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I want an RSS feed and I don't think I'm the only one

On a couple of listserves, WSUS, and Focus on MS, I've seen some folks talk about how their first indication that Office 2003 sp2 was when their workstations popped up with a “you have patches to install” icon. Hands down the Security folks Read More
posted Friday, September 30, 2005 6:07 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Hey check this out!

There's a SBA [small business accounting 2006] blog!  http://sba2006.blogspot.com Read More
posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:49 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Small Business Accounting 2006 fixes the "suckage" problem

One of the things that I said needed fixing in SBA 2006 now is fixed... Suckage.  SBA needed to...had to... pull over ALL transactions from Quickbooks.  The original version did not.  They've just relased the update to allow the software Read More
posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:50 AM by bradley | 3 Comments
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I have a yellow Shield on my laptop today [Office 2003 sp2]

And since this is my laptop, and I'm on the road, I'm probably going to say “wait” and install later.  Office 2003 Service Pack 2 provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office 2003. Now I should 'fess up ...and fix up...the fact Read More
posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:34 AM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Sharepoint SP2 - revisited

From the mailbag today... For what it's worth, the KB announcing WSS SP2 does NOT include SBS2003 in the 'Supported Operating Systems' list and when I ran MU on my SBS box, WSS SP2 did NOT show up in the list of available updates. Then again, SP1 does Read More
posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 2:57 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Feedback

I got a ping today and in the email this was included.... “My biggest concern is that the last 3 calls to Microsoft's Business Down Critical Support have yielded no help whatsoever and the communication issues have been a huge issue as well.  Read More
posted Tuesday, September 27, 2005 6:41 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Are you a Small Business Specialist member?

If you are... boy do we have an offer for you!  Level Platforms and Microsoft has teamed up with a cool offer!! Check it out! Read More
posted Tuesday, September 27, 2005 6:04 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Looking for the Bkrunner.exe script that was mentioned in the blog

Steve Foster did the [hack] fix for the backup script and the link is specifically here. You need to sign up for the sbs2k-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and log in and set up a profile and download the adjusted script/hack there.   Read More
posted Tuesday, September 27, 2005 5:39 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Windows Sharepoint Services sp2 released

Bill reminds us that Windows Sharepoint Services sp2 has been released. Now, keep in mind that ANY service pack for our parts is perfectly fine to put on a SBS box, but I personally am not at home and I won't be testing this yet.  We do have some Read More
posted Tuesday, September 27, 2005 8:40 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Geek train trip status report

Met a lovely Austrailian couple on their way to see their daughter in Canada. Met Ben's mother [fellow MVP] Met a husband and wife from the states tonight, and each time I'm sure bored them with geek talk of “Patch Tuesday.  But that's six Read More
posted Monday, September 26, 2005 8:57 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Ben, we met your Mother on the train

On the train eating lunch and of course I get into my “bore the other people at the table by talking geek talk” aka patching, security issues and what not.... and we start trying to describe what we are and why we're going to Seattle and the Read More
posted Monday, September 26, 2005 2:36 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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The 'other store'

We walked into the “other' store in San Francisco.  The Apple store.  And while one could argue that the tack that Microsoft has taken with it's 'open' platform that allows anyone to upgrade and build on the Windows platform, man could Read More
posted Sunday, September 25, 2005 9:48 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Next stop Seattle

Sitting in the Emeryville train station waiting for the 10:12 Amtrak from Emeryville to Seattle...and Steve Foster and I are sharing out the Sony Ericsson Aircard between my laptop connection .... so the two of us are sitting here ...me blogging him IMing Read More
posted Sunday, September 25, 2005 9:39 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Accepting risk

So sitting outside the Meteron in San Francisco where they have wireless network..... and here's what I had to agree with.... Acceptable Use Policy   This document provides a general description of this hot spot's policy on the Acceptable Read More
posted Sunday, September 25, 2005 6:20 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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SF and Internet access

Walking along the streets of San Francisco and seeing the Internet cafe's always brings up the issue of security and keystroke loggers.  Steve Foster suggested that you turn on the accessibility keyboard so that you aren't 'typing' in your password Read More
posted Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:06 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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The checklist

Geek clothes.... ...more geek clothes.... ... Blogging T Shirt..... Power cords...... Cell phone power.... [and btw you would think that a cigarette lighter that's supposed to be a mini usb would fit my Audiovox but it didn't and Steve and I were Read More
posted Saturday, September 24, 2005 12:17 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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PEAP, WPA and .....uh what?

