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Dear USA Today

I'd like to point out some problems with your study you did in particular about the claims on SBS 2003. In your information you indicate that on a SBS 2003 box you had  "Mitnick and Ryan Russell, an independent security researcher and author Read More
posted Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:38 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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So Where EXACTLY is Jeff...and Wayne.... and Dean?

Sorry he'll have to add descriptions later ...... but for those of you wanting to know Where's Jeff [besides in Melbourne for the Microsoft/HP/Trend SMB tour? He's in these pictures!  You know... I think I see some lycra in there.... what Read More
posted Tuesday, November 30, 2004 12:23 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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As she wipes a tear from her eye

Sniff sniff... as I do my first “send to, as attachment” out of Excel via Outlook, I got my first sidebar box in Outlook that reminded me I'm on my new and improved SBS 2003 box now and we're no longer in Kansas [meaning SBS 2000] anymore! Read More
posted Monday, November 29, 2004 7:20 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Catch them in Lycra while you can!

You have two last chances to see Jeff Middleton, Wayne Small and Dean Calvert, live, in person, with or without the lycra at the HP/Microsoft/Trend Micro SMB reseller summits down unda [note the pronoucement...it's not under it's unda]. Melbourne Wednesday Read More
posted Monday, November 29, 2004 6:50 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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So if the Airforce can get this, why can't you?

Couple of stories today on the Air Force making a deal to get a “special security tweaked” version of XP.  And in the TaoSecurity blog, asks “Will Microsoft sell this "special version" elsewhere, and if so, is the Air Force the Read More
posted Monday, November 29, 2004 1:15 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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The perfect gift for Christmas

Want to give the perfect gift for Christmas?  XP sp2 that's what.  So what are you missing out on if you don't have SP2? You don't have the full protection of group policy features that sp 2 has You don't have the built in IFrame protection Read More
posted Sunday, November 28, 2004 11:13 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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If I never post back to the blog, tell my Sister I'm stuck in the attic

We're putting up the Bradley Christmas tree and this normally includes one of us [normally me] crawling on my knees in the attic to pull out the Christmas ornaments.  The good news is this year we found the spare tiny light bulbs.. the huge bag of Read More
posted Sunday, November 28, 2004 3:14 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Mouse potatoes - check out the resources here

If you are into learning online you might want to check out some of the resources and links for info. First off are the full video webcasts or seminars that can be found here at the Microsoft online seminars.  Click around and take Read More
posted Sunday, November 28, 2004 1:30 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Coming to a bookstore near you next year

So in addition to putting in the server over the Thanksgiving weekend I was also reading a few more chapters in that future Security book that I've mentioned earlier in my blog that I'm giving feedback on.  [No, I wouldn't even dare to call Read More
posted Saturday, November 27, 2004 11:49 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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The RSS feed is connected to the Sharepoint that is connected to the customer that is connected to..

Tim Barrett posted in the comment section a really kewl idea that I just had to pull up to the front blog. Here's the idea.  You, the IT pro do a blog [blogger.com is free] of tips, tricks, announcements, happenings of interest to your customer. Read More
posted Saturday, November 27, 2004 10:29 AM by bradley | 3 Comments
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What I didn't have to do

Just to let you know that on this server I did NOT have to wack off SMB signing to get the Konica copier/printer to work and the file transfer speed working. I left the system “as is” with a full network of XP sp2 machines and the NIC at Read More
posted Friday, November 26, 2004 9:39 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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I just added a bit of insecurity to my network

Windows 2003 by default does not turn on, doesn't even install ftp service.  To get my network back “exactly” to full working order by Monday I had to install ftp service and enable it.  Now after my old server is reincarnated as Read More
posted Friday, November 26, 2004 8:51 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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What a geek uses for Christmas shopping

In case you are wondering... I don't do malls anymore for my after Thanksgiving day Christmas shopping experience.  I do online shopping.   From Amazon.com to Outpost.com [Frys online shopping experience] there isn't much you can't find Read More
posted Friday, November 26, 2004 10:33 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So how do you email something that should be confidential?

 Just following up on a blog posting and something that came up on a listserve. How can you email something confidentially both internally and externally [especially if you are wacko like I am and open up the email as per our employee policy]? Read More
posted Friday, November 26, 2004 10:18 AM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Details on Group Policy

Jeff from Vancouver also writes in that he wants a more detailed description of what the group policy can and cannot do. You know [in my opinion] the best source for seeing the power of group policy is?  In an Excel spreadsheet. Now granted I think Read More
posted Friday, November 26, 2004 1:13 AM by bradley | 2 Comments
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So why did I?

