Category Archives: Microsoft

Exchange 2010 SP3 RU3 and 2013 CU3 Released & Known Issues

3/4/14: Blog Post: Known Issues with 2013 SP1 12/4 Update: Added Known Issues list at the end Today, after a few delays, both Exchange 2010 SP3 RU3 and Exchange 2013 RTM CU3 have been release! For more details on CU3 and a bit of … Continue reading

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RIP Microsoft MCA\MCM certification programs

See this blog post: Are Microsoft Losing Friends and Alienating IT Pros? by Steve Goodman, or this one Retiring the Microsoft Master certifications and training by Neil Johnson (who 1st broke the news I think), this one Microsoft Certified Systems Master certification now … Continue reading

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Exchange 2013 Jetstress Field Guide 2.0 released

Quick post for now, I’ll come back later and update it with more details after I read it 🙂 When doing any install of Exchange I always insist on running JetStress to make sure the storage is working as expected. About … Continue reading

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Need help with your AD or Exchange design or migration? Contact me!

Last year was the biggest year for me, consulting business wise, but this year has started off very slow. I’m guess there are lots of organizations out there waiting for Exchange 2013 SP1, well no need to wait for that … Continue reading

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1 is out

Quick post, more to come later once I have it installed and tested. EHLO Blog post: Released: Update Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010 SP3 Download SP3 RU1 I’ve updated my list of “Known Exchange 2010 SP3” issues, RU1 fixes one of … Continue reading

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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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