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Exchange 2007 needs command line to set FQDN of external host name on Send Connector

Greg — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:31:50 +0000

In Exchange 2007, you have a nice little GUI to set your FQDN on your Send Connector. (Mine is called Outbound, as shown below.)

You can see my FQDN, set under the Hub Transport/Send Connectors of the Exchange Management Console.…

Configure Word 2007 for Blogging to Wordpress 2.6

Greg — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:17:01 +0000

Had to spend a few minutes reminding myself how to configure this. Easy as pie! Even works with images now!!! Yay!

While in a “New Blog” in Word 2007, click the Manage Accounts buton. (A wizard will probably start the…

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Greg — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:54:45 +0000

See how they run

DFS links to shares on Windows XP SP2 do not work on local system

Greg — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:07:30 +0000

Well for the larger businesses out there, this may not be a useful tip. But for those of us that support small networks, like less than 50 or even 10 systems, utilizing shares on workstations is sometimes needed. For example,…

Find an email address that already exists in Active Directory

Greg — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:54:20 +0000

So you went to add a new address to a user account in Active Directory, and you got an error that this address already exists? Sucks huh? Especially when you don’t know where it could be? Here’s one way to…

New account does not appear in Global Address List but does in All Users

Greg — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:04:11 +0000

I’ve run into this a few times, thought I’d record the solution for once so I remember it.

After adding a new user account, the user does not show up in Outlook’s Global Address List, but does show in All…

Folder redirection user permissions block access to Administrators

Greg — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:52:55 +0000

When using Folder Redirection on a Windows 2003 server, the default policy is allow only ownership and permissions to the user. No admin account would have access to this folder. For example, you create a Group Policy to redirect user’s…

Resetting NTFS permissions are not taking effect on child objects

Greg — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:04:08 +0000

Recently I went to reset a user’s home directory permissions on the server to allow them full control over each file/folder in their home directory. I setup all the normal accounts and of course the actual user account, with Full…

IE7 fails to automatically authenticate with enable integrated windows authentication checked

Greg — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:10:54 +0000

In Internet Explorer 7, Tools, Internet Options, Advanced tab. The checkbox for “enable integrated windows authentication” is very confusing. You would think this means “just log me in with my windows credentials”, but no, there’s more to it than that.…

Automatic Windows Authentication with Firefox network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

Greg — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:16:59 +0000

One of the main reasons I don’t use Firefox in an Intranet environment, is due to the logon prompt from IIS Windows Authentication. I keep having problems with IE7 on Vista losing the auto-NTLM auth, where it asks for my…