Author Archives: Jason Sherry

Time for an upgrade to my Gaming system

Update 5/2/09: System is now running Windows 7:  Lastest updates are in my “Update on my computer upgrade” blog post. My current system, AMD X4800 based, 4GB ram, Windows XP x64, GeForce 8800 GTS is getting a bit long in … Continue reading

Posted in Computers | Tagged | Leave a comment

The Five (Major) Steps to Recover an Exchange 2007 Server

This quick overview covers how you can easily recover from a complete server failure (if you have backups) of an Exchange 2007 server.   See the full post here on outlookexchange.com

Posted in Exchange | Tagged | Leave a comment

The history of the Active Directory

This was sent out to the Exchange MVP DL and the Activedir.org DL also.  It is pretty interesting and the first time I’ve heard some of this, so I thought I would post it here for my fellow Microsoft geeks … Continue reading

Posted in Windows | Tagged | Leave a comment

Limiting external users from sending mail to Exchange objects

This article goes over how to allow only known external users to be able to send to internal users and groups with Exchange 2007.   See the full post here on outlookexchange.com

Posted in Exchange | Tagged | Leave a comment

Script: Get transaction log count (EXCollect)

7/21 Update:  I’ve created a wiki page for this script: http://info.izzy.org/Wiki/EXCollect.aspx go here for the latest info.  I’ve also renamed the script to "EXCollect" 🙂   At my new company (Mimosa Systems) we have a sizing XLS that we use to … Continue reading

Posted in Exchange | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Blog upgraded using free Community Kit for SharePoint

This free, open source, add-on\upgrade to SharePoint is a major improvement over the standard blog site in SharePoint 3.0/2007.   You can download it and view the docs at: http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=CKS  

Posted in Microsoft, SharePoint | Tagged | Leave a comment

Two-way Sync with Excel 2007 and SharePoint 2007 requires this add-in

In Excel 2003 you could edit a SharePoint list using Excel.  For some reason, probably because they are trying to push users to use Access for this now, Microsoft dropped two-way sync support in Excel 2007.  This ability was listed as … Continue reading

Posted in SharePoint | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Got to love corporate influenced politics…

I friend of mine, Glenn Deans from Atlanta, forwarded this to me, asking me why I didn’t ask Steve Ballmer about this last week at the MVP Summit. 🙂   Anyways this post "The Norway Vote – What really happened" … Continue reading

Posted in Microsoft | Tagged , | Leave a comment

MVP Summit 2008

Well this year’s Microsoft MVP Summit is over and MVPs from around the world are heading home. This year’s summit was great, minus the food, again. The highlights were the deep technical information on what’s coming out in E14 (next … Continue reading

Posted in Exchange, Microsoft | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

At the Microsoft MVP summit in Seattle this week

I’m in Seattle this week for the MS MVP Summit. At the summit MVPs get to spend two full days with the product groups (developers and managers) in their area of expertise.  At these sessions mostly the up coming versions  and … Continue reading

Posted in Exchange, Microsoft | Tagged , , | 1 Comment