Microsoft discontinued technical support for Windows Server 2003 on July 14, 2015 and support for Windows Server 2003 R2 ended on October 9, 2016. This operating system no longer receives updates and it has been our general policy to end support for platforms that are no longer supported by Microsoft.
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Microsoft discontinued technical support for Windows Server 2008 on January 14, 2020. However, Windows Server 2008 R2 will continue to be supported. This operating system no longer receives updates and it has been our general policy to end support for platforms that are no longer supported by Microsoft.
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Microsoft discontinued technical support for Windows XP on April 8, 2014 and Windows Vista reached end-of-support on April 11, 2017. These operating systems no longer receive updates and it has been our general policy to end support for platforms that are no longer supported by Microsoft.
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A new update for SocketTools is available for download. Version 10.0.1268.1892 was released on March 2nd, 2021. This update includes builds for .NET 5.0.3 assemblies and internal changes to support the .NET 6.0 preview. as well as a number of additional improvements and corrections for the components and libraries. This release also includes updates to
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Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is a security feature of Windows which is designed to protect you from potentially dangerous websites and downloaded files. This warning does not indicate the SocketTools installer or components contain malware.
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SocketTools includes support for Unicode in several different ways, depending on the edition and development tools used. This article discusses how Unicode support is implemented for the current version of each SocketTools edition.
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A new update for SocketTools is available for download. Version 10.0.1260.1875 was released on December 10th, 2020. Microsoft has released .NET 5.0 and this update includes builds for .NET 5.0.1 assemblies as well as a number of additional improvements and corrections for the components and libraries. This release also includes updates to the documentation and
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When connecting to an Office 365 mail server, the connection fails with an error that indicates it could not create a security context. The application had been working previously and the account credentials are valid.
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Microsoft announced in January 2020 that they would begin deprecating support for TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1 for Microsoft 365. As of October 15, 2020 deprecation will begin for all commercial customers, including those using POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP to exchange email.
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The CreateObject function can be used in Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and VBScript to dynamically create an instance of a SocketTools ActiveX control. To redistribute an application which uses CreateObject with a SocketTools control, the control's Initialize method must be called.
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