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October 2004 - Posts

It's two months and counting

It's two months and counting.... to what you ask?  To End of Life of Windows NT Server.  So for anyone still running SBS 4.5 [or heaven forbid SBS 4.0] the clock is ticking folks.  Microsoft Monitor talks about the latest Steve Ballmer Read More
posted Sunday, October 31, 2004 11:04 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So I think Princess Aurora would be using a laptop, wouldn't you?

My apologies, it's a little hard thinking geek topics tonight when I'm standing here in a purple gown, flowing sleeves that keep getting in the way, a long red wig and a “Princess” hat on.  You see tonight is the tradtion of “trick Read More
posted Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:02 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Is your Outlook posting appointments an hour off?

Note to all... if you have a sudden problem with one or two workstations in your clients' offices that insist on booking appointments an hour off of everyone else, make sure they have the box checked “automatically adjust for daylight savings time“ Read More
posted Saturday, October 30, 2004 11:26 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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KBs of Interest

Issues that may occur when you use Outlook Mobile Access with Sony Ericsson mobile devices in Exchange Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=871194 You may receive an "Error 1920. Service RtcSrv (RtcSrv) failed to start" error message when Read More
posted Saturday, October 30, 2004 11:02 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So what kind of VAR/VAP are you?

I was on the phone earlier tonight talking to a gentlemen about security and the impact of it on the Value Added Reseller and Value Added Provider marketplace.  As I was talking to the gentlemen, he was saying that consultants tended to install the Read More
posted Friday, October 29, 2004 11:00 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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What's your favorite add on to SBS 2003?

Went out to dinner tonight with Jim Locke [founder of the LA SBS User/partner group] and we were talking about how we didn't know if there was a web site resource that listed ALL of the products that had “SBS” versions that we had come across.  Read More
posted Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:00 PM by bradley | 7 Comments
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Are you signed up for the MSSmallbiz update?

Microsoft Small Business Community (http://www.mssmallbiz.com) Update Topics in this October 28th update:1) Tuesday, November 19th Microsoft Small Business Channel Licensing Training Session2) New MS Small Business Community User Guide Posted3) Coming Read More
posted Thursday, October 28, 2004 2:22 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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From Today's mailbag, James asks "Do you send emails to clients prior to the install?"

From today's mailbag, James asks “What type of emails do YOU or others send to the companys employee's to get them excited about the install that is coming soon?“  Good question.  I know in my firm we have training sessions to Read More
posted Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:11 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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About that "Windows Validation"

I see folks on the web talk about how you MUST validate your Windows before downloading some things like the Microsoft Time zone tool. That's actually incorrect.  You can say “no” to validation and still get to the download page.  Read More
posted Wednesday, October 27, 2004 10:59 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Why aren't we?

So in the Encase class today we're discussion hashes and file signatures.  And we discuss how you can change the file name but you can't change the hash value.  So Gater.exe would still be identified as a bad program no matter what you renamed Read More
posted Wednesday, October 27, 2004 10:04 PM by bradley | 6 Comments
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Well those of us in the USA have to get something in return!

 Last week I posted about how you guys in Australia were getting Wayne Small, Dean Calvert AND Jeff “Mr. Swing It!! Migration” Middleton at a HP and Microsoft SMB conference throughout Australia.  Well it's only fair that we in the Read More
posted Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:09 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Got your policy in place?

I'm in Pasadena this week at Encase/Guidance software training and one of the key elements they discussed was an AUP.  What?  Don't know what an AUP is?  It's your guideline to your employees..it's called an Acceptable Use Policy.  Read More
posted Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:38 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Hey the hotel has wireless!

While the advertisement of the hotel only said “dataport” the nice surprise was that it had Wireless Access in the rooms.   Right now I”m not my “baby laptop”, my Acer Tablet PC just about ready for bed.  Tomorrow Read More
posted Tuesday, October 26, 2004 12:14 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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I'm going to be a bit offline the rest of the week

I'm going to be a bit offline the rest of the week and checking with the hotel where I am staying, it looks like it only has dial up.  Ugh!  I'll be in search of a Starbucks for sure.  But it's all for a good reason.  The firm that Read More
posted Monday, October 25, 2004 1:03 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So I have my SBS 2003 loaded up and where's that Internet Connection Sharing?