From the mailbag the other day....   Susan,   Okay, so I'm pretty sure that WEP has been "dead" as a viable wireless security option for at least 3 years, right?  I mean, sure, there's plenty of home users using WEP or WPA because it's Read More
posted Saturday, September 24, 2005 12:09 AM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Who's on first?

From the mailbag comes this question.... How in the heck do you know who's on first (let alone second and third)? I am sitting here reading your blog, and checking out several of my clients' server via remote desktop and I need to reboot one of them. Read More
posted Friday, September 23, 2005 1:44 AM by bradley | 2 Comments
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What's the catch?

Many times there are two camps of folks learning about SBS.... Camp A - aka 'what's the catch' when they find out about the pricing of SBS Camp B - aka 'do we have to use the wizards? This download is for a bit of both worlds.... The slide deck and Read More
posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:53 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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You DO know about the TS2 blogs don't you?

I hope you are following the TS2 blogs.....because if you did you'd find out the following.... Also, we've received word that PSS will support the hosting of the SBA database on a SBS 2003 Standard Server! Hoooraay!! Read More
posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:48 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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You may receive a stop error if you are running PcAnywhere with A/V

You may receive a "Stop 0x00000020" error message on a computer that is running Windows Small Business Server 2003 or Windows Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=905539 This problem is known to occur on servers that are running Symantec pcAnywhere Read More
posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:40 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Got bit by the ActiveX/Spybot false positive bug?

Stealing this from the newsgroups from JJDavidson..... If you've been getting errors from RWW/RDP recently, particularly "This portion of the Remote Web Workplace requires the Microsoft Remote Desktop ActiveX Control" or "An invalid server name Read More
posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:22 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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That Exchange patch from the other day

Just a reminder in case it wasn't clear.... The patch that came down last week, 888619, says in the KB article that you don't need to reboot, but on our boxes, it clearly does need one. And if you are on SBS 2003 with no Service pack, you need to reapply Read More
posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:47 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So how do you make a drive letter out of Sharepoint?

So after the blog post the other day, people asked how do you map a drive letter from Sharepoint. Easy... on a workstation give this a try. Click on My computer, tools, map a drive, pick a drive letter and when the 'browse' box shows up, just put “wack Read More
posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:13 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Upcoming events in the blog

Just a heads up... blogging the next week will be a bit “unusual” to say the least.  First off on Saturday, Steve Foster and I are driving to San Franscio on Saturday to do a bit of sightseeing, then taking the train [yes THE TRAIN] from Read More
posted Wednesday, September 21, 2005 7:15 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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I just LOVE Tom Liston's posts

Just a shout out for today's Incidents.org diary post.  I can always tell when Tom Liston is at the keyboard. Love that man's posts. Read More
posted Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:51 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So how can you save from Outlook email to Sharepoint directly?

So I have these attachments that I wanted to dump straight into Sharepoint..but they were email attachments in Outlook...so...I asked the gang and Javier said..... Save it to Sharepoint just like you would save it from any other application.Right-click Read More
posted Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:32 PM by bradley | 8 Comments
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Is your VPN slow? Maybe it's the app that doesn't like being on the VPN?

From the mailbag today.... At work I have SBS running RAS on a 3 Ghz Xeon box w/ 2 GB of RAM.  It is connected to the internet via DSL.   When I VPN into RAS from home using the Windows XP VPN client (PPTP) over a cable internet connection Read More
posted Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:30 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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I don't salute you one bit....

 James Coates says...."I salute you for keeping a Windows 98 computer running in the face of enormous pressures to upgrade to XP," And he gets PAID to write this? And he's a technology writer? Read More
posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:43 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Do you backup your CALs?

