Author Archives: James Askham

Set Authoritative External Time Server: Server 2008

Posted on July 18, 2011 by James Askham

Is your network slightly out of sync time-wise? Do you have to manually keep correcting the time on your DCs? Maybe you should run these commands to fix this: Firstly, find your PDC emulator by throwing up a command prompt … Continue reading →

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Sent Items for Mailboxes

Posted on February 3, 2011 by James Askham

Outlook is a very good email client most of the time. Just occasionally though, it can be a bit frustrating. In the case of additional mailboxes, the frustration is all to do with where it stores sent items. By default … Continue reading →

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SBS 2003 Exchange Store Limits

Posted on January 29, 2011 by James Askham

Running a Windows 2003 SBS server is quite a bit different from any other 2003-based server set-ups. Most changes have a knock-on effect somewhere else, and if you break something important – you can bring down quite a few services … Continue reading →

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Office 2010: Unsaved File Recovery

Posted on January 18, 2011 by James Askham

Did you accidently close Word without saving? Do you wish that you’d saved that file, or even pray that you could get it back? Well luckily for you, Office 2010 keeps unsaved documents for a short while. To open/recover one … Continue reading →

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NTLM vs. Basic | Outlook Anywhere

Posted on January 9, 2011 by James Askham

So I’m often asked what the best way to configure Outlook Anywhere is, NTLM or Basic authentication (in fact, you can configure both – but I don’t recommend that). To be honest, I prefer NTLM authentication most of the time. … Continue reading →

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