Power Problems in Florida…again

You just have to love reading things like this after a large state-wide power problem:
It took only three minutes for an overheated switch and then a fire at a power substation near Miami on Tuesday afternoon to shut down a nuclear plant south of the city and trigger Florida’s largest blackout in at least 20 [...]

Exchange Read-Receipts

Realized today that I had forgot to change the read receipt settings on my Exchange server to not send read receipts. While this may or may not be a concern for some people or company policies I wanted this turned off on our server for one primary reason…Mobile Phones.
While some people read the entire message [...]

SBS 2008 Second Server

Found out that the second server in SBS 2008 Premium supports both x64 and x86. So if you have customers with older hardware you can still upgrade by installing the primary server on new x64 hardware and run the second server on the older x86 hardware..

Where did my PDF Preview go in Outlook 2007?

One of the things I’ve gotten a lot of use from is being able to preview PDF files within Outlook without having to launch Adobe (in all it’s bloated glory) to see what the file contains. For whatever reason most people don’t seem to be able to use a informative name when sending attachments.
So [...]

IIS Message Delivery – SMTP

Had a problem today where email wasn’t getting through…specifically email from a app that sends quotes directly from the app and copies the sales person. After some digging I found out that the program makes use of IIS message delivery by just dumping the file in the pickup folder and letting IIS send the message.
This [...]

To Mobi or not to Mobi

I’m supposed to be meeting with someone shortly to go talk to them and their boss about the .mobi domain and why I won’t pay to have them setup a mobi advertising site for us. Ignoring the fact that the majority of people have no idea what .mobi even means (heck, the sales person even [...]

So much for paperless

Why is it that a company that is based soley on selling stuff on the Internet and only on the Internet has a 28 page contract that they have to send you in PDF form to fill out after printing it out and then be faxed back to them? You would think that with the [...]