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February 2005 - Posts

Exchange blogs anyone?

Exchange MVP blogs: MS Exchange Blog - William Lefkovics, Chris Mierick & Neil Hobson - http://hellomate.typepad.com/exchange/index.rdf Wesley Peace - http://edcom.info/wpeace/Rss.aspx 3Sharp - Paul Robichaux and Missy Koslosky - http://www.3sharp.com/blog/index.rdf Read More
posted Monday, February 28, 2005 9:46 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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I think I had a bit too much Mountain Dew too late in the evening or something....

I had this bizarre dream this morning.  You know that morning dream you get when you go back to sleep for a bit..the one in which you dream really really bizarre stuff? I had this dream that in order to promote LUA and least privilege user Read More
posted Sunday, February 27, 2005 9:55 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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The balance

Oh my gawd...the enemies are out there....oh no...they are in here.... The Security mentor brings up something along the lines of my password issue..... it's an issue I call “the balance”.  Every day, each one of us take our expertise Read More
posted Sunday, February 27, 2005 9:06 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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The ugly truth about Passwords

For all my talk about security I'm going to bare my soul to you all.  I do something very very dumb. I do a very stupid thing.  One that my fellow Security gurus beat me up over [and rightfully so]. Like Gavin, there are times I need to log Read More
posted Saturday, February 26, 2005 4:02 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Trend Engine Update

 To manually update TREND: Otherwise on March 3rd it will get the necessary update.  [me I'm waiting]Follow these steps to manually update your ScanMail scan engine: 1. Open your Web browser and type the following URL address: http://www.trendmicro.com/download/engine.htm Read More
posted Saturday, February 26, 2005 10:11 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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There are some things in life that you just "can't" do without

We make a huge thing about making sure that we build in backups, disaster recovery, redundancy, but there's one thing that unless you have your own true backup and redundancy, you only have about 30 minutes that separates you between all the technology Read More
posted Friday, February 25, 2005 10:50 PM by bradley | 2 Comments

Warning on www.SBSlinks.com

 I don't host web sites on my servers and hire others to host them for me.  But you have to the rely on their security practices to ensure all is well.  Well tonight, thanks to David Svirskis I got my own wakeup call of how bad it's getting Read More
posted Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:22 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Trend A/V Security issue

Trend Micro has a security issue that needs an engine update.  The updates are here, but I'll check to see if they automatically come down via the autoupdate. Read More
posted Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:02 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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The glass is indeed 1/2 full, not 1/2 empty

On the blog comments today comes a passionate post that I'd just like to respond to because it points to a Microsoft partner that I came across once upon a time...the glass is 1/2 empty partner.... Scott in the blog comments rants that SBS is a “bait Read More
posted Thursday, February 24, 2005 6:32 PM by bradley | 6 Comments
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How about "more" friendly HTTP error messages?

From the mailbox today comes this tip from WayneV While I was trying to find an answer to a web based program/IIS problem I stumbled on a checkbox worth mentioning. I was getting the error: The page cannot be displayed There is a problem with the Read More
posted Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:40 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Are you engaged?

If you are reading this blog...if you install computer systems.... you should already be signed up as a Microsoft registered partner [if not, click here to enroll].  But now that you've done “that”.... how about we “bamm” Read More
posted Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:28 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Yeah...the catch is ...98 has no security

In yesterday's mailbox came the email from WindowsITPro with an article/commentary by Paul Thurrott and in it he talks about IE 7.0:  “IE 7.0   The biggest security hole in any Windows system is IE. Although Microsoft made many important Read More
posted Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:27 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Arrggghh...the myths of SBS revisted

So Dean posted about an article in Windows IT pro and one of the commenters was pointing once again to the “Myths of SBS” Unless you're a really small business running only 1 win2k server to take care of all of your needs, SBS 2003 might Read More
posted Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:50 PM by bradley | 10 Comments
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If you missed Jeff's Swing Migration Webcast - the recorded webcast link is now live

