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Some old fashioned guidelines about Fax

It's funny...faxing is such old fashioned technology ...but some firms just can't live without it.  For my firm, we don't use centralized fax, but for others, the fax solution that SBS provides is exactly perfect.  But the one thing I've noticed Read More
posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:20 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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In case you wanted to get a command line thrill today....

 Useful RUN Commands To Access…. - Run Command Accessibility Controls - access.cpl Add Hardware Wizard - hdwwiz.cpl Add/Remove Programs - appwiz.cpl Administrative Tools - control admintools Automatic Updates - wuaucpl.cpl Bluetooth Transfer Wizard Read More
posted Saturday, January 21, 2006 1:39 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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So what tools do you use?

So a bit back I asked what tools that SBSers should have on hand and here are some answers... www.sysinternals.com www.dnsreport.com Besides www.Eventid.net and www.Experts-Exchange.com and the othersmentioned by Susan I find having a Bart's PE Builder Read More
posted Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:09 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Got a lab?

Got a test lab?  A place to test things before you do stuff in real life? What's the cheapest way to get a test lab? e-Bay.  There is still a lot of good, quality hardware that can be purchased from e-bay.  Yup you heard that....ebay. Read More
posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 12:45 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Okay so my drives are THIS big and Exchange needs to be THAT big, now what?

Okay so you built your server, and you partitioned off your server back when Exchange was 16 gigs..... so.... uh...now that Exchange can expand as high as 75 gigs for both the public and private stores..... uh....now what? Repartition is the name of Read More
posted Monday, October 24, 2005 6:37 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Want to search the SBS2k yahoogroups?

I hate the searchability of Yahoogroups.  Okay so 'hate' is a strong word.  How about I very seriously dislike the searchability of Yahoogroups?  Someone once said that for a search company they make a lousy listserve search engine.  Read More
posted Monday, October 17, 2005 7:39 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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Reinstall SBS Monitoring... I mean REALLY reinstall it

Today Nick had a situation where a consultant went into add/remove and accidentally removed the SBSmonitoring... oops.  So I dug this post out of the newsgroups:  1. Control Panel -> Add Remove Program -> Windows Small Business Server Read More
posted Friday, August 19, 2005 6:13 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Controlling more

It's all about control isn't it?  Patching.  Monitoring.  And whether your flavor is Level Platform or MOM.... if you aren't looking into tools to control and do... maybe you need to look into it? Some recent postings about MOM, made me Read More
posted Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:58 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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To defrag or not defrag that is the question...

 There's a direct relationship between disk fragmentation and performance: As the number of disk fragments increases, performance drops. The reasoning is simple: The more work the disk drive has to do to deliver data, the longer the rest of the system Read More
posted Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:01 PM by bradley | 12 Comments
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Signing up for RSS

Looking to stay up to date on stuff like Security... stuff like Admin'ing networks? Truly where a lot of great information lies in today is...right here.. in a blog.  It's another 'been there, done that' person like yourself, saying 'hey this worked Read More
posted Monday, August 08, 2005 11:15 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Cleaning house

There's one problem with my C:drive. It's too big.  It's so big that I get lazy and don't clean it up. Like... I don't throw away the Trend quarantined files, nor the junk in the bad mail.  [Mind you Trend does a bit of an automagic clean up Read More
posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:00 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Looking for Macintosh Advice?

Looking for all those really good Mac postings?  Look no farther than Eriq Neale [and look for him in Seattle in September at SMBnation] Lessons Learned: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB: Lessons Learned: Connecting a Macintosh to Read More
posted Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:37 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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What's the best POP connector?

From the mailbag today comes the question “What is the best POP connector program?”  I'll start with an answer from the “Consultant crowd”: SMTP instead And I'll include my answer: A patched one  :-) But if you'd Read More
posted Monday, April 04, 2005 9:00 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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How to Shutdown

Ever notice how there's like four or five ways to do the same thing? I posted about my Remote Web Workplace experience and wanted to know if there was a way to remotely shut down.  Matt posted in the comments "shutdown.exe" but there's a couple Read More
posted Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:00 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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See it's like this.... don't mess with "My Business"

Answering another question from the mailbag tonight.  Part II actually.  One about Scripts and I thought I'd also mention our other annoying 'feature' of SBS. Let's face it SBS has a few ... well... eccentricities.  One that “LanWench” Read More
posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:10 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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LimitLogin tool

Hmmm...haven't tried it but I wonder if we can use this to build a report of logons and logoffs? Hmmm... may have to play around with this   We are happy to announce the availability of LimitLogin v1.0, an application that adds Read More
posted Monday, March 14, 2005 12:46 PM by bradley | 7 Comments
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How about "more" friendly HTTP error messages?

From the mailbox today comes this tip from WayneV While I was trying to find an answer to a web based program/IIS problem I stumbled on a checkbox worth mentioning. I was getting the error: The page cannot be displayed There is a problem with the Read More
posted Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:40 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Looking for Fax Documentation?

The question came up regarding Fax documentation and I thought I'd throw up a few links:   How does GFI FAXmaker compare with SBS Fax/Windows 2003 Fax? Windows Server 2003 FAX Fax Service Manager overview Fax Console overview So how many of Read More
posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:47 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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If your USB isn't USB ing

These days if you buy a retail computer that has 432 media slots ready for any number of camera/memory sticks [okay so I'm overstating the number of media slots] you will find that your drive letter where you “were” going to put the mapped Read More
posted Sunday, February 06, 2005 9:24 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So I want a Conference room please?

During this time of the year in the office, we reserve the conference rooms and we're trying to “bamm” up the geek factor this year [it's not like we couldn't do this before but we're starting to get enough folks using electronic mobility Read More
posted Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:21 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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SBS and a smidge of mobility

Most of us in the office aren't quite yet ready to take the SeanDaniel.com uber mobility with OMA [why do I keep wanting to call it Uma like Uma Thurman?] but we are using our IR enabled Nokia Cell phones to sync with our Outlook.  Well today when Read More
posted Saturday, February 05, 2005 3:38 PM by bradley | 10 Comments
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W2K and NT Security Event Log Descriptions

While on the topic of audit logs, let me put up a nice link for a description of audit logs W2K and NT Security Event Log Descriptions Enjoy! Read More
posted Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:26 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So exactly "what" does connect computer do anyway?

Remember I said how we add the domain/connectcomputer to the IE trusted zone to properly run it?  So exactly what does connect computer script do anyway you ask? psst... yes it DOES do way more than manually connecting the computer to the network Read More
posted Sunday, January 23, 2005 12:19 AM by bradley | 13 Comments
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Reading those audit log files

I was googling and stumbled across a KB article and thought I'd stick it up here Codes for the audit logs:   Field Comments Event Type, Source,Category,ID,Date,and Time self-explanatory User The user account performing the logon. Read More
posted Saturday, January 22, 2005 10:52 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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