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November 2005 - Posts
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Brian Tankersley today talks about my soapbox issue.
User rights.
I'm tired of the major accounting vendors setting such an horrible example of security. We should be ashamed that our major accounting applications, the backbone our of financial Read More
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There goes my mail again.... since my Netscape days at least once or twice a year there goes my Thunderbird and I have to reinstall it and set up a new database.
The annoying part of using an alternative place for my junky email account is that Read More
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Windows 2000 is technically out of "mainstream" and into "extended" support as of June 30, 2005.Microsoft Support Lifecycle:http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7274
Got any SBS 2000's out there? You know... I'm sorry...but good enough Read More
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I was at yesterday's TS2 presentation and only 6 people in attendance were using WSUS. Remember SBS 2003 in the R2 era will have WSUS inside the box.
Now I will still honestly tell you I vastly prefer Shavlik's push, patch, done versus WSUS's setup, Read More
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We're pleased to announce the first of several webcasts dealing with integrating the Macintosh into an SBS environment. On Thursday, December 8, join me for a session that discusses basic Macintosh networking, accessingfile shares on an SBS server, and Read More
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This will all make sense after you listen to the SBSShow this week.
Just don't be drinking Mountain Dew.......you'll get it all over your Ipod... Read More
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So I met Stephen today... Stephen Cracknell at the local TS2 presentation. And at the end of the four hours, after all the offers, links, invitations to email him, to cc' him, to ensure we gave him feedback, I think the about the only thing he didn't Read More
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Microsoft Antispyware gets an extension of time so you should start seeing this pop up in your systems.....
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Want to look like IT is your profession? Your business?
Get a shirt.
Not just any shirt...but a logo on your shirt. Polo shirt, button down shirt, but stick a logo on there. How do you do that?
Easy.
Get a logo designed. Read More
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Amy asks if we should just choose the “Windows Small Business Server” now as our only WSUS option, and I'll double check, but I think the answer is “no”. It's my understanding that the patches that come under that section Read More
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You've seen it haven't you? This: The self signed cert prompt before getting into RWW.
So you are probably wondering why... with all my paranoia I don't go out and buy a third party certificate that I can trust from someplace like instantssl.com? Read More
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Sometimes I get emails about someone having a problem with say.... OMA and RWW or OWA or whatever and they are unsure of how to go about fixing things without a total reinstall of SBS.
First off, It's my opinion that unless you get a virus, trojan or Read More
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Quick question?
Yes? [btw ever notice how quick questions usually end up not being quick questions?]
Is there a way to stop a user from shutting down a machine?
Yes...but....are they a local administrator on that box?
Yes.
Ah, well then if Read More
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So Amy on the mssmallbiz lists reports that the WSUS syncronization options now list SBS as an option
Hey, cool, remember how any of our unique to SBS patches are only offered up on Shavlik right now? Read More
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I have a box of Windows XP in my office. It's a retail blue box. And if [heaven forbid] the office burns down, I've lost that license. I have to rebuy it.
The other day for our Business Insurance renewal I was asked to write down all Read More
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Okay if you are reading this you aren't the person I'm going to be ranting about.
You are here because you've gotten plugged in. You've stepped up to the plate. You are a person I would not mind sending a Small Business client to. Read More
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The “toy server”.
SBS has been called this by even some of my fellow MVPs as the “Toy Server”. Yet under the hood is the same active directory, the same bits and code, the same parts as our big brother servers..... Read More
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Like Happyfunboy says...
SHAME ON YOU!
Now I'm going to assume that you have a laptop running Windows 2003 and it's not your production, domain controller.....but if it is STOP DOING THAT!
You are introducing risks in your firm and you more than likely Read More
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So I just went through part of Jeff Middleton's process designed to move the domain roles from one server to another...something that big server land does a lot of but we don't down here.
I'm just putting you guys in AD on notice .... in a very Read More
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The old server at home is getting very wheezy and needs to be upgraded and I was going to move it over to the glowing blue baby server but his fan is making a racket and sister says ... 'uh that's not going in our house is it?' and it's probably been Read More
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Okay gang... get out your nastiest, your narly-est, your most nagging, annoying SBS questions. Here's your chance to ask the best of the best of the SBSers. These guys and gals would have a SBS server in their car powering their vehicle Read More
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Check our the posts on “how to start buzz”... subtitled... get a Microsoft Across America Van and see what you can do.....
