Fruit Box I.T blog

This was an actual resume for a position at a bowling alley, but I think we could all take a minute to see why this style of resume might not be “the best” in any situation.

I’ll give you a little taste…

… While we were on the farm, my grandparents, mother, and I would take two weeks out of the summer to go on family vacations. I can still remember my first trip out of Florida. It was to the state of Florida. My first grade year we went to the grand canyon, my first grade teacher rode down it on a mule. My first grade teacher was Mrs. Maphles. I was the brightest in my class when it came to math and numbers.

 

 

 

Ok so we had a challenge, and that challenge nearly defeated us but we won! We had to make it so a sharepoint site could receive email and automatically upload the file into the required document library based on the email address.

Here was the scenario,

We have 3 servers, 1 a SBS server with the domain global.local, and 1 terminal server which is connected to the domain as a server only, not an AD server. We also have 1 sharepoint services server which is not attached to the domain. This was the server that needed to receive the incoming email. We have no intentions of attaching this to AD or utilising exchange, so this is how we did it and got it working

1. setup sharepoint services 3.0

2. install the SMTP services options from add/remote software on windows server 2003 - WHATEVER YOU DO DONOT INSTALL THE POP3 SERVICE FROM THE MANAGE SERVER ROLES

3. we wanted it so people could send an email to %username%@sharepoint.local, so we added an alias under the smtp service for this address, you should see the server name as the default domain. leave this setting as it is.

4. we were now able to use outlook to send an email to the email address we made on the server by telling sharepoint to use the drop mail directory located by looking at the defealt domain entry under the smtp service (under IIS).

5. email are now sent to this server using outlook or whatever and using the server name as the default smtp service address.

I know this is difficult to understand, so if you would like to know more how we did this please visit us at www.fruitboxit.com.au and use the contact form to contact us.

Well it had to happen, and it did. Was all talk at first than one day just got over the “talk” and decided to “act”. Welcome to the Fruit Box blog, where we will blog on anything that we feel the need to well blog about. Some might be serious entries, some might be silly.

Cheers - Fruit Box Team