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untangle with intel pcmcia nic

I'm currently setting up Untangle firewall for a client on a Panasonic CF-19 toughbook. In Australia at least, this is an economical solution with a used CF-19 MK3 toughbook selling for around $400 on eBay and an Intel MLBA3300 PCMCIA network adaptor with dongle available for less than $50 from eBay USA. The PCMCIA adaptor is a necessity as you need at least two network adaptors to use Untangle.

Initially, after installing untangle I ran into issues using the PCMCIA nic with Untangle. It initialised as eth1 and the link states (that is, whether a cable was plugged in or not) correctly reflected as up and down. That's it though. DHCP configuration would fail on that link. Setting a static IP would result in no traffic flow.

Eventually I took a look at dmesg and spotted the error:

e100: eth0: e100_request_firmware: Failed to load firmware "e100/d101s_ucode.bin": -2

A quick search presented a solution: missing firmware in Debian and how to fix the problem.

Basically the problem is that the firmware for the MLBA3300 PCMCIA nic (and presumably, many other devices) is not included in the stock Debian install. It's easy to resolve this:

edit /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment squeeze main contrib non-free

apt-get update

apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree

I rebooted, watched dmesg for confirmation of the sucessful loading of the firmware, and sure enough when Untangle had loaded the PCMCIA nic worked just as expected.

I'm excited about the simplicity of this set up for a number of reasons:

Running untangle on a laptop means we have a cheap, built in battery backup in the event of power failure

The CF-19 is a rugged sealed unit with no fans and capable of operating in all sorts of nasty conditions - such as being shoved under a desk somewhere out of sight in a tangle of cables as is often the case in these small business environments.

Should the unit need maintenance in the future, there's a screen and a keyboard built in right there for any IT contractor that might be performing the work.

If you're going to try this, make sure you choose a laptop with good linux hardware support and an intel network card.

#untangle firewall #panasonic cf-19 #intel pcmcia nic #e100 firmware

simple invoices for windows

Despite having been last updated in 2011, Simple Invoices still does all that I need in handing billing for my small business. In installing and using Simple Invoices for windows about the only hitch I ran into was the following error, which displayed when attempting to email invoices directly from the application:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\Users\dames\Documents\Simple Invoices\www\library\Zend\Mail\Protocol\Abstract.php on line 301

From this error message we know what we need to do is find php.ini and change the value of the max_execution_time setting from

max_execution_time = 30;

to

max_execution_time = 60;

In the standard Simple Invoices for Windows installl, php.ini is located at .../Simple Invoices for Windows/php/php.ini. I made the change and was puzzled to see the changes I made to php reset to default at each restart of Simple Invoices. The solution? Any changes that you want to persist in php.ini should be made in the file .../Simple Invoices for Windows/php/php.ini.template. Upon startup, Simple Invoices appears to replace the contents of php.ini with php.ini.template.

I should add that this advice applies only for the standard installation of Simple Invoices for Windows - generally you need to edit php.ini directly to have your changes reflect.

#simple invoices #php.ini #max_execution_time

Fixing Acer Iconia Tablet stuck is demo mode

From the acer discussion forums, courtesy of user Khan_Riyas:

Please follow the below mentioned procedure to disable Demo Mode in Acer Iconia Tablets.

Tap on Apps in home screen – Settings – Storage – Internal Storage – Apps – Scroll down and Identify “Demo Video Application” under the apps list . Tap on Clear Cache and tab on “Disable”, Ignore the warning message.

Note: Cust may see the “Demo mode” icon in the homescreen, however it wont bringup Demo Video

#acer iconia tablet #android demo mode

Installing arch linux via USB

When you first boot your computer from your freshly made ArchLinux USB you might see something like this:

Unknown keyword in configuration file: PATH

boot/syslinux/whichsys.c32: not a COM32R image

boot:

Originally, I thought I'd created the bootable USB incorrectly. So I tried again with a different tool, and encountered the same problem.