Check out Chris Rue's posts....
The road to Huntsville....
The secret weapons...
Partnerships....
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The SBSshow is online and while your significant other, your better half or you are out braving the stores in the USA for Christmas shopping, take an Ipod or MP3 with you!
www.sbsshow.com
Check it out!
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As Happyfunboy would say... Easypeasy....
Courtesy of Nathan Liu from Microsoft Customer Support:
Alternatively, we can manually allow the attachments which we know are safe go through the SBS Server. Please perform the below steps:
1. Open Read More
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So I bought Trend's PCCillian Internet Security 2006 ..and I downloaded it on DSL here at home so I wouldn't have to 'watch paint dry' also known as using dial up to download it. So I burned it on a cdrom, took it over to Dad's computer, installed Read More
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It would be really nice if there was a 'landing page' for all the post XP sp2 patches in one easy to click place.. I'm going to try out Windows Catalog and see if it will help. The other day when I brought up a Dell Optiplex it needed 29 patches.... Read More
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Had to run home because I forgot that one of Dad's computers is not running XP sp2 [shame on me] and to bring it down on a dial up it would be 6 hours.... wow... I don't know how someone can fix a computer, secure a computer, keep it safe without DSL Read More
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TIDBITS on MS CRM: SBS SP1 and MS CRM Install Issue Resolution:
Anne posts the resolution to the issue of getting MS CRM 3.0 on SBS 2003 SP1. Thanks to the gang of the UK Small Business Specialist group and to HappyFunBoy for bringing this Read More
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Eve of Thanksgiving.....everyone else has left for home or away for the 4 day weekend.....
I go to remove the backup device to take an offsite copy......
Use my keys to unlock the safe, swap out the drive, leaving the keys dangling in the safe....
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One year later Then Now
Memory in use 1,733 Read More
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Just looking over the 'first' email from a year ago .... this weekend last year was when SBS got installed here at the office...
Your company installed Windows Small Business Server 2003 on your computer network. Windows Small Business Server Read More
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Remember when I wacked off the tcp/ip connections per client because I was tired of getting my own connection limited? Amy's webcast reminded me of why this is not a wise move along with this blog post.
So I fired up the ISA configuration. Read More
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Set up another Windows Mobile phone...we now have three phones that connect seemlessly and effortlessly to the network here at the office [and three more ways that a firm password is on a remote device too, so one has to keep that in mind]
I still did Read More
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Right now your admin did a stupid thing... they put a “please notify infected parties when I receive virus laden emails from someone that they need to have someone look at their mailserver” setting.
But here's the thing.
It's a totally Read More
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This ... you gotta listen to....
NPR : Phone Guide Is a Real Customer Service: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5024153
Morning Edition, November 23, 2005 · Entrepreneur Paul English has produced a "must have" for the modern Read More
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So what rules and laws are in place that you have to abide by for security personal identity information in your network?
Where do you live? What clients do you serve? If you have California residents you are bound by AB1950/SB1386... but Read More
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Well besides our Favorite CRM blogs of course.....
Google Groups : microsoft.public.crm: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.crm?hl=en
Business Solutions Community Newsgroups:
and.... psssst... still just hang loose the CRM/SBE/SBS gang Read More
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In the SBS community there have been long standing discussions back and forth regarding the merits ....or lack therof... of the benefits of SMB signing. If you are not aware... by default on a domain controller, the signing policies are enabled. Read More
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On the podcast gang blog today is this post.... and it reminds me of discussions about upgrading... we already find it hard to make a business case for patching, for service packs.... and the upcoming 64bit means we have to make a business Read More
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And invited him to a morning presentation on Mobility, MOM, Security solutions and other ways to deploy end to end secure solutions for clients to make scalable and dependable infrastructure....blah blah blah blablah...... at about which time Read More
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Okay is it sad that I've had emails all day today with all of these and because they were about Paris Hilton and my IP address being tracked I just kinda went 'oh yeah...whatever...“? 'At least two of the English versions of WORM_SOBER.AG spoof Read More
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Title: Microsoft Security Advisory Notification
Issued: November 21, 2005
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Security Advisory Released Today Read More
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We've been tracking an issue with Trend CSM 3.0 getting installed on SBS boxes and with think we know the trigger event.
