DaVe’s Musings

Exchange Server 2007 provides anti-spam protection, however it must be installed and configured separately. To install the Microsoft Anti Spam Agents on Exchange Server 2007, follow these instructions.
Now, you have to configure auto-update to receive anti-spam updates.
Now it’s ready to go!

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We recently installed Exchange Server 2007 and noticed that any new distribution lists were not receiving email from any outside addresses. Turns out that this is turned off by default in Exchange Server 2007 and needs to be enabled.  The Exchange Server Share blog has an article describing how to fix this.

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Today, one of our client’s servers would no longer accept PPTP connections. We were getting a ton of 3015 and 3024 errors in the event viewer. It turns out that this is related to the recent DNS patches from Microsoft and certain TCP ports need to be excluded from the random ports that DNS can [...]

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Since many of us still cannot stand Windows Vista, InfoWorld hss a great new article with tips and suggestions for putting new life into Windows XP.  Check it out here.

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Xenu is a great “free” program to check your web site for broken links. Check it out at http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

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Ok, so I just found out that the latest version of Adobe Reader has a PDF previewer for Outlook 2007 built in. The Foxit solution I mentioned below loads much faster, but only works on Vista.

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Like many others, I have not been very happy with my Microsoft Vista upgrade. Vista is just not ready for prime time yet. I have frequent crashes, programs that do not work, devices that do not work, etc. In fact I just ordered a new home PC from Dell (with Vista) and my first plan [...]

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Having that annoying problem with IE automatically opening zip files instead of saving them?  Follow these steps to correct this behavior:
Open Windows Explorer.
Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types.
Scroll down to ZIP and select it.
Click Restore to restore the default settings.
This sets the file type zip back to “Confirm open after download” which you can [...]

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Ever need to check the status code that your server is returning for a certain web page?  Check out this link then:
 http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
 

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Here is a quick list of URLs to whitelist your permission based email lists:

Yahoo: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_bulkmail
AOL: http://postmaster.aol.com/

More soon…

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