Gerod Serafin's WebLog

Helping to keep large organizations' e-mail running

April, 2004

  • Page 23 Meme

    I got this from Adam.  Not sure why I'm doing this, but here goes:

    Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 23. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

    “To this he said: 'Sovereign Lord Jehovah, by what shall I know that I shall take it in possession?'“
    - Genesis 15:8 (New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures)

    Turns out that my Bible was the closest to me.  Hmmm.  This says a lot more about me than you probably wanted to know.

  • New fix for Exchange 5.5 with IMAP

    There are not that many customers that use IMAP to connect to Exchange 5.5 (MAPI is the most popular by far), but just in case your organization uses IMAP, you may want to consider reading the following article.

    835632 Information Store service (Store.exe) unexpectedly crashes and an access violation
    http://support.microsoft.com/?id=835632

    To get the fix you will probably need to call in.

  • Tip: Saving battery life on a SmartPhone

    I see numerous threads where people are complaining about their SmartPhone not being able to keep its charge for more than 8 hours to a day.  Many people suggest that they close programs or take out their SD card in order to save battery life.  Instead of doing this, I just recommend that when you are finished and about to close the phone, keep hitting the back button until it won't go back any more and you are on the Home screen.  Hitting the back button closes any other screens that are open and drastically saves on battery life.  My phone goes for about 3 days without needing a recharge.  HTH.

  • New fix for Exchange boxes with many processors

    If you are running an 8 processor box (or a 4 processor box with Hyper-Threading Technology) you may want to take a look at the following article:

    823597 Information store may stop responding on an Exchange server with several processors
    http://support.microsoft.com/?id=823597

    To get the fix you will probably need to call in.