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My frustraition with a product that is, in theory, action packed, but faultering in execution continues - this time it is incoming email. A well behaved mail gateway should return a non-delivery receipt if it is unable to deliver email, it's common courtesy. SharePoint, both Windows SharePoint Services...
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Feb 26 2008, 10:49 AM
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Colin
Through a recent migration we needed to move a large number of SSL certificates. After spending a lot of time exporting through the GUI we really did not feel like importing them by hand too. CertUtil came in hand to help us CertUtil.exe -importPFX domain.com-YYMMDD.pfx "NoExport,AT_KEYEXCHANGE"...
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Feb 09 2008, 12:56 PM
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Colin
The PowerShell Community Extensions Project shipped a Write-GZip cmdlet which made me think that it's time to re-write the trusty CompressLogFiles.vbs file I've been using for a while. After grappling with the square brackets in the WMS [Global] folder I think I finally have a viable solution...
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Jan 31 2008, 02:04 PM
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Colin
Most system administrators are becoming acutely aware of port usage on their servers. The security focus is telling us we need to lock things down by default. Turning Windows Firewall on for your servers will certainly do that. For DFS there is some scattered documented things I wanted to share about...
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Jan 25 2008, 12:54 AM
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Colin
If you are using Exchange Server 2007 to receive mail addressed to multiple email addresses you might have noticed that when using POP3/IMAP that the address is not preserved. If you are running Exchange Server 2003 and have an application that depends on secondary email addressing take note. For example...
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Aug 28 2007, 12:31 PM
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Colin
We have had a weird error crop again with Office SharePoint Server. This time it is crashing daily showing a generic Runtime Error message to the client and the following message to one of our applications calling into the web service: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Services, Version...
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Aug 27 2007, 02:50 PM
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Colin
While slogging through automating my development workstation build I found the need to have a script that bumps the CD/DVD drive letter allocations up one so I could put a partition in its place. It seems like a useful script for those situations where you might need it so I thought I would post it:...
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Jul 01 2007, 03:31 PM
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Colin
We compress our log files using GZip. It does a heck of a job compressing at almost 95% average. Here's a note-to-self that others might find useful for use when trying to provide sizing information (e.g. when evaluating web analytics solutions): Run the following at a command prompt: FOR /R X:\...
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Jun 27 2007, 05:03 PM
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Colin
Wow, that was a smooth upgrade. In fact it was probably one of the best I've seen in a while. I logged in, it told me there was an update, I clicked go, and it took care of the rest. If you aren't using Spiceworks for desktop management, you should really check it out, especially after the 1...
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Jun 25 2007, 09:42 PM
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Colin
Are you at Energize IT in Toronto? If so, come find me and say hello! I'll be at the Ask the Experts both in the morning and the gadget track in the afternoon.
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Jun 16 2007, 10:07 AM
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Colin