Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Internet Explorer 8

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Internet Explorer 8 Beta is out at the moment with some interesting new features. InPrivate browsing - Loads a new IE window and browsing you do doesnt go in to your browser history, if you want to buy a gift online your family wont come across it by accident. Compatibility view - ...

Google Chrome Beta

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

  Google Chrome Beta, Google’s new web browser is available today for download, if you have Google as your homepage you may have already seen the link to download it. First impressions are good, it seems to load pages very fast with some nice features.  It automatically imported my bookmarks from Internet ...

Fixing redirected My Docs permissions, using Powershell

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

For many of our customers we redirect a user's My Documents to a directory of the same name, on a Windows share. For example, the user 'JMcMuffin' may have their My Docs redirected to "\\FILESERVER\Home\JMcMuffin\My Documents", which are stored in a local path of D:\Data\Users\JMcMuffin, on FILESERVER. Obviously you can ...

Exchange 2007 Transport Rules

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Ever had request to block an e-mail address? We had one from a customer last week so we decided to use Transport rules in exchange 2007. These work in the same sort of way that Rules do in Outlook but on a global level. We setup a transport rule to send a ...

Default behaviour of distribution groups, in Exchange 2007

Friday, June 13th, 2008

By default, in Exchange 2007, distribution groups cannot be mailed without authentication. This means that any distribution group that receives external mail will respond with a rejection, until this default behaviour is altered. #5.7.1 smtp;550 5.7.1 RESOLVER.RST.AuthRequired; authentication required A good idea in the face of spam, except that this change in ...