Tried to do Open as web folder in Internet Explorer 8? You’ll have noticed the option isn’t there any more. It’s been removed. Apparently this is because they have done some work to separate Internet Explorer from the Windows Shell.
There’s a way round this though. You can map a internet folder as a network drive. Just click map a network drive like so:
Then, click ‘Connect to a Web site that you can use to store your documents and Pictures’ at the bottom.
Follow the wizard that pops up and you’re done.
Want to turn off Non-Delivery Reports (NDR) in Exchange 2o03? You can find the setting in the following location:
Exchange System Manager> Global Settings> Internet Message Format. Double click on ‘Default’ (or whatever you have listed there)> Advanced tab> Uncheck ‘Allow non-delivery reports’.
Done!
Do you get the following error message when clicking on a hyper link in Outlook 2003?
This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.
This is usually very easily fixed. Go to Control Panel> Internet Options> Programs> Reset Web Settings.
That should fix it!
Spam. It’s the bane of the Internet. Most of us get it. At work we get tons. Most (like about 90-95%) of the email we receive is spam. Some of it was getting through the filters too, which is even more annoying. For this reason, I’ve be doing quite a bit fine tuning of our spam filtering software, GFI MailEssentials. DNS blacklists have turned out to be the most effective, most of our spam doesn’t even get as far as the Junk box now.
Another thing I looked into was SPF records. I posted about SPF records a while back, but I thought I’d post again to give a few tips on the problems I encountered.
If you use a smarthost with your Exchange server then the server that is actually sending the emails is that of your ISP. This means that you have to put the address of your ISP’s server in your SPF record. No big deal right? Wrong.
You can enter the domain name of the ISP’s server, but if they don’t have an SPF record (which they probably wont), then yours will fail too.
It’s easy enough to find out the IP address of you ISP’s mail server (although they probably have more than one), but, and it’s a very big but, what if they change the IP address of their server without telling you? All of a sudden all your emails out would start SPF failing and possibly being marked as spam!
There is a way round it however. Using reverse DNS lookup. As long as the reverse DNS of your ISP’s mail server is set up correctly (if it isn’t, ask them to fix it) then you can enter this into your SPF. Just put this in your SPF record: ptr:mail.example.com
Done!
Just a quick tip for writing a robots.txt file for your website, especially if you’re using the Google Webmaster Tools website to help you; the allow: /directory-name/ directive is not part of the standard protocol.
It’s definitely supported by Google but I’m not sure about other search engines.
Ever needed to do a lot of screenshots? Creating a manual for example. You need to take loads of screenshots and then go back and forth to the manual pasting them. So time consuming! Well there is another way.
Using Print Screen 3.0 you can have all of your screenshots automatically saved to a folder ready to be inserted to your document at a later time. Perfect!
Just had this problem today, a Word 2007 document refused to print form the tray selected in the printer properties. Turns out, you can change the tray setting separately in Word. This setting had been set for some pages, so half the document would print from one tray and the other help from another tray!
To get to the setting, select the Page Layout tab, select the Size drop down and click ‘More paper sizes’.
Just thought I’d do a quick post on one of two things I’ve just been looking at for Windows Exchange 2003; SPF records.
Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is basically an email validation system used to prevent spam. If you own a domain, you create an SPF record in your DNS records detailing which machines are allowed to send mail as your domain (i.e. your exchange server and possibly your ISP too). Then, when an email server receives an email, it can check on the DNS records of the domain and see if the computer who sent the email is really allowed to send email as that domain. If it’s not, the the email will be marked as spam. It will help cut down the amount of spam you get that’s addresses from yourself!
If you need help creating an SPF record, check out this excellent SPF wizard.
I’ve also just been looking at Windows Exchange Server 2003 possibly being an open relay. Will do a post on that soon.
Tried to run Telnet in Windows 7? Well you can’t. Not by default anyway.
I just tried it and found it’s been disabled by default in Windows 7. You can add it yourself though. Open Control Panel> Programs and Features> Turn Windows features on or off> Check Telnet Client.
Done!
I recently had this problem at work where all the hyper links in an Excel document kept changing. All by themselves! The Excel Workbook had lots of hyper links to files on a network drive. The network drive letter would be replaced with lots of ‘../’ (“../../../../../../”). I couldn’t recreate what caused the problem, but I have found a solution.
To fix it you need to change the ‘hyperlink base’. It just needs to be changed to something that never changes, e.g. C:\ (that’s what I used). The hyperlink base can be found in the following locations.
Office 2003:
File> Properties> Summary Tab> Hyperlink Base
Office 2007:
Office button> Prepare> Properties> Document Properties drop down> Advanced Properties> Summary> Hyperlink Base
Another way of adding links in Excel that will never be changed is to use the =hyperlink() Excel function (e.g. =hyperlink(“file:////c:\file.txt”,”Link Text”).