WSUS is both a very useful beast and a wild one: It allows you to manage a huge number of Windows workstations to keep your PCs updated and your network secure, yet it itself can be quite hard to manage. This is how to properly clean up a WSUS server that is critically out of space, and reduce its database size by almost 90%.
Bit of a different blog this time. One area that we sort of work at the fringes of when we make our websites is SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). Our responsibilities typically begin and end at creating a well-coded template that gives users the tools to add content to their websites without having to worry about the technical side of things.
However, one thing that keeps coming up is customers wondering what they can do to make their website more visible. This is where SEO enters, but not necessarily where all the answers lie...
Outlook (various versions) seems to hit a problem when sending large emails. If an email sending takes too long (slow network, large attachments, etc) then outlook seems to assume it failed and will try to send the email again. This is a guide outlining how to fix this issue.
A very quick one this time. We've just put the new website for GXG Markets live.
A client recently asked us to put together an online contractor pay calculator. They provided us with an Excel spreadsheet that demonstrated how the calculations should work, and also laid out how they wanted the form to work. Most of this was very straightforward. However, there was one bit that I thought it might be worth mentioning here.
This is a problem that rears its head quite frequently, so I decided to look into this the other day. Clients often get confused when trying to add PDFs (or any files other than images really) to their Joomla websites.
This is a quick guide on how to create your own holding page for a Plesk based hosting server.
So we hit an issue trying to change the autodiscover url in Exchange 2010 to enable our iPhone and Mac Mail users to have a nice easy setup since the client had changed their domain. This blog outlines how we went about this.
