We've seen an obscure problem for one of our servers running on 10.6.4 (Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server) which was upgraded from 10.5. When attempting to implement the iCal Email Invitations function, I found that all of the usual tricks didn't work.

Frequently, I've had issues with Windows machines accessing OS X Servers just set up with SMB sharing. It seems that the Windows client needs to allow a certain type of authentication to allow the machine to log into the OS X Server, and that setting isn't correct by default. The problem also happens for Linux servers as well, not just Mac OS X Server.

Note that by making these changes, you're making things that much less secure on the Windows side of things by allowing an older, less secure encryption method for authentication. While most of you won't care (because you're just looking for a solution for an in-house server), if you're working with a server which is publicly available (for some crazy reason), then get to know the facts before making these changes.

Here's directions on how to make that change in many of the various flavors of Windows:

One of our clients reported that Snow Leopard's iCal is slow to bring up matching invitees for a meeting, especially if you have thousands of Address Book Contacts. We did some research and this is what we found.

While it looks like Apple may need to address this in an update (10.6.3 is marginally faster than 10.6.2), but until then, here's a quick tip on how to deal with a slow iCal when you have a large address book:

1) Create the appointment, but don't click on the "Add Invitees..." like you normally would
2) Instead press Option-Cmd-A (or select "Address Panel") in the Window menu
3) Search for the contact in that window and drag and drop the name into the "Add Invitees..." area on the appointment

Recently, many of our hosting clients have received emails from their own domains informing them that their mailbox settings have changed. These emails are NOT legitimate and should be ignored. The contents of the email include:

• Claims that your "SMTP and POP3 servers for your domain have changed"

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It slices, it dices... it can even make julienne fries. It's somewhere in between a laptop and the iPhone. The iPad is definitely something, but it’s hard to predict how successful it will be until we’re able to get our hands on it.

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Have you ever found yourself typing some of the same things over and over again in your emails?

On the early morning of Monday, January 4th, 2010, we corrected an error on our hosting junk mail filter which would increase the likelihood of a legitimate message being marked as junk mail.

The bug did not mean that all legitimate email was labelled as junk mail. However, it did increase the likelihood if the message also matched other rules which indicated that it "may" be junk mail.

Originally posted on http://netcropolis.org/content/apples-tablet-strategy