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August 2004 - Posts
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So I'm reading Dana's blog and he's ranting that SBS doesn't allow ISA server to “work” unless there are two network cards on the server. If you only have one server, as you run the wizard it won't set up ISA [or RRAS on the Standard Read More
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842694 - "You must be a member of the Domain Admins, Schema Admins, and Enterprise Admins" error when you run the Windows Small Business Server 2003 Setup program: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842694884675 - "Copy Error: Setup cannot copy the file Read More
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Typing up the SBS news of the week and was on Microsoft's just opened Small Business site and linked off to upcoming webcasts and found a couple of good ones!
Dr. J will be presenting TechNet Webcast: “Ask The IT Security Experts” Series: Read More
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So I ordered a replacement for my SCSI harddrive and the item that arrived was ddy”f”-t36950 not ddy”s”-t36950. And then Ken and I are trying to confirm that it's a 64 pin not an 80 pin. [Can you tell I'm a software Read More
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Surf the net while surfing waves: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3812357.stm
... and the sad thing is... my only complaint is that you can't truly surf the 'net and truly surf the waves at the same time .... but other than Read More
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PcMag and other magazines came out with an article on the “vulnerabity of the Security center” and Larry Osterman has a post on the issue. My take is that it's a risk analysis issue. What is worse? That a malware is going Read More
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If you don't know who Jim Allchin, VP at Microsoft is, you need to be introduced to him. There's a reason why he has white hair. He makes a lot of the technical decisions about the operating system that most of us use around here. Read More
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... so like when are we getting it? seems to be the big question in the newsgroup
[I just got an email on this as a matter of fact]
Patience.
We need Windows 2003 sp1 to come out before be can get our wizardized ISA 2004 which will be included Read More
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Ah ...the lovely sound of God's computer department telling me that “no, you are not going to do what you thought you were going to do, you are going to quickly arrange for a fast down time for swapping out a SCSI hard drive tomorrow that suddenly Read More
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Check out the netstat -b command and how it can show you what executibleis creating the connection and listening port. Oh what fun... we might be able to better see trojans and malware :-)
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600](C) Copyright Read More
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Chris Quirke (new address) wrote: Stop me if you've heard this one; consider this the formal heads-up! This is a serious bug, as most affected users who install SP2 will assume the system cannot be salvaged, and will wipe and rebuild from scratch. Cari Read More
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I was called today by a reporter getting my experiences with XP sp2 given that TODAY was the start of pushing out to the masses day. I told the reporter that I had manually installed service pack 2 and on one laptop I had issues with Read More
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The other day I blogged about the new Small Business Community opening up today and the blog post was picked up by Scoble and by Bink. It then ended up on the CRN site for breaking news. I had to laugh about the statement by Jennifer Bogdalek Read More
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CRN is reporting that Oracle will be coming out with a competitor to the Microsoft Small Business Server platform. Except that in their description of the program I think they forgot about email? They just talk about the server, a web app Read More
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It Admins Not 'Trusting' SP2 Security: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1638531,00.aspWhy don't those admins just run with IE in high security and shut up and install it? Geeze we're never going to have absolute security but at least we can Read More
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Want to get into the ground floor of a new community? The Microsoft Small Business Channel Community is about to open it's doors on Wednesday and you are getting a sneak peak if you read this blog posting. Log in, request a user ID for Read More
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So on yesterday's blog I linked to a story on RWW from MS AU division. But I'm looking for a more “weedy” article on remote web workplace. Why? Because I don't think there is enough technical information on the pros and cons of RWW versus Read More
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So before I go to bed I'm scanning the blogs and I come across an older post on getting multiple remote desktops to publish though ISA 2004. You know they could make their life easier by just buying Small Business Server 2003 and be done with it. Read More
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Gavin's Fragments - Maintenance required: http://interprom.blogspot.com/
David Hibbeln's Tips: http://thenorwichgroup.blogs.com/davidhibbelnstips/ Read More
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If you want to extend the timeout value in the RWW, the value that controls this is:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\RemoteUserPortalValue : PublicTimeOutThe number of minutes will be listed in ( ).
Just remember that if the Read More
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So I'm reading Mark Fugatt's blog that points to a couple of interesting posts....
First up is Raymond Chen's blog on the /3 gig switch which was also pointed to by the EHLO blog.
Then there's a link to another blog that points to a post Exchange 2003 Read More
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I found this posted to the Small Business Blog... might be fun to participate :-)
At 9:27 AM, twenty six said...
