SET UP OUTLOOK MAIL FOR YOUR OWN DOMAIN

Did you know that you can set up email accounts from your own domain using the power of the user-friendly Outlook browser-based email system? This means you can have any email address you want provided you own the domain name, and you'll be able to access it from anywhere a browser is handy. Setting it up is a little intimidating, but if you follow these steps, you should be in the clear. (And you only have to set it up once!)

As an example, let's assume you own the domain ccwinlive.com and your name is Scott. You could easily set upscott@ccwinlive.com as your email address.

Remember, you need to own your own domain! If you don't have one, you can always buy one from us, and we'll set it up for you. :)

 

Setup is quick and easy.

We briefly considered creating our own email service, but a few things halted that process. We wanted to keep the price of our publishing and form processing platform low and not clog our support center with email inquiries. Which is one of the main support topic for hosting providers… We also decided it should be open, so that you can use any email service you like.

Setting up a Outlook Hosted Email

Step 1:

Login with your MSN/Outlook account information. and click the Sign In button.

Figure 1: Get email for your domain.

Step 2:

Enter the domain you want to use for Windows Live Hosted email and click Continue. For this entire walk-though, we will be using the domain ccwinlive.com

Figure 2: Add the domain you want to use for your email.

Step 3:

Review your account settings and enter the captcha keys and click I Accept.

Figure 4: Review your settings and accept the agreement.

Step 4:

Now we need to verify the domain for use with your custom domain. They list a variety of methods to verify the domain, but the only one we need to do is the first one under Mail setup (required). All the others can simply be ignored.

Figure 5: Prove ownership of your domain.

 

Do not click refresh!

You will complete this part of the process later in Step 6.

Step 5:

We are now going to add the MX records outlined in Step 4. Open a new tab (do not close the previous tab) and go to the DNS Manager and select the domain you want to work with and click "Manage DNS Settings". To create your MX record, add your domain to the first box on the left, change the drop down to MX and paste in the MX record from step 4 in the box. You will now see a 3rd box the right. Enter the number 10 into there and then click Update DNS Information at the bottom.

Figure 6: Setting up the MX records..

Step 6:

Go back to the previous tab from Step 4 and at the top you will see a yellow box with a Refresh button.

Figure 7: Verification of domain ownership.

 

Hold On!

DNS changes are not instant. Wait at least 5 minutes for the DNS settings to propigate and then click the Refresh button. If it does not work, try again in a few minutes.

Step 7:

Once the domain is verified, you will see this page. That means the hosted email verification process is complete.

Figure 8: Create your account.

Step 8:

Next we need to add a custom address so that you can access Windows Live through your browser. Click theCustom address link in the left had sidebar under Domain Settings and click Add and enter the name you want to use. For our example, enter mail.

Figure 9: Create a custom address for mail.

Figure 10: Create a custom address for mail.

Step 9.

• If you're using S-Drive, sign in to your S-Drive account here, then go to the Domain Management page and clickManage DNS Settings under the domain name you are using. In the left box enter mail.YOURDOMAIN.com (for this example it would be mail.ccwinlive.com), change the drop down to CNAME and in the box to the right, enter go.domains.live.com and click Update DNS Information.

  

  Figure 11: Add your custom address CNAME Record for mail.

  
  
  • If you're not using S-Drive, you'll either need to sign into your hosting provider's control panel and change the records yourself, or contact a server administrator to take care of this for you.
   

  Congratulations! You are Done!

  Remember, DNS changes may take a few hours for them to filter through the 'net so if you do not start getting e-mail right away, give it time for these settings to propagate.
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Enlarge a Virtual Disk in VirtualBox

To enlarge a virtual disk in VirtualBox, you’ll need to use the VBoxManage command from a Command Prompt window. First, shut down the virtual machine – ensure its state is set to Powered Off, not Saved.

Second, open a Command Prompt window from your Start menu and change to VirtualBox’s program files folder so you can run the command:

cd “C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox”

The following command will operate on the VirtualBox virtual disk located at “C:\Users\Chris\VirtualBox VMs\Windows 7\Windows 7.vdi”. It will resize the virtual disk to 81920 MB (80 GB).

