Bet you don’t recall when you last defragmented your Exchange 2003 server. For those organizations with full time IT staff, this should be a task on their to do list, but how many small businesses, particularly those using the SBS variants are likely to do it regularly, if at all. This is a straightforward task [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2008’
SEO Advice For WordPress Blogs
Carrie Hill and Mary Bowling from Blizzard Internet Marketing have published a very helpful Search Engine Optimization (SEO) guide for all aspiring bloggers. It’s aimed at the WordPress community but gives great advice for anyone blogging using any blogging platform. The guide covers topics like “why a wordpress blog?,” promoting your blog, SEO plugins, etc. [...]
WordPress.com – Now With 3Gb Of Free Storage
One of the few limitations at wordpress.com, the free blog host was the amount of storage you were given with the free accounts. Matt Mullenweg’s recent post shows that the storage limit has been raised by factor of 60 from 50Mb to 3Gb. Matt’s recent post said. “Our hope is that much in the same [...]
Vista Open Command Prompt At Specific Folder
Instead of opening a command prompt, then having to manually type cd / etc, etc, etc to get to the folder you need, try this tip. Open Computer or Windows Key + E Drill down to the folder you wish to work with. Whilst holding down the shift key, right click the folder. You now [...]
Microsoft Security Updates For February 2008
Here is the list of security updates that Microsoft released in February 2008. Please ensure to patch your software as required. Here are the new security updates: MS08-003 – addresses a vulnerability in Windows (KB 946538) MS08-004 – addresses a vulnerability in Windows Vista (KB 946456) MS08-005 – addresses a vulnerability in Windows, including Vista [...]
Outlook 2007 With Vista Prompts For Password
Sick of having to type your password every time you open Outlook 2007 even though you know you have saved it? Then give this tip a try. Open the following path: C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Once open you will see numerous folders including a “protect” folder. Delete it. When you have deleted the protect folder, restart Outlook. You [...]
OpenDNS – Fast Free Reliable DNS Resolution And Content Filtering
Are you websites slow to resolve? Then why not try using alternative DNS settings in your router. Whilst most of us think we have to use our local ISP’s DNS servers, we actually don’t. Where at times our local ISP’s DNS servers can be unreliable or slow, why not try the OpenDNS servers. OpenDNS provides [...]
Uninstalling Symantec Endpoint Security (SEP) 11 On SBS 2003 Breaks RRAS
If you have uninstalled Symantec Endpoint Security (SEP) 11 and can no longer start the “Remote Access Connection Manager” service, this post might help you. The problem SEP 11 created took quite a while to work out, but was a simple one minute fix. Nothing to reinstall, just a few simple registry edits. If you [...]
Solid State Flash To Replace Traditional Drives
We have been using the conventional or traditional hard disk drive for around 20 years now. But a change is on the horizon to the use of solid state flash memory. What if any benefits will this give us? As there are no moving parts within the solid state drives, like the memory cards we [...]
Pretty Permalinks With IIS6 And WordPress
Want to pretty up your WordPress permalinks running on an Windows / IIS6 server? Then you need the free WordPress URL Rewrite ISAPI filter by Jon Tackabury from Binary Fortress Software. Jon has written an ISAPI filter for IIS that makes your WordPress links easily readable by us humans. Installation is straightforward and full instructions [...]