Let's review the issues.... Mariette reported that the Security Center was 'choking' because Compression was checked and Trend's Read More
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Incidents.org reports a “0-day” for Internet Explorer and while one should always use caution these days when surfing I think we're not fixing the real problem here. This issue along with many others can be mitigated against if we Read More
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Jason Fossen writes.....
Hello SBS Admins! I maintain www.ISAscripts.org and I've been trying to think of new scripts or resources that are not already on the site and that would be specifically for SBS somehow. My e-mail address is on the site, so if Read More
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Just a heads up that was first brought up by Chris Rue in Amy Babinchak's ISA webcast, there are early reports of folks having issues with installing CRM 3.0 SBE on SBS. Right now not 100% sure of the underlying issue as we have SBSers who have Read More
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Amy “she rocks” Babinchak's presentation this morning to the San Antonio SBS group on the topic of ISA Server 2004 on SBS was ....well.... you just watch it yourself you'll see what I mean.
The link is here!
As Larry said..lots of good takeaways Read More
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On a site that Amy recommended at www.isascripts.org is this gem:
ISA_Server_2004_Error_Codes.xlsSpreadsheet of names, descriptions and hex numbers of ISA Server 2004 error, cache and response codes. Handy for troubleshooting.
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Problem1
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Symptom:
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You get a .Net error when accessing the WSUS Admin page:, such as:
Cannot execute a program. The command being executed was "c:\winnt\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\csc.exe" Read More
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And if you are a Microsoft Partner...you get one on one support from MS support engineers in the Partner Newsgroups
TOP SUPPORT ISSUES
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We're getting ready for the next phase... migration
Migration means you test... and Chad is testing out the conversion of the existing blog to the Community Server version. You can get a sneak peak of it here.
P.S. That's a photo taken Read More
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Wow just finished watching/listening to the ISA 2004 webcast by Amy Babinchak [she hangs on the ISA/SBS forums on ISAserver.org
During the presentation there's a couple of settings I'll be revisiting in my office...
Increase client connection limits Read More
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My coworker today said he was getting a new phone from Cingular... WAIT! I said.... before you make up your mind as to the phone... take mine up to the Mountains and make sure it works... if it does.... I'm going to insist that he buys an Audiovox. Read More
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What if your two favorite shows did a show together? Kinda like if “Lost” and “Housewives” did an episode together.
What if the characters from the two shows visited each other and sat down for a chat?
November Read More
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Well here we are on step one.... on the new box.... our new home where Vlad Mazek, CTO of OwnWebNow, ExchangeDefender, and The OfficeServer , host of SBSShow.com, and Vlad's blog assisted in making a fast webhost transition about as fast as you could Read More
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Someone special will be at the November Atlanta SBS Users Group... wanna know who?
November 30, Wednesday
From 6 to 8 p.m.
Microsoft Alpharetta
To RSVP email Milliel - at - sf-it.com or call 678-353-3222
Mark your Calendars! Someone special Read More
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Susan, question....have you ever considered a SBS2003 install with Virtual server running Virtual Server 2005 and inside that hosting a second domain controller for disaster recovery? Specifically, to avoid the issue of doing a restore on dissimilar hardware. Read More
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Hello everyone,
I have had the worst time this week with our servers. It appears that the installation of the Trend Micro 3.0 CSM install may be to blame.
A little background information. Last weekend I installed SBS SP1, ISA 2004, and SQL 2000 Read More
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Did you guys see the news for this? Virtual Server R2 RTM'd and it now only costs $99?
It can run on 64bit architecture, support Linux. Wow.
It does kinda need one ....kinda.... sorta... dumb feature request. While it can run Read More
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In the blog world there is content...and there is ...well... I don't quite know what this is. Even a blog with merely categories makes me learn a new technology. In it's pure simplicity, it speaks volumes.
