As I mentioned though, it seems like a lot of my friends are having babies and subsequently posting ultrasound pictures (including the super cool 3D ones) to their websites and Facebook pages.  In all their excitement however, the

soon-to-be parents are overlooking the fact that mommy’s social security number is on the image.  Doh!  Luckily the number (at least on the mishaps that I’ve seen) is some what inconspicuous in the fact that it doesn’t say “SSN” or “social security number”, so most viewers of the image will hopefully be so excited about the baby pictures that they’ll overlook it… and hopefully no “bad guys” are out on the internet trolling for ultrasound pictures (clearly its not the easiest way to steal someone’s identity, but crimes of opportunity happen all the time).  That’s a chance I’d rather not take though, and I’m sure neither would the individuals involved; so here’s your friendly reminder… make sure and take a look at those pesky numbers all over the image prior to posting, and crop out any unnecessary personal info that doesn’t need to float around the internet for ages to come.

– Dan Thompson

– Dan Thompson

    Sony Electronics and Fox Sports have teamed up with 3ality Digital, Cinedigm, and a slew of other technology provider big hitters to deliver the College National Championship game to 80 theaters in 35 different states,

one of which happens to be the Wynnsong Theatre in west Knoxville.  3ality, the same company that brought us U2 3D (yeah, I missed it too) earlier in the year, has been toying with broadcasting sports events (among other things) in 3D for some time now.  On Dec 4 the company worked with its partners to broadcast the Raiders / Chargers NFL game to an invite-only showing at a handful of theaters in major US cities.  This was such a hit that apparently the next step was the college National Championship game.  The technology is interesting in that its signal rides over the same 2D infrastructure as other broadcasts instead of requiring a completely new one.  This opens the possibility that you may one day be able to watch such events in your living room… providing of course that the TV manufactures step up and start creating 3D ready sets.  In the mean time though, tickets for the event are $20 (get them here) and promises to be a fun time.  As of this writing tickets are still available; let me know if you plan on attending!

– Dan Thompson

    Let me run this down for you.  You’ve got several hundred mailboxes, of which a large majority of the users use webmail at some point in their email experience.  Each of those users has conveniently bookmarked your company’s webmail address and it probably looks something like yourdomain.com/exchange… right?  By now you’ve read that Exchange 2007 treats the “exchange” virtual directory as a legacy directory and is using “owa” instead for Outlook Web Access.  Now we don’t want to have to go through and somehow convince all those users to update their bookmarks after you’ve migrated their mailbox over to the new servers (more importantly field the phone calls from users who didn’t listen the first 6 times you told them).  You’ve done your homework and decided that the easiest migration path is to implement a client access server (CAS) separate from the mailbox server so you can take advantage of the auto redirecting (read: users with 2007 mailboxes can still browse to /exchange and CAS will automatically redirect their session to /owa… it’s seamless to them) among other things.  Great idea… but it doesn’t work if you follow the directions given by Microsoft.  Why?  They don’t mention the need to add ASP.net to the web server role on the mailbox server.

    So what happens without it?  Users with a mailbox on the Exchange 2003 servers can login just fine.  Users who have their mailboxes on the Exchange 2007 server and browse directly to the /owa address can login just fine.  However, users who have a mailbox on the Exchange 2007 servers and browse /exchange get told their username and password is incorrect.  Sound familiar?  Oh, and wait a minute… lets not forget about our beloved MAC users.  You migrated their mailboxes and now they don’t work either (this, after you spent hours trying to get the certificate installed correctly… don’t worry, I’ll discuss that in an upcoming article).  Entourage fires up, appears to connect but never downloads any messages or displays the default (or any other) folders.  Turns out that Entourage 2004 and 2008 are both hardcoded to send traffic to that /exchange virtual directory… no matter how you configure the client… and Exchange needs ASP.net to properly handle the DAV request.  Neat huh?

    Already have Exchange installed?  All is not lost.  Just simply fire up the Server Manager and add the role service to your web server role… or better yet, from the command prompt type ServerManagerCMD -i Web-ASP-net and hit enter (it’s okay guys… the black screen with white letters won’t hurt you).  Reboot the server for good luck (in reality an iisreset will do the job), and you’re off to the races.

Happy Messaging!

– Dan Thompson

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