The recording is now live [click here] on the web for Jeff's SBSMigration method “We will be talking with a SBS MVP [Jeff Middleton] about benefits of deploying SBS 2003. Swing Migration – Windows Domain Upgrade Method - This unique Read More
posted Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:50 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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The financial aspect of SBS

From the mailbag today comes the question from Dick about moving from an hourly basis firm to a SLA [service level agreement and/or maintenance contracts].  He asks “ The big question is of course at what price level can i start for let's say Read More
posted Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:08 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Oh my... the Outlook "bubble" in the system tray that I've been ignoring has a resolution

You've seen it haven't you, all of a sudden your system tray will have a “bubble“ that says “Outlook is trying to retrieve information from Servername“.  I just always wrote it off and lived with it. Well guess what..there's Read More
posted Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:12 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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I like what I see Mr. Clarke

"Given their record in the security area, I don't know why anybody would buy from them," the former White House cybersecurity and counterterrorism adviser said yesterday, when asked for his thoughts on Microsoft's forthcoming line of security software. Read More
posted Tuesday, February 22, 2005 12:57 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Verizon.... "We do stop working for you"

 We never stop working for you.  [well unless you are a customer with a dynamic IP that is...] Companies can either handle a policy well by communicating in a great way, or they can totally blow it.  Handle it right, you build Customer Read More
posted Monday, February 21, 2005 7:51 PM by bradley | 38 Comments
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Entourage - do we get it? - part deux

  The quick and dirty answer to yesterday's post about whether SBSers get Entourage 2004 for Mac's is YES!  Us SBSers are legal for this and do get the right to have Entourage 2004. The slightly longer answer is that for now the Sofware Assurance Read More
posted Monday, February 21, 2005 6:35 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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All I know is I have it!

From the mailbox tonight is a question about Entourage for Macs and I'm just letting you know I am now going to stomp off and email a few folks and figure out what's up with Entourage. It used to say we got it on this page. [see blog post] I KNOW I Read More
posted Sunday, February 20, 2005 9:41 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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RSSing Sharepoint

For those of you reading the Harry B's e-book [paper copy to be mailed later] you'll agree with his assessment that Sharepoint is the sleeping giant of SBS.  I know in my own firm I'll be “bamming” up my own Sharepoint at the office after Read More
posted Sunday, February 20, 2005 4:19 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Anti Virus firms that "get" SBS

From the mailbag a couple of days ago, Ralph asks “what Anti Virus do I use” My Antivirus that is running both here at home and at the office is the Trend SMB suite But I know that others in SBS land use: Sophos [Marina and Eriq Read More
posted Sunday, February 20, 2005 2:53 PM by bradley | 10 Comments
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The power of ONE

You know about the power of ONE don't you?  Anyone who installs a SBS 2003 server knows ALL about the power of ONE.  One domain controller drives a business.  One mail server runs a firm.  One network makes a firm.  Personally Read More
posted Sunday, February 20, 2005 12:49 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Hey Verizon... I understand but next time a better "heads up" would be nice!

In case your clients are seeing this... a heads up:  "AS OF JANUARY 31, 2005, VERIZON WILL NO LONGER ALLOW BUSINESS ORRESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS WITH DYNAMIC WAN IPS TO RELAY THROUGH THEIR SMTPSERVERS."  Merv had an issue where all of a sudden Read More
posted Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:56 AM by bradley | 8 Comments
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Want to keep track of the Antivirus status of your customers?

 Another nomination for the Vendors who get SBS category....Anne Stanton forwarded an email from HammondConcepts which is a software program that plugs into other software programs. Huh you say?  Want to track ALL the virus status of all your Read More
posted Saturday, February 19, 2005 1:50 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Started a new category for the blog.... "Vendors who 'get SBS'"

Just a heads up....started a new category for the blog... I call it Vendors who 'get SBS' and the inaugural post is the press release from Level Platforms announcing that they have SBSized their “management templates” for their product. If Read More
posted Saturday, February 19, 2005 1:15 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Level Platforms Introduces SBS Templates

February 16, 2005 LPI Level Platforms Introduces Windows Small Business Server (SBS 2003) Templates for Partners Offering Remote Monitoring and Management Services OTTAWA, February 16, 2005 - LPI Level Platforms Inc. today announced a complete, easy-to-use Read More
posted Saturday, February 19, 2005 1:06 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Go Borg!!!!

