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XP 2 and SBS 2003

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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Why doing a clean install of Windows XP is a good thing..

You cannot find options under "Use Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)" on a computer that you upgraded from Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 to Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;902934 Read More
posted Sunday, August 07, 2005 9:26 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Sorry Amazon.com, it wasn't you after all

I'll be surfing out on Amazon.com and after I've stuck something in the shopping cart...like...oh .... Dr J's and Riley's new book..... I'll click the back button and I get a page not displayed. Rats.  Stupid Amazon.com.  Does this to me all Read More
posted Monday, June 06, 2005 5:19 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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CRM and XP sp2?

I went to a NT user group meeting tonight and one of the guys sitting next to me said they hadn't yet deployed XP sp2 because Microsoft CRM didn't support it.  I knew they had already sent out a patch to fix this... so ... if you are they guy Read More
posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 9:09 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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If you are on XP sp1 you won't wake up with XP sp2 tomorrow

Dear Microsoft/WagEd/whomever was in charge of your communication on the 'expiring blocking mechanism of 4/12/2005”: Next time, can you try to do a better job of communicating than you did? Your article here totally is confusing, misleading and Read More
posted Monday, April 11, 2005 12:51 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So what's YOUR excuse?

Dual monitors means I multitask.... doing a spreadsheet on one screen, got last years TechEd DVD content playing on the other [geek radio you know].  And I'm listening to Steve Riley's presentation on the changes in XP sp2...and he says that the Read More
posted Saturday, April 09, 2005 9:01 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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The Green versus the Blue

A bit of background first from Steve Riley:"Therefore, we admit we broke our promise and we added features to a service pack, but we did it because we believed it was absolutely necessary to improve the resiliency of the operating system to live in the Read More
posted Friday, March 25, 2005 10:39 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Go Borg!!!!

In buying some USB cables at Office Depot tonight, I noticed that Office Depot had XP sp2 cdroms in the same shelf as the AOL cdroms.  Kewl.  I was posting to a listserve some of my accumulated “stuff” about XP sp2 and I'll Read More
posted Friday, February 18, 2005 11:13 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Issues with updates on XP sp2?

Here are some tips stolen from the newsgroup:  Method 1: Stop the Automatic Updates Service 1.     Click Start. 2.     Choose Run. 3.     In the Run box, type services.msc. 4.     Read More
posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:36 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So why did the laptop have that key and not my workstation?

Fixing my sister's laptop that has been giving problems with USB devices like the thumb drives and I was trying to get her new gig drive working and it kept coming back with an error message:  “The specified service does not exist as an installed Read More
posted Saturday, January 08, 2005 7:24 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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So like how many #$%# firewalls do we need?

The question was asked again in the newsgroup today -- “Do I need the XP sp2 firewall enabled on the workstations inside my network when I have a firewall on the outside?” First off some background.  In your computer, in any computer Read More
posted Wednesday, December 01, 2004 7:30 PM by bradley | 1 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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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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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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XP sp2 stuff

David S. in the newsgroups asked if I could put a XP sp2 category in the blog. Sure! I'll revisit the “stuff” you need to have for deploying sp2 on your SBS 2003 network: ENABLING THE FIREWALL Update to enable and configure the SP 2 Read More
posted Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:39 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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