Do you go inside the Licensing console and backup those CAL licenses?  What?  You don't?  You do realize that if you have to [heaven forbid] rebuild the server, that you will have to call up PSS/Licesnsing and reactivate the CALs.  Read More
posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:39 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Mind telling me which one, dear?

So the backup failed last night and I remote in to look at the log file errors.... “Verify of "F:"Backup set #3 on media #1Backup description: "SBS Backup created on 9/19/2005 at 7:00 PM"Verify started on 9/19/2005 at 10:30 PM. Error: An inconsistency Read More
posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:21 AM by bradley | 2 Comments
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October 19th! It's stump Ray Fong day!

Exchange Server 2003 General DiscussionsCome join us this 1-hour open Q&A session about Exchange Server 2003. Experts from our Exchange Admin, Exchange Client, and Exchange Connector team in PSS are ready to answer any of your Exchange questions. Read More
posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:36 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Needing to put Domain\Username back into OWA and you didn't before?

According to the folks at the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference, a lot of the Exchange installs are SBS boxes... but there are times I feel like we need the Exchange team to get a bit more SBS love.  We're not quite sure what happened Read More
posted Monday, September 19, 2005 5:16 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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You worried about passwords?

Got 98's in your network?  You do?  The you are running with LanMan hashes inside the network.  These hash values can be VERY easily sniffed and the password 'cracked' if you have access to the network. But... read that again.... Read More
posted Monday, September 19, 2005 12:34 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Restricted user and wireless

One interesting thing, in my quest to ensure that I won't be ragged on at the Summit for running as local admin on my tablet, I found that when I switched the account to restricted user... and later adjusted the wireless to not need WPA, the connection Read More
posted Sunday, September 18, 2005 3:55 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Please be aware...

For the next 90 days I'll be checking out this web site.... Read More
posted Saturday, September 17, 2005 2:14 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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You see... these are mine... those aren't....

Having a friend come over to stay and purposely opening an outside Wireless access point to make it easier for him [ala Hotel you know but without the $9.95 bill] as well as leaving my WPA one intact.  And as I'm typing up the instructions as Read More
posted Saturday, September 17, 2005 12:00 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Defragging, Repairing [NOT], and rebuilding Exchange oh my!

Since a certain person won't blog this excellent post, I went and grabbed it from the Archives of the AD listserve. Click and read. The highlights.... The /p switch ... Repair (/p) is destructive. Aside: NEVER run repair on an AD database. Defrag Read More
posted Friday, September 16, 2005 10:07 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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How to get started?

Got a ping today on how to get started consulting for SBS boxes. You read this blog that's a good start Go to www.mssmallbiz.com and check out the resources there Sign up for smallbizit-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and check out the consulting agreements Read More
posted Friday, September 16, 2005 6:36 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Do we really value ourselves properly?

How many hours will you bang on an issue before you call for help? An hour?  Two?  A day? I mean do they assign a value to your time spent dealing with an issue? What about you?  The IT Pro?  I've had this rant before, but Read More
posted Friday, September 16, 2005 6:24 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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WSUS and MU offering a fix and issues with KB 888619

If you have chosen to have WSUS offer up 'all patches but drivers' and you find that... Exchange doesn't work /remote doesn't work /exchange doesn't work You are not alone... Reboot your box and you should be okay [if you are NOT, ping me] The Read More
posted Friday, September 16, 2005 3:56 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Group Policies anyone?

