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2 SUREFIRE ways to test if your email is working
Jun 8th
We’ve all ran into those problems where all of our sudden, we can’t send email and we don’t know why, and don’t know what to do, besides call our email provider. One thing I’ve been focusing on at work lately is empowering our customers to “take ownership” of their servers, to help them figure things out on their own. The way I put it, being a server administrator is like getting married; “through good times and bad.” The problem is most administrators (or wannabe administrators) only want to be the admin when the server is running. Once there’s a problem, they expect us to be the admin. Sorry folks, but that’s not how it works.
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How to Enable Remote Desktop for Windows Vista Home
May 25th
My father-in-law called me today and mentioned he was going out of town and wanted a way to manage his email within Outlook so he doesn’t come back with a thousand pieces of spam in his inbox. Simple enough request right? Not really. Apparently Microsoft actually believes that “home” users will not need remote access to their own machines. This is obviously not the case I have detailed one above, and I’m sure there are plenty more. However, in a need to differentiate their products to justify charging more, they must remove certain features from certain versions. Thus, the lack of remote access on home versions of Windows.
Windows Vista Home (and XP for that matter) does not actually allow for incoming Remote Desktop connections. The Remote Desktop software is installed and you can connect to other machines, but by default, you can’t accept incoming connections. In addition, remote connections are disabled by default on Windows Vista. However, after some searching, I came across a site detailing how to enable incoming Remote Desktop connections.
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