Dear Sir/madam, I am a student of University of Portsmouth in UK. Now conducting an online survey which is concerned Read More
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My Trend Client/Server/Messaging suite for SMB here at home is registering the “dat” file as 2.160.00, but at the office it says I'm at “dat” file of 960. Why? Because I'm on the older Trend at the office and I Read More
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So I'm getting ready for SMBNation and this will be a typical geek trip where I will be more concerned about ensuring I have parts and power cords than I will be worrying about what clothes to pack. To demonstrate group policy editing while I could Read More
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In Adam's blog he asks the question, do only nutters use SBS? And then says while he would buy it, he still wouldn't be a fan of the wizards.
Does everyone understand that the wizards just do the heavy lifting for you? That they follow the best Read More
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Intuit's online blog talks about the Accountants' day we had there last week. Anne Stanton even has pictures of the event. They talk about the impact of the Calfiornia law commonly known as SB1386 and whether or not Accountants know Read More
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I think some folks need to load up a SBS 2003 box and take it for a drive. Dana posts that he got a lot of responses on his posting about Small Business Server 2003.
There's one thing I take exception to... he says “It's in an unknown product Read More
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[Stealing a post from Stuart Mackie [MCP, MSP] In terms of the Symantec AV Exceptions as you know you will have to add the
exceptions. This is possible by GP, and you should be able to see the GP
settings to do this. They are located in
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Download details: Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB842933): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=532a4cd0-f2ce-4fa7-92ab-ac336ad18409&displaylang=en It's official. Elvis is in the building. The patch for the group Read More
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Anti-Spyware Tool Kit
Yesterday's diary entry solicited a number of replies regarding the "tool kits" people use for fighting spyware, malware and viruses. I've collated the most popular, from both e-mail submissions and some from the Handlers themselves. Read More
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Stealing post from Jim Behning for the blog:
I was at an account troubleshooting a ftp on one of the memberServers. I did a speed test at toast.net and was only getting 200k. Iwas not happy. I looked in ISA and saw who had session’s running. Iwent Read More
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So Dana Epp in his excellent Security blog has a post today asking for a SBS MVP and I just pinged up Dana with an MVP in his area, Steven Banks and another MVP, Jeff Middleton as well and posted this as a comment to his blog:
As I said to Dana, I'd Read More
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Security audit [with or without penetration testing]
Many times I get asked about penetration testing [or pentesting] a Small Business Server network. First off I would argue that pentesting on a SBS box is a silly exercise. Read More
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840754 - Backups on Windows Small Business Server 2003 may use more backup media space than expected: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=840754842695 - You may receive an error message when you try to open the Dial-in tab in Small Business Server 2003: Read More
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I've got my neck crooked in a funny angle with the phone and shoulder rest as I listen to some jazz music. I'm waiting on hold for a XP sp2 support representative because I have one laptop that the network card will not “wake” up and Read More
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One of the most popular pages on my static web site is the page Us versus Them. It's a side by side comparison of “regular” Windows 2003 standard edition to SBS 2003 and why SBS is so great of a bundle. Yes, SBS isn't for everyone, Read More
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841188 - "The local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively" error message when you try to log on to a computer that is running Windows Small Business Server 2003 by using an Administrator account: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841188 Read More
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Download details: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer v1.2.1 (for IT Professionals): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b13ebd6b-e258-4625-b0a3-64a4879f7798&displaylang=en
While I still prefer Shavlik's HfnetchkPro, this is Read More
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883786 - Support WebCast: Deploying and licensing Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883786
Tuesday, August 17, 2004: 2:00 PM Pacific time (Greenwich mean time - 7 hours)
Join Guy and Read More
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From a notice that I got today -- As you know, Microsoft recently released Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)
to manufacturing on Friday, August 6, 2004. You may also know that
Microsoft will deliver Windows XP SP2 through the Automatic Update
delivery Read More
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Microsoft has the following KB article out about XP sp2
884130 - Programs that may behave differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884130&product=windowsxpsp2
And it says “The programs that Read More
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I sign up for the security info from K-OTik french security list because they've sent out some “zero day” exploit information in the past. Today they emailed out the following:
Microsoft a publié plusieurs articles techniques décrivant Read More
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Anne knows how much of a nutcase I am about security and pointed me to Adam's blog that had an entry about Rootkits. Cool. .... well not so cool if you've got an incident on your system, but cool about the sharing of information and better Read More
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So remember the other day when I told the story while we were at Intuit? Anne Stanton took the opportunity to ask about blogging of the folks at Intuit and they didn't know if anyone did a blog there. And there were a couple of folks in our Read More
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Duh. Sometimes I'm so blonde. I'm IMing Jeff Middleton and it hits me that I need to co-present my SBS Hacks presentation with him so that he can talk about the Group policy information that will be included in Harry Brelsford's next SBS book. Read More
