simonpa71's questions

I am installing an instance of MS CRM 2015 on-premise, on a Win 2012 R2 Server, IIS 8.5.

I would like to use the Let's Encrypt service to generate certificates for crm.example.com on this server.

Let's Encrypt would like to use the .well-known/acme-challenge directory for validation. MS CRM has taken over the Default website and redirects requests to its website folder, using Windows authentication.

Is there a way to whitelist the .well-known/acme-challenge folder within the CRM website, so as to avoid authentication?

I have tried adding a location section in the web.config, but IIS throws an error because the path starts with a dot.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10351075/allow-anonymous-authentication-for-a-single-folder-in-web-config

I have tried adding a handler to solve that problem, as in:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11728846/dots-in-url-causes-404-with-asp-net-mvc-and-iis but I get the same error there.

As an alternative, Let's Encrypt can be validated using DNS, but I am not really up to that, and I can't find evidence that my provider has an API for that purpose.

Do I have any other options?

I am backing up an Exchange Server database to a backup volume on Windows Server 2012 R2, using Windows Server Backup.

I mostly followed the tutorial shown at http://exchangeserverpro.com/backup-exchange-server-2013-databases-using-windows-server-backup/

I hope to backup data, and also remove old Exchange log files.

The backup is successful, but the log files are not being removed/truncated.

Exchange does not record a full backup in the database settings page. The "Details" panel for the last backup records the last backup as VSS Full backup, successful, but in the "items" list, both C and D are described as "Backup Type": "Incremental".

I cannot find any further settings to control if backup is "Full" or "Incremental" except on the VSS settings, which is set to Full.

Any suggestions?