by Dean | Dec 29, 2014 | Error, Exchange, General IT, IT, Outlook
I have just finished an upgrade from Exchange 2007 (in a SBS 2008 environment) to Exchange 2013. There are a lot of changes when going from 2008 to 2013 but am glad that I was able to be part of the update. We ran into a few minor glitches along the road but overall...
by Dean | May 25, 2014 | Crazy Idea, Error, General IT, IT, Misc, MySQL, PHP, Programming, Webtech
As we saw in part 1, I was experiencing timeouts on scripts that sent a large number of legitimate messages out from php mailer. This appeared to be related to the web hosting company throttling the email rate. To still be able to send these messages out a setup was...
by Dean | May 22, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, Error, General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Webtech
For the web applications I build a lot of them want to sent out an email to their users for many different reasons. (All these reasons are legitimate, for example sending our a link to allow the users to login, reminders about upcoming classes etc) This can generate a...
by Dean | May 21, 2014 | Error, Exchange, General IT, IT, Microsoft
Had a customer who is using Exchange 365 as their mail host. All of a sudden people who they were emailing started to receive the winmail.dat attachments instead of the correct email. Now we all know that winmail.dat in incompatible message formats (See KB: 278061) in...
by Dean | Feb 10, 2014 | Error, General IT, IT, Microsoft, Skydrive
There is a lot of talk about issues with Sky Drive and Windows 8.1. Came across one issue where the metro app worked fine, but sync was not occurring between Sky Drive and the local machine. The customer reported that it was working fine a few days ago, and that there...
