http://www.iishacks.com System and Network Administration, IIS, Exchange Server, Windows Tips, Opinions Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:08:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So you can't send email from a fresh install of Exchange 2010? Unlike Exchange 2003, Exchange 2010 cannot send emails to external domains out-of-the-box. This feature needs to be enabled through the use of an external send connector. By default, no send connectors are configured when an Exchange 2010 system ... http://www.iishacks.com/2010/08/11/configure-exchange-2010-to-send-external-emails/ So you've decided you want to use JW Player for Silverlight and IIS Media Services Web Playlists together. One of the reasons to use Web Playlists is to hide the true path of your video. This makes it difficult for users to download a full copy of your video, perfect for streaming ... http://www.iishacks.com/2010/08/03/using-iis-media-services-web-playlists-with-jw-player/ A few people have emailed asking why Windows Server 2008 does not reply to pings (and how to enable it). It doesn't by default. No official reason why, but it probably has something to do with POD (Ping of Death) and Ping Flooding. Commonly used in Denial of Service attacks, POD ... http://www.iishacks.com/2010/07/20/enabling-ping-replies-in-windows-server-2008/ Another one of Microsoft’s descriptive errors is 0x8ffe2740 when trying to start an FTP or Web Server from the IIS Administration module. The error itself means that there is a port conflict with another service. This is a relatively easy diagnosis, as you should already know what ports your ftp or ... http://www.iishacks.com/2010/04/21/unexpected-error-0x8ffe2740-when-starting-ftp-or-iis/ When you first install VMWare Server, you'll find the administration area in Firefox or Internet Explorer has a security certificate error. This is because the certificate that ships with VMWare is self-signed (untrusted). One solution is to use a trusted certificate from a third party (Verisign, GoDaddy, etc) but that ... http://www.iishacks.com/2010/03/26/removing-the-vmware-server-ssl-certificate-trust-warning/