From the mailbag comes a couple of questions from Jeff L out of Vancouver regarding some things I did in Exchange: Why did I manually turn off circular logging? Why switch to native mode? When the SBS2k3 ships and you have not run the backup wizard, Read More
posted Friday, November 26, 2004 1:04 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Needing to use Exmerge to move mailboxes and mail from one server to another?

I'm stealing a newsgroup post from Chris Puckett!To Obtain Exmerge.exe----------------------------- 1. To download Exmerge.exe, visit the following Microsoft Web site           2. This download is Read More
posted Thursday, November 25, 2004 11:30 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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There's always one that drives you to drink

Well day two of the “you really don't want to do it like I'm doing it and I never want to do this again and have to “touch” the workstations like I'm having to do it” migration. I got the permissions needed for Lacerte working, Read More
posted Thursday, November 25, 2004 11:07 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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When is a date not a date?

For those of you in the world that are not MM/DD/YY but backwards [well to me anyway], you do know that Company web has it's “own“ date settings, don't you? Thanks to Kevin for posting thisCheck out http://companyweb, Site Settings, Go to Read More
posted Thursday, November 25, 2004 9:52 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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Permissions anyone?

So one sticking point I had on a older line of business tax application was that it was freaking out saying it didn't have the right permissions, so I had to go up to the server, and on the folder it resided in, push down a permission for read/write/muck Read More
posted Thursday, November 25, 2004 3:49 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Note to self, don't forget the little things

So the robocopy finished and I have copied over the data files and was checking to make sure that the data had copied and noticed the drive space on the newly build server was slowly decreasing. Huh? Then it hit me.  It was 11:00 p.m. and I had Read More
posted Thursday, November 25, 2004 1:36 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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As the robocopy goes flying by

I made a painful decision to rip out my domain and rename it [as I stupidly named it the last time] to ensure that as I go forward I don't have to do this again, and rather can use other migration methods.  For me, it was a toss up between what I'm Read More
posted Wednesday, November 24, 2004 6:29 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Really this isn't as out of character as you think

So I”m googling tonight for one last tweak.  I'm sharing out ALL my mailboxes in Exhange to all the other people in the office.  Yes, you heard that right, I'm sharing out the ENTIRE mailstore with all my other employees.  For all Read More
posted Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:10 AM by bradley | 5 Comments
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SBS KBs of interest

"The document name or path is not valid" error message when you open a new document in a Windows SharePoint Services document library that is hosted on a Windows Small Business Server 2003-based computer: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=886619You cannot Read More
posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:49 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Toronto SBSers! Harry B and SMBnation coming to your neighborhood!

Dear Fellow SBS'ers, Great news!!! Small Business Server (SBS) author Harry Brelsford will be returning to Canada on January 11, 2005 to deliver his popular one-day Windows SBS 2003 workshop. This workshop provides a third-party look at SBS from both Read More
posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:43 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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As we pause for a moment of silence for our "Sharepoint" Anniversary

Today, well, actually I mean tomorrow, but in reality today ... um.. okay see Australia is a day ahead so “today“ in the USA is our SBS infamous “we survived the Sharepoint date issue” anniversary in Australia where the issue first Read More
posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:36 PM by bradley | 1 Comments

So ya wanna get this stuff in your inbox rather than the web huh?

It's easy!  First I'll showcase “my” tool of choice for “sucking” in webblogs into Outlook.  It's called Newsgator.  Download it, try it out first [you can buy it later] and install it so it sits inside your Outlook Read More
posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 6:26 PM by bradley | 6 Comments
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Okay if you know a sort of geeky beancounter... send them this post

If you got forwarded this, it's because your friend considered you a geeky beencounter.  Wear this badge with pride my friend because I think that geeky beancounters will be more and more the drivers of technology in the future [but that's just my Read More
posted Monday, November 22, 2004 7:35 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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An open letter to "the Dark Side"

To the marketing department of Companies in Technology: Two things came across my desk this week to inspire this post.  The first was a study to help “develop a share CIO/TMT understanding” and the other was this blog post. First off, Read More
posted Monday, November 22, 2004 7:11 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Don't forget the little things

So today I called Ultrabac and got the license updated for use on the new server as the license is tied to the server name.  I lamely named my SBS2000 a firmname-year [don't do that] so I'm making a decision to have the server name Read More
posted Monday, November 22, 2004 1:12 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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OH and one more thing... you don't NEED all those attachments

Just a reminder... your end users.. your customers?  THEY DON'T NEED TO OPEN EVERY ATTACHMENT THEY GET. They don't need .scr or .exe or .pif or any of that gunk.  Go into Scanmail and click on “enable attachment blocking“.  Click on the Read More
posted Sunday, November 21, 2004 9:00 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Antivirus anyone?

