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Cannot connect to Sharepoint

In the mailbox tonight [one last post....] Carl asks “ I couldn't connect from outside the router to the SBS2003 through Sharepoint. From inside, everything works fine. I turned on port 443 and 4125 on the router. How do I troubleshoot this?“ Read More
posted Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:08 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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My apologies.

I'm an SBSer.  And I feel that I represent the SBS community to Microsoft. I feel like I've let the community down today. I didn't represent you well enough to the Windows Update team.  I didn't understand the impact of the 'normal' Windows Read More
posted Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:53 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Here's how to install a Service pack

Here are Susan's suggested items on how to install a service pack on SBS 2003 You don't install it on a production system, middle of the day during lunch time You don't install it before a weekend You don't install it before testing it yourself Read More
posted Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:44 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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5717D53E-DD6D-4d1e-8A1F-C7BE620F65AA

5717D53E-DD6D-4d1e-8A1F-C7BE620F65AA Don't know what that is?  That's the unique SBS 2003 GUID code for the SBS suite.  Do a search in the registry and you'll find it in a couple of places. I'm sure you know you have SBS 2003.  You Read More
posted Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:36 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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UPS, unexpected power losses and oh? Have you done this registry fix?

Services may stop abruptly when you shut down or restart a Windows Small Business Server 2003-based computer: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;839262 Jeff from TechSoEasy reminds me of a registry fix that we SBSers need to do.  Read More
posted Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:14 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Windows 2003 SP1 RTMs...ours is still in the oven

For those of you running 'normal' Windows 2003, you can start testing on the SP 1 as it just 'RTM'd.... For those of us on SBS 2003 remember In addition, Microsoft is announcing that Windows Small Business Server 2003 Service Pack 1 will also be Read More
posted Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:01 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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What versions of Internet Explorer are supported?

Understanding the Windows lifecycle policy (for all you IT Pros out there): http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/03/29/403513.aspx One last post before bed tonight... nice consise recap of what IE versions are supported on what platform. Read More
posted Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:19 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Really we're not shouting!

SOMEONE IN MY OFFICE LEARNED TODAY ...oh sorry... Someone in my office learned today that when she was Internal IMing the guy in the office and she used all CAPS [because you see in the tax software program she was using it's normal for us to use all Read More
posted Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:31 PM by bradley | 1 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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The icons got a bit messy today

One of the issues with Remote Web Workplace and especially with the interaction with a dual monitor system is the reality of 'letting go of static icon location”. Take this morning for example, I went to log back into RWW and there's a brief moment Read More
posted Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:53 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Are you an Admin?

Law #1: Nobody believes anything bad can happen to them, until it does Law #2: Security only works if the secure way also happens to be the easy way Law #3: If you don't keep up with security fixes, your network won't be yours for Read More
posted Monday, March 28, 2005 11:49 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Sniffin' a bit of a password tonight

Russ in the newsgroup picked up a new SBS client and they didn't write down the POP connector password.  He asked “Anyone know of password programs that unhide password in 2003?  All I can find are the ones for XP?” As Russ found Read More
posted Monday, March 28, 2005 10:55 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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IPsec anyone?

Tonight on the download page, there's a ton of IPsec downloads.  This is another of my 'gee I need to learn more on this topics”.  For now I'll just list the links I found: Download details: Interoperability Considerations for IPsec Read More
posted Monday, March 28, 2005 10:05 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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"A wireless internet has been found in range"

A couple of times, clients have come into the office and we've needed to get data off of their laptops.  So they've turned them on and we typically these days use usb thumb drives to pull the data off.  And each time a 'newer' computer is turned Read More
posted Monday, March 28, 2005 9:57 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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St Louis SBSers! A group for you!

