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…
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Access Data Projects and Microsoft Office 2013
When Microsoft released the 2013 version of their Office suite, the version of Microsoft Access that was included dropped support for a feature known as Access Data Projects. Access Data Projects were a (in my opinion) little used feature of earlier versions of Access that allowed you to create an OLEDB connection from a users desktop copy of Microsoft…
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…
Tales from Higher Ed: CMS Choices Edition
The chart you see above represents an interest of “hype” chart of four popular content-management system choices over the last several years. In blue, you see WordPress, red is Joomla, yellow is Drupal, and green is the less prominent “Concrete5”. Expression Engine was charted, but it didn’t even register so I removed it. When I joined Marshall University in…