Tim Long

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The life and times of a Small Business Server MVP and all-round technology enthusiast. Tim is founder of TiGra Networks, a company based in South Wales UK specialising in small business IT. This blog is aimed at Microsoft Small Business Specialists, IT professionals, Astronomers and anyone interested in science and technology.

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Where did the Mail control panel go?
If you’ve installed a 64-bit version of Windows Vista then loaded up Office 2007, you might have noticed that the Mail control panel applet is missing. That makes it kind of difficult to create multiple Outlook profiles and manage your data files, especially...
Adding Silverlight 2.0 to Community Server Blogs
Silverlight 2.0 is going to change the web so much. I've just completed an experimental blog theme for Community Server that uses a Silverlight masthead. You can view the finished result over at Grace's blog . The Silverlight masthead was created...
Silverlight Training Hots Up
If, like me, you're trying to get up to speed on Silverlight 2.0 beta 2, you should know about Jesse Liberty's webcast series. Jesse has a new approach to coding webcasts where instead of watching the presenter write code live (which takes time...
Dynamics CRM 4.0 Internet Facing Deployment and ISA Server
I've just solved a problem today that was driving me crazy. I use Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and have been trying to set it up as an Internet Facing Deployment so I can use it from my hot-desking office. Everything worked as expected from inside my...
Managing your Mailbox
For Outlook users who are always exceeding their mailbox quota: I wrote this for you .
Installing SQL Management Studio Express on Vista x64
When installing SQL Management Studio Express on Windows Vista x64 (and, perhaps, x86 too) you may well get an error code 29506, the installation will fail and roll-back. This appears to be a security issue with Windows Vista. I've seen this happen...
Microsoft CRM Caller ID Lookup for TrixBox Part 4
In part 1 , part 2 and part 3 of this series, we built an ASP.NET 3.5 web application to accept a telephone number as a query string within the URL, look up that number in a Dynamics CRM database and return the matching contact name and company as the...
Microsoft CRM Caller ID Lookup for TrixBox Part 3
In part 1 we set the scene and created our web application project. In part 2 we began creating the HTTP Generic Handler, retrieved the CLID string from the URL's query string and knocked it into the correct canonical format ready for looking in the...
Microsoft CRM Caller ID Lookup for TrixBox Part 2
In part 1 , we set the scene and created a new project in Visual Studio and set up a few things in preparation. Now for the good bit, let's write some code! Diagnostics Throughout the code, you're going to see diagnostic trace routines. This diagnostic...
Microsoft CRM Caller ID Lookup for TrixBox
Following on from my last post where I discussed using LINQ to dip into a Microsoft Dynamics CRM database, here is a real-world application using similar techniques. This sample is an integration between TrixBox, an open-source IP Telephony system and...
Updating your CRM Demo Data with LINQ
Inspired by Simon Hutson's post and sharing his aversion to T-SQL code, I decided to have a go at re-writing his code in C# using LINQ (Language Integrated Query). Before we go any further, I need to say that the techniques used here are definitely...
Poor Man's URL Filtering for SBS
I just did a hack for one of my customers to stop one problem employee surfing on Facebook all day. While I'm no fan of blanket barring of web access, in this instance we needed some simple, short-term measures that didn't warrant any real expenditure...
Debugging .NET Framework Source Code
I'm not implying that the Framework needs to be debugged - but now, if you need to understand what the .NET Framework is doing, you can single step into the source code! For instructions on how to enable this feature, please see: Configuring Visual...
Why You Shouldn’t Forward Chain Email
I received the following email today, which is clearly a rather crude hoax: From: <deleted> @hotmail.co.uk To: <24 MSN/Hotmail addresses removed to protect privacy> Subject: PLEASE READ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:48:22 +0000 Hey it is tara...
Printer Deployment for Windows Vista and Small Business Server 2003
I recently had a problem with a customer running all Windows Vista clients on an SBS 2003 R2 domain. The problem was how to deploy printers to users who have restricted access (i.e. standard users). The users cannot install the printer drivers themselves...
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