Configuring Entourage 2004 to NOT work with Exchange
I have spoken before about ways to get other OS's to connect to Exchange. These are some links I found to TRY and explain how to connect Entourage 2004 (part of the Office 2004 suite for OS X) to connect.
I still haven't found a good way to get my OS X laptop connected to exchange. The 'automatic' configuration still is not working for me. I am going to submit a bug request through our MSFT rep and see what I'm able to find out. Since we have two pretty straight forward Exchange infrastructures here, it should 'just work', but instead keeps telling me to see my administrator... but I AM THE FREAKIN ADMINISTRATOR... give me some more help! pweeew...
We will see.
- The MVPS.org site on Entourage
- http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2004/entourage2004.aspx?pid=exup2004 - Microsoft marketing on Entourage 2004 with Exchange
- http://www.entourage.mvps.org/exchange/exup_entx.html - Entourage - X
- http://www.macwindows.com/entourage.html
- Entourage Search on ATOMZ
- Entourage Search on Google
What is your Geek Score
No surprise...
They need need a few extra questions...
[ ] I talk to my best friends more online than in person
[ ] I would rather text message than call
[ ] I know the years pennies weren't made of copper
[ ] I have a geeky license plate
[ ] Laughed at 'pretty people' who think they are normal
[ ] Do you own a video arcade game
[ ] Do you own multiple arcade games
Neat new coffee makers that use pods
In the search to find new better ways to get my caffeine fix (and yes I stopped taking no-doz/stay awake). I found links to these two new coffee makers that are self cleaning and use 'pods' of espresso.
Philips Senseo (with Douwe Egberts coffee pods)
Melitta One
- Seems to have more flavors available.
Bar Sinister – Return to The Underworld
OK, so this isn't done yet... KMA
OK, will add more whitty stuff later... for now you can oogle at the pictures
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5 levers (steps) to drive increased productivity
5 levers (steps) to drive increased productivity (extract – see 2x2). Get people who are brilliant at each of these – train them, invest in them. The Six Sigma crowd.
- centralize: bring all operations under a single authority discipline to user maintenance requests
- standardize: reduce variety of processes to delivery similar outputs to further reduce maintenance expenses. (Never do this before customers are willing.)
- Simplify: prune processes to eliminate extra steps that add complexity without commensurate corporate value
- automate: drive processes into software to increase productivity, using application packages wherever possible
- outsource: drive processes out of the company to achieve the returns from outsourcing previously described
Whitelists to block spam
So far I have been really happy with Spamnet as my solution for blocking spam. But in chatting with my friend Elya, he has also been employing some other solutions to address the situation.
His comments:
i use frontbridge,
there is also clearmx.com,
bright mail
> set querytype=mx
> fddi.com
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53Non-authoritative answer:
fddi.com mail exchanger = 10 mail.global.frontbridge.com.
so all of my email gets cleansed before it hits me
and then i just use postfix header checks to get rid of the blank spaces in subject lines, email from .jp and other domains
and anything else that the spam organization doesnt clear up
yeah. thats the next big thing for the internet
spam and fortigate boxes
i'm playing around with http://www.tmda.net
Q: tmda is what you are using for the message I just got?
can you use it on just a single mailbox?
A: yeah thast what im playing with
tmda is on the server
what prevents someone from spoofing my email address
and you can enable it for anymailbox
by modifying your .forward.
postfix...
nobody can spoof bc i use postfix sender checks
and smtpd_recipient_restrictions
http://tmda.net/faq.cgi?req=all has a lot of info
Q: cool, but u need a linux box... can't do it with exchange
A: yeah. nobody has ported it yet
im actually trying to get it to work on exchange
it uses python.
There are ones that you have to pay for though
http://tmda.net/faq.cgi?req=all#1.9
What Office Space character are you?
Michael Bolton
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Ultra Thin Windows XP Handheld
Ultrathin and light Windows XP notebook weighs in at 14 ounces
A 14-ounce notebook replacement that runs XP and offers full computer functionality is the promise of OQO's Ultra Personal Computer. Jonathan Betts-LaCroix, OQO's chief technology officer, gives ZDNet's David Berlind a preview of the unit, set for release in July.
3 minutes 57 seconds -
May 28, 2004 10:41:00 AM
http://news.com.com/1606-2-5222650.html
SSL Certificates for Personal use
I have been looking to get SSL to use on my mail web site so I can securely read my email from remote locations. So far I have had a couple recommendations. One is to just create my own cert, since its personal use, I can accept the pop-up stating its not signed. The other solution is to goto InstantSSL and pay $49.00 a year for a basic certificate. Still looking for other cheap SSL locations.
Update: I found there is a free tool in the IIS resource kit called SelfSSL, also if you have installed a Certificate Server, you can utilize it. See more recent articles
Setting up SSL on IIS and OWA
I finally went through the steps of setting up SSL on my email server. I never really did find an article talking about what exactly I needed. But since I had already setup Certificate Server to be my own X509 certificate authority to use with S/MIME SMIME. I decided to jump in from there and see what happens.
Since my domain already had a registered Certificate Authority, when I went into IIS and my web sites properties. I found that I could create a 'new' certificate, and fill out all the fields I wanted. I made sure the name of the certificate was the FQDN of the web site I wanted. It then automatically presented my CA that I had installed a week ago, and click... it was installed. Very clean. Definately easier then following up with Instant SSL. Then from a client perspective I still get a popup stating my site isn't signed by a root authority, but after I install the certificate, it works as cleanly as a site that uses a InstantSSL or Verisign Certificate.
Along the way I found the following links useful, but not helpful in solving my specific problem.
HOW TO: Set Up an HTTPS Service in IIS
Setting up SSL with a SelfSSL certificate on Windows Server 2003 - FREE SSL without Certificate Server
How to redirect to a secure exchange virtual directory and enable Forms-based authentication