If you come across this ancient bit of code in a Classic ASP project. CDO.Message.1 error ‘80040220’ The “SendUsing” configuration value is invalid. It might not be what you think… Go into IIS, Application Pools, find your website, Right Click and Advanced, then check this setting: Set ‘Identity’ to ‘Network Service’ and see if that fixes... » read more
After our server people did some MS SQL database restores from some old backups to find some data, some .NET websites we had on the server started showing an error. (note I couldn’t see the error and had to disable custom errors from remote only, see here http://tech.ralpharama.co.uk/1/viewing-errors-remote-machine-after-sql-restores-broke-sites Server Error in '/' Application. Cannot open database... » read more
I’m adding a few old things to this blog, this is pretty old! We moved from an old IIS 6.0 server setup with Classic ASP code sending bulk newsletter emails using CDONTS, to a new Windows 2008 R2 server in the cloud with IIS 7.5. We also moved to using a 3rd party SMTP service... » read more
Getting CDO.Message.1 error ‘80040220’ The “SendUsing” configuration value is invalid. When sending mail? In Classic ASP and perhaps others you might run across this, it was driving me insane as it worked fine on other sites, but not on this particular one. We were running our sites on Amazon AWS, Windows Server 2008 R2. Solution: ... » read more