'Integrity' is doing the right thing even when no one else is looking. Quoted from the writings of the 'Goompahs', in "Omega" by Jack McDevit.
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IE7 Beta3 and ClearType
IE7 has some strange and quite annoying behaviour. After installing it and rebooting your computer, you may notice all of your fonts look fuzzy. This is because [this beta of] IE7 includes new anti-aliasing software called ClearType, which is applied not just on Internet Explorer's fonts, but on any software that uses IE to render [...]
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Deleting unwanted public folder stores
In Exchange 2003 it is impossible to delete a public folder store if it contains replicas. However, this can cause a problem - even if your public store has just been created and is completely empty, you can sometimes receive this error message: You cannot delete this public folder store because it contains folder replicas. [...]
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Exchange Patching, and KB911829
I recently added a new server to my company's org. After installing Exchange 2003 and SP2 for Exchange, I ran Microsoft update and brought everything up to date and started moving mailboxes across to it on that night. The next day I started getting complaints that OWA was not working for some users. I quickly [...]
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Damn hackers.
I use the superb free services at freedns.afraid.org to control the DNS for ukstokes.com. This is so I can point www.ukstokes.com and my blog to my webhost, and mail.ukstokes.com and other subdomains to my broadband connection at home, for hosting e-mail for my domain, and other smaller websites that don't need to be reliable. This [...]
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Sharepoint 2007 Beta
I've been asked to install Sharepoint Server 2007 beta for evaluation by part of the business. I'm also pretty interested myself to see how it integrates into Office 2007, and I'm pretty sure we have the beta of that lying around somewhere. Official documentation for Sharepoint 2007 seems to be pretty sparse (or just tricky [...]
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Offline defrags in Exchange 2003
There seem to be 2 schools of thought on offline defrags. Some say they should be performed at regular intervals to ensure the integrity of your exchange databases, whereas others say they are a risky procedure that should be undertaken carefully and only when absolutely necessary. So, what is the recommended practice? Event 1221 in [...]
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How to purge an orphaned mailbox
Sometimes things can go wrong during a mailbox migration which will cause a mailbox to be orphaned. Things like a network link going down or the migration hanging on "Saving changes to the directory". If you have to forcibly terminate the migration task, you may find yourself left with an orphaned (disconnected) mailbox on the [...]
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