Internet Explorer 8: How to enable Google Search

Many people prefer Google over Bing. But Internet Explorer just comes with Bing by default. You used to be able to add Google easily by choosing “Find more search providers …” within the Add-on page in Internet Explorer. But due to a recent change from Microsoft, you will now be presented with a page that contains all sorts of providers, but not Google: To solve this issue, just add the following keys to your registry, and Google will be there, including search suggestions and everything: Read more [...]

Most important TCP / UDP ports

I am only listing the well-known TCP/IP Ports I have ever used personally. There are of course more ports. ftp-data         20    File Transfer [Default Data] ftp              21    File Transfer [Control] ssh            22   Secure Shell telnet           23    Telnet smtp             25    Simple Mail Transfer domain           53    Domain Name Server (DNS) bootps           67   Bootstrap Read more [...]

E-Mail (SMTP) error codes

The classic SMTP error code consists of three digits (e.g. 220 mail.domain.tld SMTP ready.). The ESMTP status codes are additions to the classic code and consist of digits devided by dots (5.1.1 User unknown.). Many times you see both types of code combined (e.g. 550 5.1.1 User unknown). Find below a list of the most common codes: 2xx Request ok. Go ahead. 220 Mail service is running (ESMTP ready). 221 2.0.0 Closing connection (Mail received successfully, Goodbye). 250 2.0.0 Message accepted Read more [...]

RegEx for BES Proxy URL Setting

Have you ever wondered what the default pattern matching string for the proxy URL settings in BES means? .*://.*(:\d*)?(/.*)*(\?.*)? Well, this is Java RegEx (Regular Expression) language. Find below some examples that help understand the RegEx: .       matches exactly one character .*      matches any number of characters (including 0), short for .{0,} .+      matches one or more characters, short for .{1,} .?      matches zero or one character, short for .{0,1} .{7}    Read more [...]

Version and Bundle numbers for Blackberry Enterprise Server for Exchange

Find below the version and corresponding bundle number of the BES versions. The third number is the Service Pack (SP) number, e.g. 4.1.5 means version 4.1 with SP5. HF = Hotfix MR = Maintenance Release The bundle number is important when you need to find out which version you are running. It is listed in “Add/Remove Programs”. Version Bundle 4.0.2 11 4.0.2 HF1 13 4.0.2 HF2 15 4.0.2 HF3 16 4.0.3 9 4.0.3 HF1 11 4.0.3 HF2 14 4.0.3 Read more [...]

Sharepoint 2010: How to remove “Edit in Sharepoint Designer”

In Sharepoint Foundation 2010, there are menu items and ribbon buttons that allow you to edit things in Sharepoint Designer. If you haven’t got Designer installed, you get a pop-up a message, saying “Download Sharepoint Designer”. This even happens if you disallow Sharepoint Designer in the Web Application properties. The easiest way to get rid of those items is to modify two files in the Sharepoint installation. Remember to make copies of the original files before editing. Also remember that Read more [...]

Hidden menus and functions on the Blackberry Smartphone

Here's a list of Hidden Menus & Functions I've stumbled across. Some of them are handy for BES/Enterprise support only. Most require you to hold down the ALT key whilst typing the letters after the + sign (they don't need to be capitals). Enterprise Activation (Options->Advanced) ALT+CNFG - Settings for Enterprise Activation Address Book ALT+VALD - Validate the data structure and look for inconsistencies ALT+RBLD - Force a data structure rebuild from the Options menu, Read more [...]

BES 4.1.7: How to move the external Blackberry Router

With the Blackberry Enterprise Server you can have the Router component on a separate server in the DMZ. Recently, I had to move this service from one server in the DMZ to another. Here is how to do it: Install the router component to the new server (this will install the Blackberry Controller and the Blackberry Router service). Make sure that port 3101 is open from your BES to the new router and from the router to the RIM infrastructure on the Internet. On the main BES, start the “BlackBerry Read more [...]

Kerio Connect: Some sample Sieve Filter Rules

In Kerio Connect, the filtering of personal mails is based on the filter language Sieve. As I didn't find many good samples in the Web, find below some interesting ones. I will update when I have new ones: if allof ( header :contains "Subject" ["rma *","* rma","* rma *","rma"], address :all :contains "Cc" "[email protected]") { fileinto "RMA"; keep; } This copies any mails to the folder RMA that match the following criteria: The subject of the mail contains the word RMA and the mail has [email protected] Read more [...]

Why can’t I find all my e-mails on my Blackberry?

I get this question asked a lot by new Blackberry users. The simple answer is: The Blackberry smartphone is not a full-fledged mail client and you should not (ab)use it as one. By default, you have the mails of the last 30 days on it. But why the limitation? There are users that have very big mail boxes with ten thousands of mails, the maximum I have seen is a mailbox of 17 GB. It is clear that a device with 256 MB memory couldn’t store all the e-mails, even if they were compressed. So what do Read more [...]

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