22 December 2019

VMware vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3 can TLS in SMTP (STARTTLS)

Working with vCenter Server for a long time, recently in a first time I faced with the need to use secure SMTP session by TLS. And I was confused when I found that it not supported (in 2019!) - https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2063147
I opened the ticket in VMware support and they said that it works in the latest updates, but the article still not updated.

I tested it on VMware vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3 (14367737) and it really works!

21 December 2019

Powershell script: Outlook To Exchange connection test

Outlook can lose connection with Exchange for various reasons and even if it happened once, it still can impact the business. To help administrators identify the core of an issue I wrote this Powershell script.
The script is designed for Outlook 2013-2019 clients that connected to Exchange 2016-2019 by "MAPI over HTTP" protocol.
Before start the script change two variables:
$Exchange = "exchange.test.local"
$SMTPDomain = "test.local"
The result is presented as an HTML page.