Many times in the newsgroup the question gets asked “I just loaded up SBS and am looking at the network connections tab and there's no Internet Connection Sharing.  Where is it?” It's not there because we just something better.  Read More
posted Monday, October 25, 2004 12:22 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Want to play a game?

A game of picking passphrases?  Okay here's the rules.  Think of a passphrase that you would use.  Say.... Mountain Dew comes in five flavors!  Now send that to passstud@microsoft.com.  In the latest installment of Passwords Read More
posted Sunday, October 24, 2004 8:43 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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To whom it may concern:

I don't want Rolex watches.  I don't need V_agra.  I don't need P_nus enlargement.  I don't want an IBM laptop. When I go to the HP web site and look at the 3d version of the zd7000 notebook, I didn't give you the right to suddenly load Read More
posted Sunday, October 24, 2004 1:43 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Okay I'm in a mood....

Fredly posted in the newsgroup asking a question about Watchgard versus ISA and where ever he crossposted to responded back that he had gotten another response that said this: “The best thing you can do is to get a firewall as Watchguard or another Read More
posted Saturday, October 23, 2004 3:25 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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I'm tempted to move. Aren't you? Jeff and Swing IT!! is coming to town near you.

    Oh man, am I envious of you guys in Australia.  You have a very special event coming up in the next months.  Combine that with three VERY special folks involved in it, I'm tempted to move to Australia.  Jeff Middleton, SBS Read More
posted Saturday, October 23, 2004 2:36 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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He may not post often....but when he does a gem

Charlie Anthe [SBS release manager/Volleyball guru] comes through once again with a gem of a post.  And he showcases how Microsoft really uses the Dr. Watson “dump” technology to understand what is going on under the hood.  Interesting Read More
posted Saturday, October 23, 2004 11:09 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Woody says SBS Rocks!

Woody's current “Woody's Office Watch” leads off with “SBS ROCKS!” Why yes, Woody.. it does doesn't it?! Don't you love good geek newsletters on a Friday? Savvy computer users can do the SBS setup themselves, but we suggest Read More
posted Friday, October 22, 2004 9:17 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Have a glass of water and an extra strength aspirin on hand...but BE THERE!

I get word that MS is going to do a “Licensing” event.  Okay folks... all that complaining about licensing is obviously being heard.  I keep telling folks that Software Assurance is working for me. Even in David Coursey's Read More
posted Friday, October 22, 2004 9:07 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So tonight on Dana's blog, he asks....

Which File Extension are You? Well.... I do label myself blonde, so it fits doesn't it?   ;-) Source:  Dana Read More
posted Friday, October 22, 2004 12:17 AM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Ever notice how people tell you things ...after....

My Dad calls.  “I got this notification that my AOL account has been locked down to a terms of service violation and I have to go into the master account to re-open it”.  Okay, Dad, no problem.  It's probably an expired credit Read More
posted Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:37 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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I'm just going to stop using the Internet...maybe that's the proper answer?

So I'm reading that Internet Explorer, XP sp2 is screwed, Firefox and Mozilla have vulnerabilties and as the Incidents.org web page so aply puts it, “If you are reading this diary with any web browser other then 'lynx' or 'wget', you are likely Read More
posted Thursday, October 21, 2004 7:52 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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The client is not "ALWAYS" right

On the same day that SeanDaniel.com talks about how to host two domains on one SBS, I get an email from someone asking if they can take a SBS 2000, connect a Win 2003 member server and install Exchange 2003 on that member server. Well.. you can do a Read More
posted Thursday, October 21, 2004 6:46 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Privacy and Good Business

Lisa Traina gave a talk at the last AICPA Tech conf, the jist of it was 'privacy is good business'.  Steve Friedl posted this morning this lovely story about a research project that, while authorized, didn't handle their data in the best way possible. Read More
posted Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:47 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Spec'ing out a server

