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Configure Exchange Calendar Delegations

These instructions are specific to 123together hosted Exchange 2007 and may or may not be helpful for other Exchange environments. To set permissions for an Exchange user's Inbox Contacts or Calendar to be shared with another Exchange user... right click on the Inbox Contacts or Calendar folder to be shared and select Sharing click Add User search for the user you want to share with select from the search results and click Advanced enter Domain: [...]

2019-10-25T21:05:28-04:00February 22nd, 2010|Quick Tips|

Mac OS X Server 10.6 – Address Book Server

Setting up Shared Addresses (10.6 Server & Client Only) Method 1 - Group Address Book Server Setup: Open WorkGroup Manager click View and select Show System Records. Change to the Local Directory click Groups and click Add. Change it to LDAP Directory and drag group it into the "AB Read-Write Groups" group and Save. Restart Address Book service in Server Admin. Client Setup: Open Address Book > Preferences > Accounts and click Add. Enter user [...]

2019-10-25T21:13:38-04:00February 17th, 2010|Quick Tips|

Mac Server 10.6 – Email slow receiving tip

It seems that greylisting is turned on by default in Snow Leopard server which causes inbound e-mails to hang in limbo. I found a web page with the fix:If you wish to turn it off you can disable anti-spam measures in Server Admin. To specifically only stop Greylisting do the following: Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and change: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated permit_mynetworks reject_unauth_destination check_policy_service unix:private/policy permit to smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated permit_mynetworks reject_unauth_destination permit Basically delete check_policy_service unix:private/policyWhen done [...]

2019-10-25T21:14:27-04:00February 17th, 2010|Quick Tips|

FileMaker – Optimizing databases

These are specific to a set of databases running in FileMaker 5 Server but the directions should be helpful for all database versions setups. The process is similar to rebuilding an Entourage database and can be useful for maintenance and if there are issues with the databases. I usually perform this after a server crash or need to use the Recover command. Close all files by stopping the FileMaker Server. Open FileMaker on the Server [...]

2019-10-25T21:15:20-04:00February 15th, 2010|FileMaker|

Mac OS X Server – Web Server & MySQL Fixes

PHP.ini Additions upload_max_filesize = 20M upload_post_filesize = 20M allow_url_include = On magic_quotes_gpc = On PHP Errors - Date/Timezone Setting Server-wide: Change the following in etc/php.ini [Date] ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions ; http://php.net/date.timezone date.timezone = America/Denver Site by Site: Add the following to .htaccess php_value date.timezone America/Denver PHP Errors - eregi() is deprecated Fix here: http://devthought.com/tumble/2009/06/fix-ereg-is-deprecated-errors-in-php-53/ Basically replacing with preg_match or preg_replace and using extra delimiters. Install [...]

2019-10-25T21:17:03-04:00February 15th, 2010|Quick Tips|

Gmail Whitelist

Source: http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et_whitelist.htm From the page: Sure Gmail's spam filter is mighty and good. When you visit the Spam view all you see is junk. All the mail you want to receive arrives in time. What though if you want to be sure — sure that messages from your peers your friends or your family never end marked as spam by Gmail? That security is in a filter that's simple effective and set up easily. Whitelist [...]

2019-10-25T21:19:05-04:00February 6th, 2010|Quick Tips|

Restore iPhone from old backup

when you sync an iPhone with iTunes it performs a backup of the phone but it only keeps one revision back it's not like Time Machine. if you do a Restore of your iPhone iTunes will create a second backup that is separate from the one/most recent normal sync backup. so typically after Restoring an iPhone you will have two backup options to restore from: the backup created immediately before initiating the restore and the [...]

2019-10-25T21:20:08-04:00February 3rd, 2010|Quick Tips|

Mac OS X Server 10.6 – iCal Server

Add iCal Server Account in iCal - Mac OS X 10.6 iCal > Preferences > Accounts Click the + button For email address enter [User Name]@[Server Name] Enter your server password Under Account Information you can edit the Description and set your available hours Under Delegation you can give people access to your calendars or accept access Add iCal Server Account in iCal - Mac OS X 10.5 [Server Name]:[Port Number]/principals/__uids__/[GUID from [...]

2019-10-25T21:24:23-04:00January 30th, 2010|Quick Tips|

Tip – Mac URL for Server FIles

Using Get Info you can copy/paste the URL to file into an email and it will launch off the server when clicked. Still need more testing on different URLs .local IP external but if the server is like server.[domain].com. Perfecto!

2019-10-25T21:25:38-04:00January 14th, 2010|Quick Tips|