From the mailbox comes the question about setting up group policies...and the poster talks about setting up all the local users within their own Organizational Unit...but here's the thing.. I'm not sure if he's mucked with the “My business” Read More
posted Friday, September 16, 2005 1:01 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Figured I'd better do this before the MVP Summit

There. Tablet. Laptop. LUAized. Yeah I know... way too late...but about time. Dana talks about the new LUA/UAP stuff in Vista [Steve Foster is at the PDC and says it's cool] Read More
posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:22 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Get ready for Exchange to grow

The Ehlo blog talks about the upcoming SP 2 that will allow our Exchange databases to increase above 16 gigs....hooray!  Consider that in mind when building servers these days. If you want to read another 'weedy' type of blog post about Exchange...here's Read More
posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:47 AM by bradley | 2 Comments
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If you really and truly messed up the OWA permissions

Someone really got their OWA permissions horked up pretty good, and before we just went and uninstalled and reinstalled, I remembered our dear friend Ray Fong had posted a “fasten your seatbelts we're editing the metabase“ post a while back. Read More
posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:29 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Installing a new A/V

So while I'm making sure I'm not getting ragged on at the summit, I realize my Trend a/v is getting close to renewal...so I re-up.  Now here's the annoyance...because I'm going up to the 2005 version, I have to uninstall the old one.  And Read More
posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:29 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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One down, one to go

Okay okay okay ..... Convert c: /FS:NTFS Volume name is ACER Now in NTFS format Now to LUAize it...now here's the funny thing... this Tablet PC has had it's registry hacked already for Quickbooks [it was the standalone non domain machine Read More
posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:42 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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If you are an app developer... have I got a forum for you....

If any dev type folk happen to be down in Los Angeles at the Professional Developers Conference... and if by any chance anyone from the Intuitive Accounting application program is down there... can you really do me a favor? Can ya Learn how to read Read More
posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:07 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Is your technology a risk to your firm?

Today I had to get a harddrive out of a computer that was running Windows 95.  Yes you read that... 95.  Yuck.  Dirty, dusty, with the fans protesting loudly that it was on it's last legs.  It was Quickbooks data for a firm. They had Read More
posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:42 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Top Support issues this month

TOP SUPPORT ISSUES [remember as a Microsoft partner you get access to all of these resources, log into the Partner web site, into the Support section.   Please keep in mind, I've just put these here for Google purposes and to showcase what level Read More
posted Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:29 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Windows 2000 sp4 update 1 re-released today

** Please note... the “high priority, non security update“ is the re-release of the Windows 2000 sp4 update 1 with a V2 version.  That's an important release so if you thought you had it easy today with no patch testing... for you Win2k Read More
posted Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:28 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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But Steve, you don't understand, I'm not small business... I'm just a Little Enterprise

You know... I really shouldn't draw any conclusions when Vista is still in beta, certainly not even to the point of shrinkwrap or anything, but sometimes, Steve [Mr. Ballmer] you make it such an easy target because of the rumors and leaks and messages Read More
posted Monday, September 12, 2005 6:35 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Oooh we got updates in our release notes

Readme for Premium got updated for these: After you have installed Windows SBS SP1 and you try to reinstall a Windows SBS component, you receive the message, "The drive contains a disc for Windows Small Business Server 2003 with no service packs…" Read More
posted Monday, September 12, 2005 7:42 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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I'm 'outting' myself

At SMBNation, Dana outted me in front of the conference attendees and said he was going to post on his blog about it, but since he seems to be busy recovering from the Dilbert [which is very funny], I'll out myself. My laptop is lazy. Okay... I'm lazy. Read More
posted Monday, September 12, 2005 7:21 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Dear Mr. Ballmer - make the message clear

I'm not a marketing major or anything, but in reading the page about the upcoming versions of Microsoft Vista, can I just ask a favor of you? Apparenly you have taken a page out of the US Government's House Ways and Means Committee and their never ending Read More
posted Monday, September 12, 2005 12:54 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Office, Sharepoint and Glue

From the mailbag today comes the question....  If a user has *only* Office 2000 on their computer (so no Office10 folder, no owssupp.dll file), can they edit documents on the sharepoint website? (The reason there is no Office10 folder is because Read More
posted Monday, September 12, 2005 1:03 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Looking for even MORE Small Biz based blogs?

