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April 2005 - Posts

I'm bummed

Normally I try to come up with some kind of witty post title..but I just can't come up with anything else but.... I'm bummed.  I'm watching CNN.com/NEXT show and this is the last edition of this show.  First I lost CNet's computer TV show Read More
posted Saturday, April 30, 2005 11:43 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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How localized are you?

Out and about running a few errands today, I stopped and got gas and noticed at the gas station not far from my house the advertising banners at the station were half in English and half in Spanish.  Later when I went to Target [we call it Tar-shay Read More
posted Saturday, April 30, 2005 6:29 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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ROM updated and through the worm hole

It's always great fun sticking some new piece of software on your 'baby' and making sure it comes through the worm hole to the other side.  One HP ROM upgrade [burn from the web iso to cdrom] later I've got the following upgrades inplace: ROM upgrade Read More
posted Friday, April 29, 2005 10:17 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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You want what?

So the Copier/Scanner/Printer company faxes me a network pre-installation/configuration information sheet to fill out and they want to know stuff like... oh...domain name, IP address, DCHP, default gateway, DNS [primary and secondary] ....and this is Read More
posted Friday, April 29, 2005 7:18 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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June 15th Chat on SBS 2003 sp1

SBS: Shiny and New with SP1Small Business Server, Microsoft's all-in-one solution for small businesses, is getting its first service pack. Changes to an all-in-one system can be risky, especially since SBS is targeted towards businesses without full-time Read More
posted Friday, April 29, 2005 5:59 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Paranoia

Sometimes it's funny how people react to things.  There was a recent set of stories of how the next version of Windows would have a 'black box' feature to aid in gathering data of system crashes and what not.  In some circles you would think Read More
posted Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:19 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Law number 2 - get ready for LUA folks

Law #2: If a bad guy can alter the operating system on your computer, it's not your computer anymore In the end, an operating system is just a series of ones and zeroes that, when interpreted by the processor, cause the computer to do certain things. Read More
posted Thursday, April 28, 2005 8:46 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Got Dell?

If you own a Dell, the notification email you need to sign up for is here.  Andrew posted the link but the blog format means that it ended up a bit down below in a weird location so I thought I'd posted it as a new post. So there you have it.  Read More
posted Thursday, April 28, 2005 8:03 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Another patch email that I signed up for

I've signed up for Microsoft's security patch emails, but there's another category of patch emails that I haven't signed up for until now.  My hardware patch notifications. Out on the HP site [and look if Dell has a similar offering], there is a Read More
posted Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:13 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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More Homework

Danny points out there's a one stop place to update the firmware in the server before the update.  The link it at HP and there is one thing I noted about it.  The link actually goes to a ftp site that unless you have the fix for 05-019 in place Read More
posted Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:43 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Doing my homework

Out on the HP web site and checking that I'm ready to go and it looks like I need to do some homework on my HP system.  This HP document is the recommendations for Windows 2003 sp1 on ProLiant servers.  Now I have a ProLiant ML370 G4 Xeon.  Read More
posted Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:53 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Sniff, Sniff, Sniff...hmmm .....I think I smell something cooking.

Courtesy of Today's Microsoft Download site Find the details about what’s new in Windows SBS 2003 with SP1. Service packs and updates are listed in tables and categorized by the Windows SBS feature area for easy reference. Hmmmm..... I think Read More
posted Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:12 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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The stuff you think about when shopping for a copier

So I've had a couple of vendors in to discuss copiers and scanners today and one of the ways the copiers can now connect is via SMB and of course the first thing that goes through my mind is SMB signing.  I've asked the copier vendors to get back Read More
posted Wednesday, April 27, 2005 1:00 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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I flattened a box tonight

It wasn't my workstation...but rather than of my hairdressers.  I was cleaning it up for her.  And even with Norton Antivirus and Microsoft's Antispyware I only  had about 3 minutes after bootup before 57 Internet Explorer Windows popped Read More
posted Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:56 PM by bradley | 8 Comments
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May User group events - May Migration Madness

Anne Stanton and Jeff Middleton On SBS Server Migrations ....and.....Migration projects as Business Opportunities May 17th  - New England Small Business Server User Group in Boston from 5 to 10 p.m. at the Microsoft office in Boston Read More
posted Monday, April 25, 2005 7:09 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Law Number 1 - Would you eat that Sandwich?

