Computers

What Happens When My Dropbox Promotion Expires

When you click the Dropbox system tray icon, it may notify you something like, “The [some amount] GB Dropbox promotion you received with [some brand of] device expires in [some number of] days.   Upgrade now to Dropbox Pro to keep adding and sharing files.”

Are you concerned about what happens to your existing Dropbox files when the promotion ends?

Here is the explanation found in the Dropbox Help Center:

What happens if my paid account or promotion expires?

If your paid account expires or is downgraded, or the space granted to your account by a promotion expires, all of the files in your Dropbox folder will still be available to you on your computers, phones, and via the Dropbox website. However, Dropbox will stop syncing the files in your account if your usage is now over your new quota. This means that new files added to your Dropbox won’t sync to other computers or be available online until the amount of space used in your Dropbox drops below the amount of available space in your account.

For example, if you have a 1 TB Pro account with 800 GB of data and you decide to downgrade to a Basic 2 GB account, your files will stop syncing because you don’t have available storage space in your account. In this case, you’ll probably want to upgrade your account to ensure all of your files are syncing again.

Computers

Adaptec 1430SA Raid Controller Drivers Compatible with Storage Manager

Use Raid Controller Drivers that are compatible with the most functional version of Adaptec Storage Manager in order to properly monitor your mirrored hard drives and your Raid-1 Array.  You want to be able to see all Direct-attached devices (hard drives) on ports 0, 1, 2, and 3 of the 1430SA Raid Controller Card, as well as see the status of the logical device Raid-1 Array.  The status will include Optimal, Degraded, or Rebuild.  During a rebuild, you can monitor the percentage completion of the synchronization of the drives.

  • AdaptecStorageManager64-bit Raid Adaptec Storage Manager for Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.

— Driver Provider:  Adaptec
— Version:  6.50.00.18584
— File Name:  asm_windows_x64_v6_50_18584.exe

Download Page:

http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/speed/raid/storage_manager/asm_windows_x64_v6_50_18584_exe.php

Adaptec Storage Manager v6.50.18584 for Windows x64
Filename: asm_windows_x64_v6_50_18584.exe
Date: 8 Nov 2010
Size: 53.4 MB
Language: English US
Version: 6.50.18584

  • Software Drivers for Adaptec AAR-1430SA Serial ATA HostRAID Controller. When installed, the driver details page of Windows Device Manager for this Adaptec storage controller shows:

— Driver Provider: Adaptec
— Driver Date: 02-23-2012
— Driver Version: 1.5.11999.1
— Digital Signer: PMT – Sierra US, Inc

Download Page:

http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/speed/raid/aar/windows/aar81xx_x64_win2k3_win7_b11999_1_exe.php

Info per download page (is slightly different than installed driver information shown in Windows device manager for this Adaptec Storage controller):
Filename: aar81xx_x64_win2k3_win7_b11999_1.exe
Date: 28 Nov 2012
Size: 324 KB
Language: English US
Version: 1.5-0 b11999.1

 

Caution:  Create backup images of your disk partitions before updating your Raid Controller Drivers through the Windows “device manager.”  For Backup Partition Images, look into Macrium Reflect or EASEUS ToDo.

Communications, Computers, Networking

Add an Exchange 2010 Receive Connector to Use a Smart Host

Having your email collected using a perimeter server and forwarded to your local network exchange server?

Did you get this error yet when sending to your exchange domain?

Reason: Remote SMTP Server Returned: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay

Then, try adding a Receive Connector like this.

To permit a non-Exchange server to relay mail to your internal exchange server, create a new Receive Connector on the Hub Transport server.

  • Launch the Exchange Management Console, expand +”Server Configuration” and select “Hub Transport.”  Click Add new receive connector.
  • in the wizard dialog, under “Name:” enter the a descriptive name, like RelayFromPerimMail, and for Intended use, select “Custom” and click Next.
  • Enter the FQDN response from the exchange server to any ELLO or EHLO from the perimeter relay server: such as ExchMail.YourDomain.com (rather than .lan or .local). Next.
  • Delete the 0.0.0.0-255.255.225.0 network setting offered.
  • Click +Add, select IP Address. Enter the IP address of the perimeter server that is relaying mail to this exchange server.  Click OK, click Next, click New, and click Finish.
  • Your Receive Connector is created but it is not ready to allow the perimeter server to relay incoming mail to the exchange server.  You must finish configuration as follows:
  • Return to the Exchange Management Console and right click this new Receive Connector and select Properties.  Select the “Permission Groups” tab and check the box next to “Exchange servers.” Then, select the “Authentication” tab, leave the check in the checkbox next to Transport Layer Security (TLS) and also check the checkbox next to “Externally Secured” and apply these changes.
  • Now, test everything by sending a test email from gmail, yahoo or hotmail, to your local email address on the exchange server.  See if it arrives using your OWA interface.

Note:  Since the remote IP address (or range) has been restricted to the single IP address of the perimeter server, then any other servers trying to connect from a different IP addresses still will NOT be able to relay through the Exchange Server (which is as it is intended).  In other words, relay will be denied from any other IP address not included in the remote IP address/range on the Receive Connector.  If necessary, you can later try to add more IP addresses, IP ranges, or subnets to this receive connector, or possibly even add multiple IP addresses, but you may need to script this latter action.

Communications, Computers, Networking

Add an Exchange 2010 Send Connector to use a Smart Host

If you have installed Exchange Server 2010 and want to send outgoing mail through your smart host or non-exchange perimeter server which already has MX records in DNS associated with the smart host, then add a Send Connector to Exchange as follows:

  • Open your Exchange Management Console.
  • Expand +”Organization Configuration” and select the sub-item named “Hub Transport.”  Select the tab entitled “Send Connectors.”
  • From the menu on the right side, select the link for “New Send Connector” and the New Send Connector wizard dialog will appear.
  • Enter a “Name:” such as “OutgoingHost” and under “Intended Use for this send connector” select “custom” from the list box and click Next.
  • Click Add the type “SMTP” and the “SMTP Address Space” will appear.  Under “Address:” insert an * (asterisk), check the box next to “Include all sub-domains” and leave the Cost: as 1.  Click the OK button to close the Address space, and then Click the NEXT button.
  •  Network Settings appears.  Click the radio button next to “Route mail through the following smart hosts”
  • Click +Add and either enter the IP address of the smart host server, or select the radio button next to Fully qualified domain Name (FQDN), and enter the hostname.domainname.com of your smart host in the input text box, such as Mail1.MySmartHostnet.  Click OK to close this dialog, and Click NEXT.
  • Configure smart host authentication settings will appear.  For many servers that won’t require exchange authentications, you can select “Basic Authentication” and input the username and password of the smart host’s postmaster or other account that has access to the postmaster outgoing smtp transport.  Click Next, Next, New and Finish buttons.
  • Tidy up by right clicking this new “OutgoingHost” Send Connector, and left click on properties.  Under the “General” tab, insert the fully qualified “internet” hostName.domain name.com that your server will echo in response to HELO or EHLO when connecting to the smart host, for example: Exchg1.MyInternetDomainName.com (not your .lan or .local FQDN).  Change the maximum message size if you like.  Click Apply, and click OK.
  • Test it by logging into you administrator account using OWA interface and send a test message to yourself at hotmail or gmail or yahoo.