This question came up on Experts-Exchange.com today and after a few minutes of consideration, here's my suggestion to the problem – simple, effective and customizable … and better yet, no code! More importantly, I hope this helps inspire ideas and ...[Read More]

If you are having difficulties *sending* email to a foreign domain (email address) *from* Exchange, here's some suggestions for things to check/address.   1. Ensure you have a valid PTR record (reverse IP, defined with your ISP, not with your D ...[Read More]

Cool, Bamboo chose vSharePoint.com (the Victoria SharePoint User Group) to be their first profiled User Group.  Puts extra pressure on making sure our first meeting/event goes well in September. :)   http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/user ...[Read More]

Internally, we are using SharePoint blogs very effectively, to replace common sharing of information (in our case, typically about technology like 'how I fixed this or that'. Using Microsoft Word 2007 as our blogging tool (and if you don't have Mi ...[Read More]

I've seen these Event ID's appear in situations where:   Active Directory was unhealthy (or a single DC, that a workstation was attempting to connect to was unhealthy) DNS Servers that a workstation points to, are unhealthy Combinat ...[Read More]

I never thought I'd be blogging about Office 2000 (frankly, I don't recall if I would have known what a blog was, back then…). Anyways, this was a strange enough one to resolve today that perhaps it will help someone else (and/or maybe it applied ...[Read More]

Here's an interesting one, with a simple fix. A customer called today and they use Outlook 2003 with a 3rd party/hosted POP3 Server (and frankly, this problem and resolution could apply across all of Outlook, POP3 Servers and under the heading 'co ...[Read More]

I was enabling some 3rd party web server statistics software today (Smarterstats by www.smartertools.com) on a SharePoint server and it was necessary to make sure all the appropriate fields necessary for returning all information, in all reports w ...[Read More]

We were informed recently of a local computer user that was duped by a fictitious email masquerading as an email from his bank. Without going into detail it will suffice to say that the bad guys at the other end of the email obtained personal bank ...[Read More]

Don't mind me, just bookmarking some key tools I use here for Exchange 2003 and 2007 Outlook Anywhere and ActiveSync Testing.   Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer - https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com Telnet to Port 25/SMTP T ...[Read More]