While the SMBnation was underway, another Blogging community opened up... the TS2 blog community. I mentioned that I had seen that it had opened up during the Conference, but forgot to blog about it until now. Cool! Read More
posted Monday, September 12, 2005 12:16 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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A Picture is worth a 1,000 words

Visio. Use Visio.  Show multiple harddrives when talking about RAID, and showcase the network to the owner that way too.  Use Visio in documenting the network to help the business owner understand what he or she bought from you and how it is Read More
posted Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:14 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Another Blogger at SMBnation

I forgot another blogger at SMBnation! Eriq! Read More
posted Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:55 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Growing a business

Arlin Sorenson at SMBnation is talking about growing your business via growing relationships and building business relationships with customers.  Listen to your customer.  Understand that you are not selling techology and products, but rather Read More
posted Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:45 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Be careful what you ask for

Charlie Anthe was asked in the presentation earlier “when will SBS 2003 support restricted user on the desktops” ... uh... folks.. it does.  Not by 'default“, but you CAN flip those users to restricted user mode.  It's up Read More
posted Saturday, September 10, 2005 2:10 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Looking for more blog posts about SMBNation

Vlad's blog HappyFunBoy's blog Anne Stanton Read More
posted Saturday, September 10, 2005 1:58 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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DHCP issues and SBS 2003 sp1

Raymond talks about an issue he found running the CEICW and DHCP In case you run across it, it has to do with a second IP address bound to the nics.  The CEICW does not like it one bit. Read More
posted Saturday, September 10, 2005 1:22 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Giving feedback

One of the things that has come out of SMBnation is how essential feedback is.  If you are in the partner program, and you aren't happy with what benefits you get, what technical support you get, if you walk away and don't say what you like and what Read More
posted Saturday, September 10, 2005 11:38 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Having issues with the Verizon aircard and Remote Web workplace?

Having issues with Verizon aircards and RWW?  It turns out Verizon installs a small add-on compression program to helpspeed up PC connections with this card - that is NOT mentioned in thesoftware/driver installation script.  It screws up RWW Read More
posted Friday, September 09, 2005 10:59 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Revised - no new Security patches next Tuesday

 ******************************************************************** Title: REVISED: September 2005 Microsoft Security Response Center Bulletin Notification Issued: September 9, 2005 ******************************************************************** Read More
posted Friday, September 09, 2005 4:34 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Public Folders versus Sharepoint

A question came from the audience about the plans for Public Folders being phased out in favor of Sharepoint. This came out from a TechEd presentation.  Should you be concerned..... no I don't think so ... we have plenty of time... besides... Read More
posted Friday, September 09, 2005 4:20 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Do you?

I was talking with a fellow SBSer about how he runs their business and he said that every morning he checks a console for the uptime of all the servers that he monitors in his company.  And I asked him, “Are you charging for that?” and Read More
posted Friday, September 09, 2005 4:10 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Watch out Blackberry, here comes Windows Mobile

Oh, Mr. Blackberry owner, boy are you guys going to not have a reason to buy Blackberries in SBSland any more.  Exchange 2003 sp2 will have a feature pack that not only will have security features like remote wipe, but also will flip the phone to Read More
posted Friday, September 09, 2005 4:09 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Are you selling solutions rather than technology?

I know I'm preaching to the choir, but are you selling 'solutions' and not technology?  Elyn Yao is talking about a Go To Market push for “First Server, Right Server GTM” Many small firms do not have servers.  As Elyn rightfully Read More
posted Friday, September 09, 2005 3:33 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Breakfast at SMBnation

Friday morning, wireless in the McKinley room at the Executive Center and we're eating breakfast.  First up is the Steve Gugginheimer [I'm sure I spelled the name wrong on his name]  Here at the geek table with Chris....who I know via blogs.... Read More
posted Friday, September 09, 2005 8:53 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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The word from Harry and SMBNation

Please visit our Web site: www.smbnation.com and use it as the primary source for conference information, etc. This is where you’ll find the agenda and schedule J FYI – the buses start leaving the Marriott Town Center Hotel at 7AM for Read More
posted Thursday, September 08, 2005 5:12 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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One critical security patch next week

******************************************************************** Title: September 2005 Microsoft Security Response Center Bulletin Notification Issued: September 8, 2005 ******************************************************************** Read More
posted Thursday, September 08, 2005 11:59 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Forgot to attach your attachment?

