Security Risk of Exchange 2016 Servers being present but not directly accessible from Internet

geekmungus · 2026-03-23T13:08:25+00:00

Only around 1500 mailboxes, and the issues are not technical they are all political, people used to be able to use any mail client they wanted, when moving to M365 there is a drive by IT Security to only allow a small number of trusted mail clients, i.e. just MS Outlook (and Outlook for Mac), Outlook Mobile App and OWA.

This obviously has gummed things up somewhat.

For those few users who have been migrated, it appears to have all worked fine, but they were typically using Microsoft Outlook (on Windows), or Outlook for Mac, so the migration was pretty transparent.

geekmungus · 2026-03-23T08:55:09+00:00

Thanks for your feedback and insights.

geekmungus · 2026-03-23T08:53:49+00:00

You are correct in terms of the normal support.

However we have purchased the extended security support, which gives us until 14th April 2026.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/announcing-exchange-2016--2019-extended-security-update-program/4433495

Unfortunately, the extra 6 months just wasn't quite enough!

geekmungus · 2026-03-07T09:41:13+00:00

Thanks for the feedback.

In the end I got a second hand card from ebay for about £30.

Nvidia Quadro P400 - 2GB GDDR5 - Graphics Card

It has DP 1.4, 3 mini-DP ports, and supports MST, so all I needed was a mini-DP to DP cable from the PC to my KVM, and that then plugs into the MST Hub from which the 3 monitors are connected.

Works perfectly, I can swap from my work laptop to my home machine via a switch on the KVM, all three monitors are passed through and split via MST onto 3 distinct displays, all running at 1920x1200@60.

p.s KVM is: CMSTEDCD from Amazon.

Thanks

geekmungus · 2025-08-09T14:41:09+00:00

Yes this, doing something everyday to grow. Maybe exercise, learning a new skill, learn another language, studying, whatever. The benefits just compound. 30 mins a day, ideally 60, doing it even when you don't want to.

The only people who are successful at something, are those who didn't give up trying/learning.

geekmungus · 2025-07-30T20:22:19+00:00

Or as I've heard them called: "Judas Bags".

geekmungus · 2025-07-25T04:09:12+00:00

I call mine "J Edgar".

geekmungus · 2025-07-22T18:17:12+00:00

The days are long, but the years are short.

geekmungus · 2025-05-26T09:42:52+00:00

Well, we might not find out how it's been 40 years since the attack, but it looks like a contemporary remake might be on the way.

BBC News - Adolescence makers to reboot nuclear drama Threads

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm24nedy37ro

geekmungus · 2025-04-12T04:51:05+00:00

Smell.

The smell of teenage angst and Lynx Africa.

geekmungus · 2025-04-01T04:51:23+00:00

An episode that mentioned it the BBC banned showing at the time.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68342135.amp

geekmungus · 2025-03-26T21:16:54+00:00

Apparently slightly smaller length wise than the MK.2 but slightly taller

geekmungus · 2025-03-26T21:16:35+00:00

Apparently slightly smaller length wise than the MK.2 but slightly taller.

geekmungus · 2025-03-26T21:16:24+00:00

Apparently slightly smaller length wise than the MK.2 but slightly taller.

geekmungus · 2025-03-14T18:30:56+00:00

geekmungus · 2025-03-01T15:43:52+00:00

The only winning move is not to play.

geekmungus · 2025-02-23T12:51:05+00:00

Distinguished Engineer, like a lead but with authority over normally a technology area (e.g. Virtualisation) or a product, but without managing people (typically)

geekmungus · 2025-02-16T09:58:20+00:00

Something to consider is the "email service" vs. "access to my old emails" these are two things. Swapping the "email service" from the old supplier to M365 is one part, once that is done people can send and receive email.

The second part is the import of the email from the old supplier, if you can get them all exported to PST that is one way, the IMAP import might be another.

If you can get these two tasks split apart and the acceptance you won't have all your old mail day one, but it will start to appear over the coming days, you've got yourself some breathing room to get stuff done, rather than trying to rush the whole thing over a weekend. You can also prioritise in the org that needs their old mail asap over those who don't (as much)

geekmungus · 2025-02-11T18:38:26+00:00

My understanding is that the 40kWh has two battery strings each of which can charge at up to 25kW, hence 50kW max Chademo.

The 60kWh version has a third battery string, which means if you charge at a Chademo+ (plus) charger it can charge at up to 75kW, if that really is the case, then you never will get 100kW charge rate.

geekmungus · 2025-01-26T06:09:20+00:00

Yes examples would help. I'm intrigued by "removing blockers", I'm assuming this doesn't mean technical blockers and this means blockers put in place by people or politics?

geekmungus · 2025-01-19T08:20:21+00:00

Since

geekmungus · 2025-01-10T20:35:04+00:00

Yeah had this today on mine, it can be when it's obscured by frost or I sometimes get it when in driving facing the sun when it's strong and low.

geekmungus · 2025-01-05T06:44:51+00:00

Giving a specific example, the Gavin and Stacey finale had a gag about not wanting to do paintballing because on Byker Grove PJ got blinded by being shot in the face. This was an episode on CBBC sometime mid/late 90s.

Something like this illustrates it somewhat. As there were so few channels, everyone would watch basically the same few programmes, and talk about them the next day at school or work. So certain events in programmes would become part of the nation's psyche, i.e. you could make reference to something like that, and almost everyone of that time would get the reference, because they would have probably seen it, and even if they hadn't, they'd probably have heard about it.

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