IT Blog

Welcome to our IT Blog.

Below you will find technical articles related to the work we do. As we find solutions to issues our customers face, we post some of them here to help the global community!

Solutions for Pop3 Connector issues on SBS 2011- one or more messages were left in the account because they are larger than the maximum acceptable message size

If you are getting EventID 210 on your SBS 2011 server – with a message like… [message_box title=”Event ID 210″ color=”red”]One or more of the messages (message number) were left in the ‘[accountname]’ account on the POP3 Server ‘[servername]’ because they are larger than the maximum acceptable message size (the largest message is [messagesize] bytes).

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Gmail, Hotmail and Mailchimp showing extra padding or space around images in a newsletter template

This is an interesting issue where we created a custom template for Stonehenge Consulting – Building Certifiers using the popular Mailchimp newsletter mailing service. Everything looked fine in the Mailchimp preview, however when the test message arrived in my gmail inbox it seemed to have extra padding around certain images in the template. I looked

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How can I access documents on my computer and my phone and share large files with other people?

Dropbox may be the answer Clients are frequently asking us how they can access their important documents on their mobile devices. Case in point – a Building Inspector client of OJ Networks wanted to have the Australian Standards on his phone for reference whilst on-site performing inspections. Well with the application Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) you are

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Exchange 2003 Information Store won’t mount on SBS 2003 – Event ID 9518 Error – Out of memory starting Storage Group

Don’t you just love it when a client’s exchange server decides to lockup and then fail to mount when it comes back up. Even better when it happens 1 hour before knockoff time… Well this one had me stumped for a while. It is quite a large database (for SBS 2003)  edb+stm = around 60Gb

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Microsoft and Telstra Bigpond IT related fake phone call scams are still annoying people Australia wide

I get a call from my dad… [quote]A person saying they are a representative from Microsoft just called and said my computer has viruses on it and needs to be fixed.[/quote] Luckily he told them to ring back and got my opinion on it before proceeding.  I had seen this issue several times before –

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