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Small Business Accounting ON SBS 2003 This document describes the process for configuring multiple users for Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 running on a Windows Small Business Server 2003 network. Just remember to go to Microsoft update Read More
posted Monday, November 07, 2005 5:19 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Remote web workplace and IE7 - you know it IS a beta you know

If you are running IE 7 and trying to access your SBS via Remote Web Workplace...well..it's kinda not working as confirmed in a number of posts. But remember this “IS” a beta. So how can you USE the browser on a real machine and not Read More
posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:19 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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It may not be supported....but...

I have a domain at home... I have a new computer that would be perfect as a Media Center Edition... well it will be as soon as I get a Hauppauge card, that is.  I obviously live in the technology store wasteland of the Central Valley of California Read More
posted Sunday, October 09, 2005 7:04 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Forgot to attach your attachment?

Oh Jeremy..that is just too cool! So do you remember to attach your attachments? Jeremy does and so do his users. Read More
posted Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:56 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Need the tool to uninstall Norton?

Need the link to uninstall Norton... REALLY uninstall it? Here it is. Read More
posted Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:50 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So Quickbooks REALLY needs admin?

Got a call tonight about having Quickbooks go on a Terminal server and first off I should state... this is not supported by QB.  You are 'supposed' to buy QB Enterprise... that said..there's a link about QB on TS.  Remember to get Quickbooks Read More
posted Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:46 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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SBA on SBS [the unsupported instructions to get the datafile ON the network]

So you build a Small Business Accounting Program and you call it a multi user version...and then you don't install it on SBS in such a way so that the msde datafile is 'on' the server, but rather on a desktop inside the office. Okay ....lemme get this Read More
posted Monday, August 29, 2005 6:56 PM by bradley | 3 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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Really this isn't as out of character as you think

So I”m googling tonight for one last tweak.  I'm sharing out ALL my mailboxes in Exhange to all the other people in the office.  Yes, you heard that right, I'm sharing out the ENTIRE mailstore with all my other employees.  For all Read More
posted Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:10 AM by bradley | 5 Comments
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Okay, now I don't want them to use the Internet

So you've set up SBS 2003 and it's working a little TOO good and you want to restrict some people from using the Internet.  So how do you do that? Got SBS 2003 Premium?  Remove the folks from the Internet users security group.  As Read More
posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 7:10 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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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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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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I didn't know Lookout could do THAT!

So I was reindexing the LookOut tool bar in Outlook on my Acer tablet [purchased refurbished I might add] and realized that it can also search “my documents' and even search placed on a network?  I'll have to try that at the office.  The Read More
posted Monday, September 06, 2004 2:03 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Just checking on KB 842933

Drove back with my geek buddy Kendall Wheeler from San Jose where we had the California CPA Society State Technology Meeting [theme was IT and security auditing... more on the blog in the future] and figured that before I went to bed I'd check to see Read More
posted Friday, August 13, 2004 11:25 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Files to exclude from Antivirus Scanning

823166 - Overview of Exchange Server 2003 and antivirus software: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;823166 Okay do those 822158 - Virus scanning recommendations on a Windows 2000 or on a Windows Server 2003 domain controller: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;822158 Read More
posted Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:51 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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XP sp2 patch for us SBSers is now on the Download site ... is that XP sp2 I see in the future?

By default, the Windows Firewall, that Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)  includes, is disabled by a Group Policy setting in all Windows Small  Business Server 2003 networks. To enable the Windows Firewall on computers  running Windows XP SP2, install this Read More
posted Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:42 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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If you are a beancounter... this KB makes your heart go pitter patter...

839503 - "Connection Error: 10057” error message when you try to connect to the Lacerte Web site or to download updates of the Lacerte Tax program in SBS 2000 or in SBS 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;839503 Read More
posted Tuesday, July 27, 2004 5:55 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Do we use the /3 switch or not?

Does your server have 4 gig of RAM? Today a poster asked if we SBSers need to follow this KB or not: 823440 - You Must Use the /3GB Switch When You Install Exchange Server 2003 on a Windows Server 2003-Based System: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=823440 Read More
posted Monday, July 26, 2004 11:40 PM by bradley | 6 Comments
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Tavis reminds me that LookOut add in is on the download site

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=09b835ee-16e5-4961-91b8-2200ba31ea37 An addin to Outlook to quickly search all of your email, contacts, calendar, and filesystem. And I added TAZ's blog link at the bottom of my page.  He Read More
posted Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:47 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Got Quickbooks? Shut off the autodisconnect.

A buddy of mine called me the other day saying that he kept losing connection to the server and “Quickbooks” would barf on him and was there anything he could do about it.  Oh yeah.  As part of my “three things I always do Read More
posted Thursday, July 22, 2004 6:37 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Another interesting RSS add on to a public folder this time

RSS.  Unless you are living under a rock you've heard about RSS.  Today I spotted this.... Glen's Exchange Dev Blog: Public folder RSS Feed Event sink: http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2004/06/public-folder-rss-feed-event-sink.html Definitely Read More
posted Monday, July 19, 2004 7:20 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Front Page Extensions on SBS?

Kevin includes on his blog information about Front Page Extensions... check it out... Read More
posted Monday, July 05, 2004 8:42 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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I just majorly re-edited the old MAC integration post to reflect new info....

Eriq Neale graciously updated his MAC/SBS information and gave me permission to just point all you guys over to his fantastic site that has all the full details! Very cool!  Thank you Eriq! Read More
posted Wednesday, June 30, 2004 7:22 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So you bought an OEM and you want to move the folders around a bit, eh?

All is not lost.... courtesy of “Les is More” Moving Data Flolder for Windows Small Business Server 2003 (download) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A1D0AF69-1287-4225-BD8B-59C89F44984B&displaylang=enThe paper Read More
posted Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:03 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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