One of my long time SBS mentors and 'big brothers' Cris Hanna is starting a SBS partner group in the St. Louis area.  Join him online and in person for a 'in face' community.  I still remember the first time I met him in person with my fellow Read More
posted Sunday, March 27, 2005 11:04 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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A place for people like me

I'm not one of these, but I need their talents. I'm not one of these, but I rely on them. I'm not one of these, but I value their expertise. But sometimes, I need more information targeted for ME and not for them.  What am I?  I'm an admin, Read More
posted Sunday, March 27, 2005 4:39 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Sometimes you have to remember just 'how truly portable' you are

America West has this feature that you can go to the Internet, log in and print out the boarding pass. So the guy at the office who is in Arizona gets ready to fly back, goes online just like he did at the office, checks in, confirms his booking Read More
posted Sunday, March 27, 2005 4:14 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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It's not too late for the Hottest Tour around!

It's not too late to catch the hottest tour around.  This tour ROCKS!  Get autographs!  Get a backstage pass and more!  Talk one on one with the tour members!  What is this?  What really cool tour is this? Why the SBS Partner Read More
posted Sunday, March 27, 2005 3:19 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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How about just working?

With my “I'm going to be patient and see if this works today” cap on I'm surfing over to Fedex.com's web site to see if I can update my credit card today.  Last night I was about to throttle some Java web site coders.   I can log Read More
posted Sunday, March 27, 2005 1:20 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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DNS ...to forward or not to forward...that 'tis the question

First off I have to explain..I've been doing knock offs of Shakespeare ever since I briefly caught the interview of Denzel Washington on GMA in his role of Brutus in Julius Caesar on Broadway.....the “To Be or not To Be“ is from Hamlet Read More
posted Saturday, March 26, 2005 1:50 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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What's a server?

If you are the IT Pro...what's a server? No, seriously...what is a server?  I would hope that you would say that it's an operating system that 'at least' had the name 'Server' in it and not XP Pro used in a peer setting.  I would hope that Read More
posted Saturday, March 26, 2005 1:11 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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SecCast anyone?

Oh this is too geeky... Security Topics and a Podcast all in one ThePodcastNetwork :: The Gadget Show » Blog Archive » The Gadget Show #5: http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/gadget/2005/03/23/the-gadget-show-5/ This is so cool.  They have Read More
posted Saturday, March 26, 2005 12:56 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Issues with KB 891711 [MS 05-002 on 98/98SE and ME]

This just in from the Microsoft Security Response Center:  Microsoft has received reports about issues with KB891711 on Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows ME. At this point, we have been able to confirm these reports and are currently working Read More
posted Saturday, March 26, 2005 12:39 AM 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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Oh Shoot! No...wait! It's okay!

One of the guys at my office was sort of at his desk today.  But not exactly.  You see he was actually in Arizona for a meeting but using Remote Web Workplace in the hotel room.  He needed a document to answer a question and it was a credit Read More
posted Friday, March 25, 2005 10:16 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Dear Mr. Best Products:

Dear Mr. Best Products [or is it Mrs?] Thank you for ensuring that Peachtree runs in User mode but can you answer one question for us?  Why [exactly and be specific please] don't you support ACT 2005 running on SBS 2003?  Can you Read More
posted Thursday, March 24, 2005 9:54 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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We're movin' on up!

Okay American TV show reference... you remember the show called “The Jeffersons” where the theme song was “We're movin' on up....yeah we're movin' on up...to the Eastside.... to a De-Lux apartment in the sky-hi-hi”.....  Got Read More
posted Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:14 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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So how plugged in are you?

So Amy and Tavis posted in about their SBS Partner group experience [Amy on the ISA server listserve, Taz on his blog] and what I'm reading into these messages is that you partners out here don't know. Aren't comfortable with ISA server because they Read More
posted Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:02 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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What fax can I use on SBS?

From the mailbag today comes the question from Liran from Israel: “I do a lot of support for SBS servers but I still cannot tell what modems are recommended for the SBS 2000/2003 shared fax - especially compatible low end ones that cost up Read More
posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:15 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Patching on the SBS 4.5 box

Please be aware that as of December 31, 2004, there are no support for the SBS 4.5 platform, I can't remember a dang thing about it and the newsgroup is about dead. Technet Webcasts has a presentation on “Threat mitigation for 98 and NT” Read More
posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:35 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Laziness and the admin

I have some tasks that I do rarely and so I forget how to get to them, so I build shortcuts. We use Trend Anti Virus here and sometimes the email gets quarantined for attachments and content.  I purposely block zip attachments and to make it easier Read More
posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:18 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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How about I just put it in an envelope and put a stamp on it?

