WSUS is both a very useful beast and a wild one: It allows you to manage a huge number of Windows workstations to keep your PCs updated and your network secure, yet it itself can be quite hard to manage. This is how to properly clean up a WSUS server that is critically out of space, and reduce its database size by almost 90%.

Outlook (various versions) seems to hit a problem when sending large emails. If an email sending takes too long (slow network, large attachments, etc) then outlook seems to assume it failed and will try to send the email again. This is a guide outlining how to fix this issue.

A client recently asked us to put together an online contractor pay calculator. They provided us with an Excel spreadsheet that demonstrated how the calculations should work, and also laid out how they wanted the form to work. Most of this was very straightforward. However, there was one bit that I thought it might be worth mentioning here.

This is a quick guide on how to create your own holding page for a Plesk based hosting server.

So we hit an issue trying to change the autodiscover url in Exchange 2010 to enable our iPhone and Mac Mail users to have a nice easy setup since the client had changed their domain. This blog outlines how we went about this.