Posts made by bsouder

Thank You

How long ago did you update the Cert? I am assuming that was the last thing you did tot he system. I had one recently that even though it said it updated, it did not actually update. Removed the certificates (including verifying all old certificates were gone), added them back in. Check bindings.

We need our comemorative SAM bobblehead dolls now.

I was a little surprised they were saying battery life length. Why not just give it a USB cord like on ROKU.

I think you are right on the money with this. I started using RAID 10 single arrays more last year and the payoff has been great for clients.

Windows 10 First Look:

http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/windows-10-first-look

@nadnerB

I have had great results with this and the other people in the thread I worked with reported similar results.

Breaking this out of another thread so it is easier to find.

Most of the Outlook IMAP issues are related to the plugin's - weeks of playing with them with others with the same problem to get it stable.

FILE -> OPTIONS

Then select the Add-Ins tab on the left.

Bottom of the next window - Manage COM-Add-In (GO) Click the GO

Turn Everything off except your AV Software Add-In and the search if you need it.

Also - make sure the setup of the IMAP is rooted in Inbox. Before you do this make sure you have your calendar and contacts backed up as it will delete everything in the account and re-download. (See below for moving calendar and contacts)

FILE -> ACCOUNT SETTINGS -> MANAGE ACCOUNT

MORE SETTINGS (Bottom Right) -> ADVANCED TAB

Middle of the page - Folders (Root Folder Path) INBOX

You also want to move your calendar and contacts out of the IMAP into a PST.

From the HOME tab on the mail Outlook page: Second button in is the NEW Item button - it has a drop down arrow. Click the drop down - then more items - select Outlook Data file at the very bottom. I usually move this out of the user profile to C:\DATA\OUTLOOK - if you have more than one user on the workstation C:\DATA\USER\OUTLOOK

I usually name the new PST something like calendar or contacts depending on what is more important to the user. This should mount the PST as well.

Next go to the calendar for the current user. Click VIEW TAB. Then select the change view drop down and select list. You should be able to see everything in the calendar. If they have anything, just select all and copy he data to the calendar in the new PST. Do the same for the contacts.

Close outlook. to START -> CONTROL PANEL -> MAIL.. In the MAIL windows - select DATA FILES. Set the new PST for the calendar to the default data file. Close both of the windows and open outlook again.

Removing the Calendar and Contacts from the IMAP folder seems to solve a lot of issues as well with synchronization of folders. To be sure you are getting all of your folders and sub-folders, From the main Outlook page go to the folder tab. Then select IMAP folders. In the IMAP folders window - top right select Query. You should see the folders populate. Then select ok. Go to the Send/Receive tab and select **SEND AND RECEIVE ALL FOLDERS **on the left. This should finish updating all folder and they should stay in sync.

Let me know if you have any questions.

@scottalanmiller said:

@bsouder said:

I wonder if they will address the Office 2013 IMAP issues. There is a thread in the Microsoft forums that is pages long. Microsoft never bothered to reply to it even. Everyone in the thread worked together to find work arounds. It is mostly turning off all the bloatware features in the plug-in's.

I doubt it, good IMAP support is not really in their interest. That it works at all is really all that probably matters. If you are a dedicated IMAP shop you are probably going to move to a different web interface, use Thunderbird or are so cheap that you aren't really a serious MS customer.

Yeah - it seems to be part of the strategy to frustrate the user and force them onto Exchange 2013. I had one client do that already. They also wanted the shared calendars of Outlook. IMAP was not cutting it.

@nadnerB

Yeah - most of the Outlook IMAP issues are related to the plugin's - weeks of playing with them with others with the same problem to get it stable.

FILE -> OPTIONS

Then select the Add-Ins tab on the left.

Bottom of the next window - Manage COM-Add-In (GO) Click the GO

Turn Everything off except your AV Software Add-In and the search if you need it.

Also - make sure the setup of the IMAP is rooted in Inbox. Before you do this make sure you have your calendar and contacts backed up as it will delete everything in the account and re-download. (See below for moving calendar and contacts)

FILE -> ACCOUNT SETTINGS -> MANAGE ACCOUNT

MORE SETTINGS (Bottom Right) -> ADVANCED TAB

Middle of the page - Folders (Root Folder In) INBOX

You also want to move your calendar and contacts out of the IMAP into a PST.