Email.  Ugh. If we don't get spammed to death, SMTP auth attacked, attempted relaying, we can't send the stupid thing out the door.  Brian Livingston of Windows Secrets sent over a link that reminded me of something that we've been battling Read More
posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:47 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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The light at the end of the tunnel

Push, shove, pull, come on...you can do it!  Come on!  Just a bit more... you are almost there! Don't mind me, I'm just standing on the sidelines giving support to Microsoft's patching program.  Two milestones today in fact.  First Read More
posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:01 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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1-866-PCSafety

 1-866-PCSAFETY Your hot line. You know when bad things happen with security patches [which isn't that often but nonetheless] that it's a free call.  If you don't call and merely just ask your neighbor, Microsoft won't know there's a problem.  Read More
posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 12:53 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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URLScan and OWA doesn't exactly go together [thanks Graeme]

Graeme reports in an issue he had with OWA and SBS: Scenario: Small Business Server 2003 (Premium) Patching had tested good on a third non-production machine. OWA completely stops working after routine patching based on MS Baseline Security Analyzer. Read More
posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 12:41 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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PubSub on THAT!

Scoble?  Robert dear?  You met Matt a VP of Sales that said sales of small business oriented servers were going nuts?  Don't just Pubsub on small business and servers.  Pubsub on “Small Business Server 2003“  Or set Read More
posted Monday, March 21, 2005 10:16 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Do we truly want to be secure? I don't think we truly do.

"Only this mode is available because Windows Small Business Server 2003 always runs on a domain controller, and if you run Terminal Server on a domain controller, you may risk the safety of the server and the safety of your organization's sensitive data." Read More
posted Monday, March 21, 2005 9:53 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Hey Charlie! They got updated again!

Dear Charlie: I regret to inform you that those two lovely SMB files that I nearly drove you crazy tracking for about 6 months have been updated again.  You remember, the ones that started us recommending wacking off SMB signing in the Read More
posted Monday, March 21, 2005 12:24 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Cookies, spyware and I'd like a glass of milk with that please?

I was answering a question in the newsgroup on how the Microsoft Antispyware [still beta but extremely stable] went through an egress filtering firewall whereas I gave up on trying to get Adaware through the firewall.  The the poster asked if the Read More
posted Sunday, March 20, 2005 8:52 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Baselines and small businesses

Tim makes the point in the comment section that my issue with patching was totally caused by the fact that I didn't know what I had on that system.  I totally agree. But I don't agree with his assessment that 'any sized business should flatten and Read More
posted Sunday, March 20, 2005 3:38 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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The laptop is alive, the glass windows in the office are intact, the OEMs are now ticking me off

Following up to my 'Right about now a laptop” post, DJ says that they have a 15, sometimes 30 minute rule... if it takes longer than that, they nuke the laptop and start fresh with a Ghost image.  'Ain't' it true.  Computer issue take 15 minutes Read More
posted Saturday, March 19, 2005 7:15 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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Right about now a laptop is really getting on my nerves

We have these 'floater laptops' that stay in the closet and come out when folks travel.  So some of them don't get the attention they need [patches, a/v whatever] until they are needed for the road.  I think I may need to include these suckers Read More
posted Saturday, March 19, 2005 5:09 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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Graphically document how insecure you truly are!

Now you can graphically document how insecure your network truly is! Okay just kidding...another of the ...oooh haven't tried but this looks interesting categories.  Visio + MBSA = Interesting! Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Connector for the Microsoft Read More
posted Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:09 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Just give me the basics

From the mailbag tonight were two related questions.  One was from a fellow who was tired of the geek speak and wanted to get his hands around the bits and bytes himself and better understand the fundamentals that his IT folks would communicate with Read More
posted Friday, March 18, 2005 11:53 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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It just is, that's all.