When I first got my other server, SBS 2000, I actually delayed the roll out of that server because you had to either wait for Exchange 2000 sp1 or do a funky registry workaround.  Because you never want to put a server in production without Antivirus Read More
posted Sunday, November 21, 2004 7:47 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Nothin' like driving two servers at the same time

So getting ready to cut over and I'm ensuring that the tweaks and stuff I had in the old server are in the new one so I'm remoting into both the server at the office and the new server at home from my laptop while sitting at home in front of the TV.  Read More
posted Sunday, November 21, 2004 5:33 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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Group policy anyone?

Thought I'd show you what I did to enable the NoLMHash How to prevent Windows from storing a LAN manager hash of your password in Active Directory and local SAM databases: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299656 First I opened Read More
posted Sunday, November 21, 2004 2:13 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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So I just put in my Sharepoint CALs

Got the SQL patch to work on the SBSMonitoring... it was weird because I reran the monitoring wizard leaving the “defaults” and then it patched like a champ.  The only “unpatched” item is the .Net 1.1 sp1 that Shalik can't Read More
posted Sunday, November 21, 2004 12:40 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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The last two patches and a Security tweak

Hmmmm..... there's two patches that won't push down from MBSA/Shavlik so I'm doing them manually.  The first is the .NET 1.1 sp1 and the second is the 03-31 for the SBSMonitoring SQL/MSDE instance.  One tweak I'm putting in place is the “Dr. Read More
posted Saturday, November 20, 2004 10:36 PM by bradley | 12 Comments
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So I'm patching both my new server AND my hair

Finishing up the patching on the server and it was kinda getting a bit boring waiting for the patches and the reboots so I started multitasking and highlighting [patching] my hair at the same time [the blonde streaks were growing out].  Even with Read More
posted Saturday, November 20, 2004 4:35 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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So you think you are patched, revisited

Pauli commented in “is there a Microsoft approved way to keep our boxes patched up?“ Yes, actually Windows Update Following the patches on our download site page If you use, like he does, only uses Windows Update and MBSA, you'll miss Read More
posted Saturday, November 20, 2004 8:17 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So you think you are patched, do you?

Sorry for harping on this issue like a broken record but I'm finishing up the new server and just wanted to point out a few things: Windows update may say I'm patched: But Shavlik 's HfnetchkPro disagrees: In fact we're missing 3 service Read More
posted Saturday, November 20, 2004 1:16 AM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Some addins on XP sp2 are not listed in the Manage Add-ons box

One of the big changes in IE under XP sp2 is the ability to manage Internet Explorer add ins.  Details of this are showcased here: How to manage Internet Explorer add-ons in Windows XP Service Pack 2: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256 Tonight Read More
posted Friday, November 19, 2004 11:50 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Last patch - thank you SBS 2000

 Getting ready to fire up the Shavlik Hfnethck pro to patch my network [yes even though my brand new baby..um..my new SBS 2003 server is coming in next weekend I don't want to slip from my designated patch schedule] and it's the last time I'll Read More
posted Friday, November 19, 2004 7:06 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Amy Babinchak's ISA/SBS Series

Have you noticed how the ISA folks are starting to warm up to us SBSers... I think it's Amy hanging around them.  She just posted another in the ISA/SBS series of documents on ISAserver.org on configuring Trend Micro CSM for SSL with ISA server 2000 Read More
posted Friday, November 19, 2004 1:00 PM by bradley | 1 Comments

It doesn't quite do what it's supposed to do

Jim pinged me on IM with an issue with offline folders not syncing and it was as a result of this.  Thanks to Javier to the answer.  I honestly don't use offline folders Synchronizing Offline Folders Does Not Synchronize Subfolders: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;262090 Read More
posted Friday, November 19, 2004 12:53 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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SBS KBs of Interest

MS04-039: Vulnerability in ISA Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2.0 could allow Internet content spoofing: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888258How to re-install Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 in Windows Small Business Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=887305"An Read More
posted Thursday, November 18, 2004 5:24 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Wonder if he's wearing a Blue Shirt?

