Welcome to…
This is the second of a group of IT templates I’ll be posting from what I’ve created or gathered/modified. This one is your basic “Welcome to Company” sheet that I tyically hand out to new employees. It’s only a page long and surprising it’s actually been read more than once (unlike the typical stack of papers [...]
Free Exchange Presentations
One of my favorite tech authors, Jim McBee, just posted his slide decks from the past Connections conferences. I’ve just reviewed a couple of of them and there’s definitely gold in there; like what to setup for monitoring and logging in Exchange 2003 and lessons from Exchange 2007 migrations. This is an excellent free resource [...]
Vista Ready Boost
Yesterday I purchased a new 8GB Secure Digital card (only $21!) in order to free up my current 2GB SD card used in my Vista laptop for use in my new(ish) Canon SD1100 IS. Curious as to what allocation unit size to choose when formatting for optimal Ready Boost, I read a number of blogs, [...]
Company Infrastructure Template
Here’s the first of a few templates I’ve gathered or made throughout the years. The Company Infrastructure template. This “catch-all” document can be a central repository for network, system and vendor information, something to use to survey the environment for an audit, or when handing off to / indoctrinating a new IT person. Not all of [...]
Hand me my Sceptre
My new 24" Sceptre LCD monitor just arrived, in fact I’m looking using it now while writing this post. What I replaced was a very nice, but old and power hungry, 21" Dell Trinitron CRT which is now on Craigslist as I write. I bought it from CompUSA for $329.41, with shipping and no tax [...]
PGR4 Wallpaper
I’ve been playing Project Gotham Racing 4 now since February 14th (thanks honey) and just recently began taking photos. You can pause the game at any time and snap a picture from any angle. It’s really quite amazing and the quality is equally as good. You can take pictures anytime during the game, but I [...]
Oh no!!! It’s 8-bit MIME
Recently a customer was experiencing mail delivery failures: Action: failed Status: 5.6.1 Diagnostic-Code: smtp;554 5.6.1 Body type not supported by Remote Host Turns out that the Windows SMTP service (what Exchange 2000/2003 uses to transfer mail) advertises 8-bit MIME, which isn’t compatible with some mail servers (they were using Postfix). In any case it was [...]
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