All of your emails (and attachments, tasks, appointments, etc) in outlook are stored in a database (a .pst file). When you delete your emails, even if you empty your deleted items folder, it’s not actually deleted at all, it’s just flagged internally as deleted, effectively outlook will ignore it from now on, until the next time your PST file is compacted. Compacting your PST file will free up the space that deleted items use causing your PST file to shrink. (more…)
Tags: outlook, pst, undelete
28.Feb.09 
General, Sys Admin, email 
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A very useful quickie now, I was working on a project that needed to be run from a network drive, as you may know, exe files and dll’s that are run from a network drive don’t have full trust, they can only interact with your computer to a certain degree, sometimes if they don’t have the correct trust, they’ll fail because they can’t interact properly. (more…)
Tags: network, security, trust
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Generating unique identifiers is very handy, by their nature they should never be reproduced more than 1 per machine. A simple unique identifier would be the identity field type in sql server (or autonumber in access), both have their uses, but if you are relying on them to provide a simple layer of security then you should think again, as some modification of these simple datatypes could lead to a security breach. (more…)
Tags: asp, guid, vbscript
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