If I do a mere Technorati Read More
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Something happened at a SBS partner group meeting .... let's just say one vendor who obviously helps host the event, helps to provide infrastructure to the event blew it. They had a chance to step up to the plate of where we are in business today. Read More
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As you have probably seen if you are a follower of the blog... we have had issues with uptime lately and quite frankly I think I need to take a course in SQL server. Given that databases are becoming more and more important lately, I soooooo do not know Read More
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Sign up to receive security updates notifications via email, instant messages or RSS
Download and deploy security updates [Microsoft update]
Report security vulnerabilities through secure -at - microsoft.com
Attend the monthly TechNet Security bulletin Read More
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More stuff from today's presentation:
Security web sites
www.microsoft.com/security and www.microsoft.com/technet/security
Sign up for notifications
www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/alerts.mspx
Sign up for the Security webcast each month Read More
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Earlier today there was an interesting presentation on how to know when you had a “security incident“ and I thought these bulletpoints were excellent.... so I got the okay to blog them.
If you suddenly find that your machine is acting strange....and Read More
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So what are you buying in your servers now? Are you future proofing them? Ensuring they support 32 now, 64 later?
Just got the word from the IT forum that SBS and Centro [the mid market bundle] will be on 64 bit only. Now in my case.. Read More
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That sometimes words end up in your vocabulary that have meanings you didn't quite expect?
To me “the blog is horked“ means....well it's broken...not working...
Well ... reading the urban dictionary version...
Oh man.....
Yuck.
I mean Read More
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Happyfunboy talks here and here about new changes in the Partner program and his personal experiences. The big issue... Small Business Specialist points will kick in in January...so hang tight. Read More
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Vladville - SBS Show: http://www.vladville.com/sbsshow/2005/11/sbs-show-episode-4-recovering-sbs-in.html
The second part of the geek out podcast is now here. The SBS Show this week is now online.
As HappyFunBoy said on IM...this one was pretty Read More
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Just a heads up we're seeing some issues with Trend's CSM Suite 3.0 on certain SBS 2003 SP1 servers....
Mariette talks about it here
And Michael forwarded this...but not 100% sure the solution is working....I'd probably hang tight Read More
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Many apologies, like most technology, the minute you threaten/plan new stuff the existing stuff starts failing... big time. We apparently have major issues with the rss.aspx feed so we're getting 'server busy' about every hour on the hour.
In the Read More
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With the holidays coming up... I'm looking forward to all that social engineering stuff I can learn from out of office messages. You know... by default an mail server does not send outbound to the Internet OOF messages, but admins the world over Read More
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Handy Andy Goodman writes.....
Don't forget this coming Tuesday is the SBS Chat at MCPmag.com or REDMONDmag.com which ever name you prefer. http://www.mcpmag.com/chats/
4:00pm pst and no excuses, if I can make in on my anniversary, you can make it Read More
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Where's your border? What do you have to defend? Tuesday at 9 a.m PST there will be a web cast on this very subject
Webcast:
Because businesses today have more network connectivity and more kinds of devices, firewalls no longer represent Read More
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Instructions from Jeff Kane of TechSoEasy
First, you must install Small Business Accounting 2006 on your SBS. You then install BCM on a workstation first... and set up a local MSDE database when you open Outlook after installation. Read More
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I'm strongly beginning to think that Windows 2003 and XP are like Office.... every time we say “I'd like the OS to do that“, there's something already in the platform that will probably do what we need it to do.
Did you know about the Network Read More
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Recently I've seen folks ask about how to get a piece of junk mail with wacko characters stuck in their Outlook/OWA and Shift-Delete isn't working....
You'll probably have to use the MDBVU32 tool to muck out that junk email as talked about on the Exchange Read More
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I see many times in the newsgroup that people reinstall the server and don't realize they've just shot off all their profiles and my documents, but many times it's really there and just hiding...
If you enabled Offline files on your network and then Read More
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You may experience high memory usage on an ISA Server 2004-based computer that logs messages to an MSDE database: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=909636
SYMPTOMS
You may experience high memory usage on a Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Read More
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Got one of those new Optiplexes from Dell ...the ones with the SATA drive and was surprised that they keyboard and mouse could only be USB. I don't remember that the spec's saying that they were not going to be shipped with PS2 ports. Yeah Read More
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So I was rerunning the backupwizard to change to a new storage location here at home and I got this.... An unexpected error occurred (80070057) at the end of the configuration wizard. Okay, I say, I'll just go find the backup wizard log... Read More
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Released books or near released SBS books:
These are my personal opinions....
