I have pretty much moved all of my email domains and hosting over to Google Apps. It just makes sense – free email, spam filtering, etc. and you can access it via IMAP or POP.  It’s been working great too, but recently I started getting the following error from time to time in my Outlook client:

IMAP: Invalid credentials (Failure)

This was a new error and went away if I clicked on the remember password box and clicked OK, but it was annoying.  Luckily, after some research I found this fix: 

1. Close your email client
2. Go to https://www.google.com/a/YOURDOMAIN.COM/UnlockCaptcha and enter your username and password to unlock the captcha. (Obviously, replace YOURDOMAIN.COM with your own domain name.)
3. Restart your mail client.

The problem should now be fixed.

The NetDrive software allows you to map any FTP server to a local drive on any Windows machine. This is great because you no longer have to worry about using a FTP client to connect to the server everytime. You can simply drag and drop files to the FTP server just by going to it’s mapped drive letter. Plus, it now makes any program you have automatically work with files on a FTP server, so you can use an editor and edit the files directly without having to download and upload them again.  Even better, it’s free for home use.

Here’s some other features:

•  Mounts remote storage as a local hard disk on your PC
• Data transfer by drag and drop files in windows explorer
• Able to run files(video, audio and any other .exe files)
• Able to run NetDrive as a system service when Windows starts. Mounts drive automatically when Windows starts.

Get it at http://www.netdrive.net/

Exchange Server 2007 provides anti-spam protection, however it must be installed and configured separately. To install the Microsoft Anti Spam Agents on Exchange Server 2007, follow these instructions.

Now, you have to configure auto-update to receive anti-spam updates.

Now it’s ready to go!

We recently installed Exchange Server 2007 and noticed that any new distribution lists were not receiving email from any outside addresses. Turns out that this is turned off by default in Exchange Server 2007 and needs to be enabled.  The Exchange Server Share blog has an article describing how to fix this.

Today, one of our client’s servers would no longer accept PPTP connections. We were getting a ton of 3015 and 3024 errors in the event viewer. It turns out that this is related to the recent DNS patches from Microsoft and certain TCP ports need to be excluded from the random ports that DNS can now use. This article has full details.