Oh Jeremy..that is just too cool! So do you remember to attach your attachments? Jeremy does and so do his users. Read More
posted Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:56 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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ISA for the geeks

I personally think there are two ISA camps out here. Camp A is the Var/Vap camp Camp B is the uber geeky network admin/CTO/chief bottlewasher camp. Me and Jeremy are in Camp B.  And Jeremy points to a bit of 'ease' for his end users that he did Read More
posted Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:14 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Learn another thing new from reviewing the SBS Unleashed book

I've been reviewing SBS Unleashed and here's another thing that I went.. Oh... I didn't know that...about.  I mean I knew it...but I didn't, or didn't take the time to understand how to do it. Montoring.  I have a member server and I'd like Read More
posted Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:07 AM by bradley | 0 Comments

We catch up with Sam the SBS server

Hi Sam!  Been awhile, how are things going? Uh fine... excuse me can you pass that stack of brochures? Uh sure.  Man you look a bit busy here, what's up? I'm getting ready for the SBS community coming to see me at SMBnation.  Oh wow, Read More
posted Wednesday, September 07, 2005 7:37 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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This is a SBS Community news alert

This is a SBS Community news alert.Please be alerted that SBSers are in transit and that typically means that BSOD's, APC software or any number of things could happen.Please be advised that this warning alert will remain in effect for the next 24 hours Read More
posted Wednesday, September 07, 2005 7:15 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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If your WSUS isn't WSUS'ing

A client computer cannot receive new updates from a Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1-based WSUS server: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=905422 Read More
posted Wednesday, September 07, 2005 12:44 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Get Ouch!

Need a resource to give information to your clients about Security and Phishing and Life on the Internet? Get OUCH!  It's the SANS newsletter aimed for non technical computer users: OUCH! is SANS e-letter aimed at helping you protect your Read More
posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 6:17 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Deploying ISA client and other info for those ISAers

If you are a SBSer who is an ISAer as well, here is the info you will need to deploy ISA 2004: Chad Gross' Group Policy Deployment of ISA Amy Babinchek's Getting the Firewall client to autodetect The official premium instructions how to Throttling Read More
posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 6:04 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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When USBs work they work...when they don't....

One of my tasks is to get data from 'there' to 'here' inside of our network.  So on a regular basis I'm copying cdroms, usbthumb drives, to the point where the other day when I was handed data on a floppy disk I sort of sat there for a moment as Read More
posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 5:50 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Who can protect us from clicking?

I was earlier arguing with fellow MVP [aka the Naked one] Nick about what responsibility we have for end users.  He had a situation where folks were surfing for music lyrics and surfing and clicking and Aurora gunk was downloading right behind it.  Read More
posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 1:08 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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SMBnation and transportation

From a comment in the blog from Charlie Anthe which reminds me of how you get to the transportation area of SeaTac and then on to SMBnation. You go up to go down.  Ah, yes now I remember, as I had to wrangle my suitcase up and back down the escalator that ends Read More
posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:15 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Dad, the arm and an Emergency room

So how did you spend the last hours of the Labor Day weekend?  I spent mine with my Dad getting his arm put in a sling.  He's fine.  We get to say I told you so, and don't get on ladders for the next few weeks as his left arm broken Read More
posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:02 AM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Clothes..... clothes would be good...

So whenever someone goes to Mothership Redmond for the first time they ask “So, what should I wear?” and I tell them what is the joke [but more like the reality] of what is the Microsoft Dress Code. Clothes, clothes are good. Make sure you Read More
posted Monday, September 05, 2005 11:36 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Blowing through the myths

September 8th there will be a webcast to blow through the cobwebs. Attend this session to learn why Small Business Server is perfect for any large business under 75 users.  This session will debunk some of the common myths regarding the reliability Read More
posted Sunday, September 04, 2005 10:24 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Score one for Google

There's one searching tool that I still need from Google. Google Groups. Hands down the best resource I have for the core SBS stuff is on the msnews.com newservers... microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs.  Home base for SBS community central.  Read More
posted Sunday, September 04, 2005 9:04 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Top ranked antivirus is?