Small Business Server 2003 Administrator's Companion - Charlie Russel, Jason Gerand - My only complaint about this book is the title - it's really geared torward the external Read More
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The SBSPodcast gang brought up the issue of ...does having a domain controller in a Virtual Environment have Security issues? The topic came up about offering a service to your clients for an additional domain controller, that you could set Read More
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The Official SBS Support Blog : Inside SBS Episode #8 is Here!:
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2005/11/12/414279.aspxTonight's episode is about Migration/Transition Read More
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Went to Target tonight... that's pronounced...Tar...shay you know.
Okay...can someone tell me what happened to the month of November? Since when is Christmas right around the corner? Did I miss Thanksgiving? Is this December? Read More
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Listening.
To make an effort to hear something.
To pay attention.
Do you ask what your client's pain is?
Someone said the other day in one of the Small Biz listserves that they are now taking a CPA with them when they visit clients so that they can Read More
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You know what gets tiring on some listserves that have a security focus? The religious wars. The “my software is better than your software” stuff. The the whole “I don't want to pay for software” or the “we Read More
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Prior to installing Exchange 2003 sp2 the release notes say you need to install 898060, but the confusion lies in the bulletin. The bulletin says that 05-019 has been re-released to fix for this issue. So us SBSers would think..okay ...so Read More
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Microsoft released a security advisory on Macromedia Flash that needs an update. But what I also found interesting was an issue brought up on the Patch Management listserve. It appears the old Flash bits are left behind... behind so that if Read More
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I was just looking over a couple of chapters for Eriq Neale's SBS Unleashed book... looking good.....looking good...... almost here....
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Before you go to install Exchange 2003 SP2 you may want to really and truly make sure that the SP1 version of the IMF is uninstalled. We're getting reports that folks have accidentally not realized it was installed, went to install SP2 and the IMF Read More
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First off a word of advise...when setting up an application ...one that will not go through the firewall... you don't want to turn off the firewall in order to test the blocking. There are bad guys and bad things out there and you just don't want Read More
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http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2005/11/10/414198.aspx
This is your invitation to join us for the recording of Episde #8 of Inside SBS. This week, we'll be talking about migration, "super-sizing", and the Transition Pack. If you've ever Read More
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The webopedia defines a rootkit as...
A rootkit is often used to hide utilities used to abuse a compromised system. These often include so called "backdoors" to help the attacker subsequently access the system more easily. For example, the rootkit may Read More
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For those still running SUS 1.0 the issue with the files is fixed per the MSRC blog. I've finished my testing here and will probably be rolling out the patches tonight... a smidge earlier than ususal, but with just the one patch, didn't have to Read More
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Now that Quickbooks 2006 has hit the streets, just letting you know that you will continue to have to hack the hives and registries to get it to run in anything less than Administrator or Power user.
Now before you go running off to load up in Read More
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Gordo talks about how a misconfiguration of a Desktop search caused issues in a network. Are you aware of the other issue that it may have? On your Exchange? The SBSPodcast guys talked about it last week and they pointed to the KB article Read More
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Dana posts about an issue he hit when he had a good strong password chosen and used it to also sync with his SmartPhone. You know...he had a space in his password. Now windows likes it just fine....
Smartphones...well let's just say that Read More
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Every month we get security updates from Mothership Redmond. And each time, especially in the server world, we say “you need to test patches” and many times in the SBS community the question comes back “but how can I set up a test Read More
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And folks have reported that they or their clients have gotten an email from Trend Antivirus saying that they are eligible for the upgrade from 2.0 to 3.0 since they a Trend customer.
Now .. I'd love to copy and past this email to show you what it says Read More
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If you are a Verizon customer who recently went to a system where the user name and password for EACH user has to match the outbound authentication... it's time to get serious about your business.
There is nothing that Mothership Redmond can do in the Read More
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Microsoft is today also making the following High-Priority NON-SECURITY updates available on WU, MU, SUS and WSUS: KB887624 Windows SharePoint Services Language Template Pack Service Pack 2 WU, Read More
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November 8, 2005
Today Microsoft released the following Security Bulletin(s).
