DaVe's Musings

Exchange Server 2007: Enable Anti-Spam

DaVe — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:58:59 +0000

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!

Exchange Server 2007: Distribution Lists Not Receiving Email From Outside

DaVe — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:23:31 +0000

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.

Event ID: 3015 and Event ID: 3024 on Small Business Server 2003

DaVe — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:53:42 +0000

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 now use. This article has full details.

Put New Life Into Windows XP

DaVe — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:05:44 +0000

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.

Just discovered: M83

DaVe — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:53:31 +0000

Just discovered M83 today. They’ve had a few singles on the alternative stations and I finally got around to checking them out. Definitely will have to pick up their album…

Yow…

DaVe — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:47:19 +0000

This site has long been forgotten about. Yet another good idea that never quite materialized. I have just discovered that I do enjoy blogging though. Please be sure and check out my new site. Hopefully it will not go the way that this one did. But, who knows, maybe this one will be resurrected too… Time will tell.

Xenu Link Sleuth

DaVe — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:53:47 +0000

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

Update: MS Office 2007 - PDF Previewer

DaVe — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:44:30 +0000

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.

Wow, blogs get out of date quickly…

DaVe — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:40:13 +0000

So, I’ve now discovered that blogs quickly get out of date. I’ve posted some tech articles, but I just realized I haven’t updated my main page in over a year! Maybe I just don’t have anything that interesting to say… nah, that can’t be it.

Well, one site that I did discover recently is Finetune. It’s a great site that allows you to build custom playlists, stream music, listen to other’s playlists, etc. Take a listen to the playlist I put together of some of my favorite artists and tracks:

Ok, so that’s all I’ve really got for now. Check back later (hopefully, not a year later).

MS Office 2007 - PDF Previewer

DaVe — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:32:34 +0000

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 is to rebuild it with Windows XP. I don’t think I can take having Vista at home as well as at work.

MS Office 2007 has been a completely different experience altogether. I love it! While it takes some getting used to, the new features and layout are great. Outlook has a number of new features which make life easier, including: auto-detecting Exchange server settings, better multiple email account management, the ability to have sent items for IMAP accounts stored in a separate folder, and auto-preview so that you can view attachments in Outlook without opening another program. So, this works great for images and MS Office programs, but it doesn’t have a PDF previewer installed. Luckily, Tim Heuer and Foxit software have developed one that you can download from his blog.

Oh yeah, make sure you download the Save as PDF add-in for Microsoft Office too. It lets you save files as PDF without needing to have Adobe Acrobat installed.