Category Archive: Microsoft

Nov 05 2010

Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists

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When customers were trying to e-mail us they were receiving the above error back. Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists alias@domain.com Your message wasn’t delivered because of security policies. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator After a …

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Sep 14 2010

Exchange 2007 SP1 – Can’t send/receive emails

So your Exchange Server has been running fine for months and all of a sudden it doesn’t want to send or receive external emails. All else seems OK, the stores are mounted, you can telnet in externally, you can telnet externally. You could be running into an issue with E2007 once the C:\ drive get …

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Sep 02 2009

Virtual Box

So I came across Sun’s Virtual Box software some time ago and tried booting a 64bit OS on it which at the time seemed a little buggy. I decided that  I would give it another go and it seems to just work….. and running on Windows 7 as well. See for yourself….. So if Sun …

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Sep 01 2009

Windows Home Server Add-in

Here in the UK we had a bank holiday yesterday which of course meant we had 3 days off.  So I spent some time with the wife over the last few days and decided that I would embark on new project. Last week I was looking at the plug-ins for Windows Home Server.  I came …

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Aug 24 2009

Outlook 2007 Managing RSS Feeds

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Had this error starting coming up in outlook the last few days: Believe it or not I couldn’t ID which feed had the issue, I went into the RSS folder and right clicked but it doesn’t display the URL. Eventually I found it in Tools > Accounts > RSS Tab, double click on each feed …

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Aug 24 2009

Windows 7 Family Pack

Just reading on the Windows Team Blog, that we are indeed going to be able to purchase the Windows 7 Family Pack here in the UK. This will allow 3 PC’s to be upgraded in the home.  This is good news, however the bad news, is that’s it’s only going to be on sale for …

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Jun 30 2008

Windows SBS 2008

  I’ would like to be writing about Windows SBS 2008… but I’m having a hard time getting things up and running. SBS 2008 is a 64bit OS, because Windows Server 2008 is a 64 bit OS, nothing really surprising about this. So how do we test new software these days, we tend to use …

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Aug 14 2007

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1

  This seems to have been kept very quite… Virtual Server now runs on Vista.. At last I can build small test networks…. No information on the blogs that I subscribe to…. Download

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Mar 11 2007

Now a MCP

I passed my first Microsoft Exam, on Friday. I’ve been working with computers since I was 13+ (I’m 30 now). As I worked in a single company for 9+ years, applying for a Microsoft exam never seem to happen. I think it was a combination of me not wanting to fail and the company I …

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Feb 08 2007

T-SQL Queries

I was trying to figure out how to get a T-SQL to allow a user to enter part of a name to query on, for example the user could enter ML, click a search button which would return all companies with the letters ML in. I Googled this and looked on MSDN, to no avail, …

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