Sometimes I run into the same incorrect opinions so often I just want to vent and do a post like this. I don’t know if anyone reads this stuff but it is therapy for me. DNS and Active Directory is one of these subjects. So here we go…….
DNS Design – Centralize or Decentralize?
This post discuses the design and placement of DNS for Active Directory. These design imperatives are my own and not Microsoft’s although they are derived from my experiences for twenty years as an Engineer with Active Directory design starting with the NT5 Server Beta in 1998.
Controlling the Distribution Group managedBy Attribute or Who Wants All These Emails?
Most of you probably know the ‘owner’ of a distribution group displayed in Outlook, Outlook Web App, and Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is the managedBy attribute. What you may not know is that the managedBy attribute is a singled valued attribute. A Distribution Group can have multiple owners so where are the rest? The additional owners are in the multi-valued attribute msExchCoManagedByLink. Accept for the exposure of the managedBy attribute in the GUI, they are all the same. So, who cares? Well, the person exposed as the ‘owner’ is the lucky one who gets all the inquires about … Read more
Outlook 2016 Password Prompts for Profile Creation – UPDATED 6-20-19
UPDATE: It appears there is a workaround for this issue if you are willing to live with the restrictions. The Outlook 2016 authentication issue seems to be a change in the profile creation Wizard. The zeroConfigExchange registry value eliminates the Wizard. Bypass the Wizard and it just creates the profile and opens the mailbox. The limitation: Because it disables the Wizard, you cannot create an additional profile or a profile for any other email account but your own. The variant zeroConfigExchangeOnce key allows the creation of additional profiles but the prompt issues return with the Wizard. This behavior is described … Read more
Outlook 2016 Can’t Create linked Mailbox Profile — Outlook 2016 Authentication Changes Impact Profile Creation
Outlook 2016 has a profile creation changes we know about. Specifically, manual profile creation for an Exchange mailbox is no longer available. You must use Auto Discover to create the profile. All previous versions of Outlook using Auto Discover (2007, 2010, and 2013) had manual profile creation as an option if Auto Discover failed. There seems to be another change we weren’t told about.