So I'm in the process of specin'g out a new server and my goal is to have it do exactly what my current box is doing, sit for most of the day, drumming it's fingernails on the counter, filing it's nails so that on the rare times we're asking it to print Read More
posted Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:32 PM by bradley | 8 Comments
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Gavin says check out the Sharepoint Guide

Gavin pings and says “have you checked out the Sharepoint useage and admin guide”....ummm no I haven't...... “it's a good document” Check it out folks! This compiled help file provides searchable, up-to-date information about Read More
posted Tuesday, October 19, 2004 7:39 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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A few technical difficulties in the last one ...but not bad for being virtual today

Today I had three live meeting events.  The first one was one that I had arranged with Stan Leszynski of the Leszynski Group giving an overview of Tablet PC.  Steven Lai, fellow SBS MVP and SF SBS user group gave me Stan's name.  Stan did Read More
posted Tuesday, October 19, 2004 7:30 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So today I flipped my lid

I had to meet with an Attorney and took my Tablet PC with me to jot notes.  While there I also found that I needed Excel, so I flipped the screen around to get at the keyboard and continued taking the notes I needed in Excel.  I think the Attorney's Read More
posted Tuesday, October 19, 2004 7:11 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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SBS CHAT with Handy Andy

>  SBS LIVE CHAT THIS WEEK: ** Tuesday, Oct. 19, 7 pm EDT: SBS Live! The ever-popular group known as SBS Live!, headed by Microsoft MVP and Small Business Server expert Andy Goodman, gets together online for its usual one-hour chat to discuss Read More
posted Monday, October 18, 2004 5:47 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Missed the Sharepoint Live Meeting last week? No Problem!

Eric L sends the email today that they've put the recording of the Sharepoint up on the MSSmallbiz web site.  Kewlamundo! Thank you to all of you who attended the Windows SharePoint Services LiveMeeting session we presented last week.  Read More
posted Monday, October 18, 2004 5:33 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Looking for Security awareness stuff for end users?

SANS.org has just started a newsletter geared towards end users called “OUCH”.  Cool!  Sign up here! Just to give you a sneak peak, here's the table of contents for this edition:  What To Avoid This Month I. Email from people Read More
posted Monday, October 18, 2004 1:03 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Good news, bad news

Rats.  Just read some good news/bad news.  First off Cisco and Microsoft have decided to work together to make sure their two perimeter security products work together.  That's really good news so that companies don't have to choose one Read More
posted Monday, October 18, 2004 7:27 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Yes, Tristan, us SBSers will know exactly what you mean!

 I'm out surfing and I find that Tristan has awarded SBS 2003 [actually more specifically the Remote Web Workplace] the “inaugural EBTDF Ninja Feature award for being so cool.”  I quite agree Tristan!  And yes, if you tell Read More
posted Sunday, October 17, 2004 11:16 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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During SMBNation we asked for your best ideas

And I finally got around to digging out the index cards I recieved....so without further ado, here's the first from Cindy Slade of Shalli Network Consulting for workstations/clients: DECREASE THE DELAY TIME FOR MENUS Windows annoyingly delays the drawing Read More
posted Sunday, October 17, 2004 5:58 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog for a notification regarding a Season Change

 We had our first rain for the season last night and today.  It was expected as it's the last day of the Fresno Fair.  It's traditional that it ALWAYS rains during the fair.  I also received the first of my two bulb shipments this Read More
posted Sunday, October 17, 2004 5:51 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Carl in the newsgroup asks.... "Can SBS be used for the home"

He asks that he has four machines, all XP pro on a workgroup and he would really like a server for roaming profiles so users can log into anywhere and get the same settings.  Can Small Business Server 2003 be used for home use? Heck YES!  Read More
posted Saturday, October 16, 2004 3:58 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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So Pocaro says Microsoft is listening and he wasn't kidding

The other day I commented that we had a cool community page but that I was a bit disappointed in the SBS blogs showcased on the site.  I even went so far as to ping some of the posters and ...well... be the annoying person that I am and say Read More
posted Saturday, October 16, 2004 12:11 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So today I get asked if there is anything in HIPAA....

