A client called me with an error message displayed when setting up outlook 2003 clients to access an exchange 2000 server. The message related to the point when they tried to “check names” after entering the server name and the user name of the email account they were setting up. Office 2007 trials had been preinstalled on the machines by the supplier. Nice. To facilitate the Office 2003 installation – they had been removed.
The obscure message is “There was an error locating one of the items needed to complete this operation. It might have been deleted” – how useful is that ! Maybe the disk fairies took it ?
Well actually the answer is more about house keeping. After removing the Office 2007 trials from the machines in question I realised something might still be lingering and it turned out to be a file called mapisvc.inf. So to get your outlook 2003 configured – do a search for this file name – rename it to xmapisrc.inf where you find it (potentially in two locations) and then start outlook to configure the profile or if it complains use the Mail icon in control panel.
Thanks to Verity for her help.
Installing Intellipool Network Monitor (INM) »« IE 7 and Data Access Pages (DAP) – getting it working again
A friend of mine has used data access pages to allow browsing and updating of information via an intranet site running on IIS for ages. Recently she asked me to look into an issue where it appeared that some of her users were unable to access the previously working pages and some new ones she’d just developed. Confusingly some of the users were working fine. So whats going on ?
Background to DAP
Dynamic content is at the heart of successful presentation of enterprise information on the Internet. Without the ability to present data with user interaction, Internet based commerce will be meaningless. It is possible to create dynamic web pages with data from the enterprise by using several technologies, including MS Access. Using MS Access, it is possible to create dynamic web pages using a couple of techniques. The technology of Active Server Pages; Data Access Pages [DAP] which had their debut in Access 2000; and a combination of IIS, ODBC and the Internet Database Connector can all be used for creating dynamic web pages using MS Access. However, each of these methods have their own ambit in which they are created. ASP, being a server side technology, leverages ADO, while Data Access Pages, a client side technology, depends on DynamicHTML. It is DHTML data binding with ADO that makes Data Access Pages possible. IDC is of historical value only, being version 1.0 of dynamic web page generation technique. Whether or not DAP also becomes of historical value compared to the flagship ASP (ASP.NET) remains to be seen.
Microsoft Access stores all information about the data in its MDB file. However, DAP information is stored in an HTM file with a .htm extension. Since DHTML is behind this technology, it goes without saying that Microsoft’s DOM (Document Object Model), the XML, the CSS and related technologies are brought into its creation.
Unfortunately with the arrival of Access 2007 this useful data delivery system is being dropped. For those of you however that have expended energy getting the feature to work may be dismayed to find that after your migration to IE7 that that variously you get messages about an IE addin OWC10 not working or your browser closes on opening a DAP page.
Issues with Office Web components OWC10 and 11 are at play here!! So the short answer to get the DAP pages working again is to remove the OWC with may be referred to as the XP version (2002) or Office Web Components 2003.
To resolve the problems mentioned above I found that removing the OWC from add remove components and rebooting machine before reinstalling the OWC version you were using.
Just a hint – download a copy of the OWC 10 or 11 before removing the one you have !!!
Solution
Remove owc10 and reinstall
"Disk fairies stole my files" or Removing Outlook 2007 trial prevents Outlook 2003 setting up profiles ! »« Feed me Seymour !!!!
Email 2 RSS
Why bother? Well if you want to take emails from various monitoring systems and push them into custom RSS feeds. Advanced Email2RSS can automatically download new emails, filter them based on pre-defined rules, convert all incoming emails into RSS feeds and upload them to your server – all without any intervention.
I wanted a means of picking up specific emails that are being sent from Intellipool Network Monitor and having them available to me on a Blackberry. So I picked Viigo as a feed reader for a Blackberry 8800 and Advanced Email2RSS
Starting up Advancedemail2RSS and adding the pop email account that was receiving the mails, select the frequency of publishing and the location of the rss xml file (rsstext.xml in my case) that it would produce – was quickly followed by installing Viigo from the web site above and then adding the feed by putting in the full url (example www.myserver.com/rsstest.xml) and lo the emails in their new rss feed glory.
IE 7 and Data Access Pages (DAP) – getting it working again »« Virtually yours !
