I’d encountered a few anomalies with the Exchange 2010 server over the last few weeks, so took the opportunity yesterday to upgrade it to SP1 and the latest Update Rollup. This revealed an annoying feature of – or bug in – Microsoft’s code that loads Transport Agents causing my RegExCatchAll Agent to crash. I also…
Exchange 2010 SP1 breaks pre-SP1 Transport Agents
By Howard | Published December 21st, 2010Run YOURLS on IIS 7
By Howard | Published August 23rd, 2010If you’re running YOURLS on an IIS 7 box you’ll need the correct settings in your web.config to perform the URL Rewriting. An example web.config with the correct settings is below.
RegExCatchAll Transport Agent for Exchange 2007/2010
By Howard | Published May 29th, 2010How moving email services to an Exchange Server revealed email suffix matching as a missing feature, and how to implement that feature using a Transport Agent.
Fix orphaned SQL Server users
By Howard | Published March 11th, 2010I always forget this in between using it, so for the benefit of future Howard, here’s how to fix orphaned users resulting from restoring a SQL database to a different machine.
IIS7 web.config fun
By Howard | Published March 8th, 2010I spent some time last weekend migrating the Work Avoidance site away from Gradwell and onto a dedicated virtual server from MEMSET. Since this involved a move to a Windows box away from UNIX hosting, I had to configure in IIS7 some of the settings I had in the .htaccess under the UNIX host.
Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips in Windows XP
By Howard | Published August 29th, 2008I’m rebuilding my new Sony Vaio Z with Windows XP, and as usual there are a load of tweaks I need to make to the OS before I feel “at home” again. Since the fingerprint reader software on the new build has an annoying habit of popping up info balloons on every boot – regardless…
My 1080p HTPC: Multiple Freeview Tuners
By Howard | Published July 12th, 2008When I originally built my HTPC, I used 2 Freeview cards. Each Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T500 has two Freeview tuners in one PCI card. By installing two of these (and with some registry tweaking) it is possible to build a device that can record/watch 4 Freeview channels at once. Out of the box the Vista Media Centre…
Disable Windows Desktop Search Explorer Integration
By Howard | Published July 10th, 2008Another post from the “helping future Howard” category. I use Outlook 2007, which is great, but in order to be able to search your email with decent performance you must install Windows Desktop Search. Unfortunately when you do this it integrates with Explorer without asking permission to do so. This means that should you hit…
VMRC Graphic Corruption
By Howard | Published January 30th, 2008I’m looking for help here. The image (click to embiggen) you see here is a screen capture of one of my virtual machines suffering some form of graphic corruption. It should look like this. This happens often enough now that it is seriously irritating. I can make it go away by closing VMRC and reconnecting…
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