So I'm on the phone today and get asked if there is anything in HIPAA that says that ISA server/SBS 2003 is not HIPAA compliant because it has two Network cards. Huh?  Say...whaaattt?  First off a bit of background,  HIPAA stands for the Read More
posted Friday, October 15, 2004 9:45 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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About that open source....

So yesterday I ranted that I couldn't send out email to a couple of listserves and places and I thought it was because I was blacklisted because of my ISP.  Well, I was only half right.  I still am partially blacklisted, but that's not the reason Read More
posted Friday, October 15, 2004 6:02 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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I am NOT a spammer!

Let me just get this off my chest... I'm not a spammer I pay for a static IP at my office It's the only DSL in town Can I help it if Pacbell is SBC that joint ventures with Yahoo? I noticed it a couple of days ago when a business email that I was Read More
posted Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:32 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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SBS 2003 Knowledge base articles of Interest

You receive an error message and the OK button is unavailable when you use the Change IP Address Tool in Windows Small Business Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=885684How to troubleshoot the POP3 Connector in Windows Small Business Server Read More
posted Thursday, October 14, 2004 8:05 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Read the fine print first:

First off remember.... 1.  We're not licensed for this yet. 2.  It will be part of SBS 2003 sp1 3.  Good things come to those who wait. ....but... if you are a SBS installer/partner and want to start “playing“, get Read More
posted Thursday, October 14, 2004 5:45 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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If I had a dime for every time I told someone that hotfixes are a free call

I think I've posted this again, but I'll say it again..... When you have a Knowledgebase article that indicates that there is a file to be obtained from Microsoft IT'S A FREE CALL.  Nada, zilch, zippo, zero cost. You call in the US 1-800-936-4900 Read More
posted Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:47 PM by bradley | 1 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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Whoa Scoble.. you cut to the chase don't you?

Scoble has an interesting posting today about a conversation he had on a plane where the passenger told him that Microsoft products “suck!”  So he invites folks to: So, I'm looking for more people who think our products or processes Read More
posted Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:50 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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If ya snoozed... that's okay

Eric says that the PDF of the Sharepont webcast is up on the Small Business Channel Community site now and the Powerpoint will be there shortly.  It was ALSO recorded and will be available for play back [usually about 24 hours]. If you haven't Read More
posted Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:23 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Small Business Community Update

Topics in this update:1) Microsoft Small Business Community User Group2) Alerts3) Windows SharePoint Technologies Webcast – Wednesday, October 13th 1) Did you know that in addition to the Microsoft Small Business Channel Community site you are Read More
posted Tuesday, October 12, 2004 10:12 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Handicappin' the Patches

In the SBS newsgroup someone asked if they applied “all“ of the critical security bulletins because they were afraid of breaking something on their boxes.  First off, realize that not only do these patches go through an internal testing Read More
posted Tuesday, October 12, 2004 8:26 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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Gentlemen, Start your Patch Testing

October Summary http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms04-oct.mspx Critical Bulletins: MS04-032 - Security Update for Microsoft Windows (840987) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms04-032.mspx MS04-033 - Vulnerability Read More
posted Tuesday, October 12, 2004 10:41 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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No, Thank You!

On the Microsoft web site is a flash movie that says “Join us in celebrating the one year anniversary of SBS“ and it says at the end “Thank you for making SBS 2003 a continued success“ No, Thank you.  Thank you, the Read More
posted Monday, October 11, 2004 11:41 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Exchange server best practices got another SBS update .... I'm so excited!