I'm going to remind folks of the 10 laws of security....this came up because someone in the newsgroup asked if there was a weakness in SBS because someone reset the admin password [but that's to be covered in Law # 3 so stay tuned for that] First up Read More
posted Monday, April 25, 2005 6:44 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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There's only one ME last I checked

I was out googling today and don't ask me why I googled on my name [vanity kicking in or something] and on the right hand side I saw something that just made me flabbergasted.  On the right side of Google are 'Sponsored Links'.  And there was Read More
posted Monday, April 25, 2005 5:33 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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What I take for granted

I was helping my Dad and a neighbor with their computer [got them on XP sp2] and now they have a lovely red shield down in the system tray that warns when things are not as they should be.  I was there to help them with speakers that weren't working Read More
posted Sunday, April 24, 2005 11:18 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Patch Information

A couple of links on patch management First off is the recording of the Patch Webcast [where I only coughed once] and the second is a blog post regarding patch resources. And of course don't forget my fav... www.patchmanagement.org! Read More
posted Sunday, April 24, 2005 10:40 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Trend Pattern File 2.594 may cause high CPI utilization [is your system pegging the CPU at 100%?]

Pattern File 2.594.00 may cause high CPU utilization http://www.trendmicro.com/en/support/pattern594/overview.htm From the bulletin: Why did this happen? To protect its customers against the growing threat of the WORM_RBOT family, Trend Micro enhanced Read More
posted Sunday, April 24, 2005 10:44 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Hotfix for issues seen after MS05-019 [KB893066]

Network connectivity between clients and servers may not work after the installation of security update MS05-019 or Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=898060 To obtain this hotfix, it is a free call.  Read More
posted Saturday, April 23, 2005 11:53 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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How to run Quickbooks under user mode

I finally got around to documenting the needed changes to get Quickbooks running under usermode. Quickbooks in usermode for Stand alone machines Quickbooks in usermode using Group policy The process is basically that you use tools like Filemon, Regmon Read More
posted Saturday, April 23, 2005 10:33 PM by bradley | 11 Comments
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So how was your Friday night?

Windows XP Service Pack 2 machines with critical patches and PC-cillin Internet Security 2005 starts to experience high CPU utilization after updating to Pattern 594 Yeah...slight understatement of the year in this KB from Trend. However the KB only Read More
posted Friday, April 22, 2005 11:29 PM by bradley | 7 Comments
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Trend dat file cleanup - clean up info after the Freeze Up

Thanks to Karen Christain for this info: For problem XP boxes: Logon to the WXP box in Safe Mode. Manually delete LPT$VPN.594 (C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\OfficeScan Client. The 594 pattern update came down from Trend Micro at about 3:36PM PST. This Read More
posted Friday, April 22, 2005 7:05 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Trend dat file 594 - FREEZEUP

>>>TREND A/V FREEZE UP OF WORKSTATIONS AND SERVERS<<< Just a major heads up .. SBSers around the world are reporting that dat file 594 just did a major freeze up on all servers/all workstations. We have many machines affected.  Read More
posted Friday, April 22, 2005 5:36 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Actually, SeanDaniel.com...no I don't have that link!

SeanDaniel.com [poor guy, I find it easier to make his name into a URL] out RSS's me today by talking about a new RSS feed page.   Kewl.  I did have a SBS RSS feed before, but it was from the community page and it wasn't this one.  Read More
posted Friday, April 22, 2005 1:13 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Issues with VPN and FTP revisited

I've been talking about the issues with Security patch 05-019 [KB 893066 tcp/ip] and VPN and FTP and wanted to make sure everyone understood that when you are seeing issues, DON'T uninstall ALL the April patches, you should ONLY uninstall the ONE patch.  Read More
posted Friday, April 22, 2005 12:23 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Getting IT

We were discussing the other day the perfect firm for SBS.  It isn't any one type or industry, rather it was the type of Boss.  The first that installs and embraces SBS [or any network actually] has to 'get IT'.  Meaning that they see the Read More
posted Friday, April 22, 2005 12:04 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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MTU anyone?

Last night I posted about some possible issues with Security patch MS05-019 [KB 893066] and here's a follow up you 'might' want to try. First off..remember to call into Microsoft Product Support Services so you can make sure to get the latest info, but Read More
posted Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:32 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Security bulletin 05-019, KB 893066 and VPN issues

Beginning to see some reports of VPN issues with 05-019/KB 893066.  I personally am not experiencing these issues here but it may be due to your router and what not. Jerry Bryant from Microsoft reminds us that issues with a security patch are a Read More
posted Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:29 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Presentations and webcasts

Thanks to everyone who attended today's Patch Management webcast.  I had great fun in presenting and will let you know when the webcast is up on the web.  Fortunately I was pretty much able to not cough during the presentation [I'm getting over Read More
posted Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:18 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Kicking up the geek factor

I'm in shopping mode.  No not the traditional female shopping experience... I mean geek shopping mode.  There are two things on my list of things to check out for the office: More mobilitiy More connectivity What am I talking about?  Read More
posted Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:55 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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You know.. I do need a new workstation here at home...