Note: www.microsoft.com/technet/security and www.microsoft.com/security
are authoritative in all matters concerning Microsoft Security
Bulletins! ANY e-mail, web Read More
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The default setup for SBS usually lets things work...but if you have a non SBS setup or have tightened up the internal default rules, here's the protocols that Symatec uses
If you lock down your SBS ISA's then these are how to get SAV to work.
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You cannot reconnect to a wireless network that uses a hidden SSID after you manually disconnect from that network on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=907405
Just remember that there are tools that allow Read More
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So in the mailbag tonight comes the question of if you have some email accounts that ...well.. match your email account but you need to forward them outside of your firm because the email accounts live outside of your Exchange server and not inside your Read More
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Okay so you know that SBS sp1 is a five step process right?
Downloading the service pack. The download for Windows SBS SP1 includes the service packs necessary for the Standard Edition of Windows SBS 2003. As a part of this process, you must download Read More
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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
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So I run Thunderbird to pull in my 'external' non firm Email [all my junk mail, listserves, etc....] so I'm running the 1.5 [beta... I guess I should know better] and in the middle of having the email client open it tells me it downloaded an update Read More
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Today in San Francisco, Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and Biztalk Server 2005 launched. Can't be there? You can watch it here [in about an hour from when this blog post goes live]
And before everyone asks whether SBS gets SQL 2005....from Read More
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We're now a two Audiovox house. My sister now has an Audiovox that matches mine. So we were setting up the MSN IM on the device and she couldn't remember the MSN IM password she set up.
Is it _________? I asked since that's the password Read More
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While I'm here migrating over [finally] to the new computer ....and man is this a pain in the rear to bring all my parts and gunk over..... I'm in Podcast heaven because both the SBS support blog podcast and the SBSshow podcast are here!
SBS Support Read More
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It's a known fact that Training makes you more efficient... so I wanted to bring up to the front of the blog a cool tip that Gregg had about the Smartphone power toy that allowed me to take a screen shot of my device....
That ActiveSync Remote Display Read More
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In the mailbag this morning, Roger asks “ So how do you get ScanMail client to autodeploy with the other bits? The best I've been able to do is a shortcut dropped on the desktop that installs the Trend Micro client.“
I guess I'm not Read More
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So I used the “Banana hack” to get the domain bits back enabled under the hood on my Media Center Edition and just for grins I didn't manually install/join the domain. I wanted to see if all of SBS's wizards would work.
There's nothing Read More
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In the Cingular store, the Audiovox is in the section called “business phones”. So if they are business phones why aren't two things natively on the Windows Mobile platform?
Reading word docs
Reading pdfs
Whenever I'd Read More
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One of the advantages of the Microsoft Mobility world is that it's very easy to find a sync tool between a “fill in the blank” and Outlook. Groupwise however... I'm not sure if I can find the same resources. We're looking for the Read More
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Are you an OEM builder and want to get the Small Business Specialist Designation? The Bob the Builder crew have majorly gone out of their way on this one....
Web site [you need to be a MS partner and sign up for the OEM site for this]
Blog
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Description: ISA Server disconnected the following client: 10.0.0.130 because its connection limit was exceeded. For more information about this event, see the Windows event viewer.
You know I think I'm going to take off that tcp/ip connection limit Read More
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You receive a false positive Firewall service error message on your ISA Server 2004 computer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840180
You know I have never gotten this error on my box. But most of the time we're seeing if you kick the monitoring Read More
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Well I finally did it tonight. Patched the real baby at the office with Exchange 2003 sp2.
I manually shut off the Trend Exchange antivirus
I shut off the server antivirus
I manually shut down the SMTPservice ...just in case....
And I hit the Read More
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I hate little programs that suddenly wake up and need updates when I've flipped to admin mode. I need a way for notifications to come to me no matter what user rights I'm in.Macromedia has addressed this issue in the following security bulletin; Read More
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Now just so you know I got his okay to post this in the blog as long as I warned people this is the “ALPHA” view of Dana's Firewall dashboard. Right now he's just looking for folks to sign up to be beta testers and ...well... based on Read More
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So I was doing a little Technorati surfing and came across this post about “Small Business Resources” and thought it funny because we SBSers pride ourselves on being helpful.
