Public Servers

mail() always returns false
We have separate development (internal) and production (public) servers for our University website. After a recent hardware upgrade, we noticed that the production server is having an odd problem: PHP's mail() function returns false ...

urgent htaccess problem on 1and1 server
Hi, Having tested a new website thoroughly (using mod_rewrite to clean up urls) I upload it to the public server only to find that my htaccess file doesn't seem to redirect at all and I just get a 404 error. ...

Simplify Your Email and To-Do List
... which would be readily available, if not for the internet diverging from it's original and better designs. There's just something about putting all of my personal information on public servers that gives me the creeps. rogun64.

Locking down your outgoing e-mail
Almost every day, we get a telephone call from a very concerned customer because the Internet address of their outgoing e-mail server has been placed on a public blacklist for sending spam. This often means that there is a security ...

Sharepoint Webservices Wrapper
NTLM Authentication. Sharepoint servers have multiple possible authentications. For BasicAuthentication, nothing more needs to be done. For NTLM Authentication, you may need to provide a wsdd file. See client-config.wsdd for an example. ...

Test server strategies
This scenario is fine for development and testing with a limited number of users, but if you intend to do any sort of stress testing with this server or throw it open to the public, performance will likely grind to a halt. ...

Certficate name mismatch in Outlook while running Exchange Server 2007
Suppose your company's public domain name is mycompany.com. You may have obtained a certificate for webmail.mycompany.com and installed on the IIS of your Client Access Server. This is correct because users on the internet will type the ...

A Simple Explanation of Microsoft Essential Business Server
With network protection they could then introduce Exchange Server, which would not only allow e-mail but also shared contacts and calendars, Public Folders, tasks, and such. And the industry looked at it, and it was good. ...

Closing the loop: CPU spike in winlogon.exe
I downloaded the tool and set it up so it would be able to obtain symbols from the public MS symbols server. During the repro I monitored the thread CPU time in Winlogon. Here is a screen shot of what Process Explorer looks when looking ...

Concept for the Day: Encryption:
A popular implementation of public-key encryption is the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Originally developed by Netscape, SSL is an Internet security protocol used by Internet browsers and Web servers to transmit sensitive information. ...