Cleaning up the desktop here at home before tomorrow's webcast and it reminded me that Chad sent me a reminder that I need a new computer here at home: I'm tempted... really tempted  :-)   Read More
posted Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:54 AM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Have you checked out all the great stuff at www.mssmallbiz.com?

Today we had a question about OEM software and adding Software assurance to it and the [as always] tireless Eric Ligman already had the answer for us right on the Shared documents page [which btw is a Sharepoint you know] and had the answer. For the Read More
posted Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:34 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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It's conference season

It's conference season and at the end of June I'll be at the AICPA Technology conference  the end of June in Las Vegas with Clint Kreitner from the Center for Internet Security talking about Server hardening and benchmarking.  You know how Read More
posted Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:30 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Heads up folks - proof of concept released for MS05-021 Exchange patch

Evgeny Pinchuk apparently is under the impression that we need further reason to patch so he released to several security lists a proof of concept for the MS 05-021 Exchange security patch.  Remember while in SBS 2003 we are not as concerned, it Read More
posted Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:03 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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SBS Chat tomorrow at 4 p.m. PST

Don't forget ..... Handy Andy Goodman leads the SBS chat tomorrow at 4 p.m. http://mcpmag.com/chats/ Be there to chat about your Small Business Server issues... I just may have figured out how to get WSUS to find these stupid workstations of mine by Read More
posted Monday, April 18, 2005 11:04 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Just a reminder...your patch tool may need a patch

If you are having issues with Shavlik's HfnetchkPro with the .NET patch and trying to offer up Windows 2003 sp1 when it shouldn't, I forgot to patch my patch tool.  At the office I applied this patch http://hfnetchk.shavlik.com/downloads/shavlik_skb588b.exe but Read More
posted Monday, April 18, 2005 8:50 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Sometimes patching is annoying

So I have this one workstation that just will not install the .NET sp1 patch no matter what I do.... I've Shavlik'd, I've opened up ISA server to all/all/all to ensure that's not the problem and in looking at the Windows Update log file...... what?  Read More
posted Monday, April 18, 2005 5:56 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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I'll admit..finally getting back to WSUS

I'm finally getting back to WSUS and finding some things in the instructions I don't get.  If I follow the WSUS wiki instructions for SBS:   WSUS on SBS: http://wsus.editme.com/WSUSonSBS It says:   This means the SelfUpdate Read More
posted Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:01 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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SureWest Anyone? Get ready for email issues

 First Verizon...now word that SureWest will do a mail change... head's up folks! Dear SureWest Broadband Customer: SureWest Broadband is taking positive steps to help combat junk email and spam. In addition to network upgrades, spam Read More
posted Sunday, April 17, 2005 6:06 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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From now on I'm reading Japanese Security bulletins

Steve Riley has said in presentations that in Japan their security bulletins are much clearer because they use cartoons. And he's totally right...check it out.  Go to the Microsoft Japan Security bulletin page and click on the right hand side Read More
posted Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:11 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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I hate hardware

Give me a software issue and I can google up a solution... attempt to image my sister's laptop harddrive from the existing drive to a new one....and well, I'm about near to just giving up and installing her operating system from scratch. The ghosting Read More
posted Saturday, April 16, 2005 9:47 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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Do we protect you? I think not.

"I have lost confidence (if I actually ever had it) in the ability of companies to keep pii secure"This thought of “is this a secure way to transmit things“ came to mind today when my managing partner today was mentioning that Attorneys really Read More
posted Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:57 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Dear Mr. Aitel

I sent an email tonight...one that won't do any good other than to make me feel better...... Mr. Aitel is Dave Aitel from ImmunitySec who's firm has already released a proof of concept for yesterday's security bulletin MS 05-017 [message queuing] Read More
posted Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:08 PM by bradley | 8 Comments
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We've got a new cousin! Congratulations Anne!