Why is Office 2003 so good?  It's just an accumulation of the little things.  Patching is easier for one.  Colors and highlights.  Outlook Rocks.  Integration with Sharepoint is just soooooo kewl. And Larry points out the best Read More
posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:55 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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And my name is?

I have a name inside that is different than the name outside.  I want my name that I give to my trusted people to be different than the name I give to outsiders.  In fact, the shorter and cleaner it is, the better off I am to my admin.  Read More
posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:50 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Um...Guys? I'm not connecting to my computer at work?

So you probably know by now that I have a fully functional SBS 2003 at home as well as at the office and there's just a couple of things that bug me about RWW. I'm not connecting to my Desktop at work. Okay so this is really dumb but the page that says Read More
posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:19 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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The Server and Domain Isolation Using IPsec and Group Policy is available on TechNet

Just got notified about this posted to the Download site! Isolating Network Resources to Better Protect Against Rogue Machines, Infections and Information Theft ·         How does one restrict sensitive Read More
posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:14 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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The book, the Man, the Team, THE EVENT!

You've seen the ads, some of you have seen the PDFs, now, the book, the man, the team, the event.  And once again it has me tempted to book tickets to Australia.  REGISTER NOW for this special event only in Australia! The training session Read More
posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:11 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Webcasts anyone?

Yes.  ALL are available at a later time. I have that problem too.  Seems to be that one plug in. Open up ISA in an all/all/all and it works [which is what I normally do]. You can download the PDF inside the presentation by Read More
posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:02 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Blogcast, Podcast, Geek out here we come!

Gordon emailed me about a new uber geek site with some cool tech videos [or podcasts as the blog world calls them]  Located at Blogcastrepository, it's a Vault for free technical videos.  They even have a cool 'how to' do these videos and how Read More
posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 8:33 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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The moral of this story is ....use USB external harddrives instead

Event ID 133 is logged in the Event Viewer if you use the Ntbackup.exe with a Certance Travan tape drive in Windows Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894255 RESOLUTION Microsoft is researching this problem and will post more information Read More
posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 8:19 PM by bradley | 7 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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Patching anyone?

From the mailbag today comes the question.... how do you let workstations automatic update and still be restricted user at the same time. Answer..... You can't.  Not that I've found anyway. Ah, great there Susan, you are the one advocating restricted Read More
posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 8:53 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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SBS Chat Live - Handy Andy at 4 P.M. PST

CHAT: SBS Live! ** Tuesday, March 15, 7 p.m. Eastern Got Small Business Server and want to get help administering it or help others to get the most out of it? Share you SBS stories with others this Tuesday, March 15 at 7 pm; Microsoft MVP and Read More
posted Monday, March 14, 2005 11:36 PM by bradley | 0 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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But....But... I was "stealth" before and now I'm not?

From the mailbag comes today a question about ports open and what not: Joe had a peer to peer network before and on the Grc.com web site was fully 'stealth'.  Now that he has a network he is listing ports 80 and 25 open.  Closed is port 21.  Read More
posted Sunday, March 13, 2005 6:34 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Read any good EULAs lately?

About a year ago there was a AICPA Tech Conference session that was titled “Privacy is good business” There are times when you look at a firm and scratch your head as to why they are doing business practices the way they are.  So tonight Read More
posted Sunday, March 13, 2005 12:26 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Want to know more about XP sp2?

Microsoft TechNet Radio: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/tnradio/default.mspx On the Microsoft TechNet radio is an excellent discussion of the addition of XP sp2 to Microsoft themselves and how Microsoft manages their own deployment of XP Read More
posted Saturday, March 12, 2005 5:56 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Um...so how do I "know" when something is running slower?