They've updated the Exchange Best Practices tool again - update those tools with this Web update! The update history says this version -- 1.5.7.1 - Improved baseline rules output. Introduced new rules which detect recently modified changes. Updates Read More
posted Monday, October 11, 2004 9:27 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Server Newbies 101 - Today's concept is file saving schemas

Document saving 101 - without Sharepoint. For those firms that are just getting started with using a server and not “yet” ready to go Sharepoint.  [Like a CPA firm or Attorney firm - we're a bit old fashioned] the best thing you Read More
posted Monday, October 11, 2004 8:13 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Tomorrow is SECURITY BULLETIN DAY but I have a patch to apply tonight

Remember that tomorrow is Security Bulletin day, but in the meantime tonight I'll be ensuring that I'm all patched up for any ASP.net vulnerability.  The patch to apply is located here and has been SBS approved. Microsoft has released an ASP.NET Read More
posted Monday, October 11, 2004 6:41 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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It's right under your nose... right THERE!

I've seen this several times.  Someone comes into the newsgroup looking for something and it's right there.  No, not there... THERE.  In the helpfiles on your SBS 2003 box.  They want to do Outlook over http and don't know how and Read More
posted Monday, October 11, 2004 12:08 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Mark Stevens and nine questions

Nine questions to ask when evaluating a security threat - Computerworld: http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,96425,00.html     1. Does the new threat affect software we use?   2. Is this exploit an insider Read More
posted Sunday, October 10, 2004 11:41 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Are you Sharepointing?

SBS 2003 is a year old and one of the parts of the box that I don't think we've played with enough is Sharepoint.  Harry made this point in his “Happy Birthday SBS” email yesterday.  Scoble says that O'Reillys' books on Sharepoint Read More
posted Sunday, October 10, 2004 8:15 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Dear Microsoft Time Zone:

  I need more than five time settings.  You see I have geek friends around the world and I need to know what time it is around the world.  You've got a great start... but I NEED MORE THAN FIVE!  You start out with allowing me Read More
posted Sunday, October 10, 2004 10:56 AM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Good stuff on Seandaniel.com blog today

Prevent Spammer attacks on your Exchange Server. And Dana was wanting the IIS log stuff in the console and I think we might be able to do that via this. Kewl.  Thanks SeanDaniel.com blog!   Read More
posted Saturday, October 09, 2004 7:29 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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From today's mailbag...Joel writes "Do you remember MSKB?"

When you could type in MSKB into your Internet Explorer and it would immediately jump to the Microsoft Knowledge base article? Oh yes I do remember that and blogged about it before.  But I just found a better one! Internet Explorer Address Bar Read More
posted Saturday, October 09, 2004 2:45 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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Dana was on the ball wasn't he?

Remember when Dana was looking to make SBS2003 into a “virtual office”?  I just spotted this article on that new RSS feed of mine about “Virtual Workplace Trend Changes Business”.  Interesting  I think Dana was spot Read More
posted Saturday, October 09, 2004 1:24 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Is everyone aware of Check21?

In the Small Business Trends blog  [looks interesting... I subscribed] I spotted this article about how writing checks as we know it in the USA is changing at the end of the month. Jim Blasingame of the Small Business Advocate points out that the Read More
posted Saturday, October 09, 2004 1:06 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So? How do you patch?

If you didn't know already, I'm a nutcase on patch and patch management and found this section on patching in a Risk Management checklist.  Good things to think about.  *  When applying a patch to any system vulnerability, do you have Read More
posted Saturday, October 09, 2004 11:57 AM by bradley | 5 Comments
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Document Management and VoIP HOT

Bob Scott's Consulting Insights includes a paragraph on what's hot at CPA firms that I've copied below and the funny thing is we've had dual monitors around here in my office for about two years.  My best purchase is a QUAD Matrox video Read More
posted Friday, October 08, 2004 8:01 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Have you checked out the SANS top 20?

