CA is allowed to issue Certificates and Wildcard Certifcates for that Domain domain.tld. IN CAA 0 issue ";" domain.

The year in review and Blogstatistic 2022

Andres Bohren
Hi All, Happy new Year to everybody! Thank’s for reading my Blog and following me on Twitter and Linkedin. It’s always good to review the past Year. In 2022 i did write 285 Blog Articles, that results in average 24 per Month. That’s one more than last year and the highest ever archieved since i started this Blog back in 2007. In total i had over 120'000 Pageviews Over 100'000 Unique User from around the World