What do Ctrl+C and USB connectors have in common?

Nothing, except that I had a major revelation regarding each of them recently. It’s almost embarrassing to admit this, but here goes: Ctrl+C copies the text from a dialogue box to the clipboard This feature has been a part of Windows for a long time, but I have not known about it. Whenever a message …

Slow performance in Outlook Web Access when published through ISA Server 2006

I recently had a strange experience at one of my customers. Suddenly the performance of OWA when accessed through their ISA 2006 server was horrible. Using OWA to read messages was possible, but creating a new message with an attachment was impossible. The operation would hang with the message Uploading you attachments indefinitely. After a …

Recovering hidden items in ExBPA

The Exchange Best Practices Analyzer is a great tool to check your Exchange setup. You get a lot of excellent guidance about various aspects of Exchange, presented as items of different severity. In the results list of a scan you can select to hide items that you do not want to be alerted about the …