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FileMaker Server & Zabbix: Setting Up a Server Part 1

Lesson in Brief: Monitor FileMaker Server Via Zabbix Utilizing a Windows 10 Machine

Setting up a FileMaker server and never looking at it again is a recipe for disaster. Are your backups running? Has the scripting engine crashed? Are you running out of memory or CPU? Are your integrations taxing your solution? If any of these things happen, or if you're not monitoring to ensure they don't, you're putting your data at risk.

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FileMaker WebDirect: URL Differences Between 15 And 16

Forwarding FileMaker WebDirect 15 URLs to WebDirect 16

When FileMaker 16 was released in May 2017, there was plenty of fanfare surrounding the many new features it introduced. WebDirect, however, did not get much attention or focus on any changes. But there were some, including an adjustment to the URL used to access a FileMaker solution.

For people that have bookmarked the FileMaker 15 WebDirect URL to your database, this presents a problem. Let’s see how we can fix it… 

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FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services: Elastic IPs

Utilizing an Elastic IP Address to Access Your FileMaker Server

Continuing our series of FileMaker Server (FMS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS), this installment looks at Elastic IPs, what they are and why you might want one. If you're not familiar with AWS and setting up FMS on an Instance, check out our other blog posts FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services: Part 1 and FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services: Part 2 before delving into this one.

So, let’s check out Elastic IPs…

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Capturing Map Coordinates In FileMaker WebDirect

Utilizing the FileMaker PHP API

In previous posts, we detailed a technique to capture the coordinates from a Google map and place these into a record in FileMaker. This is certainly a great way to have your users interact with maps, as long as they are using the FileMaker Pro client. If the solution deploys FileMaker WebDirect, the technique does not work. But we have a way that does and after a number of enquiries about how we did it, we’re finally getting around to documenting this and sharing with others...

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Essential Update: Outlook.com Custom Domain Email Logon Issues

How To Fix Logon Issues After Outlook.Com Migrates To Office 365 Backend

Back in May of this year, Microsoft announced that it was beginning a transition of its Outlook.com email product to an Office 365 back end infrastructure. This has been ongoing and we recently encountered an issue where the credentials for a custom domain email account were being rejected, despite being correct. Here's how we fixed it.

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