The last couple of days there where some issues with my site, the cause was a problem with the plug-in which makes my site dual-language. Today a new version of the plug-in has been released and everything should work again. If your looking for a good plug-in have a look at the site below, one disadvantage of the plug-in is that you first need to upgrade the plug-in before upgrading your WordPress.

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Today I received the e-mail below:

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Exchange Server technical communities during the past year.

I am really happy with this award, it’s a nice appreciation from Microsoft. Ofcourse I will continue with updating my site so keep an eye on it.

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When starting to troubleshoot smtp issues you can do this easily via telnet, below a hosrt description on how to perform the test:

First we will make connection to the mailserver on port 25.

telnet mail.company.com 25

You will receive the following answer when, for example, you connect to an Exchange server

220 mail.company.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.3959 ready at  Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:36:57 +0200

You will need to reply with a helo followed by the domain you are sending from

helo test.nl

Next you will need to specify the sender of the mail

mail from: test@test.nl

When the sender has been accepted the mailserver will respond with a 250 – OK

250 2.1.0 OK – Mail FROM test@test.nl

Next thing you need to specify is the recipient of the mail

rcpt to: user@company.com

When the recipient address has been excepted the mailserver again will respond with a 250 OK

250 2.1.5 OK recipient user@company.com

Now we have specified both the sender and recipient we can specify the mail, this will be done via the command data

data

When you have send the aboe command to the mailserver it will respond with the following command

354 Send data. End with CRLF.CRLF

The mailserver will tell you that you will need to end the mail with a .

First we specify the subject of the mail, when you don’t do this the subject will be empty.

subject: smtp test via telnet

After the subject command has been specified you will need to press enter 2 times, you won’t receive feedback of this. The 2 times enter is needed according to  RFC-822 and RFC-2822.

Now we have specified the subject we can specify the text we would like to be in the mail

This mail is send via telnet
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As mentioned earlier we end the mail with a ., the . needs to be placed on a new line. When the mail has been accepted by the mailserver for delivery it will respond with the following command

250 2.6.0 <COMPANY5Kns1ZEqUz00000001@company.com> Queued mail for delivery

To disconnect from the mailserver you will need to use the command quit

Quit

For further information of the RFC’s have a look at the sites below.

RFC-822
RFC-2822

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Microsoft is working very hard on UM solutions, OCS is one of those products. On OCSblogs you can find a collection of interessting blogs about OCS.

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WordPress 2.7 is released and I thought why not let’s install it because most plug-ins were compatible with version 2.7. After upgrading and some testing I reverted to version 2.6.5 this because 2.7 did not work well with some plug-ins. You may have seen that my site was not online for a while, sorry for that. I put the update on hold for a while

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During surfing I discovered this site. The site contains a lot of nice movies with interviews with people from Microsoft about various products one of them is the new OCS which will be launched in february.

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Today I had an online presentation of the new software version of the Fortimail. In the new version there’s a solution for the unwanted NDR’s called Bounce Verification. The Fortimail will add an extra entry to the header of each mail send from internally. When a NDR is received by the Fortimail it will check for this entry. If it can’t find the entry it will execute the action that is specified in the specific policy. If the entry exists it is an legitime NDR and the Fortimail will let this message past.

A nice solution for a very irritating issue.

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Site from my colleague Patrick with nice tips for the  Synology DS-207+ and his experience with the Playstation 3.

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During my visits on the forums I saw the name Sembee different times. Simon Butler a.k.a. Sembee is an Exchange MVP in the UK. On his site you can find several tips and tutorials for Exchange.

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Since yesterday I had a nice issue with Virtual PC, the console wouldn’t open anymore. The icon was visible in the taskbar so I could start a VM from there. After some searching on the internet I found out that I was nog the only one who had this issue, below 3 solutions I found that you could try:

• Close Virtual PC and delete the following file %appdata%\Microsoft\Virtual PC\Options.xml.  Warning!, all you gloab configuration settings will be lost.
• Use this page as an example to edit the Options.xml, change the values of left_position and top_position to a smaller value.
• Start Virtual PC and press ALT, Left Arrow, Down Arrow, m, Left Arrow and move the mouse, you should be able to see the console again.

If this tips won’t work then the only solution is to reinstall Virtual PC, in my case this was the solution

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