It turns out all you need to do is hit the tab key. You'll then be met with a bunch of options you can type:

pxe sys

I typed sys, and got another error message:

boot/syslinux/ifcpu64.c32: not a COM32R image

No matter, I hit tab again. Which presented these options:

have64 nohave64

The computer was 64 bit compatible, so I typed have64. Finally, I was met with the ArchLinux graphical boot menu.

It's odd that this screen doesn't appear by default and that this isn't a commonly talked about problem. Perhaps all the ArchLinux wizards knew to do this from the get go. Or maybe there really is something up with my bootable USB...

#Arch linux #bootable usb

Dynamic DNS on Telstra NEXTG Network

If you're trying to set up dynamic dns and you're on the Telstra nextg mobile broadband network you'll probably find that it doesn't work first go.

This is because Telstra allocates nextg customers a NAT'd IP address that is not externally accessible. As such, even if you've got your dynamic DNS client updating correctly it'll be updating with a Telstra public IP address that is not directly associated with your network.

Fortunately you can call Telstra and ask them to apply a code on their system such that your mobile broadband device get's allocated a publically accessible dynamic IP address.

The code that you need applied to your account is: GPTEXB3

Be sure to have your SIM card ready as they'll ask for for the 10 digit code ending with N that is printed on the SIM.

Afterwards, you'll need to alter the APN settings on your broadband device from Telstra.Internet to Telstra.Extranet.

Apparently bigpond customers are allocated a publically accessible dynamic IP address by default, so if you're on bigpond mobile broadband, you shouldn't have to do any of the above.

#telstra nextg #dynamic dns #mobile broadband dynamic dns

This product installation has been corrupted. Run setup again from the CD, DVD or another original installation source office 2007

Are you having trouble uninstalling Office 2007? A customer of mine is. I'm yet to try it, but on the linked page there's a fixit from Microsoft for this very problem.

#Office 2007 #uninstall office

Just in case that service manual dissappears from the internet: Removing the rear cover from an Acer Z5761 all in one computer.

A warning: This isn't as easy as the instructions make it seem - now I can understand why people on youtube are resorting to hammers. I had to use a non serrated knife to pry along the rear cover/front bezel and help the clips out as I applied pressure upwards by pulling on the case. I found this order of unclipping worked best:

1. First, the side of the case by the IO panel.

2. Second, the bottom side of the case.

3. Third, the top side of the case.

4. Fourth, the usb/headpone side of the case. This one was the harest, and is easiest approached from the top edge of the case, not the bottom where the USB ports are. Hence you should leave it till last.

#Acer z5761 #acer z3760 #acer z3761 #acer z5760

Like me, you might be peering at the backside of an Acer Z5761 all in one computer and wondering about how to remove it. Other than the three screws fixing the stand to the chassis, there are none visible; there's no hardware manual to be found on the acer website; furtheremore, a google search pulls up a whole lot of links to Youtube with disassembly instructions featuring metal social security cards and hammers: the suggestion being that you pry the clips from the case and do it gently so you don't break all of them.

The good news is that it's a lot easier than that. Thanks to Nicolás Vanrell on Youtube for posting this link to the hardware manual with dissassembly instructions for the following Acer all-in-one models: Aspire Z3760 / Z3761 / Z5760 / Z5761

#acer z5761 #acer z5760 #acer z3760 #acer z3761 #hardware manual

Just say you want to type umlaut u (ü) or umlaut (ö) on your keyboard which is US english and doesn't have those characters. In Windows, there's a few ways to do this:

1. Using the alt key codes for symbols and the number pad. A real pain if you've got a laptop without a number pad and have to keep activating scroll lock using the function key.

2. Using the symbol console. Also a pain because you have to load it up, keep it on the screen, and click using the mouse.

3. The best option, which is also the least well documented! Switch your keyboard layout to 'US International' and use the " key followed by the character you want to umlaut to make the change. For example, to type umlaut u (ü) I'd type <shift> + <"> + <u>. Easy!

