Category Archives: Exchange
MEC is BACK in 2012!
8/17 Update: I will be hosting two sessions at MEC this year, see this blog post for more info: https://blog.jasonsherry.net/2012/08/17/speaking-at-mec-2012/ I first started working with Microsoft Exchange during the beta of 4.0 while at Digital Equipment Corporation in late 1995. My … Continue reading
Looking for someone to mentor & train in the Microsoft Infrastructure area
Also posted on FB Here I’m looking for someone to mentor & train in the Microsoft Infrastructure area, mainly Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, and scripting that lives in the Denver area. I could use a technical assistant for many things, … Continue reading
Exchange 2010 SMTP Protocol Logging
Exchange 2007/2010 SMTP log format differs greatly from Exchange 2003, which used IIS for SMTP. There are now only nine fields in the logs and the last field, data, contains multiple parts of data that used to be in their … Continue reading
Got my Microsoft Exchange MVP Reward\recognition for the 7th year
Got my Microsoft Exchange MVP reward\recognition for the 7th year. It is an honor to be selected as a Microsoft MVP since there are 20 Exchange MVP in the US and 107 worldwide, as of 1/1/2012. In order to become an … Continue reading
Great EHLO post: Database Maintenance in Exchange 2010
This post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/12/14/database-maintenance-in-exchange-2010.aspx What maintenance tasks need to be performed against the database? Database Compaction Database Defragmentation Database Checksumming Page Patching Page Zeroing Why aren’t these tasks simply performed during a scheduled maintenance window? Won’t these background tasks impact my … Continue reading
Exchange 2010 SP2 is out
Quick post for now, more later… From: Exchange Team (EHLO) Blog Post Outlook Web App (OWA) Mini A browse-only version of OWA designed for low bandwidth and resolution devices. Based on the existing Exchange 2010 SP1 OWA infrastructure, this feature … Continue reading
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
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
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
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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