In buying some USB cables at Office Depot tonight, I noticed that Office Depot had XP sp2 cdroms in the same shelf as the AOL cdroms.  Kewl.  I was posting to a listserve some of my accumulated “stuff” about XP sp2 and I'll Read More
posted Friday, February 18, 2005 11:13 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Kewlamundo.... it's Pre-order time for the Johansson/Riley "Protect your Windows Network"

 Kewlamundo... the Dr. Jesper Johansson and Steve Riley epic, “Protect your Windows Network:  From Perimeter to Data” is available for preorder from Amazon.com.  I was extremely honored to get to read and review this ahead Read More
posted Friday, February 18, 2005 7:10 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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More please, sir?

 The RSA conference uploaded the webcast panel on “To regulate or not to regulate“ and Bruce Schneier [at about 45 minutes into the web cast] makes the point to demand more security from our vendors. ....to paraphrase... “If we Read More
posted Thursday, February 17, 2005 7:40 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Yes! Yes! Oh Yes! Yes David!

Don't worry this isn't the scene in Harry met Sally or some X rated posting or anything, it's just me totally agreeing with David Coursey's column about how we need “The Single Update Service I want Micosoft to create” You see my friend David Read More
posted Thursday, February 17, 2005 7:10 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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There's technology and then there's..... technology

So I'm getting my “monthly” personal patching done [hairdresser and nails...hmmm....never realized it until now that it is usually a week after patch Tuesday... go figure] and me and my hairdresser start talking about how she bought a new Read More
posted Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:39 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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I liked this blog post

Out checking the blogs and found this link on Small Business branding. Check it out! Read More
posted Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:19 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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TAZ blog makes a wonderful point

Dear small business owner.... if you are looking for advice...make sure the consultant you hire to advise you on a small business solution has done their homework.  Make sure they understand that: Terminal server in application mode on a domain Read More
posted Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:08 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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How do I call PSS? What is PSS?

In the newsgroup tonight someone when from the eval to the retail version and a driver stomped on a driver that worked and now their server isn't working and he can't get into Safe mode.  And while I called in my buddy ..the king of Disaster recovery Read More
posted Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:01 PM by bradley | 6 Comments
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...AHHH OOOO GAAAAA.... Calling all SBSers for a special webcast on Migrations

Sorry for the late notice but tomorrow  - 2 p.m. Pacific time is “Wednesdays on the web with TS2” with our very OWN Jeff “SBS Migration.com” Middleton.  Click here to sign up! We will be talking with a SBS MVP about Read More
posted Tuesday, February 15, 2005 6:35 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Whoa... Bill at the RSA conference drops some good news ....

 http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/feb05/02-15Updates.asp *Nash: *We’re very excited to announce at the RSA Conference today that this summer we’ll release a beta of Internet Explorer 7.0 for Windows XP with Service Pack Read More
posted Tuesday, February 15, 2005 9:54 AM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Handy Andy SBS Chat tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific

Small Business Server Help Desk—SBS experts and SBS forum section moderator Andy Goodman answer your Small Business Server technical questions.  Click here to join tonight!  In the meantime I”ve got Bill Gates' RSA Conference Read More
posted Tuesday, February 15, 2005 9:01 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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I forgot the event log files

Just when I think I got group policy... I didn't get it... but what I didn't get ...and forgot was to check the log files.. it was TRYING to tell me it was having problems accessing the location of where I stuck the Messenger file.  See as you boot Read More
posted Monday, February 14, 2005 11:54 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Dear Mr Gates... I need you to go buy something....

...and no I don't want you to buy a company or an island or anything like that.  I need to you take a short walk from the RSA Conference you are attending and go to ...say the CompUSA store on Market Street in San Francisco.  I want Read More
posted Monday, February 14, 2005 9:23 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Hey MSRC has a blog!

