Author Archives: Jason Sherry

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About Jason Sherry

I am a ~30 year Exchange consultant and expert. I currently work for Commvault as a Solutions Specialist for Microsoft Infrastructure For more info see my resume at: http://resume.jasonsherry.org

Microsoft Certification Exam Offers End May 31

I just saw this in my monthly Microsoft partner e-mail: Microsoft Certification Exam Offers End May 31 If you are preparing for Microsoft certification exams to update your skills for the latest products or to apply to the requirements for a competency, … Continue reading

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Exchange 2013 server role calculator is out!

The Exchange 2013 “Server Role Requirements Calculator” was released today. New to the 2013 version is support for both the client access and server roles, which are the only two roles in 2013. The general guidance is to deploy multi-role servers with … Continue reading

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Known Exchange 2010 SP3 RU2 issues

11/25/13 Update: Exchange 2010 SP3 RU2 release: https://blog.jasonsherry.net/2013/11/25/exchange-2010-sp3-ru3-2013-cu3-release/  (I will move my “Known Issues” list to this blog post once I have some to list) 8/13/13 Update: Exchange 2010 SP3 RU2 released: EHLO Blog Post | Download 7/12/13 Update: I’ve started a similar list for Exchange 2013 CU2 issues … Continue reading

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Exchange 2010 SP3 sets AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess back to false

If you have any scripts, like those used during the failover process, that use this cmdlet for Exchange 2010 you need to update them to set this value each time. Just add “–AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess $True” to the cmdlet line when calling … Continue reading

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Using Exchange Address Book Policies to hide some users from others

The steps in this article can be used to hide some or all other users from other users using Address Book Policies (ABP) in Exchange 2010 (SP2+). This was required for one of my clients, who had some shared mailboxes … Continue reading

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#IamMEC – Microsoft Exchange Conference is coming back, but not till April 2014

Microsoft has started another teaser campaign for MEC again. For last year’s MEC they started out with an cryptic e-mail that had an IP address in it. If you went to the IP address you would get a very basic … Continue reading

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Script: Site-Failover.ps1 – Exchange 2010 failover script with health checks

2/25 Update: Add better support for updating Send Connectors. Script now supports an array of Send Connects with a normal cost and DR cost, to be used when normal route may not work. Code below has NOT been updated. Get … Continue reading

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Script: Set-MailboxPolicies.ps1

7/8/13 Update: Added new script: Create-Mailbox.ps1 2/26/13 Update: Added support for checking archive mailbox quota limits and setting them. Get latest version here. Code below has NOT been updated. When new mailboxes are created or migrated to Exchange 2010 archiving and … Continue reading

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An offer for Tim Cook

Originally posted on Paul's Down-Home Page:
[note to readers: I encourage you to repost, retweet, and otherwise spread this offer. It’s legit; I am happy to help Apple in any way that I can. Since I don’t have any…

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iOS 6.1.2 is out – Fixes Exchange calendaring bug

I’ve updated my iPhone 5 already, but never had the issue in the 1st place on my server so can’t confirm it is resolved. Here’s the text of the update message: Fixes and Exchange calendar bug that could results in … Continue reading

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