‘AddThis’ button for organic web content sharing

I discovered the above button and pop out social sharing menu at the bottom of every blog post of a colleague of mine has on Blogger and thought ‘what a great idea!’.  So I’ve now figured out how to add one manually to a post.  Its a trick of copying the HTML code into the Source view and then go back to the edit view to finish the blog writing.  Next step is to encourage the Live Writer developers to generate a plug-in to add this to every post auto-magically.  This is how I discovered its use and would very much like to imitate this smart idea.

Thanks goes to SBS guru Sean Daniel who I now aggregate on the right column.

Create DNS Service Location (SRV) records for the Exchange Autodiscover service

In earlier blog posts I’ve discussed other DNS records such as the TXT SPF record.  This is a new but very important record that you will want in place for your domain.

Here’s a list of great resources that describe this in detail and include guidance to manually create and publish the record to whomever is hosting your DNS records for the domain.

Sean Daniels very good explanation with examples

Both of those will fail in the default SBS case as the info is actually at https://remote.contoso.com/autodiscover. With Outlook 2007 SP1 and above, outlook adds a third check. It checks a SRV record, or service. When you run the Internet Address Management wizard with a partner, this SRV record is automatically set. It looks like:

_autodiscover._tcp IN SRV 0 0 443 remote.contoso.com

Microsoft KB 940881- A new feature is available that enables Outlook 2007 to use DNS Service Location (SRV) records to locate the Exchange Autodiscover service

Test your record here – https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

double-check to ensure that it was correctly published by those hosting your domain’s DNS records – my fav http://www.intodns.com (but I don’t see SRV record reported) – tech sent me to http://network-tools.com but none of the tests there seemed to fit

An MX checker web-based tool

On a recent blog post I had listed a couple of handy free admin tools in the vein of DNSstuff aka DNSreport.  Here is another great freebie for checking some basic MX stuff.  Find out if your mail server is a relay, if you have a reverse record, if you are on a blacklist, how fast the respond time is, and some other very useful information.   Plus you can’t beat the FREE cost.

http://www.mxtoolbox.com

The earlier post is here:  http://duitwithsbs.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/some-handy-web-tools-for-the-admin/

Some handy web tools for the admin

much like the formerly free DNSreport tools here are a couple of handy links:

www.iptools.com
www.intodns.com

kudos to Jim Magee of Authorinet Consulting LLC www.authorinet.com

Netscape retires | Say goodbye to an old friend

Web icon set to be discontinued

Netscape lost ground to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer

The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users.

Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said.

In the mid-1990s the browser was used by more than 90% of the web population, but numbers have slipped to just 0.6%.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Web icon set to be discontinued