#umlaut #windows #typing

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools: The easiest, simplest and cheapest (free) way to batch edit the metadata of your photographs in Windows. I dunno why this isn't talked about more, a quick search for "batch edit photo copyright data" in google brought up all sorts of suggestions - including buying Adobe Photoshop so Adobe Bridge can be used! If you're just a lay man (or lady) who wants to edit the metadata on a few photographs, save yourself the cash and the hastle and just use this...

#photography #metadata #windows

Upgrading HTC Explorer A310b (Pico) to Android 4.1

I’ve recently got my hands on a surplus HTC Explorer and have been pleasantly surprised with it. Using it just feels right, and that’s the first time I’ve been able to say that about any Android phone, including the supposedly much snazzier Sony Xperia Z. I’ve been so taken away with the Explorer that I plan on continuing to use it, which means upgrading from the old Android 2.3.0 to 4.x. Whilst HTC haven’t provided any operating system updates for a long time, community support for the Explorer is still surprisingly strong. JaggyRom running android 4.1 is what I’ve chosen and it looks simple and stable. As I write this I’m half way through the process of getting the bog stock locked bootloader unrooted HTC Explorer ready to replace the stock rom with JaggyRom. This involves several steps which I’ll be documenting here:

Unlock the bootloader

Root the phone

Install custom-recovery (TWEP)

Install JaggyRom

Unlocking the bootloader on the HTC Explorer

HTC phones ship with a locked bootloader. They’ve got a website, htcdev, with the files and instructions you need to unlock your phone. For the most part their instructions are good, but I had to fill in some gaps.

Make an account at htcdev

Go to the unlock bootloader page and select ‘all other supported models’ under the device selection.

Before going any further the android sdk platform tools need to be installed on your computer. Download and install the Android SDK Tools – you don’t need the whole SDK bundle which includes the massive Eclipse IDE for developers, just the SDK tools.

Install SDK tools and start up the SDK manager. You need to have three packages selected for install: Android SDK Platform-tools, Android Support Library and Google USB driver. You can close the SDK manager after you’ve installed those packages.

Download and install Kingo Android Root from here, which we’ll be using a bit later to root the phone really easily and right now to fetch any additional drivers we need for the computer to talk properly with the phone.

Run Kingo Android Root. Plug your phone in powered on and let Kingo-Root do it’s thing. It’ll download and install some software, and it might ask you to disconnect then reconnect your phone. You’ll know it’s done when the big orange button saying ‘ROOT’ becomes available. Don’t click that yet ; close Kingo-Root so we can proceed with unlocking the bootloader which needs to be done before rooting.

Now you can start following HTCs instructions beginning with step 1.

You’ll be fine up till step 5 where you’ll probably hit a snag. Upon typing “fastboot oem get_identifier_token” I got the error message: “The program can’t start because AdbWinApi.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.” Don’t worry, AdbWinApi.dll is installed as part of the SDK Platform Tools we installed earlier, it’s just installed in a well hidden spot. On my Windows 8 system the file was AdbWinApi.dll was here: C:\Users\<my username>\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools. What we need is AdbWinApi.dll and adb.exe to be in the same folder as the fastboot.exe we just downloaded from htcdev. To make things easy I made a temporary folder at C:\android and copied, in addition the the fastboot.exe from htcdev, AdbWinApi.dll and adb.exe from the platform tools installation folder.

Step 5 should now work for you. Proceed with HTCs instructions and your bootloader will be unlocked shortly!

Rooting the HTC Explorer

We’ve done all the hard work now, this bit is really easy thanks to Kingo-Root.

Start Kingo Android Root.

With your phone turned on, plug it into your computer.

Give Kingo-Root a moment to connect up, and hit ‘ROOT’.

Your phone’ll reboot a couple of times and you’ll have to be at attention to grant superuser permissions to the adb shell for the rooting process to proceed. If all has gone to plan Kingo-Root will display your phones ROOT status as YES and you’ll have the option to unroot the phone or root it again. If the ROOT status remains at NO then things haven’t worked correctly. No worries, reboot the phone, hit ROOT, an dtry again. This happened to me the first time because I wasn’t quick enough to hit ‘grant’ when the superuser permission dialogue popped up.

