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Mars Edit can't upload images to WordPress on IIS

  Having Troubles Uploading images to WordPress hosted on IIS If you are like me and enjoy a Mac, and WordPress, then you have probably discovered MarsEdit. We were experiencing problems uploading images to our WordPress blog. Upload File ErrorCan’t do upload file for “blog name” because the server reported an error. The server returned an unexpected response code: 413. WordPress Upload File Permissions on IIS You upload an image in WordPress and either you get an error or the image will upload, thumbnails would work but the actual image would not have read permissions. If you can’t upload an image at all, it’s probably because you need to give the IUSR account Read/Write/Modify permission on your wp-content folder.  This will allow you to upload, and do the WordPress & plugin updates. Alos, you may you need to do is give the IIS_IUSRS group Read permissions on your “C:\Windows\Temp” folder. Make… Read More »Mars Edit can't upload images to WordPress on IIS

Microsoft CRM IFD SSL Certificate Renewal

Following on from our very popular IFD configuration for Microsoft CRM. [gard] http://www.interactivewebs.com/blog/index.php/server-tips/microsoft-crm-2011-how-to-configure-ifd-hosted-setup/ The time will come around where you need to renew the SSL certificate for your CRM IFD configuration. This will include the renewal of the SSL certificate as used by IIS and and ADFS. Couple of steps we followed based exactly on the configuration outlined in our above linked blog post. Generate a new SSL Request. 1. Open IIS Manager and click on server certificates. 2. Create certificate request 3. Fill in the data: Next 4. Change to 2048 Bit 5. Give it a name: Finish and you are done. Now Open the certificate text file and copy the text to your clip board, or use this with your certificate authority to issue you a new Wild Card Certificate. *.interactivewebs.com is what we use. To get the certificate we use a service called “startssl.com” who allow you… Read More »Microsoft CRM IFD SSL Certificate Renewal

.zip files from Mac OS show up as green/encrypted

Green files and folders on Windows 7 indicate they are encrypted. Usually this is a function of a program that will make these files encrypted for a reason. Security is usually the reason. But… An interesting little bug in the process of creating a .zip file on a mac and moving it over to a Windows computer. When a .zip file is created according to standards for .zip files found here: http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT They specify that .zip archives include a tag informing about itself to the program trying to decompress the archive. This tag information is known as the “version made by” and as the name suggest, it would tag information about the program version of .zip and the files system in use. 0 – MS-DOS and OS/2 (FAT / VFAT / FAT32 file systems) 1 – Amiga 2 – OpenVMS 3 – UNIX 4 – VM/CMS 5 – Atari ST… Read More ».zip files from Mac OS show up as green/encrypted

Changing SMTP Port 25 to a non blocked port

How to Change Port 25 in your email client Sometime your ISP will block port 25 and prevent you from sending SMTP email on that port. Your email service provider may ask you to change the port being used to something other than port 25.   Most email programs have configuration settings like this: Where on the Advanced Tab or similar depending on the email program in question there are settings for the outgoing SMTP server. To change the SMTP port from 25 to 587 for example you just replace this: Click OK and you are done. Note: It should be noted that the port number to use must be provided to you by your Email ISP.

CRM 2011 Email Router Setup and Settings

Often with the setup of CRM 2011. Users experience messages about Pending e-mail warning and sometimes email messages are not sending. [gard] This can be especially frustrating as both the CRM email queuing and tracking system and the Email router application are terrible to help you understand exactly what is going on with your CRM e-mail. We mentioned some of the issues we have experience here: http://www.interactivewebs.com/blog/index.php/server-tips/crm-2011-email-router-problemsshes-a-fickle-bitch/ Here are some basic setup tips for email in Microsoft CRM 2011 1. Out of the box, CRM does not send email messages. You need to configure an application known as CRM 2011 Email Router to have email messages send. 2. You also need a working SMTP (email server) that is configured to allow the relay of email messages from email accounts at your domain name. This can be achieved with Amazon SES message service or your own servers. We can assist you… Read More »CRM 2011 Email Router Setup and Settings

How to pass iStockphoto Photographer Application Quiz–Answers

[gard] Review your answers Files downloaded from iStockphoto (including yours once you pass this test) are offered with a royalty-free license, which describes how the image can and cannot be used: – TRUE When iStock clients download an image they must first agree to our royalty-free content license agreement. iStockphoto images are downloaded under two different kinds of royalty-free licenses: our “standard use” license, which allows for all kinds of commercial, personal, and editorial uses, and our “editorial use only” license. – TRUE iStock now has an editorial use only license in addition to our standard content license agreement. All recognizable faces in images with the standard use license require a model release, including those in crowds: – TRUE All recognizable human faces require a model release, including public areas, crowds, self portraits and vintage photographs. Logos are acceptable in wide angle photographs under the standard use license: – FALSE… Read More »How to pass iStockphoto Photographer Application Quiz–Answers

