June 2006 Archives

IPRForm

Boring but important task - Press Release Generator. Worth bookmarking.

Good bit of introductory text here:

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/favicon.shtml

And some software to accomplish it:

http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_if.html

Still one of the best techie/helpdesk reads I've read in a long time. Very funny...

Enjoy...the Chronicles of George

http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/

Good Stuff. Need Asterisk@home ready to go? (now called TrixBox) or a Linux install? Load it in a VM - and these are pre-built and ready to download!

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/

Users receive a "Loading" message when they use OWA to access their mailbox after you apply a hotfix or a service pack to Exchange Server 2003

Well, lame-o but ran into this tonight. Strange thing is I had to find this fix using Google as Microsoft's own KnowledgeBase didn't give me the response I would have hoped. Sure enough, a system where I had updated the front and back-end servers, one system used one update (and updated exchweb) but didn't do the other.

Anyways, I've referenced this as I'm sure I'll see it again...

Ugly, Microsoft is really trying to backtrack/retrofit its security controls and it seems once again, S/MIME for OWA takes a hit. So bad in fact this time, that you basically need to remove the current S/MIME control in order to just be able to use OWA effectively in IE7 at all (you can't compose or reply even basic messages if its there).

So, at this writing, it seems that if you need to use IE7 right now for anything and you can live without Signing/Encrypting, on the CLIENT SIDE, you will need to do the following:

Go to a command prompt (CMD) and type the following (Enter after every line of course):

C:
cd "%systemroot%\downloaded program files"
regsvr32 /u exsmime.dll
regsvr32 /u mimectl.dll

This will unregister the S/MIME controls (you won't be able to uninstall them using Add/Remove). As well, on the server end, be sure to apply the latest Windows 2003 IE7 related fixes and Exchange fixes. Once there is a new improved S/MIME control, you'll simply reinstall it and badabing, back in bidness... one hopes.

Finally, the following hotfix seems to elude to fixing the problem but I had no success - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=911829).

Don't get ripped off by Futureshop and the others. If you need an HDMI cable, these guys have them for a reasonable price and at lots of lengths for your home theatre setup.

http://www.monoprice.com