John, if you think the blogs we have out here are helpful... Read More
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Okay so I'm a Security bulletin junkie. I don't know of them by KB numbers but by the year and number, but I just learned something new ... when there is wording changes they increment up by a .1, .2, etc. When they update binaries, they change Read More
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Today I logged in after remoting in from home and my monitor refresh wasn't quite freshing as it should. You see I have two monitors at the office and one at home. So all my layered screens end up smooshed back on the same screen at home. Read More
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Sean Daniel posts about helping to fight spam...but you know what.... sometimes I get tired of other folks fighting spam so much that it interferes with communication. One of those “folks” is ...well... it's a large firm to the Read More
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I got asked about an Ipod the other day. By my gadget loving boss. I can always tell when something has hit 'critical mass' when he comes and asks about something. He asked about a phone that did email [Blackberry] and I steered him Read More
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Title: November 2005 Microsoft Security Response Center Bulletin
Notification
Issued: November 03, 2005
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Summary Read More
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Invitation to Join the Podcast Gang This Friday - New Time!
The show starts live this week at 1:00 PM CST. If it's SBS, we're talking about it.
Phone number for the live call-in portion of the podcast:
(866) 500-6738
Use participant Read More
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Marcus posts about his inplace upgrade of SBS 2000 to 2003.
First off, I'd never recommend an inplace upgrade. For one, it leaves behind permissions of both the 2000 and 2003 permissions. Ick. Messy. Then there's a couple of problems Read More
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Okay right up front I'm not allowing comments on this post. You can email me via the contact page, but I've seen and read all the arguments for and against Terminal Server. At the end of the day, this isn't a forum, this is my blog, my view, and it's Read More
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Yes, it's entirely supported, possible, doable to have a an additional domain controller in your SBS network... and in fact, it doesn't even need to be another physical Windows server. You can set up a virtual server 'inside' a workstation in your Read More
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Got a test lab? A place to test things before you do stuff in real life?
What's the cheapest way to get a test lab?
e-Bay.
There is still a lot of good, quality hardware that can be purchased from e-bay. Yup you heard that....ebay. Read More
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TS2 Wed on the Web: Partner Opprtunities with Open Value
TS2 Wed on the Web: Partner Opprtunities with Open Value Event Date:
11/2/2005
Presenter:
Justin Preston and Michelle Hendricks from Ingram Micro
Event Time:
12:00 PM Read More
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Went to a User group meeting tonight and they had a presentation from Zophar Sante, VP of Market Development for Sanrad. You know...iSCSI devices. Yeah it will be a few years before they become SBSized, but I've heard some good things about Read More
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A blog post last night caught my eye.. Scoble blog where somone says “Microsoft doesn't get small businesses”.
I hope the poster is looking at today's headlines. Yeah the Live stuff. What's that all about? The other type Read More
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I've been pinged a lot lately about information and guidance about Macintosh's on SBS
First off my main Mac advice is .... Eric? Eric Neale are you there? His upcoming SBS Unleashed book not only kicks butt on Mac connectivity but also with Read More
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Just sharing this post...
My firm was just awarded both the Network Infrastructure and Information Worker competencies from Microsoft. What a terrific accomplishment it is for our firm and our employees.
Microsoft has always created Read More
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To whom it may concern in the SKU and CAL department. Yes, I know that we've asked before for less SKUs. We've asked before for easier licensing, for Dell computers to be forced to stop saying XP Home operating systems are 'suitable for small Read More
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Event ID 7514 is logged in the Application log when you enable the custom word list feature in Intelligent Message Filter version 2 on a server that is running Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=907974How to troubleshoot Read More
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News from Amy Luby from a CRM roadshow event that the CRM 3.0 has been sent to manufacture. That means it should be hitting the streets sometime in December.
So what do you need to do to get up to speed on CRM
Sign up for the early access and Read More
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Ian pinged the blog and said....
This weekend we upgraded to Exchange SP2. Following the release note ;) I ran Exchange Best Practice Analyser before the update to check I had installed the correct HotFixes. ExBPA passed without any problems Read More
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