You, like me, might want to export all of (or a subset of) the Azure Datacenter IP ranges in PowerShell. Doing this is a little more complicated than it should be, but after hours of digging, I’ve manage to do it! (whee!) And here are the basic instructions:
1. Create an Azure Pay-as-you-go subscription by going to portal.azure.com…
Email security is a war between security professionals and malicious actors. Security professionals are often following malicious actors and reacting to changes. Unfortunately, success in this war is dependant on information. To aid in that effort, every major security vendor that works in the email world has some way to report bad emails. Each report can be examined to figure out what techniques were used to bypass existing security.…
Probably the most annoying thing about email security these days is the fact that there are still organizations out there that don’t offer TLS encryption on their SMTP servers. In my opinion, we are well past the point where this should be enabled on all servers. It’s a very simple configuration change that takes no more than 5 minutes to enable.…
*Deep movie announcer voice* In a world where Email must go through arises a new hero! Only he could fully apply the changes made to receive connectors without destroying the WORLD!
Okay, not really. But I wrote a script that will run through all of the Exchange servers in an environment and restart the transport servers on each.…
In my last post, we covered the basic concepts of cloud computing. This time, we’ll be diving down a little deeper into the cloud to cover the actual structure that most cloud environments use to operate. There are a lot of differences between cloud providers, but they all use very similar hardware and network designs to get things done.…
Exchange server maintenance requires some specific steps in 2013+. There is no specific maintenance mode, as in previous versions, but you can complete a few actions to take a server out of production. You will need to drain the SMTP queues on the server, tag the services as unavailable, then disable transport entirely. Each step needs to have some rest time, so that is built into the script.…
Take a minute to go over this post from Dirk-jan Mollema. Go ahead and read it. I’ll wait…
Did you realize how scary that kind of attack is? As an IT guy who specializes in Exchange server and loves studying security, that article scared the snot out of me. Based on my experience with organizations of all sizes I can say with a good bit of authority that almost every Exchange organization out there is probably vulnerable to this attack.…