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Have Dew will Travel

In the Fresno airport waiting for a trip to San Francisco and reading the Harvard Business Review (well sort of reading it...the eyes are bleary at this hour of the morning) and there's an article about "Eager Sellers and Stony Buyers:  Understanding Read More
posted Saturday, June 24, 2006 7:42 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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TechDays in San Francisco area

I'll be on the road again (getting up at an ungodly hour and then taking the train back) to do a Saturday event on SBS... on Security and patch management, on Disaster Recovery, etc. etc... so if you happened to want to sit inside an airconditioned Read More
posted Friday, June 23, 2006 1:01 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Debugging 102

I probably should have made it clearer to David and others of what my Debugging 101 post was meant to do... I already know the root cause of the memory dumps... the intent is to show the masses out here how near obvious those memory dump files can be.  Read More
posted Friday, June 23, 2006 6:24 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Amazing what an extra ";" willl do

Fixed the comments.. I had an extra ";" in the forbidden spam words filter and it caused the blog comenting to fail... sorry about that. All fixed now. (Blog now fixed.. and I STILL need a Dew) Read More
posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 5:54 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Somehow I think I broke the comments

So I was messing with the comment spam filtering because blog spam was pretty bad and somehow I think I broke comments in the process... I'll trying to deal with it but I'm honestly sitting here on the couch vegging out (I need to do laundry as well) Read More
posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 4:20 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Quickbooks R7 info

 Quickbooks R7 info Release 7 (R7) as Auto Update Tomorrow, Thursday, June 22, we expect to make Release 7 available to you and your clients who are working in editions of QuickBooks® 2006 for Windows as an Auto Update. Earlier we told you about Read More
posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:31 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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One of our "cockroaches" is missing....

It's day two of the mini summit we have in Texas here and ... we nearly lost a "cockroach" tonight.  On the way to the dinner with about 20 someodd SBS MVPs and the PSS SBS team (aka the Podcast gang) we realized that Wayne Small wasn't with us... Read More
posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:26 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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The Cockroach Store is now open

http://www.cafepress.com/smallbizworld With the world launch in Texas.. the Cockroach Shirts Store is now launched...   Read More
posted Monday, June 19, 2006 12:14 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Want to get a smidge of flavor of TechEd?

Then listen to Vlad's Podcast of me, Dave Sobel and Alun Jones!  And we were indeed shutting down the place... it was amazing to think of the logistics of that event. But whether your go to TechEd, WorldWide Partner Conference, SMBNation, or SMBTN's Read More
posted Saturday, June 17, 2006 6:05 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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When you get a BSOD after patching ... dig deeper

So this blog comment points out how to debug issues in patching 1.  Don't uninstall all patches... if you can tell from debugging a bluescreen that it's a driver like that.... pulling off all umpteen patches is not the answer.... read the bulletins Read More
posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:26 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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Want to test Mobility and you don't have a Mobile 5 device?

Then you need this to emulate Windows Mobile 5 devices without the hassle of the Visual Studio and all that........ Courtesy of Sean Furman.... you need this link (and Happyfunboy did want to point out he was first about this... but... Sean told Read More
posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:44 AM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Blogging from the room

In the "Vista Security Tidbits" presentation waiting for it to begin... and I need to make sure I get the DVD because it's now in the "rats I have to miss this to go to that" session. What am I missing? Dump analsysi (and thanks to PeterGal's blog that Read More
posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 6:40 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Outlook over http (thanks to Sean Furman)

At the Birds of a Feather today I was reminded that I've never blogged about this...courtesy of Sean Furman .. he reminded me to go grab this and blog it..   I finally was able to remove the dialog box requesting the username/id/password.  Read More
posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:33 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Exploits out

 Exploits out for some  of the issues yesterday.. Window Media.. Word.. etc...Exploits for most recent Microsoft Patches  http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?n&storyid=1415 That means that the issues and attacks based on this might be getting Read More
posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:26 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather on all things SBS (and not just security) will be at 2 p.m. room 203..at least I think it's room 203 as bleary eyed as I am and as small of writing on the mini guide... All SBSers are welcome including those that aren't SBSers but Read More
posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:21 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Wow.. that's a lotta patches..

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-jun.mspx Wow.. lots of patches today... including one that I don't agree with ... the patch for RRAS says that Remote Access service is not "running by default on a Windows 2003 server".. and on Read More
posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:41 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Sometimes it's the little things in life..

Sometimes it's the little things in life that make you smile... like the line to the men's bathroom at TechEd... ..when of course the women's restroom has no line.. Read More
posted Monday, June 12, 2006 10:06 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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Live from Boston

..want to see the keynotes from TechEd? http://virtualteched.com/default.aspx Watch them here.. live.. Read More
posted Sunday, June 11, 2006 4:00 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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I forgot to pack a powerstrip...

You know you are in geekout land when the airport has this.. and hotel room key looks like this....but I should have packed a powerstrip... we do have the wireless set up so that the gals can share the highspeed Internet..and yes that's a snap shot of Read More
posted Saturday, June 10, 2006 7:27 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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SBA wins awards...

Hey did you see this? Microsoft Small Business Applications: http://blogs.msdn.com/rajattaneja/default.aspxThe Tech Gap: 2006 Innovation Awards Honor Technologies that Advance and Enhance Productivity: http://www.thetechgap.com/2006/06/2006_innovation.html#moreMicrosoft Read More
posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:36 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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oh yeah... it's on order..

Yoda Backpack - Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/yoda-backpack-179185.php bummed I can't get it in time for Boston.. but oh yeah... it's on order.. Read More
posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 7:58 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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DNS in a SBS network

DNS For Simple SBS 2003 Setup, AlphaOne Computing, Brighton, Sussex: http://www.alphaone-comp.com/kbase/2006/06/dns_for_simple_sbs_2003_setup.php hmmm ... I don't open the SBS DNS console like that.. I run the connect to Internet and Email wizard....and Read More
posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 5:42 PM by bradley | 7 Comments
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Sometimes it's the little things

So this morning the power was dropping and the lights were blinking.. so we called PG&E and got them to come over and look.. I was joking that it was due to changing out our old Scientific America cable box with the new digital one that takes a rocket Read More
posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:02 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Exchange IMF guide on the Download site

This guide explains how to deploy and configure Intelligent Message Filter in your Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 organization. Read More
posted Monday, June 05, 2006 8:35 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So what do you think?

Okay so we're taking a poll..... read this article.... a couple of folks have pinged and says the author sure sounds like he used the www.sbsmigration.com method to move his problem server... the use of "TempDC" ...and the word "SwingMigration" made Read More
posted Monday, June 05, 2006 12:16 PM by bradley | 12 Comments
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