Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

URL Rewrite Module

As previously announced on my blog, Microsoft released a new version of the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 a few weeks ago. The new release is a Go Live release, so we are getting closer to the final release. The Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 provides flexible rules-based rewrite engine that can be used to perform broad spectrum of URL manipulation tasks, including, but not limited to: Enabling user friendly and search …

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Cannot remove the domain ‘‘ because it is referenced by the proxy address template ‘smtp:@

As issue that I’ve seen on Exchange 2007 after a migration from Exchange 2003, if you try to remove an accepted domain, but keep getting this error: Cannot remove the domain ‘<domain name>’ because it is referenced by the proxy address template ‘smtp:@<domain name>’ First off go to the Exchange Management Console – Microsoft Exchange – Organisation configuration – Hub Transport – E-mail Address Policies. Make sure that the domain is removed from any policies …

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ADSIEdit on Windows Server 2008

Looking for ADSIEdit on a Windows Server 2008 ? In previous versions of Windows, you installed ADSIedit and the other Windows Support Tools from the server installation media. The Windows Support Tools are now included in the RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools) and can be installed as features in Windows Server 2008.  ADSIedit is part of the Active Directory Domain Controller Tools feature, and can be added by following these steps: In Server Manager, click …

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Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 4 pulled back

There’s an issue with the Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 4 patch and it’s confirmed by the Exchange Team on their blog. Some of the known issues are with the Exchange Web Services (EWS) and failures regarding backup, returning errors in the eventlog regarding “Storage Group Consistency Check”. I’ve seen problems with the last issue. The patch was originally released to the web, Microsoft Update and WSUS, but was pulled back again. But it’s not completely …

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