As you can tell, I'm sort of big on community, so when a dynamic FEMALE geek joins a community, even if it is a 'cousin' community it feels really special.  It is my esteemed pleasure to know that the Microsoft CRM MVPs now have added to their ranks Read More
posted Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:55 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Handicapping the bulletins tonight

For those of you who may not be aware, I do the Patch Watch section of the Windows Secrets newsletter [in the paid version] and Brian Livingston has a very unique way of doing the 'paid' version.  It's whatever you want to pay.  Now that's Read More
posted Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:41 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Security patches out today

 April 12, 2005 Today Microsoft released the following Security Bulletin(s). Note: www.microsoft.com/technet/security and www.microsoft.com/security are authoritative in all matters concerning Microsoft Security Bulletins! ANY e-mail, web board or Read More
posted Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:03 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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WhooHoo Winnipeg!

 Hold on to your hats folks because they've just added a Winnipeg venue to the Microsoft/SBS MVP Community Groups tour, so now Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Mississauga and Montreal.... the SBS user group tour is heading your way     Read More
posted Monday, April 11, 2005 8:55 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Getting rootbound and needing a bit of repotting

  Time flies doesn't it?  Just over a year ago a tiny seed was planted and nutured and the plant grew.  It's leaves stretched out to see the sun and it reached up towards the sky.  Now a year later, the plant looked around and realized Read More
posted Monday, April 11, 2005 6:20 PM by bradley | 0 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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To all those people on my IM listing

To all of the people on my IM listing who've had to suffer through my long 'tag' lines on IM...they are no more.  I upgraded to MSN 7 so that the tag line is no longer something that wraps around in IM windows.  It's now in the “personal Read More
posted Monday, April 11, 2005 1:00 AM by bradley | 3 Comments
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So how do you handle patch day?

Next Tuesday is patch Tuesday. Okay ...you folks reading the blog BETTER know what Patch Tuesday is.  It's the day that patches come out...security patches.  Microsoft Security patches to be exact.  We already know there are indeed bulletins Read More
posted Saturday, April 09, 2005 9:18 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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SBS MVPs Community Groups Outreach – Canadian Workshops Tour 2005

Left to Right, The Four Musketeers, Jeff Loucks, Cal McLennan, Les Connor and Jeff Middleton Just a reminder...spots are going fast for the MVP - the Four Musketeers Tour, better known as the SBS MVPs Community Groups Outreach – Canadian Workshops Read More
posted Saturday, April 09, 2005 7:10 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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DNS, poisoning, pharming attacks and the SBS impact [part one - background information]

If you are a fan of www.incidents.org like I am you've been wondering if you should be worried about all this DNS cache poisoning aka Pharming that's been going one.  As they state in today's entry: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2005-04-07 Read More
posted Friday, April 08, 2005 10:03 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Troj_Small.AFG alert out there today

The newsgroup today had reports of this Trojan file... a browser helper object... being reported on systems.  And at first we were wondering if it was a false alarm... but it appears to not be one. Now I'm not saying I'm perfect here at the office Read More
posted Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:30 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Trial Balloon? How about a Attack Squadron?

The Security mentor says they may have to give a Medal of Cluefulness award to Microsoft for their Trial Balloons about something called “least-privileged user account' or LUA. Trial Balloon?  Trial Balloons are what you send out if you aren't Read More
posted Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:34 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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The 'right' way to install SBS 2003

SBS 2003 has a very scripted, wizardized install.  Thus the way I've always installed it [straight install, no migration, nothin'] it stick in disk 1 and go grab a book to read [while not out yet, when it comes out you might try Dr. Jesper Johansson Read More
posted Thursday, April 07, 2005 1:01 PM by bradley | 7 Comments
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Heads up ... April Patches!

 Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/advance.mspxIn response to consumer feedback, Microsoft is expanding the categoriesof information provided in the Microsoft Security Bulletin AdvanceNotification. Read More
posted Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:46 AM by bradley | 1 Comments

When monoculture makes sense

James blogs about the Fortune article on how Linux just hasn't caught on in the medium businesses to match the media coverage.  I agree even in the small ones.  Not in American anyway.  As a business owner here who doesn't make a decisions Read More
posted Thursday, April 07, 2005 12:49 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Operation Small Business Server Service Pack 1

Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 Note: If you use Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, we recommend that you wait to install this service pack until Service Pack 1 for Windows SBS is released later in 2005. For more information, see Windows Small Business Read More
posted Wednesday, April 06, 2005 6:19 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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The Coffee Machine

We have a Keurig coffee pot machine on loan in the office from Yosemite Waters.  It makes one cup at a time.  We're trying it out to see if we like it.  We've already heard a lot of great things about it, including the story of one Attorney Read More
posted Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:11 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Oh Canada! The Four Musketeers are heading your way!

