http://www.davemccomb.com Dave McComb's blog on life and everything in between. Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:03:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have pretty much moved all of my email domains and hosting over to Google Apps. It just makes sense - free email, spam filtering, etc. and you can access it via IMAP or POP.  It's been working great too, but recently I started getting the following error from time ... http://www.davemccomb.com/2008/tech/google-apps-and-imap-invalid-credentials-error The NetDrive software allows you to map any FTP server to a local drive on any Windows machine. This is great because you no longer have to worry about using a FTP client to connect to the server everytime. You can simply drag and drop files to the FTP server ... http://www.davemccomb.com/2008/tech/cool-software-netdrive-free-for-home-use 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! http://www.davemccomb.com/2008/tech/exchange-server-2007-enable-anti-spam 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 ... http://www.davemccomb.com/2008/tech/bug-fixes/exchange-server-2007-distribution-lists-not-receiving-email-from-outside 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 ... http://www.davemccomb.com/2008/tech/bug-fixes/event-id-3015-and-event-id-3024-on-small-business-server-2003 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. http://www.davemccomb.com/2008/tech/put-new-life-into-windows-xp 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... http://www.davemccomb.com/2008/music/just-discovered-m83 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 ... http://www.davemccomb.com/2008/misc/yow 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 http://www.davemccomb.com/2007/tech/xenu-link-checker 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. http://www.davemccomb.com/2007/tech/update-ms-office-2007-pdf-previewer