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I’ve seen problems with views used with Exchange Server where more than one machine accesses the mailbox. Similar to problems with keeping the Outlook bar in sync, there are times when new messages don’t show up until the view is changed. Or in your case it seems to be unread messages that are unread. I suspect the problem may be with OL/Exchange keeping the current state messages in the folder correctly.

I know that doesn’t help much. Have you checked the MS KB? You might also check at http://www.slipstick.com[/url%5D since there’s a lot of Exchange expertise over there.

HTH

Take a look at post 9802 (you can use the View Post Number button below.

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I’d like to be able to point my content providers to a page that dynamically outputs the js file content to a asp or htm page so it can be viewed more easily.

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This will sound strange but: I’m not sure exactly what you’re trying to do, but yes, you can do it. The reason I say that is there are methods for reading and writing files and specifying the content type, so you can do just about anything with content. I’m just not clear what your content providers are doing and how it fits into this. Are they submitting content that needs to be incorporated in your js file? Or are you just looking for a way to create javascript source from an ASP script?

The later is simple becuase you don’t need to use the .js extension – that’s just convention. You could use an ASP file as the source for javascript, just change the Content Type to javascript

Response.ContentType = “text/javascript”

and you’re on your way. If that’s not it, can we get an example of what you’re using this for?

HTH

From Outlook menu: Tools > Options (Preferences tab), click E-mail Options… then click Advanced E-mail Options… In the When new items arrive section, make sure the check box for Show an envelope icon in the system tray is selected.

I’m running XP Pro and used the Task Manager’s Processes view to monitor both Acrobat and Outlook. I tried to reproduce the behavior, but this time Outlook terminated the process as expected. Like I said, what’s up with that?

It’s usually a virtual directory in IIS, and the files do not need to be under c:inetpubwwwroot. A virtual directory can use files in any folder (provided the permissions are correct). Two ways to check:

Less common, but since you’ve already gone this direction: Use Explorer to go to the help directory (iisHelp folder) you found, right-click the folder, select Properties, and check the Web Sharing tab. It should show that the folder is being shared as IISHelp. If not, I think you can enable sharing it as a web folder from here quite easily.

The more common way is to go in the other direction: Start > Programs > Administrative Tools > Internet Services Manager, and check to see if the Virtual Directory for IISHelp exists under the Default Web Site. If not, add a virtual directory and point it at the iis help folder.

HTH

I checked on this once and I believe you can only pin shortcuts to executables (“programs” was the word MS used). Documents, folders, etc., don’t give you the option. This may have been documented in the help or a KB article, which of course I can’t find now. But it would explain why network shortcuts don’t work. The checking for file type may not support/allow non-local files.

I also noticed that Outlook and IE seem to be special cases (like they are on the desktop). There’s probably a registry setting that controls how it’s displayed in the Pin To area, which the Office install creates for Outlook. Outlook on the desktop doesn’t have the Pin to Start Menu option. If you Pin the shortcut from the Office XP folder under Programs, it just shows Microsoft Outlook, not “Email” with Microsoft Outlook underneath.

How long did you give it to terminate? Leaving it loaded is probably designed to make the next page load faster, even if you close the browser. It does unload after a couple minutes, at least on my machine. Outlook on the other hand stays resident if you close it’s window instead of using File Exit – again that’s what happens on my machine with WinXP/OL2002. (What’s up with that?)

Mark,

I’ve been doing the localization/internationalization of our product’s Admin UI for the last year. I was fortunate to stumble on this tidbit while doing the research on character set encodings. Glad you found it useful. Let me know if you see any other issues – form submission and Code Page issues can be tricky, although it sounds like you’re using UTF-8 successfully. I may need to pick your brains about that in the future.

Good luck!

I’d have to see the scripts to give a decent answer, but in the mean time, take a look at this old thread about validation.

You may find it’s easier to keep a single file with the validation functions, and call the validate from the form elements onchange event.

HTH

Jumping in late and you’ve got your answer but I wanted to mention one thing:

That second line of code is “bad” in a sense. The same information should be in the HTTP header sent when a requested file is sent to the browser. If the charset in the header and META tag don’t match, you can have problems (especially using Netscape). So if you’re codeing web pages using ASP or something like it, set the content type and charset in the Response header, not the HTML.

In ASP, you can do this using the Response object:

Response.CharSet = “windows-1252” ‘// latin1
Response.ContentType = “text/html”

instead of

which means the same thing. The reasoning is that the browser reads the HTTP headers before the content, and settings have a better chance of working if the browser hasn’t started parsing/rendering the HTML. This is true for cache-control as well.

HTH

I’ve been testing Mike Craven’s WOPR Junk Mail Remover, and seeing a similar problem with permissions in OL2002. Others don’t have the problem, and I don’t have the problem if I just switch to OL2000 on another machine, even though it’s accessing the same Exchange Server. There have also been some acknowledged bugs reported in the MSKB with the permissions issue. So it may just be that we’re hitting a bug in OL2002 (XP) from different angles.

Joe,

Thanks for the link. I’ve been so happy with VNC 3.3.3 that I hadn’t been looking for updates. I’ve also had luck with VNC through firewalls when other remote access programs just wouldn’t work.

Yes, you can have a dial-up connection and DSL up at the same time and with different machines. I’ve done this at home while testing dialup and VPN software. DSL uses an extra, unused pair of wires in telephone cable, so the two are really separate connections into your office/home. Our DSL is on our fax line, and we can receive faxes whether or not the DSL is active. So you could be on the internet on your PC with DSL, and the other computer can use the phone line for dial-up.

Does that answer your question? I wasn’t sure if that’s what you meant.

In most cases it’s fine to have the printer connected to a computer. You can share the printer so that other computers on the network have access. Windows has built-in File and Printer sharing that takes care of this. Having the router and firewall up helps prevent sharing your Files and Printers with the world.