From the HOME tab on the mail Outlook page: Second button in is the NEW Item button - it has a drop down arrow. Click the drop down - then more items - select Outlook Data file at the very bottom. I usually move this out of the user profile to C:\DATA\OUTLOOK - if you have more than one user on the workstation C:\DATA\USER\OUTLOOK

I usually name the new PST something like calendar or contacts depending on what is more important to the user. This should mount the PST as well.

Next go to the calendar for the current user. Click VIEW TAB. Then select the change view drop down and select list. You should be able to see everything in the calendar. If they have anything, just select all and copy he data to the calendar in the new PST. Do the same for the contacts.

Close outlook. to START -> CONTROL PANEL -> MAIL.. In the MAIL windows - select DATA FILES. Set the new PST for the calendar to the default data file. Close both of the windows and open outlook again.

Removing the Calendar and Contacts from the IMAP folder seems to solve a lot of issues as well with synchronization of folders. To be sure you are getting all of your folders and sub-folders, From the main Outlook page go to the folder tab. Then select IMAP folders. In the IMAP folders window - top right select Query. You should see the folders populate. Then select ok. Go to the Send/Receive tab and select **SEND AND RECEIVE ALL FOLDERS **on the left. This should finish updating all folder and they should stay in sync.

Let me know if you have any questions. (I am going to break this out into it's own post so it is easier to find)

I wonder if they will address the Office 2013 IMAP issues. There is a thread in the Microsoft forums that is pages long. Microsoft never bothered to reply to it even. Everyone in the thread worked together to find work arounds. It is mostly turning off all the bloatware features in the plug-in's.

Yeah - agreed. We are testing with the new Terminal Server, but we have been held up by the developer that was updating the custom letter system they have. It grabs from their custom database and then creates a letter in Word, and then sends it though Outlook, Fax, or prints. I plan to work on migrating to a 100% web based design for the next version. Remove the dependencies on Office all together.

Pluralsight:
($50 monthly subscription - can turn off at any time - unlimited training for that month.)
http://www.pluralsight.com/search/?searchTerm=Linux

Linux Foundation:
(Online Classrooms)
http://training.linuxfoundation.org/linux-courses

Learnable:
Not sure how good this one is. I was going to check out some of their topics.
https://learnable.com/courses/a-beginner-s-guide-to-production-linux-49#overview

IS the data in question used by the entire department A and the guy in dept B is the only one that needs it? I am agreeing with everyone above. A flatter segregation of data might be a better post. maybe break this specific data out of dept A and into another share that is an A/B share (IE: M Drive - Marketing Data) Then use a group for it. Then you can roll users in and out of the group as needed. Deploy it with group policy. With that many shares your mapping has to be a nightmare. Well documented or not. Not to mention you probably get one group asking another group if they have the Z drive. Oh you do - just look in the Z drive then - even though Z for the two depts may be completely different.

More of a heads up at this point. I ran into an issue with the last round of Windows updates on Server 2008 Enterprise with Outlook 2003. Initially I thought it was the patches for the Office compatibility pack (so you can read the newer files). Removing those did not help. I am trying to isolate it now and will post back this weekend. My leading candidate is the IE patch. What happens is the font in Outlook becomes very blurry and unreadable. Sometimes it is isolated to the screen, sometimes it goes out in the email to clients, sometimes both. Removing all the patches from this week solved the issue for production today. We are in the process of testing with the updated back-end code we use for a letter system for Server 2012 R2 and Office 2013, but it will be a while before it is in production. Figured some other people might have run into this as well. I am leaning to the IE 8 patch right now because we have run into other issues that are similar to this with upgrading to IE 9. Hopefully the support nightmare will end soon.

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It really just takes time to absorb everything and start to feel comfortable. I have only been working with Linux a couple of years now. There were a lot of new concepts to absorb. The biggest hurdle I found is with Linux moving forward so quickly now, it is difficult to know if the article or book on a topic is current. For example, learning Apache server or should I be using nginx. Is the box really secure? How do I know? What SQL should I be using and why. I find that the reality is you just have to spin up a box and just start learning, which is one of the great things about the platform. The other down side is you feel like you have walked into the library of congress and you should know every book on day one. I do find the newer articles coming out are geared to these newer users.

Lateral might be an option in the future. Why is PostGre better than MySQL for scaling?

Microsoft is terminating its SharePoint Online Public Website service, effective January 2015.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/22/microsoft_shutters_office_365s_free_web_site_service/

Dangerous NTP hole

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/22/dangerous_ntp_hole_ruins_your_chrissy_lunch/

Critical holes have been reported in the implementation of the network time protocol (NTP) that could allow unsophisticated attackers root access on servers.