Adventures in stupid technology
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Fix a Cisco 3750 with blinking PoE light
In this article I’ll discuss how to fix a Cisco 3750 24 Port power over Ethernet (PoE) switch with a rapidly blinking amber PoE light. Amber lights usually indicate something bad, so I consoled into the switch and did a “show power inline” to find out that several ports showed faulty PoE operation. Here’s how to resolve…
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Fix broken images in Outlook 2003
A strange problem exists with Microsoft Outlook 2003 where embedded images in HTML encoded messages are replaced by a red x (broken image). After searching lots of articles on Google which suggest an issue with a temporary internet folder called OLK20 or OLK40 I was still unsuccessful in fixing the broken image problem. Here’s how…
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Rock meets windshield
This is a story about a little girl who threw a rock and unknowingly broke my car’s windshield. It happened in a corporate parking lot adjacent to an apartment complex separated by a seven foot high retention wall. The girl who threw the rock had never seen the parking lot and I’d never seen the…
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Vista ReadyBoost and SD Memory
I got a Sony VAIO with a built in SD Card and MemoryStickTM slot. Since I’m running VISTA, I thought I’d utilize one of these slots along with a large capacity MemoryStickTM or SD card as a ReadyBoost device. My dilemma: Although there are plenty of sites that tell you which SD cards will work…
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Configure your email server properly
A while ago I recently ran into a situation where email originating from one of my clients was being rejected by AOL and spammed by Yahoo and Hotmail servers (by spammed I mean email ended up in the designated account’s junk email folder). Over the years Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo and other mass email providers have…
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Google Apps limits outgoing emails to 500 a day
Before I start my rant, I’d like to mention that I’m still pleased with the overall functionality of Google Apps and I’ve posted to that effect here. That said, here are a couple of things I dislike about Google Apps & Google Apps Premier. Both have impacts on small business clients of mine. First Google…
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Publish Outlook Web Access (OWA) using ISA 2006
Want to let your mobile users check their exchange email but keep your server secure? Who doesn’t! ISA 2006 lets you do it and styles up OWA log in page at the same time. Here’s how.
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Products that contain bisphenol-a
Bisphenol-a or BPA is a monomer for polycarbonate plastic. It chemically reacts with other liquid chemicals (monomers) to produce molecules of polycarbonate or epoxies (solid polymers). This has been revised from my previous post after receiving Kevin’s kind update below. Unfortunately recent studies have shown that when plastic containers with BPA are heated or chilled,…
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Clients get error 0x8004010F from new Exchange Server
Recently I worked on an Exchange Server 2003 deployment project. After the server was added to the existing Exchange environment, clients kept getting error (0x8004010F): ‘The operation failed. An object could not be found.’ on Outlook. This is how we resolved the issue.