 Every month Mike Nash does a series of Webcasts and chats that are live and interactive.  The running joke we have is that Mike Nash always wears a blue shirt for such things [Seriously I've only seen him wear a blue shirt for the webcasts].  Read More
posted Thursday, November 18, 2004 12:00 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Getting technical help

I will use Google before asking a dumb question is what Bart is writing on the chalkboard. Tristan has a great blog post about how to gather information for a tech issue.  This is very timely given our “community” issue last week with Read More
posted Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:04 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Pre move clean up

I'm warning my folks to clean up their mailboxes before the move and I'm purposely going to leave the deleted email behind. I'm going to turn OFF the mail quota and turn OFF the drive space quota, but some firms might need to keep these in mind. One Read More
posted Wednesday, November 17, 2004 10:08 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Have you visited the download page lately?

Just a reminder that Windows update at this time is NOT enough to keep us patched up. The WUS public beta just opened up but it's not [let me repeat that] NOT MEANT to be put on production machines.  As a consultant on a TEST BOX you can try it out, Read More
posted Wednesday, November 17, 2004 8:29 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Information Workers Security Handbook

Information Workers Security HandbookThe Security Business and Technology Unit (SBTU), with the assistance of the Microsoft Solutions for Security (MSS) team has put together an Information Workers Security Handbook IT professionals have requested Read More
posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 6:56 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Wayne says there is an entire store devoted to me

Wayne [and Jeff] ping me on IM and send me this photo that there's an entire store devoted to me.  ;-) By the way does everyone know the REAL reason why I called the blog “DIVA”... it's because David Coursey called me that in a SBS Read More
posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 6:00 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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So Where is Jeff Now?

So have you been keeping track of Where is Jeff Now?  There is a backstory to that photo posted on that web site.  [Check it out]  You see during the launch of Small Business Server 2003 in New Orleans, Grey Lancaster, Big Daddy of the Read More
posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:44 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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ISA 2000 Patch re-released

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-039.mspx   Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-039: Vulnerability in ISA Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2.0 Could Allow Internet Content Spoofing (888258)   PLEASE NOTE:  Neither Read More
posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:09 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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SBS LIVE! With Andy Goodman

Today at 4:00 p.m. “my” time [Pacific] is this month's SBSLive with Andy Goodman.  It's a fun, freewheeling discussion led by Andy but driven by your questions.  Log in and BE THERE! I'll see you tonight at the chat! By the way, Read More
posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 8:42 AM by bradley | 2 Comments
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WUS Public Beta is announced

We pegged it right...we thought Bill would announce it at the ITForum! http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sus/wusbeta.mspxhttp://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1728266,00.asp   Read More
posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 6:27 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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I'm stealing your email, John!

So I just got a SRX follow up email to close my case and I'm stealing part of John Behneman's email given that even Incident.org suffered a RAID failure today:  There is nothing worse than a failure of a drive..in my opinion...that sinking feeling Read More
posted Monday, November 15, 2004 7:03 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Interesting stats thus far

I'm Tallying the AICPA Technology survey tonight [it just closed down] and there's an interesting pattern in here.  I won't say what it is... but I think you might be surprised about one of the results.  It has to do with a question we asked Read More
posted Monday, November 15, 2004 6:48 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Okay folks... I'm putting you guys on notice

Thanksgiving weekend my SBS 2000 box will be retired folks.  That means the knowledge that I have of that platform is going into mothballs and I'll slowly lose that information.  On 4.5, I honestly haven't answered a question on SBS 4.5 is so Read More
posted Sunday, November 14, 2004 11:49 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Are you a CUSTOMER?

And want to know the ins and outs of licensing?  Eric Ligman is putting on a webcast for the customer viewpoint of why SA is a good thing.  People always ask about that Home user right SA and remember that the HUR version of Office has the EULA Read More
posted Sunday, November 14, 2004 11:21 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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ISA Server is IN THE HOUSE

One throttled nic gig later and I'm blogging from a temp domained tablet PC that is behind my “new baby” ...my SBS 2003.  Right now the Windows Task manager is showing a 2% CPU usage and a 2.58 gig Page file.  My next step is to Read More
posted Sunday, November 14, 2004 9:08 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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I hate GIG NICs

Well I got my Internet access working.. it was a STUPID nic that needed to be throttled to 10 speed and then it works. Go figure! P.S.  I also did something very blonde.  I left PcCillian's firewall on the tablet PC that I was using as a test Read More
posted Sunday, November 14, 2004 8:23 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Ping anyone?