I'm “outting” Stepto and the crew from the MSRC as I found they have a blog!  [MSRC is the Microsoft Security Response Center the first line folk in Security] Kewlamundo!  I know some folks attending the RSA Security conference and Read More
posted Monday, February 14, 2005 8:00 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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The understatement of the year award goes to ....

“In contrast to the Intuit customer representative, we do not believe this is a reasonable design decision.” The understatement of the year award for 2005 goes to Shuo Chen; John Dunagan; Yi-Min Wang; Chad Verbowski in the Microsoft Read More
posted Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:26 PM by bradley | 11 Comments
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A bit more of new technology

My sister put together some pictures of the Santa Fe Depot's rededication in a powerpoint and I've stuck them on the web to share.  If you know what you are looking for, I ended up on the front page of the “B” section of Sunday's Read More
posted Sunday, February 13, 2005 8:27 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So exactly what are the requirements for being a Microsoft Registered Partner?

From the mailbag today comes the question “What are the requirements of becoming a MS partner?  Do I have to setup so many networks per year?  Attend so many meetings?  Or do I just sign up?” There seems to be a lot of confusion Read More
posted Sunday, February 13, 2005 3:25 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So I went to go set up a computer today...

...and the computer is for a church so when I signed up for the email account through Earthlink I put in the name of the church in the email address.  It's obviously a “churchy” sounding email name...so imagine my surprise when I tested Read More
posted Sunday, February 13, 2005 1:49 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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The perceptions of patches, and a little bit of OS Stew

.....where's that icon..there it is... click... favorite scans... server... run.... yup tonights the night for the server as I did all the workstations and the other server earlier in the week..... yup missing Tuesday patches..... go, advanced.... Read More
posted Saturday, February 12, 2005 9:33 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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A little bit of old technology meets a little bit of new technology

 [click on the photo for a larger version] Played a bit of hookey today from the office because I had to be “tech support” for my sister.  Today was the Fresno Santa Fe Depot Rededication for the Amtrak Station downtown and my sister Read More
posted Saturday, February 12, 2005 8:33 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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A little too much security got in the way of me trying to be more secure

So I'm out on the PGP web site, bought the personal PGP drive for adding a virtual PGP drive to another workstation for a bit more paranoid security and I go to “authorize the license” and get this message: Rats.  Okay....must Read More
posted Saturday, February 12, 2005 7:01 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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In full disclosure

In honor of Church of the Customer's posting Honesty of Relationship: You say who you're speaking for I'd like to think I'm speaking for the SBS owners and customers of the world Honesty of Opinion: You say what you believe Oh yeah...sometimes too Read More
posted Friday, February 11, 2005 11:33 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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A bit of common sense

So I got the book that Dana talked about , Kevin Day's Inside the Securty Mind and already I can tell that I like it: “Security can be accomplished in any environment.  It can be accomplished without monopolizing our time and resources, and Read More
posted Friday, February 11, 2005 9:49 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Windows, MSN Messenger and Office XP Users Should Install Current Security Updates Immediately

Proof-of-Concept Code Increases Risk to Computer Users Windows, MSN Messenger and Office XP Users Should Install Current Security Updates Immediately Proof-of-Concept Code Increases Risk to Computer Users: Windows, MSN Messenger and Office XP Users Read More
posted Friday, February 11, 2005 12:31 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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In case the Internet is a little slow ....

I was going to wait until Mary Jo or Bink  posted it or it was Googlable, but since Wayne and Charlie posted it already, here goes: To whom it make concern on the Internet today: We apologize in advance for any latency or slowness you may experience Read More
posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:39 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Warning this could be habit forming!

Someone came into the newsgroup today and said that he wanted to show his firm the power of SBS but they weren't quite ready to “bite off” on networking software.  Well while I've never quite understood this attitude ...because to me we Read More
posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:09 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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See Bill Gates while wearing your Underwear!