Installing custom recovery (TWRP)

When it comes to custom recovery images, you’ve got a few different options for android such as ClockWorkMod, AOSP and Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP). I chose TWERP. The installation process for the others is pretty much the same.

Download the .zip for TWRP from xda-developers.

Open the zip and get recovery.img. Copy it to the C:\android folder we made earlier.

Enter the HTC Explorer bootloader and enable fastboot usb mode. Instructions are here.

Installing JaggyRom

Start your phone in bootloader mode.

Select recovery from the options menu. Your freshly installed custom recovery will load.

Download JaggyRom from here.

Hook the phone up to your computer, mount usb storage, and drag JaggyRom.zip across.

From within TWRP: 1. Partition and format your SD card. 2. Wipe everything from within TWRP. That means run a factory reset, system wipe, and wipe dalvik cache.

Install JaggyRom.

Reboot.

If you get a popup upon startup requesting to grant Mounts2SD superuser permissions be sure to grant them. I failed to do this once and ended up stuck on the white HTC boot screen upon reboot. This necessitated a re-flash of the ROM. I’m yet to investigate Mounts2SD and indeed discover why it’s something I’d want installed on my phone.

That’s it. Thus far I’ve been pleased with performance of Jaggyrom. Unfortunately it hasn’t solved a problem I’d been hoping it would: A malfunctioning authy app that errors out with “Update error: Your device could not be updated. Please verify that you have an active internet connection and try again later.” More on that later.

Upgrading HTC Explorer A310b (Pico) to Android 4.1 was originally published on Pork Belly

#android #bootloader #custom-recovery #explorer #htc #pico #root #unlock

Starting a HTC android phone in bootloader mode

Instructions hastily copied from htcdev so you don’t have to register and login just to see them.

Step 1

After powering down, press Volume Down and while pressing Volume Down, press Power holding both buttons to start the device into Bootloader mode. If you have difficulty, power up normally, go to Settings->Battery and deselect Fast boot. Power down and try again.

Step 2

Use the Volume buttons to select up or down. Highlight Fastboot and press the Power button.

Step 3

Connect the device to the computer via a usb cable

Starting a HTC android phone in bootloader mode was originally published on Pork Belly

#android #bootloader #fastboot #htc

OpenELEC persistant installation to USB

From my limited experience, OpenELEC seems to be the most polished of the pre-packaged XBMC Linux distributions. Really, you can be up and running with what is a very slick media center on a wide variety of hardware within minutes. For a peristant USB installation however, I found the instructions over at the OpenELEC wiki confusing. In particular, I wondered whether:

I needed to create a USB install disk, boot of it, then run the installer to install OpenELEC onto another USB.

If I needed to use a third party tool to create a persistant fileysystem (ie: casper-rw) on the LiveUSB.

Or if the LiveUSB would just provide persistance by default.

UPDATE 10/06/2014: As of OpenELEC V4, it appears that OpenELEC no longer functions as a live-cd. As such, the original instructions posted below no longer work. Here’s a new method:

Installing OpenELEC from a USB to a USB, v4 and up:

You’ll be needing two USB drives, one to run the installer from and one to install to. Minimum sizes for the installer and system usb are 1GB and 4GB, respectively. Alternatively, if your HTPC has a CD or DVD drive you could burn the installer to disc and run it from there.

Downloading the latest version for your platform from the OpenELEC website. You’ll have the option of downloading a [Diskimage] or a regular archive. Download the regular archive, the file of which should be labelled something like this: OpenELEC-Generic.i386-4.0.4.tar

Uncompress the archive using a program like PeaZip or 7-zip.

Make sure your install USB is plugging into your computer, and run the installer: create_installstick.exe. Follow the prompts.

Plug both the install USB and system USB into your media center, set your system to boot from USB, and proceed with the installation.