HANG LOOSE - THIS PATCH ISN'T INSTALLING AND A FILE INSIDE OF IT APPEARS TO BE A VERSION OLDER THAN WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE ON THE SYSTEM.  I'VE ASKED FOR CLARIFICATION ON THIS PATCH FIX: Performance is slower on multiple-processor computers Read More
posted Saturday, March 12, 2005 5:21 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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What to do in case of.... and "The effect of the PIX"

So the menadering contents of this blog post all started when Steven Banks asked me what should a person do if their IP address was spoofed.  So I asked my security guru buddies of the various steps one should take if something happened and Read More
posted Saturday, March 12, 2005 12:06 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Troubleshooting an issue

There it goes again. Rats, it's affecting the server again. And it's happening on a regular basis. “It“ can be anything from hardware to software issues on your server and many times 'it' is caused by the interaction of all that hardware Read More
posted Friday, March 11, 2005 11:12 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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How do you sell to a small business customer?

Dave and I are lucky.  We work in offices where technology is not a line item on the budget that we nickle and dime to death, but rather one that is seen as helping our firms grow to where we are now. A conversation started on the Microsoft Small Read More
posted Friday, March 11, 2005 9:05 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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I found one...they DO exist

You know how I always tell my story about how a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner tried to talk me out of SBS and so it was better to go with a “Registered” Microsoft Partner because they were SBSized? I found one tonight. They Read More
posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:55 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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SMB signing... in or out?

Last month's security bulletin 05-011, Windows SMB client transaction response handling vulnerability holds a special place in my heart...why you say?  Because I personally probably drove SBS Release Manager Charlie Anthe crazy over a several month Read More
posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:59 PM by bradley | 8 Comments
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A Haircut, a manicure and a computer

Tonight was the night for my own 'patch maintenance', haircut and nails.  You know us high maintenance gals.  But tonight I also picked up a bit of maintenance of another sort.  My manicurist brought in her computer for me to take with Read More
posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:16 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Tomorrow night is THE kick off to the SBS 2003 Partner Group Tour!

Near Seattle or Redmond?  Tomorrow night is THE kick off event for the SBS 2003 Parnter Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS 2003) Partner Group Tour – Microsoft takes to the road.      Taking the Partners and Microsoft Read More
posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:24 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Normal.dot Have you customized yours today?

One of the best, most efficient things we have done in our office was done by a Office Power user several years ago.  One day I was walking by Tina's desk and saw her use some customized menus in her Word document program. 'What's that?” I Read More
posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:14 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Here's to a SBSer getting a bit of html to call SBSized

I don't mean to be this way.  But I am.  I don't know why.  Haven't really stopped to analyze it. Show me a fellow SBSer who truly 'gets' SBS and chances are, they will be the same way.  There's a fierce pride in being an SBSer. Read More
posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:39 AM by bradley | 4 Comments
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A smidge of technology... a ton of efficiency

Today I got an email.  No biggie right?  But it was an email from an Attorney firm that had the attachment that was a transcript of a deposition in a case that my firm is working on.  Still no biggie right?  But the deposition was Read More
posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:04 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Allocated Memory Alert - part deux

You remember my allocated memory alert problem?  My SBS Monitoring would start growing after I rebooted for monthly patches and would just keep notching up until I would get umpteen annoying alerts in the system telling me that something was wrong.  Read More
posted Monday, March 07, 2005 7:03 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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AHHH OOOOHH GAAAHHHH - Chad Gross, SBS MVP presents a Sharepoint Live Meeting

Event Name:  Wednesdays on the Web with TS2: Conversation with a Partner Event Date:  3/16/2005 Event Time:  2:00 PM [Pacific time] Duration:  60 minutes Description:  Join us as we talk with Chad Read More
posted Monday, March 07, 2005 5:09 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So what's an 'up to date' server anyway?

So what makes up an up to date SBS 2003 server 'at this time' [pre Windows 2003 sp1, anyway? The process is Visit Windows update and get all the patches from there Visit www.microsoft.com/sbs click on downloads and install the patches from there Read More
posted Sunday, March 06, 2005 9:05 AM by bradley | 4 Comments
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Can we clear up a few misconceptions over Service packs on SBS?