SANS Top 20 lists is a list of 10 Windows and 10 Unix vulnerabilities that need immediate action.  I'd invite you to read through and compare last year to this years: SANS Top 20 for 2003 http://www.sans.org/top20/top20_oct03.php SANS Top Read More
posted Friday, October 08, 2004 7:01 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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The real weapons of mass destruction

The press talk about “weapons of mass destruction” but you know what the biggest weapon of mass destruction we have around here?  Windows XP with local admin and a keyboard.  Get something inside your system, get a compromise Read More
posted Friday, October 08, 2004 6:56 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Patch management tool comparisons

http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/43870/43870.htmlIn this month's IT pro there is a patch program comparison... now I can't talk about other products....but I can talk about the one I personally own and the chart says that Shavlik Read More
posted Friday, October 08, 2004 6:15 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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SA is a good thing... I got something I didn't ask for from MS Licensing

Software Assurance is GOOD. Today from DHL I got from MS Licensing part number T75-00170 WIN SBS Prem English Subscriber CD On the packing list is a description with a X10-88223 part number MS CD Win SBS Prem 2003 English Ent. What is it? Entourage Read More
posted Friday, October 08, 2004 10:27 AM by bradley | 3 Comments
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ASP.net vulnerability update - Remote Web Workplace

Just to let you know that Microsoft has updated the ASP.net security incident page with a program to help protect from this information disclosure vulnerability.  The application called Validate Path Module has just been released and we've asked Read More
posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:15 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Just because we are little doesn't mean we don't see a lot

Gavin pings me today with a situation he had with XP sp2 and the funny thing is I think it might be related to an issue I saw posted to NTbugtraq.  Gavin pinged the poster to Russ's list, but it brings to light a philosophy of mine that I have hidden Read More
posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 12:15 AM by bradley | 7 Comments
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Disk full? I think not.

So the other night I'm saving some files up to the server that I needed to load on the server and it gives me the message, disk full.  Disk FULL?  No way.  Well remember this is my play baby server here at home and I never turned off the Read More
posted Wednesday, October 06, 2004 11:31 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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SBS Knowledge base articles of Interest

 875501 - You are unexpectedly disconnected from your VPN session after several minutes in Windows Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=875501 886346 - You receive HTTP_500 error message when you synchronize your mobile device with Microsoft Read More
posted Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:57 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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What You Should Know About a Reported Vulnerability in Microsoft ASP.NET

I posted in the links the other day that Dana has posted about the ASP.NET vulnerability and today the following have been released:  What You Should Know About a Reported Vulnerability in Microsoft ASP.NEThttp://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=887459 Read More
posted Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:21 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So let's compare this to EventID.net shall we?

Eric pointed out at tool on the Microsoft download site that helps identify errors: Download details: Exchange Server Error Code Look-up Tool: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BE596899-7BB8-4208-B7FC-09E02A13696C&displaylang=en Read More
posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:01 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Hey.. nice hack dude!

One day in the blogosphere and Sean Daniel of Seandaniel.com shares his SBS 2003 backup hack. Very cool!  Thanks Sean! Read More
posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 8:17 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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It's a bit ironic

Scoble and the blogosphere are buzzing over what Steve Ballmer apparently said about IPOD's, MP3 players and stolen music.   Want to know something really ironic?  And I apologize to any Microsoft MVP that hasn't yet received their October Read More
posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 7:24 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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I think "Wus" and "Sus" are my favorite

Ecora just released a funny video about patch management.  Bambi, Bernie, Wus and Sus, and Martha are the “patch team”in Company A.  My favorite are the characters of “Wus” and “Sus”.  While it Read More
posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 6:51 PM by bradley | 0 Comments

IF YOU ARE A GEEK AND A BEANCOUNTER - PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG

In addition to being the SBS “Diva“, in my other life I'm the Chairman of the Technology Committee of the California CPA Society, and Chairman of the AICPA Top Technology Committee.    I want to see how much the "word of mouth" Read More
posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 6:33 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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It's been a year since Simon LeBon, Happy Birthday SBS!

It's been a year since the launch of Small Business Server 2003 at the WorldWide partner conference in New Orleans.  It's been quite a year hasn't it?  Since work committments kept me from going to the launch what I remember about the event Read More
posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 6:02 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Exchange Best Practices tool - what does is say about SBS?