CRM 2011 Rollup 10 Invalid Argument Error

CRM 2011 Rollup 10 Killed My CRM After installing CRM 2011 Rollup 10 (not 9 as that is MIA) you receive an Invalid Argument messages as per the image above. This happens after you login to an IFD deployment. For all we know it may happen on the CRM on premises but we have not managed to test that. You may also have a CRM Platform Trace Error: Crm Exception: Message: A non valid page number was received: 0, ErrorCode: –2147220989 CRM’s Fetch Throttling abilities have been disabled or modified from the default values. Re-enable CRM’s default Fetch Throttling settings. The solution 1. START | RUN | “regedit” | OK 2. Locate and select the registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftMSCRM Change the value on: TurnOffFetchThrottling to 0 In fact if you find either MaxRowsPerPage or the TurnOffFetchThrottling registry keys set them both to 0 or delete them. 3. START | RUN |… Read More »CRM 2011 Rollup 10 Invalid Argument Error

SmarterMail Automatic Reply Email Message

Setup Auto Reply (Auto-Responder) in SmarterMail To configure Auto-Reply in SmarterMail, you login to the webmail account you wish to setup a reply for. https://mail.interactivewebs.com Login with the email address of the account in question, and the password provided. Then Select Settings / autoresponder Select the Enable auto-responder / then the Auto-Responder Message tab Type your Subject / Message Then click Save, and you are done!

SmarterMail Autodiscover setup configuration

Setup of SmarterMail Autodiscover configuration A simple understanding of autodiscover is that it is the configuration necessary to allow advanced email programs like macmail and outlook to configure themselves with only an email address and password. No more telling clients all the server settings necessary to get them all setup. At least that is the theory. Exchange server has supported it for some time, but configuration under a multi domain setup is a total pain in the butt. Typical off MS to dream something up, then balls it up in the implementation. SmarterMail does a much better job of it. Configuration is virtually non existent, it basically just works. http://portal.smartertools.com/KB/a2415/set-up-auto-discovery-with-smartermail.aspx But their article is a little skimp for the non server admins.. so this is a step through course. Assuming that you are using Microsoft DNS server for your DNS hosting (and I realise that most probably don’t but it… Read More »SmarterMail Autodiscover setup configuration

Tall Tails–Mobile Dog Grooming Melbourne

Tall Tails Mobile Dog Grooming Service Melbourne has a new website. This new site is a free website run using InteractiveWebs domain name hosting services and email services, but allows the owner to run the website management using the free content management system.

AD FS certificate rollover CRM 2011

You find that you can’t logon to your CRM 2011 IFD deployment that you have configured around 12 months earlier. In the browser you may see: HTTP Error 401 – Unauthorized: Access is denied <html><body><p> An error has occurred. <br/><br/> Try this action again. If the problem continues, check the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Community for solutions or contact your organization&#39;s Microsoft Dynamics CRM Administrator. Finally, you can contact Microsoft Support. </p></body></html>   Looking at the server log may show: SERVER Log Error show: 1309 Event code: 3005 Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred. Event time: 9/07/2012 12:09:59 PM Event time (UTC): 9/07/2012 2:09:59 AM Event ID: 50c7c9d7c3ba4b839bca7c72b9edf410 Event sequence: 51779 Event occurrence: 11 Event detail code: 0   Application information:     Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/2/ROOT-1-129862684501956875     Trust level: Full     Application Virtual Path: /     Application Path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM\CRMWeb\     Machine name: VSERVER08   Process information:     Process… Read More »AD FS certificate rollover CRM 2011

SmarterMail Setup Anti-Spam Tools and Tips

E-Mail Anti-Spam Settings – Using Only SmarterMail Anti-Spam Tools and No Wizard Beginning with SmarterMail 6, SmarterTools began incorporating some very powerful tools into the SmarterMail e-mail server software which made the control of undesired SPAM much easier. Prior to version 6 of the SmarterMail software, it was necessary to maintain blacklists, build complicated tables of undesired words, phrases, IP address, e-mail addresses, and domains – all of which changed almost every hour. The spammers knew the ISPs and e-mail server operators were up against a wall and, in spite of new state and federal regulations being put into place almost daily, continued to churn out ever more junk mail because they were unconcerned with being stopped or caught. With the introduction of SmarterMail version 6, the tide began to turn in favor of the e-mail server operators. Between the more frequent adaptation of SPF, the general requirement of large… Read More »SmarterMail Setup Anti-Spam Tools and Tips

ERROR The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections. RDP Solution

Using RDP from windows to access a remote server of Windows 2003. The problem sometimes appears that you cannot connect with an error reported as: ERROR The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections   The Problem The cause of this is that you have remote sessions that have not exited correctly. Either the connection to the server was lost, or the user simply clicked the close X at the top of the session. AND You have your settings in Terminal Server set to hold dropped or inactive sessions either for a period of time or forever.   To Solution At the Start Button on the computer where you would normally run Remote Desktop Connection from. Click Start Run Type in “mstsc.exe –admin” Then enter the connection details that you would normally use, and away you go.