Over on CRN is an article on SBS sp1 that just doesn't ''quite" get it right and I'd like to specifically comment on a couple of items listed: One new feature in SBS SP1 will help partners with the client issue: The client setup feature in SBS SP1 Read More
posted Saturday, March 05, 2005 11:35 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So I get this email the other day

So it all started when in the mail the other day I get a letter and card from Microsoft saying “RE:  Your Open Value License Agreements”.  Hmmm... that's interesting...this is the first I've gotten that.  And it tells me to Read More
posted Saturday, March 05, 2005 1:16 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So what's the security of Remote Web Workplace?

A poster in the newsgroup asked about the comparison of the security of Remote Web Workplace with and without ISA [Standard versus Premium].  But you see, both of them have the HOLE open.  So from a standpoint of looking Read More
posted Friday, March 04, 2005 9:36 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Okay so maybe I had just a little to do with the topic in David's column

 David Coursey today has a column who's topic is near and dear to my heart. Restricted user...least privileged user...LUA ....whatever you want to call it. Today in David's column he talks about how 'Least privilege can be the best'.  And Read More
posted Friday, March 04, 2005 8:53 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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The power of Word...the REAL power of Word

Word. Noun. A sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes. Microsoft Word Noun. Annoying program Read More
posted Friday, March 04, 2005 8:19 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Things to do next Tuesday

So for all those within earshot of this blog...listen up.  You've got a free day next Tuesday as there is no Security patching to do.  Now you 'could' go outside and enjoy the [insert whatever weather you get in your region] or you could be Read More
posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:36 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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A bit of colloboration in your coffee?

Partner Channel Builder enables Microsoft's Gold Certified and Certified Partners to collaborate with one another by calling out opportunities to form new alliances and deliver complete end-to-end solutions for customers and by identifying potential revenue Read More
posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:02 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Toronto North SBS Consultants Group

The initial meeting of the Toronto North SBS Consultants Group has been scheduled and planned! If you are local to Toronto, Newmarket or Barrie, please join our site at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SBSCanada/ And register for our first meeting Read More
posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 12:42 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Next Tuesday...no patches

No patches next Tuesday [but if you are still on Firefox 1.0 remember there is an update to fix some security issues and both browsers still have security issues] ******************************************************************** Title: Read More
posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:44 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Have GFI and not getting mail?

Using GFI and all your mail being Quarantined or Deleted ?http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/02/gfi_beserker/Quote----GFI's Mail Security anti-virus product threw a wobbler Wednesday afternoon (2 March) when an update to BitDefender Engine Module caused Read More
posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:20 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Yes? You knocked? Hello?

Whereever you are reading this... stop.  Listen.  What do you hear?  A computer fan running?  Cars driving by?  Depending on where you live either snow plows, rainy streets, birds chirping?  It's noise from outside of your Read More
posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:20 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Sharepoint blogs, you say you want Sharepoint blogs?

I'll be the first to admit that the first thing on my to do list after busy season is really getting into Sharepoint.  After I posted my “Exchange blogs” post the other day someone from the mailbag asked about Sharepoint blogs So here Read More
posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 8:34 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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Excuse me.... it was my database first!

I order things from Office Depot and so does the Office Manager at my office.  I buy stuff for home.  I personally feel it's perfectly normaly to buy a whole box [10 reams] of paper.  And because I'm normally a geek I regularly use the Read More
posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 7:59 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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How good of a SBSer are YOU?

Take the SBS Assessment Introducing the Individual Assessment for Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/assessment/ind/ ..and take the “Susan” Bet.  From now until March 31st, the first annual unofficial Read More
posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:19 PM by bradley | 7 Comments
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Speaking of SBS Partner Groups

You guys and gals DO remember what is upcoming in March in the USA don't you? [and for those of you near the USA borders...consider that March is lovely weather for traveling to the states] Beginning March 10, the SBS Partner Group Tour kicks off in Read More
posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:48 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Next time, Barbara, just call me

Barbara Darrow in the Unblog on the CRN site talks about the new online  “Small Business Center”.  Reading the post reminded me of a happening just this weekend.   In her post it talks about the demo of the new site had Read More
posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:39 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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