When creating web pages and WSH scripts that send email it sometimes necessary to test the IIS SMTP service to ensure that it is properly handling and sending email. The technique I’ll be demonstrating today can be used locally or for testing the SMTP service on a remote server.

As the Windows Guru, I spend a lot of time in forums answering Windows and Windows Scripting related questions. Quite frequently I respond to users who are receiving some form of an error message–and in almost every case, the error message is incomplete or incorrectly worded. For obvious reasons this makes diagnosis difficult, […]

In early 2008, I created a simple PHP driven tool for changing the prefix on a MySQL table. The was originally designed to change the default prefix used by phpBB installations to help prevent SQL injection attacks. The tool has gained quite a bit of popularity and I’ve been receiving a lot of […]