Once installation is complete, remove the install USB and reboot. The OpenELEC splash screen should show, and soon you’ll be administering your new OpenELEC XBMC installation.

Instructions for OpenELEC v3.2.4 or below

Fortunately, all you need to do is create the LiveUSB and a persistant file system will be created upon first bootup from that USB. The creators of OpenELEC were also smart enough to have XBMC Live with Persistance as the default boot option and the installer as a second, meaning that no manual intervention is required upon system startup to boot into the persistant install. As such, creating a OpenELEC LiveUSB with persistance under Windows is as simple as:

1. Downloading the latest version for your platform from the OpenELEC website

2. Uncompressing the archive using a program like 7-zip.

3. Running the OpenELEC live USB creator, create_livestick.exe.

4. Follow the prompts and select how much of your USB drive you’d like to allocate for the persistant install. I left it at 0, meaning that all the free space on the drive will be allocated for persistance.

5. Pop the USB in your media center, set the boot options to boot from USB in the bios, and proceed with booting. OpenELEC will boot, creating the persistant filesystem on the first run, and that is it.

OpenELEC persistant installation to USB was originally published on Pork Belly

#usb #xbmc #xbmc-media-center

OpenELEC persistant installation to USB

From my limited experience, OpenELEC seems to be the most polished of the pre-packaged XBMC Linux distributions. Really, you can be up and running with what is a very slick media center on a wide variety of hardware within minutes. For a peristant USB installation however, I found the instructions over at the OpenELEC wiki confusing. In particular, I wondered whether:

I needed to create a USB install disk, boot of it, then run the installer to install OpenELEC onto another USB.

If I needed to use a third party tool to create a persistant fileysystem (ie: casper-rw) on the LiveUSB.

Or if the LiveUSB would just provide persistance by default.

UPDATE 10/06/2014: As of OpenELEC V4, it appears that OpenELEC no longer functions as a live-cd. As such, the original instructions posted below no longer work. Here’s a new method:

Installing OpenELEC from a USB to a USB, v4 and up:

You’ll be needing two USB drives, one to run the installer from and one to install to. Minimum sizes for the installer and system usb are 1GB and 4GB, respectively. Alternatively, if your HTPC has a CD or DVD drive you could burn the installer to disc and run it from there.

Downloading the latest version for your platform from the OpenELEC website. You’ll have the option of downloading a [Diskimage] or a regular archive. Download the regular archive, the file of which should be labelled something like this: OpenELEC-Generic.i386-4.0.4.tar

Uncompress the archive using a program like PeaZip or 7-zip.

Make sure your install USB is plugging into your computer, and run the installer: create_installstick.exe. Follow the prompts.

Plug both the install USB and system USB into your media center, set your system to boot from USB, and proceed with the installation.

Once installation is complete, remove the install USB and reboot. The OpenELEC splash screen should show, and soon you’ll be administering your new OpenELEC XBMC installation.

Instructions for OpenELEC v3.2.4 or below

Fortunately, all you need to do is create the LiveUSB and a persistant file system will be created upon first bootup from that USB. The creators of OpenELEC were also smart enough to have XBMC Live with Persistance as the default boot option and the installer as a second, meaning that no manual intervention is required upon system startup to boot into the persistant install. As such, creating a OpenELEC LiveUSB with persistance under Windows is as simple as:

1. Downloading the latest version for your platform from the OpenELEC website

2. Uncompressing the archive using a program like 7-zip.

3. Running the OpenELEC live USB creator, create_livestick.exe.

4. Follow the prompts and select how much of your USB drive you’d like to allocate for the persistant install. I left it at 0, meaning that all the free space on the drive will be allocated for persistance.

5. Pop the USB in your media center, set the boot options to boot from USB in the bios, and proceed with booting. OpenELEC will boot, creating the persistant filesystem on the first run, and that is it.

OpenELEC persistant installation to USB was originally published on Pork Belly

#usb #xbmc #xbmc-media-center

Adding a signature with an image in OWA 2010

Within OWA 2010, under ‘See All Options (top right) -> Settings -> Mail’ there’s a basic editor for adding an email signature. Unfortunately the editor is spartan, and doesn’t allow some basic things, like editing HTML directly and adding images. A clever cookie on Microsoft Technet – headlesshorseman1 – posted a handy solution to this. It requires a little bit of mucking about, but really is a breeze for anyone who knows basic HTML. If you’re an end user of OWA 2010 and feel intimidated by that odd looking stuff called HTML markup (really, you shouldn’t be) then take these instructions to your tech and they’ll be able to do it for you in a flash.

1. Firstly, upload your logo to somewhere on the internet where it’ll be accessible by everyone. This could be your exchange server, your private website, or failing that, tinypic.com. Make sure this logo is small both in resolution and size, and also that it’s in a sensible format (JPEG, GIF, PNG).

2. Open a plain text editor (such as Notepad on Windows), or a HTML editor such as Notepad++ and add something resembling the following:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"> <HEAD><TITLE>FCB_Sig_Template</TITLE> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19394"> </HEAD> <BODY><DIV><DIV style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 12px Arial; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: #000); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" align=left> <span style="FONT: 16px Arial; COLOR: #FF0000"> Your Name<br> Your Position<br> Your Business<br> </span> <a href="URL OF YOUR WEBSITE"><IMG style="BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none" src="http://www.urloflogo.com/logo.jpg" width=115 height=105></A><br><br> Phone: PHONE NUMBER<br> Email: <a href="mailto:EMAIL ADDRESS">EMAIL ADDRESS</a><br> </DIV> <DIV style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 10px Arial; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" align=left> </DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>

3. Save the file as a html file, eg: signature.html

4. Open signature.html in Internet Explorer (You must use Internet Explorer, other browsers don’t appear to work for this). Select all and copy.

5. In another tab in Internet Explorer, load up OWA and navigate to the signature box: See all options -> Settings -> Mail. Paste your signature.

6. Your signature, logo and all, should now be visible within OWA. Send a test email to yourself to confirm that it has worked.

The original discussion on TechNet can be found here.

Adding a signature with an image in OWA 2010 was originally published on Pork Belly

#email #exchange #owa

Adding a signature with an image in OWA 2010

Within OWA 2010, under ‘See All Options (top right) -> Settings -> Mail’ there’s a basic editor for adding an email signature. Unfortunately the editor is spartan, and doesn’t allow some basic things, like editing HTML directly and adding images. A clever cookie on Microsoft Technet – headlesshorseman1 – posted a handy solution to this. It requires a little bit of mucking about, but really is a breeze for anyone who knows basic HTML. If you’re an end user of OWA 2010 and feel intimidated by that odd looking stuff called HTML markup (really, you shouldn’t be) then take these instructions to your tech and they’ll be able to do it for you in a flash.

1. Firstly, upload your logo to somewhere on the internet where it’ll be accessible by everyone. This could be your exchange server, your private website, or failing that, tinypic.com. Make sure this logo is small both in resolution and size, and also that it’s in a sensible format (JPEG, GIF, PNG).

2. Open a plain text editor (such as Notepad on Windows), or a HTML editor such as Notepad++ and add something resembling the following:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"> <HEAD><TITLE>FCB_Sig_Template</TITLE> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19394"> </HEAD> <BODY><DIV><DIV style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 12px Arial; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: #000); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" align=left> <span style="FONT: 16px Arial; COLOR: #FF0000"> Your Name<br> Your Position<br> Your Business<br> </span> <a href="URL OF YOUR WEBSITE"><IMG style="BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none" src="http://www.urloflogo.com/logo.jpg" width=115 height=105></A><br><br> Phone: PHONE NUMBER<br> Email: <a href="mailto:EMAIL ADDRESS">EMAIL ADDRESS</a><br> </DIV> <DIV style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 10px Arial; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" align=left> </DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>

3. Save the file as a html file, eg: signature.html

4. Open signature.html in Internet Explorer (You must use Internet Explorer, other browsers don’t appear to work for this). Select all and copy.

