JasonJoh's [MSFT] WebLog
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!
It's been almost 2 years since I joined the Premier Field Engineering team here at Microsoft to...
Date: 02/08/2008
Exchange 2007 SP1 and HMC 4.0
Yes, Exchange 2007 SP1 is out. No, it has not been cleared with HMC 4.0 yet. At this point you...
Date: 11/30/2007
Making Sense of Patching HMC 4.0
Patching HMC has never been a fun process. Unlike most Microsoft products, HMC patches don't come in...
Date: 11/29/2007
WSS 3.0 Security Fix causes Performance Issue for Hosters
I was notified this morning that a recently released security fix for WSS 3.0 has some severe...
Date: 10/10/2007
Adding Users to WSS 3.0 Site in HMC 4.0 Exposes Users in All Organizations
If you followed our deployment guide to the letter, then chance are your WSS 3.0 setup isn't 100%....
Date: 09/11/2007
Quick and Easy Ways to Break your Provisioning Engine
By now most people have discovered that installing Windows 2003 SP2 on your Provisioning Engine...
Date: 08/30/2007
More than 1000 OAB's in Your HMC 3.5 Environment?
Have you seen any OAB's mysteriously disappear? Then you're going to want to check out this...
Date: 05/31/2007
Problems changing password in the HMC Consolidated Sample Control Panel
A lot of folks have hit this apparently, so I wanted to share my findings and how to fix it. PROBLEM...
Date: 06/29/2006
I'm Outta Here
Ok, not really, but I am moving to a new role here at Microsoft. I've been doing Messaging developer...
Date: 04/07/2006
Yet another IExchangeManageStore incarnation
Yep, that's right: IExchangeManageStore5 is upon us. And this is the coolest one yet! I'm...
Date: 03/29/2006
Outlook Account Management API Sample
Just a quick entry to post this sample. A few folks have had trouble getting the Account Management...
Date: 12/27/2005
CreateMHTMLBody Won't Read Web Pages Compressed with GZIP
The title says it all. If you've got a web page hosted on a site that does GZIP compression, you...
Date: 12/08/2005
New Sample Transport Provider
I've been working with MAPI for over 5 years now. In that 5 years I've supported my share of...
Date: 11/04/2005
Subject Sorting in Outlook
I just recently worked through an issue where messages in a custom message store would not sort on...
Date: 09/07/2005
PR_MAPPING_SIGNATURE and custom message stores
I was pulled into a neat little issue with a custom message store that didn't behave correctly with...
Date: 01/05/2005
Getting Exchange MAPI's GC-Reconnect stuff to work
I recently wrestled with this and found it wasn't exactly intuitive, so I wanted to share my...
Date: 12/21/2004
The RPC Canceller
I get a lot of questions about Outlook's infamous RPC Canceller. I'm sure you've seen this at some...
Date: 08/09/2004
PR_RECORD_KEY and Outlook 2003 Shortcuts
I just read Steve Griffin's excellent post on store providers under Outlook 2003 (Read it here.) As...
Date: 07/13/2004
All About Jason
I'm a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft Services. I support the Hosted Messaging and...
Date: 07/08/2004