Got your attention didn't I?  Well seriously, with the connected world we live in even if you can't be in San Francisco for the RSA Security Conference, you can hear Bill Gates Keynote from anywhere...and pretty much wearing anything you want..even Read More
posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:28 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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The Case of the Stolen ....well anything!

This month's Security Management column by Steve Riley is about physical security and boy, don't I know about this one from a personal level due to the recent burglary at the office.  The Case of the Stolen Laptop: Mitigating the Threats of Equipment Read More
posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:56 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Do you know about the WUS Wiki?

<in full disclosure I”m a Shavlik customer and religiously use their patching tool> The week, the number of patches makes us realize that we need a plan to handle these.  As I've harped on, Windows update is not enough and you need Read More
posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:00 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Looking for Fax Documentation?

The question came up regarding Fax documentation and I thought I'd throw up a few links:   How does GFI FAXmaker compare with SBS Fax/Windows 2003 Fax? Windows Server 2003 FAX Fax Service Manager overview Fax Console overview So how many of Read More
posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:47 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Newbies please line up here

A comment was made in the blog tonight about how they had recently installed their SBS 2k3 and the stumbled on this site [welcome] and that it was nice to go to a place where newbies  “like me are treated decently for wanting to learn, and Read More
posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:07 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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We'll someday have perfect software and never need patches.

From the commentbag today comes the comment ..... “will the patching ever end...” and the answer is...um... well...no.  It won't.  You see there's a fundamental flaw in everyone's thinking.  We keep thinking that the bad guys Read More
posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 6:47 PM by bradley | 6 Comments
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Issues with updates on XP sp2?

Here are some tips stolen from the newsgroup:  Method 1: Stop the Automatic Updates Service 1.     Click Start. 2.     Choose Run. 3.     In the Run box, type services.msc. 4.     Read More
posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:36 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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On the WUS Beta and having issues with Windows Update?

Make sure your IE home page is not company web.   Karen Christain reports that having Companyweb/Sharepoint as your IE homepage and WUS does not mix.  Change IE to someother homepage and try again. Remember WUS is STILL BETA and should Read More
posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:22 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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The "sleeper" security patch

I was analyzing the Tuesday security patches for the Window Secrets Patch Watch column and initially I was thinking that the Internet Explorer patches were the “oh you must get these now” patches.  But now I think that the patches for Read More
posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:07 AM by bradley | 4 Comments
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Security bulletins just posted today

 February 8, 2005Today Microsoft released the following Security Bulletin(s). Note: www.microsoft.com/technet/security and www.microsoft.com/securityare authoritative in all matters concerning Microsoft SecurityBulletins! ANY e-mail, web board Read More
posted Tuesday, February 08, 2005 10:47 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Licenses ...anyone seen my licenses?

Every now and then we'll get an SBSer who's licenses get reset to 5.  The main cause is typically running out of space on the C: drive.  [keep that in mind when setting up a server and make sure your C: drive has got lots of “stretch” room]. Read More
posted Monday, February 07, 2005 11:59 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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So I'm getting these SBCore messages....

I want to install SBS 2003 as a member server I want to install SBS 2003 as a workgroup I want to install SBS 2003 without active directory I want to install..... There is a major flaw in all of these statements... and you've missed reading the Read More
posted Monday, February 07, 2005 11:15 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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Looking for SBS 2003 Books?

Well you know that the much awaited Advanced SBS 2003 book is right around the corner but did you know there are other SBS books available? Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best practices Small Business Server 2003 Admin's Companion How to cheat Read More
posted Monday, February 07, 2005 10:41 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So what are YOUR client's top security vulnerabilities?

