06.18.08
Posted in Work at 8:52 pm by JohnB
We’ve seen a problem being highlighted by a couple of hosters where their HMC4-based customers were (horror of horrors) able to see each other in the GAL. This is obviously not a good things and was deserving of some investigation. After some digging around and some pointed questions we found that the problem wasn’t that the Default GAL had the wrong permissions, but that applying the Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack1 actually brings back the standard corporate address lists (All Groups Address List, All Users Address List etc). After service pack 1 has been applied, you have to go into the deployment tool and run the tasks below in order to get rid of the ambiguous and security breaching address lists.
-J.
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06.17.08
Posted in Work at 1:43 pm by JohnB
Just wanted to spread the word that Microsoft have made available on Technet a list of KB articles and hotfixes for various issues which may be seen.
Please note that unless you are seeing this particular issues in YOUR HMC deployment you should only apply these hotfixes if they are marked as ‘required’. IF you need help with the installation of these hotfixes Planet Technologies can undertake this on you behalf for a small fee through their On-Line Consulting service.
- J.
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05.16.08
Posted in Work at 5:38 pm by JohnB
I though I’d share this little nugget of information with regards the “potential” requirements for a hoster to support Silverlight.
Initial thoughts were that Silverlight was a client thing, so anyone wanting to host / deliver sites using this content type would not need anything on their servers and would just be able to FTP the Silverlight code up for things to work.
That is essentially correct, but you could also get a blank page or server error if some specific MIME types do not exist on the server.
Extension MIME Type
.xaml application/xaml+xml
.xap application/x-silverlight-app
Options/workarounds:
-The service provider adds the MIME types for the entire server
-The site owner (if he is delegated the right) creates the MIME types at the site level
For .xaml files there is another alternative if these two options aren’t available. Rename the .xaml file to .xml file and it works, note however that this would have to be done for all files.
The good news for all of you cutting-edge hosters and web-geeks (like me) is that IIS7 on Windows Server 2008 has these MIME types set as part of the installation. So unless you’ve been playing around with the MIME type configuration, these workarounds will not be required.
- J.
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