Andrew Kennel
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PHL ParkingFallout from today’s patch
February 26, 2008I received two complaints this afternoon that the portal was down. It was working fine for me, and for the other people around me, so I assumed it was a client problem. Both the people reporting trouble logged in to our network via VPN, so I started my trouble-shooting there. Long story short, it eventually…
Continue Reading →Fix for workflow email bug
February 26, 2008Microsoft finally came through with a patch for the workflow email bug. After all the time and effort I spent convincing the Microsoft tech — they had already released a patch for this bug in May! KB 937906 to be exact.
Continue Reading →More thoughts on Traveler
February 26, 2008We installed Traveler on our test server yesterday, and installed the client software on a Windows Mobile device overnight.The server install is very simple, just a few minutes start to finish. You also need to make two network ports available from the Internet: 80 – to retrieve the client software, and 8642(default) – which is…
Continue Reading →Creating a Test Site
February 21, 2008In addition to the production portal, we created a test server for our developers to test out their applications without affecting the users. From the beginning, this test server hasn’t been a perfect copy of the production environment. We copied over the templates and CSS files, but it was a rough approximation. Today, D asked…
Continue Reading →Thoughts on Lotus Notes Traveller
February 20, 2008IBM has just released the latest version of Domino, 8.0.1. As a part of this release, they’re putting out a free push client for Windows Mobile devices. This is doubtless an attempt to counter Microsoft’s own push client for Exchange server.I’m still waiting for a download link from IBM. So, I’ve yet to play with…
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