The Exchange Best practices tool and the corresponding update has been making the rounds in the SBS2k3 newsgroup and I wanted to showcase a couple of things.  First off the folks over on the EHLO blog have been VERY responsive to us SBSers Read More
posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:16 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Blogosphere.. get ready for Sean of SeanDaniel.com

The first time I met this latest member of the blogosphere was back in February of 2003.  We were invited up to Mothership Redmond and met some of the SBS Dev team including this guy, that at the time all that stuck in my head is that he did Read More
posted Monday, October 04, 2004 9:51 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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XP sp2 webcasts all this week

I have two monitors in my office and normally if there is a really good webcast, I'll throw it on the second monitor and listen.  We got some good ones this week with an all week Windows XP sp2 webcasts events! Cool!  Make some popcorn! Read More
posted Monday, October 04, 2004 7:46 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Honestly, I posted the other blog before I saw this

Well guess what's on the download site today? Windows Small Business Server 2003 Getting Started Guide. Advertised as step by step instructions to complete a new installation of SBS. You know... the thing we're supposed to read...but never read... Read More
posted Monday, October 04, 2004 7:27 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Okay so the marketing sucks, but seriously... do we need it?

So I'm hitting the newsfeeds and notice this article about how SBS 2003 has taken off and propelled revenue growth of partners.  It goes on to say that the marketing campaign is minimal in comparison but the word of mouth buzz cannot be overstated.  Read More
posted Monday, October 04, 2004 7:12 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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It's time to get involved World!

Above this post is one of my favorite pictures of earth.  It's a picture done by NASA [time elasped of course] of the lights on all over the Earth.  You can see that on Jeff M and Anne's side of the East Coast of the USA that Read More
posted Monday, October 04, 2004 2:28 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Dude, there's a reason it's wasn't there

 MCPmagazine article has an article called “Dude, where's my firewall” and I'd like to clear up one thing in that article that doesn't make it clear why the SBS 2003 box was shipped with the group policy in place with the firewall disabled. Read More
posted Saturday, October 02, 2004 10:48 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Oliver? Try recalulating that price tag again

Oliver Rist gives a review of ISA 2004 and says “I think ISA is an excellent SMB firewall provided you’ve already got an anti-spam and anti-virus solution. And you’ll also need a fairly deep wallet because ISA is most likely to cost Read More
posted Saturday, October 02, 2004 10:32 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So tonight I had dinner with a Webcast star

So tonight I had dinner with Security MVP and webcast star Steve Friedl.  We had an interesting and entertaining dinner before he drove on to home.  Couple of interesting things about how we look at things.  First off he loves command line, Read More
posted Saturday, October 02, 2004 10:08 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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ASP.net form vulnerability

I first spotted this on LeastPrivilege.com and Dana follows up on his blog about the issue.  The good news in this as yet unpatched vulnerability is that IIS6.0 is not affected.  That means our little SBS 2003 boxes are not affected by this Read More
posted Saturday, October 02, 2004 12:14 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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We'd like to announce the latest introductions to the SBS MVPs and SBS Family Members

Small Business Server MVPS   Andy L. GoodmanCalvin McLennanChad A. GrossCris E HannaDavid B. NickasonDean Andrew CalvertEugenio ZilocchiFrank McCAllisterFrederick JohnsonHarry BrelsfordHenry CravenJason GerendJavier A. GomezJeff LoucksJeff MiddletonJim Read More
posted Friday, October 01, 2004 11:22 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Blog World - Say hello to Eric F

Blog world!  Say hello to Eric Fleischman and his new blog.  So you probably want to know all about Eric, right?  Well to us MVPs he's Mr. Debug man.  Give him a nice fat juicy debug file and he's probably in seventh heaven.  Read More
posted Friday, October 01, 2004 7:06 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Yes I changed the "skin"

New month, felt like I needed a new skin.  No not what you are thinking.. it's a blog skin.  For those of you reading via Newsgator, click on to the web.  So what do you think?  Like it?  My old one was called HabaHaba. Read More
posted Friday, October 01, 2004 6:39 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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