Thursday, March 25, 2004 More Spam Protection Yesterday I renewed my mail account on Yahoo and upgraded to Mail Plus. This adds more disk space, a spam learning feature, and virus protection. Today I installed the latest version of Mailwasher Pro and turned on its spam learning feature. Both these products show a remarkable amount of agreement on which mail is spam. I am hoping these two products will help me get rid of spam and avoid false positive mishaps. I think the use of Yahoo and other web mail providers is a viable strategy for small businesses. Although my setup is probably overkill it is not costly or time consuming. Email that makes it to my PC probably goes through three or four spam detectors and at least two virus checkers. I averaged 156 deleted emails per day with MailWasher. The bulk of these obviously were spam. It is interesting to note that the latest average for the week is only 126. Maybe this is a trend. 5:20:48 PM    Comments [] Re-Installing Sharepoint on SBS Today I finally got Sharepoint installed and working. Here was the plan. Stop the Sharepoint database with NET STOP mssql$sharepoint. From the Add or Remove Programs, remove Sharepoint. From the Add or Remove Programs, remove the MSDE instance of sharepoint. Reboot. Install a new instance of SQL Server called SHAREPOINT using the Premium cdrom. When it asks, change the default disk location. Ignore warning message about SQL and Windows 2003. Apply SQL Service Pack 3a to the new instance. Start the database. Run STSV2 and pick the server farm option. It tells you that you will have to manually extend the site after the installation completes. I got an error at the end complaining about FrontPage extensions on the default server. Go into Sharepoint Central Administration and extend the companyweb site. I used the DefaultAppPool with Network Service. Pick a site template. I verified my installation by saving a document into Sharepoint and then bringing it back up. It knew who I was and did not ask me for a logon. 4:43:10 PM    Comments []