5. In another tab in Internet Explorer, load up OWA and navigate to the signature box: See all options -> Settings -> Mail. Paste your signature.

6. Your signature, logo and all, should now be visible within OWA. Send a test email to yourself to confirm that it has worked.

The original discussion on TechNet can be found here.

Adding a signature with an image in OWA 2010 was originally published on Pork Belly

#email #exchange #owa

Netspace email account POP3 server details

With Netspace having been taken over by iiNet and their website dissolved, finding simple information like the server details for accessing email via a mail client such as Outlook for old Netspace customers with email addresses belonging to the ‘netspace.net.au’ domain is becoming difficult. For configuring a POP3 account with Outlook 2011 on OS X Mountain Lion, I found these settings worked:

incoming mail server: pop.netspace.net.au

outgoing mail server: smtp.netspace.net.au

Despite Netscape’s systems seeming to have been merged with iiNet’s, the iiNet mail server settings mentioned on the iiNet website and around the web did not work for us:

incoming mail server: mail.iinet.com.au (SSL enabled, port 993)

outgoing mail server: mail.iinet.com.au (SSL enabled, port 25)

Looks like I’ll have to eat my words. iiNet do have this information on their website, here. Finding this page with the table of all the connectivity settings for iiNet group email access would’ve been very handy yesterday. Here they are for anyone who misses the page on the iiNet website like I did:

Email Provider Incoming (POP) mail server Outgoing (SMTP) mail server iiNet mail.iinet.net.au mail.iinet.net.au Westnet mail.westnet.com.au mail.westnet.com.au AAPT mail.aapt.net.au mail.aapt.net.au Adam Internet mail.adam.com.au mail.adam.com.au Echidna mail.echidna.id.au mail.iinet.net.au Froggy mail.froggy.com.au mail.froggy.com.au Grapevine mail.grapevine.com.au mail.grapevine.com.au iHug pop.ihug.com.au smtp.ihug.com.au Internode mail.internode.on.net mail.internode.on.net Netspace pop.netspace.net.au smtp.netspace.net.au Ozemail mail.iinet.net.au mail.iinet.net.au TransACT (Ncable) mail.ncable.net.au mail.ncable.net.au Up’n'Away mail.upnaway.com.au mail.upnaway.com.au

And also from the same page, while I’m at it: outgoing SMTP server details for many other Aussie ISPs, to be used if you do not or cannot enable ‘outgoing authentication’ in your email client:

Other Email Settings

If you have an iiNet Group mailbox, but your internet connection is with a non-iiNet Group provider, you’ll need to set the incoming mail server as listed above in order to receive email. To send emails, you’ll need to either:

A) Set your outgoing mail server as listed above, and ensure that outgoing authentication is enabled, using the username and password for your iiNet Group email account; or

B) Set your outgoing mail server as listed below according to your internet service provider, with outgoing authentication disabled (unless noted).

Internet Service Provider Outgoing (SMTP) mail server aaNet: mail.aanet.com.au Bigpond: mail.bigpond.com Club Telco: mail.clubtelco.com Dodo: smtp.dodo.com.au Hotkey Internet: smtp.hotkey.net.au iPrimus: smtp.iprimus.com.au Onthenet: mail.onthenet.com.au Optusnet: mail.optusnet.com.au Pacific Internet: smtp.pacific.net.au People Telecom: smtp.per.people.net.au (WA) smtp.syd.people.net.au (NSW) smtp.mel.people.net.au (VIC) smtp.bri.people.net.au (QLD) smtp.adl.people.net.au (SA & NT) Telstra: mail.bigpond.com Three (3G Mobile): smtp.three.com.au TPG: mail.tpg.com.au TSN Internet: mail.tsn.cc Unwired**: esmtp.unwired.com.au Virgin Mobile 3G: smtp.virginbroadband.com.au Vodafone 3G: smtp.vodafone.net.au

Netspace email account POP3 server details was originally published on Pork Belly

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