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So Gavin logs in on IM with “SMB Nation, Y or N“? And I hit him on IM and told him “YES“ and then went to post this into the newsgroups and in here:
My apologies for the blantent promotion ... but this is one event that Read More
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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
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So the office called and needed me to track down a phone number and it was back on my desktop at home. I was eating lunch at the time in Macys [this is sort of a 1/2 vacation, 1/2 geek trip, 1/2 business trip to San Francisco [and yes that adds Read More
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Microsoft Rules Another Market With Small Biz Server--Report Aug. 9, 2004
The Yankee Group says 86% of midsize and smaller companies use Small Business Server.By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News
Microsoft's Small Business Server is Read More
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So I'm here is San Francisco for a couple of days. Tuesday was the AICPA Top Technologies meeting, yesterday we went to Intuit and Postini [more about that later], last night Anne Stanton and I met up with Steven Lai at the SF SBS group and had Read More
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Temporarily Block Delivery of Windows XP SP2 Toolkit to Temporarily Block Delivery of Windows XP SP2 to a PC Through Automatic Updates and Windows Update http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8bce6bba-ea5d-4425-89c1-c1cb1ccd463c&DisplayLang=en Temporarily Read More
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Nick Whittome SBS MVP over on the Mark Minasi's web forum pointed out a Windows/Net magazine article where Michael Otey had followed up on his SBS article. In it he says he's an SBSer himself. But what caught my eye was the comment section Read More
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7bd948d7-b791-40b6-8364-685b84158c78&DisplayLang=enThis document focuses on the changes in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and its implications for developers. Examples and details are provided for Read More
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So the other day I talked about a vulnerability that was rated as critical as it pertained to the Windows 2003 server platform and Bill and I agreed that we disagreed with the official rating. The response was from the Secuity gurus was that because Read More
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And while XP sp2 will help out, you may have another helper tool already on your network that you have not enabled! If you are running the Trend CSM suite, there is a spyware module but the default is that it's not enabled. I've put together Read More
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Want SBS whitepapers? Here's a listing of recent whitepapers on the Microsoft site.
Migrating from a Peer-to-Peer Network to a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Network
Deploying Windows 2000 Server Terminal Server to Host User Read More
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[Borrowing a post from the newsgroups]
Is it out yet?Yes. To beta testers at this time. Should be on the Download site on Monday:
http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2004/08/06/210345.aspx
The release to manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows Read More
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Already on my laptop... soon to be on my desktop here... look for it on the download site next week sometime.
From David Coursey's blog.....http://blog.ziffdavis.com/coursey/archive/2004/08/06/1678.aspx*Here's the text of an e-mail I received from Microsoft Read More
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http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-217A.html Multiple Vulnerabilities in libpng
Okay. Sounds serious but what exactly is libpng? I guess if I don't know I don't have to worry about it? Reminds me of a post that Bill had Read More
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Oh dear. CNet reports that the Disney company is releasing a Disney computer with ears on the monitor. Oh no. That will be the next thing my sister will want for her computer system at home. She already has a Disney TV and DVD Read More
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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
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Wallace pinged me and asked if we had SBS blogs on msdn.com
Do we have SBS blogs ;-)
Charlie's is at http://blogs.msdn.com/canthe/
Mine is at http://www.msmvps.com/bradley
Tavis is at http://www.taznetworks.com/rss/webblog.html
Kevin is at Read More
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Today I got an email regarding XP sp2 and while the emailer should be commended for their forward looking communication with their clientele there was a statement in there that was a bit ... well... a bit harsh. It said that “Non Microsoft Read More
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We're now going to start a series of “uh... that's not quite true” postings regarding XP sp2
Today in the SmallbizIT group this article was posted:
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3390031
Where it talks about how Read More
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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
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883786 - Support WebCast: Deploying and licensing Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883786
Tuesday, August 17, 2004: 2:00 PM Pacific time (Greenwich mean time - 7 hours) Are you thinking Read More
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First off the good news -- this does not affect SBS 2003 with the Trend SMB suite
It does affect SBS 2000, the older Trend Scan Mail suite SMEX, and pop collected email.
If you patch for the IE patch 04-025 [which like... you should apply it] Read More
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On the EHLO blog today Nino says “is one of reasons why we do not necessarily encourage putting SQL and Exchange on the same server, as they will be fighting over whatever RAM is in the server.” Uh oh... them there are fightin' words Read More
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Blog - as defined by Dictionary.com:
Main Entry: weblogFunction: nounDefinition: a personal Web site that provides updated headlines and news articles of other sites that are of interest to the user, also may include journal entries, commentaries and Read More
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Flying back from LAX and it reminds me that I need to get a small laptop for the “puddle jumper” planes. I was working on a paper and you should have seen how I had to practically have the laptop in like a “V“ position in Read More
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