Month: February 2020

How to enable your visitors to opt-out of O’Brien Media Analytics

O'Brien Media is dedicated to providing privacy on the Internet. To provide your visitors with the choice of opting-out of O'Brien Media Analytics, you can add the following HTML code on one of your website page, for example in a Privacy Policy page. Let your users opt-out on your website HTML code to embed on your website <iframe style="border: 0; height: 200px; width: 600px;"...
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Setting up Microsoft Outlook for POP3 email access with SSL/TLS

Setting email client in Outlook with SSL (POP3) doesn’t take much time. You can accomplish this task easily in a couple of simple steps. On the Internet E-mail Settings (POP3) window, enter your information as follows:> Your Name : Your first and last name > E-mail Address: Your email address > User Name : Your email address, again> Account Type: Select POP3 from the drop down >...
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How to enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 in Outlook on Windows 7

Version 1.0 of the TLS protocol is not secure. As such it needs to be disabled on servers which want to have a PCI compliance. Our servers are PCI compliant by default, which is why we have disabled TLS 1.0 on them. On Windows 7 and Windows 8.0 computers, the applications built on WinHTTP (Windows HTTP Services) such as Outlook, Word, etc. only support TLS 1.0. As a result of this, if you try to...
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Drupal CMS Software Updates for O’Brien Media Clients

From time to time your Drupal website will need to have software updates installed in much the same way as your computer needs updates in order for it to work at it's best. There are two types of Drupal update: Updates to the "core" drupal software (like upgrading the version of Microsoft Windows or macOS on your computer) Updates to Drupal modules (like updates to your printer drivers or...
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How to check if a port is blocked by my ISP?

Depending on the operating system of your computer there are different ways to check if a certain port is being blocked by your Internet service provider. We will use port 25 in the examples below, however, the same commands are applicable for any other ports such as 21, 110, 143, 587, etc. Check port 25 in Windows You need to access your Command Prompt. To do so click on the Start menu...
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