October 2003 Blog Posts

Outlook 2003

Steve is waxing lyrical over Office 2003. I don't think he's using IMAP. Outlook has always had problems with IMAP. It doesn't cope with the IDLE command well, there's no immediate delete options (you have to mark as deleted, then purge), it used to connection per subscribed folder, instead of using one connection and iterating and using secure IMAP causes my wireless connection to drop, poll for...

posted @ Wednesday, October 22, 2003 3:00 PM | Feedback (1)

Using SQL server for ASP.Net session state

As I'm currently configuring multiple load balanced web servers at work I had to move ASP.Net's session state to SQL Server. This is not without problems. SQL Server SP3 breaks ASP.Net's session state, permissions are problematic and you have to make sure Application Paths are identical on the web servers. So I documented the procedure, and the caveats here.

posted @ Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:00 PM | Feedback (0)