Nokia E61 & ActiveSync

Spend the full week toying around my new Nokia E61, great smartphone, it can even do ActiveSync. I’ve been using a PocketPC for as long as I can remember, after years of usability, I found that the most important function I need was email, to do list and calendar. After a few high end PocketPC I settled down with iPAQ h1940 and the help from my Motorola V3 RAZR for GPRS connections. Those new convergence device runing W 5.0 didn’t caught my attention because I don’t need much and their prices are a deal spoiler. Enter Nokia E61, it can do what I want it to do with a decent price point. There’s something about the ActiveSync software though, it still not that rock solid but after using PocketPC for that long time I can live with the E61 ActiveSync freezes on me. Just one thing make me unsatisfied, I can’t find the way to install my server certificate to it.

Restrict user to sent internet mail but allow only to specific domains

A long title, can’t find a shorter words to express it. Every Exchange server administrator will face this challenge some times. The management will usually restrict most users from sending internet mail, only a few authorized users have the privellege to do so. This is always the standard rules (check this article “Restricting users from Sending and Receiving Internet Mail in Exchange 2003″ on MSExchange.org by Mark Fugatt). As time passed by, sometimes the company needs all the users to be able to sent mail to some one else which happens to be in another domain. Unfortunately the administrator have blocked all the outbound mail on the transport level. So… how do we do it ? 

Here’s how to do it :

• Create a new SMTP Connector to reject all messages by default
• Place the group of users who will be allowed to sent mail to the specific domain to the accept message from option
• The most important part, on the address space add that specific domain

And the problem solve once again.

Write me an email if you like to get a step by step how to’s on this.

Internet Explorer 7

Just install IE7 this morning and spend the rest of the day testing it. Looks good, feels good, just love it. But like all beta release it still have some minor problems, freeze now and then, overall its a good experience on usability.

Monthly report

It’s the 5th of April now, two days past from the monthly report deadline and I still don’t have a clue of what to report.

When your network works just fine then what is it left to report about ? Just a one liner says “Everything operates in a normal states” ??

Same problem every month…

Dilemma

Dilemma, a strange words to start my post. Today watch the labour organization organize a national strike to protest the revision of the labour law.

Hundreds of people leaves their work to join their friends on this strike, hundreds of them are outside the office now to call out for their friends inside to come out and join them. A small emotional behavior from one of them will spark an anarchist strike.

It's a dilemma, at one side we need investments and the investors need a labour law that'll benefits and protect them. At the other side the workers need a better life, one that make them capable of providing their family needs. Both party have their arguments…

This is what happens to poor country, the rich getting richer the poor getting poorer. Money become the primary drive to do things, corrupt individual can be found everywhere. It needs a strong effort to solve this problem…

As for me, I'll just do what is the right things to do, change start from one person at a time…