So I'm doing some googling.... ummm.. I mean MSN Searching [note to the MSN Search folks...next time you name a product think of the potential for making the name of a product into a noun, verb or adjective  that ends up in the fabric of our Read More
posted Sunday, September 04, 2005 4:06 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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A bit of robustness

Okay so at home here I have a Linksys router that also has a wireless ability in it, but because my real DSL router broke a bit ago I shoved it in there as a temporary router .... oh... a couple of months ago.  Being the lazybone that I am I haven't Read More
posted Sunday, September 04, 2005 12:30 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Something new

Okay I've been challenged to try MSN search for a week and if I can't find everything I normally find with Google, to let that person know what I don't find.  I'm putting it on this laptop and giving it a spin.  I'll let you know how it works. Read More
posted Sunday, September 04, 2005 11:56 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Need to change the password via OWA? And how do you set the 'change password' timeframe?

In the newsgroup someone asked how to allow people change their password via an OWA interface and you have to adjust some settings that are discussed here.  You know what I want in a password policy?  More flexibility when the passwords are Read More
posted Sunday, September 04, 2005 11:30 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Blackberry on SBS

<with the caveat that I have not done this> In order to support Blackberry's on a SBS box you need to purchase SBE Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.0 for Exchange.  The docs say it's not "supposed" to be installed on the same server that Exchange Read More
posted Sunday, September 04, 2005 12:48 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Getting to Mothership Redmond and SMBNation

For those of you who have never been to Mothership Redmond and SMBnation before, there's one trick to getting transportation to the area. When you get there... you have to get there. You see you have to be on the third floor to pick up the taxi's or Read More
posted Sunday, September 04, 2005 12:27 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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IE Add in Blocker - good idea..but ...

So I'm working on a chapter on Workstation Security for the SBS 2003 unleashed book and I'm showcasing fellow SBS MVP's knowledge base article about a really cool feature in XP sp2 and group policy where you can better protect the IE by only allowing Read More
posted Saturday, September 03, 2005 11:36 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Did you know that?

Small firms in the United States   Represent 99.7 percent of all employers. Employ half of all private sector employees. Pay 44.3 percent of total U.S. private payroll. Generate 60 to 80 percent of net new jobs annually over the Read More
posted Saturday, September 03, 2005 1:27 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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That new blue icon over there on the right hand side

There's a new logo/icon in town.  Over there, under the Yoda and the SBS logo is a new one.  Don't recognize it?  It means I'm a Microsoft Small Business Specialist.  Someone who has demonstrated a foundation in understanding the needs Read More
posted Friday, September 02, 2005 8:38 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So how do I subscribe to the blog?

I've gotten enough of these requests from the mailbag, so I decided to build a 'how to page' What am I talking about?  I freak people out with that 'login' up there.  They think it means there's this secret society or something behind Read More
posted Friday, September 02, 2005 8:11 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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No I really haven't lost my mind..

So I'm googling for some info to get a 98 attached to a SBS 2003 box for ...what else... a beancounter.  A beancounter that SHOULD be signed up for the Microsoft's Accountant Network and not forcing his IT guy to jump through hoops as he'll be able Read More
posted Thursday, September 01, 2005 5:34 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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SMBNation ... a little Community with a Capital C

I'm a big fan of community with a Capital C.  And next week at SMBnation you will get that Community with a Capital C. Peer talking to Peer.  Been there talking to Done that.  And a little bit of lived through that as well. If you want Read More
posted Thursday, September 01, 2005 4:51 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Heads up on Email pointing to website with Malware threat [Hurricane Katrina scam]

So this morning I get this email.... and the antenna goes up.... CLICK HERE it says for more info...yeah right.....so I asked some fellow Security MVPs to look at it and sure 'nuff....malware.  Variant of JS/ObjID.C trojan. The ISC has just posted Read More
posted Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:25 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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