VBoxManage modifyhd “C:\Users\Chris\VirtualBox VMs\Windows 7\Windows 7.vdi” –resize 81920

(Use two dashes before resize in the command above.)

Replace the file path in the command above with the location of the VirtualBox disk you want to resize and the number with the size you want to enlarge the image to (in MB).

Note that this process doesn’t enlarge the partition on the virtual hard disk, so you won’t have access to the new space yet – see the Enlarge the Virtual Machine’s Partition section below for more information.

HyperV Error: A Virtual Disk Provider for the specified file was not found

I recently blew an hour trying to attach a VHD inot a HyperV on a new Server 2008 R2 64Bit Standard server but received “A Virtual Disk Provider for the specified file was not found” which was not cool.

The solution was a small registry change as documented http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2013544 

1)    Start Registry Editor.
2)    Visit the following registry key: “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\FsDepends”
3)    Under the “FsDepends” key, change REG_DWORD value “Start” from “3” to “0”
4)    Restart the computer 

Install ZEND Framework 2 on Your WAMP and XAMPP Server

I am a php web application developer; I am working on WAMP Server. I found some difficulties to setup Zend Framework 2.x in my localhost. You may found some difficulties in installing the zend framework 2.x like me, that’s why I have written this article, hope you will found find this article helpful.

1. Download ZF2 skeleton app from GitHubhttps://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication as a  .zip  format

2. Extract your ZendSkeletonApplication-master.zip file to your  www directory and Rename the folder as your project name. In my localhost, it’s zf2crud.

3. Go to C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.5 or if you use xampp just go to C:\xampp\php and copies the folder path.

4. Right-click on My Computer inside your start-menu and click Properties,

5. Click Advanced tab inside System Properties.

   6. Click “Environment Variables” Button and Select “Path” inside your “System variables” Sections. A new window will pop up once again

7. In the lower of the two boxes search for the variable Path and double-click it

8.  Leave everything as is and just EXTEND the variable by ” ;C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.5” or “;C:\xampp\php” (of course adjust your xampp/wamp directory)

9. Enable your php_openssl Module From your php.ini File

10. Hit ok, ok, ok, start a new CLI (!) and once again check what php -v returns. It should work now.

11. Go to your CLI , change the directory to the project directory. Write command “cd C:\wamp\www\zf2crud” or if you use xampp “cd C:\xampp\htdocs\zf2crud” and press enter

12. Now run “php composer.phar self-update” in your CLI

13. After Completing php composer.phar self update now run “php composer.phar install”

This will take a while to download and generate autoload files.

In that mean time, setup the virtual host. assuming that virtual host is zf2crud.localhost

14. Assuming that I’m going to setup a host named zf2crud.localhost and my host files are inC:\wamp\www\zf2crud\public

1. Click WAMP icon on quick launch then Apache -> httpd.conf to open apache config file.

2. Go to bottom of the file and add following host settings.

1	<VirtualHost *:80>

2	ServerName zf2crud.localhost

3	DocumentRoot C:\wamp\www\zf2crud\public

4	SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"

5	<Directory C:\wamp\www\zf2crud\public>

6	DirectoryIndex index.php

7	AllowOverride All

8	Order allow,deny

9	Allow from all

10	</Directory>

11	</VirtualHost>

• And also add this if you already do not have this, this will give access to the localhost as usual

1	<VirtualHost *:80>

2

3	ServerName localhost

4

5	DocumentRoot C:\wamp\www

6

7	SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"

8

9	<Directory C:\wamp\www>

10

11	DirectoryIndex index.php

12

13	AllowOverride All

14

15	Order allow,deny

16

17	Allow from all

18

19	</Directory>

20

21	</VirtualHost>

For xampp settings Go to your xampp control panel click Config and open Apache (httpd.conf)

13. Open the windows host file. in my case, C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc and place

1	127.0.0.1 zf2crud.localhost

Finally go http://zf2crud.localhost/ to run your zend framework 2 demo

goodgood verygood