Got my Microsoft Registered partner newsletter today [remember all you need to be a registered partner is merely be a SBSer, YOU DO NOT NEED MCP'S, NOR MULTIPLE STAFF PEOPLE, a SINGLE MAN {or woman} SHOPS ARE WELCOME AS REGISTERED PARTNER MEMBERS, Read More
posted Monday, February 07, 2005 10:08 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Why renaming your domain isn't a good idea period -- especially in SBSland

One of the restrictions we SBSers have is that you can't rename your domain.. you can rename the Exchange name used in emails, but don't ask to rename the domain. Recently Exchange 2003 sp1 came out supporting renaming the domain, but even still because Read More
posted Sunday, February 06, 2005 9:30 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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If your USB isn't USB ing

These days if you buy a retail computer that has 432 media slots ready for any number of camera/memory sticks [okay so I'm overstating the number of media slots] you will find that your drive letter where you “were” going to put the mapped Read More
posted Sunday, February 06, 2005 9:24 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Okay there are times that mail isn't junk mail Mr. SBC

I guess I should have figured it out sooner, I wasn't getting any comment emails coming into my email box from the blog.  I chalked it up to something broken on the blog and figured I'd look into it.  But today a listserve I'm on that I have Read More
posted Sunday, February 06, 2005 8:19 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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You know about TechSoup don't you?

For those of you in not-for-profits, for those of you that consult for NFP, you know about TechSoup don't you?  I'm own vegging and surfing [Super Bowl isn't my thing] and I found a blog of an author who writes for Tech Soup. Tech Soup and Tech Read More
posted Sunday, February 06, 2005 8:06 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Now this is why I love technology

Scoble pointed to the web site that is showing the SuperBowl ads so that I don't even have to live through the football to see them. Read More
posted Sunday, February 06, 2005 6:09 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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I'm going to need a magnifying glass

I was setting up a Dell Optiplex and a Dell Dimension computer and while the OEM product key code was already in the system, the Office product code was not and I had to enter both into the systems.  Okay I know that I'm getting older because Read More
posted Sunday, February 06, 2005 5:25 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Isn't that just a kewl idea Garrick has?

From a blog post by Garrick An idea I just hadWouldn't it be wonderful if there was a product similar to MS Small Business Server 2003, but called MS Home Server 2003 (or MS Home Server 2005 or something). It would be similar to SBS, but oriented Read More
posted Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:28 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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So I want a Conference room please?

During this time of the year in the office, we reserve the conference rooms and we're trying to “bamm” up the geek factor this year [it's not like we couldn't do this before but we're starting to get enough folks using electronic mobility Read More
posted Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:21 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Hey Trend....Don't notify me...handle it!

REMOVED_BY_THE_EXCHANGE_CONTENT_SCANNING_SERVICE_5CAE6CF4_00006695_E   The original message content contained a virus or was blocked due to blocking rules and has been removed. Ugh... another email in my mailbox that says that Trend handled Read More
posted Saturday, February 05, 2005 5:50 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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SBS and a smidge of mobility

Most of us in the office aren't quite yet ready to take the SeanDaniel.com uber mobility with OMA [why do I keep wanting to call it Uma like Uma Thurman?] but we are using our IR enabled Nokia Cell phones to sync with our Outlook.  Well today when Read More
posted Saturday, February 05, 2005 3:38 PM by bradley | 10 Comments
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I think I'd hire new analysts first.....

From Businessweek....“But Ballmer may have a tough time persuading customers that Windows is cheaper than Linux. It often isn't. With Windows, end users pay an up-front fee that ranges from several hundred dollars for a PC to several thousand for Read More
posted Friday, February 04, 2005 10:01 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So which SCI FI Character are YOU?

So reading a blog I came across this site that you answer questions and figure out which SCI FI personality you are most like. Take a guess as to which one I came out to be. Yup.  You guessed it. Read More
posted Friday, February 04, 2005 7:48 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Allocated Memory Alert Revisited

You remember my allocated memory alert? Got it under control thanks to a newsgroup posting by David Copeland. First off if you are seeing messages like this: Allocated Memory Alert on DOMAIN A large amount of memory is committed to applications Read More
posted Friday, February 04, 2005 7:22 PM by bradley | 10 Comments
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It may be Super Bowl Sunday to YOU, but for us SBSers.....