Well I'm here on hold with nice jazz music because I'm stuck.  Note to self... make sure you can ping from the initial build of the system.  ISA server install got stuck the first time, so I stopped the nonresponding app [and btw ..note to Microsoft Read More
posted Sunday, November 14, 2004 5:55 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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Kewl I have a Search Box in Sharepoint now

And I notice there's a couple of missing steps in the "Completing Setup for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server Premium Technologies" which are covered in the KB -- How to turn on full-text search in Windows SharePoint Services on a Windows Small Read More
posted Sunday, November 14, 2004 11:17 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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SBS KBs of interest

You can save backup files to a network share when you use the Small Business Server 2003 Backup or Restore Wizard to back up your server: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=886623You receive an error message when you try to make a Terminal Services connection Read More
posted Saturday, November 13, 2004 3:42 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Choosing passwords

So I'm building my new baby [umm server] and I get to the part where you have to enter the password and because this is a HP machine that I”ve used the HP setup wizard on [yup just seeing how this will go] and I've set up a password on the HP web Read More
posted Saturday, November 13, 2004 12:05 AM by bradley | 3 Comments
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RAID is not an ant spray

I'm using two types of RAID tonight.  One is the ant spray [it's been raining here the last couple of days and the ants are coming indoors out of the rain] and the other is Redundant array of inexpensive drives.  I'm setting up the mondo server Read More
posted Friday, November 12, 2004 8:49 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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UberGeek weekend

As you may or may not have figured out ... I was up in Redmond for a Security MVP summit this week [more on that in another blog post] and just got back last night.  So today, I get my first cool uber geekness of the weekend..... some security Read More
posted Friday, November 12, 2004 6:31 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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ISA 2000 and the 04-039 patch

Heads up folks, it appears that the issue we've been seeing in the newsgroups about ISA 2000 and the 04-039 patch is only on machines that are NOT [let's repeat that] NOT on ISA 2000 service pack 2.  If you are still on Service pack 1, it looks like Read More
posted Friday, November 12, 2004 12:29 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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Don't mess with my firewall

When I read this the other day, I don't remember if I blogged it.  When Windows 2003 sp1 ships, the lovely community of people that talk to Microsoft [read Enterprise folks] have asked Microsoft to disable the XP sp2 firewall “by default”.  Read More
posted Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:59 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Handicappin' the patches - November 2004

Today 04-039 was released. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-039 - Vulnerability in ISA Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2.0 Could Allow Internet Content Spoofing (888258) This one is a hard one for me to get a handle on.  Right now I don't get Read More
posted Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:28 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Security patch for SBS 2003 PREMIUM and SBS 2000 with ISA installed

 MS04-039 Vulnerability in ISA Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2.0 Could AllowInternet Content Spoofing (888258)Severity: Importanthttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS04-039.mspx I'll write up a report tonight.   Read More
posted Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:39 AM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Tomorrow is patch day

Just a reminder that tomorrow is patch day.  I'll be a bit offline tomorrow so I'm not sure when I'll post in the official notice but remember due to our advance notice, we know it's an ISA server patch, is only “important” and needs Read More
posted Monday, November 08, 2004 6:04 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Don't forget! Eric L's Licensing webcast tomorrow!

 MS Small Business Licensing for Partners - Microsoft Small Business Channel Training Session Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:30 AM - Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:30 PM (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) Welcome Time: 11:15 AM Language: English-American Read More
posted Monday, November 08, 2004 2:27 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Want to try out something new?

  What's a beta, something new, and fully integrates with Office [heck it's part of the Office family?]  The new Office for Small Business Management!  PCWorld has an early review here and I've signed up for the beta.  There's a couple Read More
posted Sunday, November 07, 2004 8:02 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Forgive me for being a bit off topic in this post

But I just have to ask...when luggage is defined as “carry on”, ever notice how people bring the kitchen sink when they travel and attempt to stuff it in the overhead bin?  Ever heard of a concept of “checking luggage“ or Read More
posted Sunday, November 07, 2004 7:48 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So where's Jeff now?

