This post will admittedly have a very small audience, but for those of you who do stumble on to it while trying to get ColdFusion 11 installed and configured in a development environment on OS X using MAMP, you’ll hopefully find it very helpful. By default, the web server connectors that ship with ColdFusion 11 (including the Apache connector for…
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Multi-factor Authentication Is Simple Enough Now That Everyone Should Be Using It
Multi-factor Authentication (also sometimes called Two-Factor authentication) is a method provided by many sites and services to help their users better secure access to their accounts. For the remainder of this post, I’ll use MFA for short. Most major web services now offer some sort of MFA, and over the last several years, integrating the use of MFA in to…
Exchange Server, Mail.app, Alias Addresses and the unnecessary self CC on “Reply all”
If you’re using Apple’s Mail.app in conjunction with an Exchange server where you have an account that is also configured to use an alias address, you may have encountered an odd problem where anytime you hit “Reply All” to a message, your alias address is included on the CC line of the email. This had been happening to me for…
Migrating from Sharepoint 2010 to Sharepoint 2013
Having just completed a multiple web application migration from Sharepoint 2010 to Sharepoint 2013 (and to pat myself on the back, having done so with a total of less than 10 minutes of down time in either environment) I thought I would share the process that worked most effectively for me. Hopefully some other poor soul having to go through…
Automatically insert Google Analytics tracking code as an outbound IIS rule
Google Analytics is a wonderful tool for tracking the behavior of visitors to a web site, but one of the things that has always been challenging for site administrators is finding a way to embed the javascript necessary to track visits via Google Analytics in to every page on a web server. Google recommends strategies like providing server-side includes with…