How to setup DKIM and DomainKeys with SmarterMail
Friday, July 03 2009 - 0 comments
First of all, download the DKeyEvent tool and install it. Send an empty email to check-auth@verifier.port25.com Now, the response will be a full detailed report with all kinds of technical information. Here I will just show the summary: ========================================================== Summary of Results ========================================================== SPF check: neutral DomainKeys check: neutral DKIM check: neutral Sender-ID check: neutral SpamAssassin check: ham We now need to get our mail server setup to pass all of the 4 checks. SPF Check and Sender-ID check. You can read...
Designing the Stack Overflow Windows Gadget using Balsamiq Mockups
Sunday, June 14 2009 - 0 comments
Reading on Stack Overflow that they have published the possibility to put your Stack Overflow status on your web page or blog. They call it the Stack Overflow “Flair”. There are a number of possibilities you have to get your flair information from their servers, and one of the methods is JSON. Which is great. I figured that it would be the easiest way to get the data in to the gadget. But first I must decide on how the gadget should look like. The format that Stack Overflow is using for the flair doesn’t suit that well to be placed within a Gadget. The Stack Overflow flair is horizontal oriented...
A Stack Overflow Sidebar Gadget
Saturday, May 30 2009 - 0 comments
I have been following the progress of the Stack Overflow web site since it has started. In fact, I did also participate in the beta testing of the site. In podcast episode #54 , Jeff announced that they are adding the functionality to put a flair on your home page or blog. That’s a really nice idea. One thing that would be even more cool is to have your flair as a Windows Vista / Windows 7 Sidebar Gadget. So I decided develop one. Why not? On the screenshot below you can see how it looks like. Please consider this first release as a beta release. If you find something odd, please email me . Download...
Sweden or Switzerland?
Tuesday, May 26 2009 - 0 comments
I found this blog summary rather funny (note the immediate correction post after the mistake was discovered). Usually, Americans have problems with differentiating Sweden and Switzerland. But PCPro.co.uk is UK based. Come on chaps, can’t you tell the difference between your fellow European countries?...
A list of recommended MOSS Service Accounts
Friday, May 15 2009 - 0 comments
Account Type Purpose Account Name MOSS Farm Account Server Farm Account. This account needs some SQL permissions granting: dbcreator and security admin (do not grant this account SA!). If using ADACM this is the account used for creating objects in the OU specified - so you'll need to delegate permissions on the OU to this user. svcMOSSFarm1 MOSS App Pool Identity for the any MOSS Web App Application Pool(s). A separate process identity should be used for each content Web App (this allows for greater security and auditing). Using the site name in the naming is not advisable as although this may...
How to install MOSS on Windows Server 2008 R2
Friday, May 15 2009 - 0 comments
First a disclaimer. Microsoft doesn’t support this scenario, so you will be on your own. When you try to install MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2, you will be prompted by this error message: and you are stuck. The only way to install MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 is to slipstream MOSS Service Pack 2 into the installation media. I will now run through the steps to do so. Prerequisites: MOSS 2007 installation media. (Either the .iso file from MSDN, or the DVD) WSS 3.0 Service Pack 2 (Remember to get the x64 version, since Windows 2008 R2 is 64bit only) MOSS 2007 Service Pack 2 (Remember...
How to use multiple Yahoo mail sessions in Internet Explorer 8
Monday, May 04 2009 - 0 comments
After you have installed Internet Explorer 8, you may have noticed that you can’t use multiple Yahoo mail sessions anymore. That is because they have changed on how Internet Explorer works. In IE 8, it remembers the sessions between the processes. You can change this behavior by adding the command line argument –nomerge in the Internet Explorer shortcut.BI Templates missing in Visual Studio
Monday, May 04 2009 - 0 comments
After doing a installation of all the necessary tools, SQL Server, Visual Studio I suddenly realized that my Business Intelligence Templates were missing in Visual Studio. Here is how to restore them. Start Visual Studio and go to Tools->Import and Export Settings… Select Import selected environment settings. Click Next. Select “Yes, save my current settings” and click Next. Select the Business Intelligence Settings option and click Next. Now, my templates were restored....
Sharepoint Service Pack 2 released
Tuesday, April 28 2009 - 0 comments
Microsoft has released the Service Pack 2 for its SharePoint and MOSS products . SharePoint WSS 3.0 Service Pack 2 Download here (x86 and x64) MOSS Service Pack 2 Download here (x86 and x64) Don’t know which version you have installed? Take a look at this post on how to determine your installed version....
How to determine setup version from within an ASP.NET page
Wednesday, April 15 2009 - 0 comments
I read on Stackoverflow that somebody needed the possibility to determine the MSI installer product version used when installing the ASP.NET application. My suggestion is to store the current MSI product version in the web.config file, and later read that from within the web application. Here are the steps to do this. Start Visual Studio 2008 and select File->New project. Select the ASP.NET Web Application template and choose a new for your project. Click Ok. Open the web.config file and add the following lines within the <appSettings> element: <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration>...