The Four Musketeers -- From Left to Right, Jeff Middleton, Cal McLennan, Jeff Loucks, Les Connor I was hoping for a cartoon of some musketeers but this will have to do.  :-) SBS MVPs Community Groups Outreach – Canadian Workshops Read More
posted Tuesday, April 05, 2005 1:31 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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SBS KBs of interest

How to troubleshoot mail relay issues in Exchange Server 2003 and in Exchange 2000 Server: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=895853Description of a hotfix that enables Exchange Server 2003 to log an event when a user deletes a public folder: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=891968After Read More
posted Monday, April 04, 2005 11:24 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Dear Diva...Rejected in Greenwich

Dear Diva: I got a “Dear Ehlo” letter last night....seems I was rejected.  No hint of a problem in our relationship just all of a sudden he hits me with a #5.5.0 error.  We were going along fine in the relationship and then this.  Read More
posted Monday, April 04, 2005 9:44 PM by bradley | 0 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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Home computers

  No, I'm not talking about XP Home computers.. I'm talking about 'home computers.   Tom in the mailbox asks if I work on home computers and what do I do when a clients asks you to?  Tom says he used to do it on the side but is getting Read More
posted Monday, April 04, 2005 12:49 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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The normal stuff of SBS

When someone comes into SBSland there's stuff that you just don't know until you've seen a few boxes, or hung around newsgroups. When an SBS box first boots up there are certain events that are just 'normal" and the MAD thing is one of them: Process Read More
posted Sunday, April 03, 2005 2:00 PM by bradley | 8 Comments
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Time Travel

One of the guys in the office yesterday needed to get into a 1999 tax program yesterday.  I could 'barely' remember how to load it and install it.  Once it was loaded it wasn't 'WYSIWYG” [what you see is what you get], it was DOS-y, it Read More
posted Sunday, April 03, 2005 11:20 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So sitting next to my monitor at home tonight... a gift from my sister

Sometimes a picture says a thousand words... doesn't it? May 19th you know.... Read More
posted Saturday, April 02, 2005 11:03 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Losing it....and Checking it

I'm sure there are friends of mine that will read this headline and say that I'm speaking about myself personally [especially this time of year], but no, I'm not talking about personally, I'm talking about Time. We're losing an hour tonight.  Uggggh.  Read More
posted Saturday, April 02, 2005 8:58 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Hey Mikey! There's information about the Service Pack 1 on SBS!

Now Mikey, remember our previous lesson of why you don't want to be first in applying these service packs.  Even though [as has been pointed out] that they have been 'dog-fooded' to death by Microsoft, it's still better if in SBSland that you Read More
posted Saturday, April 02, 2005 4:31 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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To the Windows Update team

First off... I have to say I'm sorry to you guys and gals for jumping on you guys over the last couple of days and a huge thank you.  Consider yourselves kinda the punching bag folks for my frustrations with patching in SBSland.  Like I've said Read More
posted Saturday, April 02, 2005 11:28 AM by bradley | 5 Comments
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RFCs for today

Today is the day that the Computer geeks turn into comedians RFCs that are dated 4/1 ...well...they just are in a class all of their own.... Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts UTF-9 and UTF-18 Efficient Transformation Formats Read More
posted Friday, April 01, 2005 9:49 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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That was then, this is now...and a thanks

This was yesterday when Windows update offered up Service Pack 1 to SBS 2003 boxes: This is today when it doesn't: [And I have to 'out' myself.... I left off .NET sp1 for now because of a few wacko hotfixes I've seen and didn't want to mess Read More
posted Friday, April 01, 2005 9:25 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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SBS 2003, WU, AU and SUS

 I'm stealing a post from Les Connor from the newsgroups: There are three cases here that must be addressed separately.   1. SBS server with Automatic Updates enabled, automatic download only, or install also.   - Windows Server Read More
posted Friday, April 01, 2005 12:11 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Windows 2003 SP1, SBS 2003 and Automatic updates

Dan emails “ I'm concerned that it has not been made clear that Server 2003 SP1 will be installed if Automatic Updates is enabled on SBS 2003. At least, this is what I read in the newsgroup. I fear that many SBS implementations are configured this Read More
posted Friday, April 01, 2005 9:05 AM by bradley | 6 Comments
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