 For us SBSers, Super Bowl Sunday is not Super Bowl Sunday [by the way...just who is playing in the Super Bowl anyway?] but it's the date that means that the next Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 best practices is right around the corner.  Read More
posted Friday, February 04, 2005 6:34 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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An open port is a hole is a weakness is a entry is a ....got it?

A week or so ago, an SBSer came into the newsgroup rightfully concerned.  He was looking in the monitoring email and log files and saw attacks on the “Administrator” account.  Now the thing is, we get lulled into feeling like we're Read More
posted Friday, February 04, 2005 6:12 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Exchange Intelligent Message Filter updated!

Exchange Intelligent Message Filter had been updated Cool!  Update your Exchange IMFs! Read More
posted Friday, February 04, 2005 12:38 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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An open letter to the "Bob's" of the world

  Sorry to pick on you Bob, but Bob left behind a comment in my post about how I'm seeing “allocated memory errors“ in my SBS2k3 and how after his first [FIRST mind you!] installation of SBS 2003 he didn't think the product was “ready Read More
posted Friday, February 04, 2005 12:03 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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A little security by obsecurity

In my office I do a smidge of security by obsecurity... you see NONE of my login names MATCH the email addresses that people use.  When I set up both the SBS 2000 AND the SBS 2003 box I purposely edited the email address to be different from the Read More
posted Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:42 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Meet Tim Rains from Microsoft!

 He BlogsHe CodesHe does WebcastsHe does MORE WebcastsHe gets articles written about him..but the best of all....HE DOES GUI! Read More
posted Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:18 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Fasten your Seatbelts, Patch Tuesday is going to be a fun one

 Fasten your seat belts folks because next Tuesday is going to be a busy one..... We just got notified that the following bulletins will be coming out next Tuesday: • 9 Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The greatest Read More
posted Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:04 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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The Myths of the Microsoft partner program

Got an email today and I was urging them to sign up on the Microsoft partner program and the response came back that “because I'm a one man band, Microsoft tells me that I don't qualify for membership”.  Huh?  Hello?  Where Read More
posted Thursday, February 03, 2005 6:33 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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105 days, 1 hour, 45 minutes, and 2 seconds

 I think people know me too well.... I got pinged today about a XBox console...but not ANY Xbox gaming console but one based on Star Wars. I'm putting everyone on notice... 105 days, 1 hour, 43 minutes, and 19 seconds from now... or thereabouts Read More
posted Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:26 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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MS Small Business Community Update - Feb 2

 Microsoft Small Business Community (http://www.mssmallbiz.com) Update – February 2, 2005 Topics in this update:1) NEW!  Common Questions & Misconceptions Videos Added to Site! 2) HOT TOPIC!  Be a Host on the Microsoft Across Read More
posted Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:03 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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A Security event -Nancy Drew Security event log detective?

Well I implemented my new “freak me out if someone fat fingers a bad password” and last night and today I had an unusual event that ended up as a “529” bad password event in my security log files ON MY SERVER. I first got my email Read More
posted Wednesday, February 02, 2005 8:04 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Windows Small Business Server 2003 Partner Group Tour is coming to a city NEAR YOU

Those of you in Washington state take a look at attending this event on March 10th, 2005. We have user group members from as far north as Vancouver, BC Canada and east of the mountains over near Yakima, so making the trek for one meeting if you a Read More
posted Wednesday, February 02, 2005 7:31 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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W2K and NT Security Event Log Descriptions

While on the topic of audit logs, let me put up a nice link for a description of audit logs W2K and NT Security Event Log Descriptions Enjoy! Read More
posted Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:26 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Issues with changing passwords through Remote Web Workplace Feature?

Users receive a "The user name or password is incorrect" error message if they try to connect to a SBS 2003-based computer by using the Remote Web Workplace feature: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=892078 If a user tries to connect to a Microsoft Read More
posted Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:10 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Hey it worked!

Alert on DOMAIN at 2/1/2005 6:33:56 PM An account has a bad password attempt made at it. This may occur if an unauthorized user attempts to gain access to the network. For more information about this event, see the event logs on the server computer. Read More
posted Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:34 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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