Information: Migration to Exchange 2016 on April 23rd, 2017

[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”201704071220″ time=”April 23rd, 2017, 9:30 a.m. till 3:30 p.m.” affected=”all Exchange users” impact=”new logon page, potential Outlook connection problems” ] Access to GWDG Exchange mailboxes has not been moved from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 because of multiple errors. These have to be analysed further.

Update: Migration of email.gwdg.de to Exchange 2016 on 23.04.2017 in Progress

[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”201704071220″ time=”23.04.2017″ affected=”Users of Exchange” impact=”New webinterface” ] The announced migration to Exchange 2016 is still in progress. The access vie IMAP and Outlook Web App (OWA) is working for now. Unfortunately the access via the outlook client is not working at the moment. We are currently working on a solution.

Information: Migration of email.gwdg.de to Exchange 2016 on 23.04.2017

[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”201704071220″ time=”23.04.2017″ affected=”Users of Exchange” impact=”New webinterface” ] On Sunday, 23.04.2017, beginning at 09:30 am, a second attempt will be made to migrate Outlook Web Access (OWA – email.gwdg.de) to the Exchange 2016 front end servers. The first attempt on 26.01.2017 had to be canceled due to load problems on the load balancers. … Read more

Solved: E-Mail Services

Message-ID: 201703140900 Time: 14.03.2017, 2 pm -5 pm Affected: all user of E-Mail services Impact: occasional troubles with E-Mail services The reported e-Mail issue from yesterday afternoon is fixed shortly yesterday after it was reported by restarting the Webserver service. During this disruption some users could not move or delete e-Mail items. We apologize for … Read more

Malfunction: E-Mail Services

Message-ID: 201703140900 Time: 14.03.2017, 2 pm Affected: all user of E-Mail services Impact: occasional troubles with E-Mail services There are occasional troubles with E-Mail services. It could affect the deletion and moving of E-Mails. The exact extent is not known at the moment. We are working on it. We apologize for any inconveniences.

Warning: Phishingmail circulating

[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”201702091202″ time=”09/02/2017 – 11:15am” affected=”Users with mailboxes” impact=”Delivery of a phishing message” ] Unfortunately, the following phishing e-mail was delivered to some of our users at around 11:15am: ——————– Session Expired/Timeout Due to user inactivity, your GWDG – EMAIL session has expired. Click the following link to start a new session. Start a new … Read more

Solved: Incoming E-Mails

[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”201701281800″ time=”since Jan 28th, 4pm – 8pm” affected=”303 mailboxes” impact=”incoming e-mails are delivered to the inbox” ] Since successfully moving some mailboxes, the load of the malfunctioning database was reduced so all incoming e-mails (which were stuck in the queue since 4pm) have been delivered to their inbox. To get all databases back to … Read more

Malfunction: Incoming E-Mails (Update)

[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”201701281800″ time=”since Jan 28th, 4pm” affected=”303 mailboxes” impact=”incoming e-mails are not delivered” ] Due to the database problems of Jan 23rd, 303 mailboxes have to be moved to another database. After this process (we expect to have moved all boxes until tomorrow), all incoming e-mails received after today, 4pm will be delivered to … Read more