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Thank you for the update. It is always good to find a ready-to-use solution which might be also helpful for others.

Hi Michael, Thanks for your response. My apologies, I posted about this problem on another forum as well, and forgot to update this one. As it turns out, our firewall wasn't blocking any ports, it was just not allowing other SMTP traffic than specified, and nothing was specified. Anyway my code was good, including TLS, so the question remains, how come Outlook was not blocked by our firewall, when my code was. Regards, Johan My advice is free, and you may get what you paid for.

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I just assumed the "SDK's" came to replace the resource kits: [Windows 10 SDK and developer tools - Windows app development](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads) [Windows 10 deployment tools (Windows 10) | Microsoft Docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/windows-deployment-scenarios-and-tools) "(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then". ― Blaise Pascal

Joan M wrote: The problem is that the user will unplug it without shutting the Operating System down properly. Reading the thread below I want to repeat what was already said...there is NO way to protect it as described. Best you could do would be to re-engineer/re-spec the device so it has a onboard battery that has sufficient juice to allow an automatic shutdown once the real power is interrupted. The alternative to that is that users that do not do it property are disciplined up to including being fired. After a while you will only have users that always do it "properly". If it was me I would propose both solutions to management and let them decide. Option one is of course more expensive and requires quite a bit more code. And code that is quite complicated also.

I didn't have any issues, either from WS 2003 to WS 2008R2 or from that to WS 2012. IF you have an option to go WS 2012 I would recommend you go straight to that. This will a make installing and maintaining SSL certificates for multiple domains much easier - and free, from Lets Encrypt. However, I am not in a position to guarantee you no problems, if you have some particularly esoteric settings in web.config

You could try looking up the product on MSDN, go the the correct version and read the "what's new" section. You could also install it on another server and do the update there first; would give you a reasonable idea of what to expect. No, you can use trial-versions for that. Let us know how it went :) Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

Well that is interesting.

hairy_hats wrote: the upgrade is supposed to offer to use it for temporary files, but I don't get that option regardless of what I plug in Basically a guess but as I read that... The installer doesn't offer that. What you need to do is 1. Plug in the external driver 2. Alter the OS to use the external drive for temporary storage. There might actually be several such configurations (or just one.) 3. Do the install 4. Undo step 2 5. Undo step 1

OK, I see. I was getting confused because I still wanted to have the files sorted by Name. :thumbsup:

Not exactly sure what you mean but perhaps... Basically when you "upload" a file to an email what the client, not server, does is add the file to the email. So there is no URL. There is a specification for how this is done somewhere. You should be able to see this for yourself by sending a short file to yourself then, in your email client, find the "view source" button (which you might need to hunt for) and then look at that. The "file" will be at the end with some header information. It will look something like the following ... --------------1C04F503A23694EFB77EC37B Content-Type: text/xml; name="pom.xml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment;

That's a hell of a project. You'll need to attempt to parse files as specific file types and make sure that they can be read. That means you'll need the spec or a fast execution environment for each and every file type on the system. If you generally have a lot of one sort of file (say, .pdf) you can speed your search up by making a script that verifies that it can open each with itextsharp, for instance. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli

I see that some of our users can be difficult, let me put in my two cents. All 64-bit versions of Windows from Vista onward include a technology that prevents kernel hooks. If a kernel hook is somehow successfully installed, the machine will blue screen. It's called Kernel Patch Protection - Wikipedia[^] Therefore, I don't think the scenario that you suspect is what's actually going on. The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

We use a customized version of YALV[^] This, of course, means that we're bound to use log4net and the XML specification YALV supports - Of course it is open source and we could adjust it any time needed - But c'mon, it's a log file. These things don't get any more spectacular when changin the formatting :laugh: