Blog entries tagged servers

IE7 and IE8 - self signed SSL certificate not trusted?

Tom Finnis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Although proper SSL certificates from providers such as Digicert and Verisign have become much cheaper nowadays there are still many occasions when you might prefer to just use a self signed certificate. One of the most common occurences of this is with SBS server, to provide SSL secured web services such as OWA and RPC over HTTP. However the certificate warning you get everytime you open the web site is annoying and maybe confusing for less experienced users. In older versions of IE you coulRead More...

SCO Unix on VMware ESX - virtualisation solves a client's problem

Tom Finnis — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:00:00 +0100

A few months ago we took over the IT support for an insurance firm in the City, but with the contract we inherited a problem the previous IT company couldn't resolve. Part of the firm's business still ran on a ten year SCO Unix server which was barely clinging to life and hadn't been backed up for three years. They still had a support contract with the original suppliers of the SCO system but they had quoted over £10k to migrate their data to the current platform. The system was runningRead More...

Standardised email signatures in Microsoft Exchange

Mustafa Suleman — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Being one for detail I'm amazed every time I receive emails from different users from the same organisation but with differing signatures. Most of these emails come from small to medium businesses with some really slick marketing in general, in fact one could relate it to somebody wearing a very sharp evening suit with a pair of white sport socks!

Microsoft seem to have omitted this essential feature which has prompted a host of third party applications available in the market plaRead More...

SBS Backup Email Notification Trick!

Meraj Khalid — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Now you can configure SBS email notification without enabling the SBS health monitoring feature in few simple steps.

Before starting this procedure you need to know why you are doing this:

If you configure default notifications in the Health Monitor of your SBS management console, every time you open or reboot the server, the successful alert will be sent too. So to avoid this situation you need to follow these few steps