Author Archives: Jason Sherry

Exchange 2010/Windows 2008 R2 Hotfix for DAG/cluster issues

I’ve seen the issue that this hotfix looks to fix, a network issue causes the entire DAG to fail at at least one client. This hotfix came out in August and I hadn’t heard of it until now. Last week … Continue reading

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People tracking apps

I had a friend send me a location tracking request from Find My Friends for the iPhone. This app lets you see and optionally share you location with your friends in real-time. I had already been using Google Latitude to … Continue reading

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Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup 6 is out

See KB2608646 for details, download here Key fixes called out on this EHLO Blog post: This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of SP1. See ‘KB 2608646: Description of Update Rollup 6 for … Continue reading

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Exchange 2010 RU5 install breaks OWA with Could not load type ‘Microsoft.Exchange.Common.ExWebHealthModule’ from assembly

After installing RU5 OWA, ECP, EAS, EWS, and Autodiscover all stopped working and returned the following error in IE. Server Error in ‘/owa’ Application. Could not load type ‘Microsoft.Exchange.Common.ExWebHealthModule’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.Exchange.Common, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’. Description: An unhandled exception occurred … Continue reading

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Installing Exchange 2010 Rollup Updates

RU5 is now out and I ran into a little snag getting it to install so wanted to post these steps. 1) Download the latest RU 2) Exit all EMS & EMC sessions 3) Disable ForeFront for Exchange with the … Continue reading

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Using Notes in Outlook and Exchange 2010 retention policies?

If your organization does, than it might run into an issue with Note items either disappearing or being moved to the archive mailbox of a user unexpectedly. In order to see these issues a few Exchange 2010 pre-requisites must be … Continue reading

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iPhone Apps that I use

Update 5/17: Updated apps Update 1/21: Based on latest apps I used on my iPhone5 and my recent 18 day “trial” of the great HTX 8X Windows Phone 8. But WP8 was lacking too many apps and some of the … Continue reading

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How network latency affects Outlook 2010

Just came across Neil Johnson’s blog the other day with his great post on how network latency affects the performance of Outlook 2010. He has several other good post too, he is also an Microsoft Exchange Certified Master and works … Continue reading

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Exchange 2010 updates for May

There have been several key updates in the last week for Exchange 2010 · Exchange 2010 Mailbox Calculator updated to include DAG copy distribution · Exchange 2010 SP2 announced o Address Book Policies aka GAL Segmentation o OMA (Outlook Mobile … Continue reading

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Virtualizing the Unified Messaging role is now supported on Exchange 2010 SP1

Microsoft announced today that the UM role can now be virtualized with Exchange 2010 SP1. Before today Microsoft would not support UM on Hyper-V, VMWare, or any virtualization technology. In addition to announcing this support Microsoft also released a new … Continue reading

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