As I sit here in the hotel waiting for my “usual”, the Bacon Burger ordered from Room Service, just thought I'd spill the beans on that “social site” I talked about the other day.  Remember I said that Jeff Middleton was going Read More
posted Saturday, November 06, 2004 5:27 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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My kingdom for a download link

Okay I'm sitting on the ground at the Fresno Air Terminal [yes, the letters spell FAT] next to the wall so I can plug in and get power because when they built the new terminal they didn't put power in the places where the seats are.  Brilliant isn't Read More
posted Friday, November 05, 2004 6:30 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Our own "Incredibles" coming to an AU city near you

  Disney and Pixar have “The Incredibles“ opening today, meanwhile Microsoft, HP and Trend have some of our own “SBS Incredibles” coming to an Australia city near you.  They are running a series of Read More
posted Friday, November 05, 2004 8:55 AM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Software Assurance and Office Odds and Ends

Forgot to tell you guys what I got in the mail the other day.  Office 2003 sp1 from MS Licensing.  It was my latest “drop” shipment of my Software Assurance fulfillment.  Once again, I wasn't expecting it, didn't have to call Read More
posted Friday, November 05, 2004 7:15 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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MRXsmb errors in your system event log files after XP sp2?

Sorry to sound like a broken record again, but first I have to rant: "An enterprise class account will typically have adequate security procedures from a firewall perspective, and also have appropriate intrusion detection systems," said Phil Ernst, president Read More
posted Thursday, November 04, 2004 6:18 PM by bradley | 7 Comments
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I think I see an Elephant doing a quick agile move

There are times when the large corporation of Microsoft surprises me.  Today was one of those times.  Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification Announcement Published: November 4, 2004 In response to consumer feedback, Read More
posted Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:37 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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SBS KBs of interest

A troubleshooting resource is available for common Windows Small Business Server 2003 issues: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=887304The server cannot synchronize with an external time source after you run the Configure E-mail and Internet Connection Read More
posted Wednesday, November 03, 2004 9:49 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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I think "Best practices" is a crock

I'm in a mood.  No, not one of those female moods where you guys go “Yes, dear”, more like a ... okay if big businesses who have budgets can't do this stuff.... kind of mood. Today my email box is another red banner day of bagel viruses/worms Read More
posted Wednesday, November 03, 2004 6:54 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Security newsletters for your clients

In the latest Microsoft Partner newsletter they refer to a customizable newsletter that you can send to your clients.  I set it up and emailed it to myself.  Check it out.  It's good, but I think a little “too” geeky for Read More
posted Wednesday, November 03, 2004 12:31 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Shadow Copies, Trend and Office scan

Are you getting Trend's Officescan reporting viruses in the quarantine folder of Shadow Copies? Make sure you move the quarantine folder out of the following path locations \windows \program files \documents and settings Move the quarantine Read More
posted Wednesday, November 03, 2004 12:15 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Assembly Bill 1950 - new California Law

I'm putting together a Top Technology powerpoint tonight and was looking at the Gartner web site and they have a headline that says “Prepare for California's new Data Security Law“.  Okay I'm familiar with SB 1386, the “you get Read More
posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 11:08 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Okay, now I don't want them to use the Internet

So you've set up SBS 2003 and it's working a little TOO good and you want to restrict some people from using the Internet.  So how do you do that? Got SBS 2003 Premium?  Remove the folks from the Internet users security group.  As Read More
posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 7:10 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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As a Disney shareholder, I think it's a great idea. But you probably don't agree.

Okay I think this is a trend in the making... four people I know said about the same things in the short span of two days.  They are tired of buying three copies of Disney DVDs for their home entertainment system because they copies they bought for Read More
posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:59 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Dear IT Company:

Sorry about the rant, folks but a customer posted in the public newsgroup that got me in this mood. So here's a letter to an IT Company somewhere: A customer of yours posted into the public newsgroup today.  They said that you are a supposedly Read More
posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 1:14 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Okay I might not have smart phone but I do at least have this!

Okay, I may not have a smart phone but at least I do have a cell phone.  I was meeting with an Attorney today and was making sure all was set for a meeting later this week with my Managing partner and him and I told him my boss' cell phone number Read More
posted Monday, November 01, 2004 10:58 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Does everyone know about "PubSub"?

Someone asked tonight if I had a hotbutton to Google or something.  No, just a lot of RSS feeds that give me really cool stuff.  Speaking of RSS feeds, do you know about the search engines and tools that are out there for RSS feeds?  PubSub Read More
posted Monday, November 01, 2004 8:13 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Hey that's pretty cool!

  Hey, this is pretty cool!  The Small Business Trends blog did a “PowerBlog” review of my blog.  I stumbled across the blog and found it to be very interesting.  A recent blog post about Australian small business, Read More
posted Monday, November 01, 2004 1:02 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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