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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 6:34 PM

So ya wanna control all your printers?

So here you are an IT admin and you want to control all your printers in one place.... so how do you do that remotely? Well one way if you have a member server is to upgrade it to the R2 platform. There is a Print Management console that you can then
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:20 PM

Some old fashioned guidelines about Fax

It's funny...faxing is such old fashioned technology ...but some firms just can't live without it. For my firm, we don't use centralized fax, but for others, the fax solution that SBS provides is exactly perfect. But the one thing I've noticed about faxing...
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Saturday, January 21, 2006 1:39 PM

In case you wanted to get a command line thrill today....

Useful RUN Commands To Access…. - Run Command Accessibility Controls - access.cpl Add Hardware Wizard - hdwwiz.cpl Add/Remove Programs - appwiz.cpl Administrative Tools - control admintools Automatic Updates - wuaucpl.cpl Bluetooth Transfer Wizard - fsquirt
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Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:09 PM

So what tools do you use?

So a bit back I asked what tools that SBSers should have on hand and here are some answers... www.sysinternals.com www. dnsreport.com Besides www.Eventid.net and www.Experts-Exchange.com and the others mentioned by Susan I find having a Bart's PE Builder
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005 12:45 PM

Got a lab?

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. What about Dell outlet?
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Monday, October 24, 2005 6:37 PM

Okay so my drives are THIS big and Exchange needs to be THAT big, now what?

Okay so you built your server, and you partitioned off your server back when Exchange was 16 gigs..... so.... uh...now that Exchange can expand as high as 75 gigs for both the public and private stores..... uh....now what? Repartition is the name of the
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Monday, October 17, 2005 7:39 PM

Want to search the SBS2k yahoogroups?

I hate the searchability of Yahoogroups. Okay so 'hate' is a strong word. How about I very seriously dislike the searchability of Yahoogroups? Someone once said that for a search company they make a lousy listserve search engine. Shout out to ATZ who
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Friday, September 02, 2005 8:11 PM

So how do I subscribe to the blog?

I've gotten enough of these requests from the mailbag, so I decided to build a 'how to page' What am I talking about? I freak people out with that 'login' up there. They think it means there's this secret society or something behind the login portal.
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Friday, August 19, 2005 6:13 PM

Reinstall SBS Monitoring... I mean REALLY reinstall it

Today Nick had a situation where a consultant went into add/remove and accidentally removed the SBSmonitoring... oops. So I dug this post out of the newsgroups: 1. Control Panel -> Add Remove Program -> Windows Small Business Server 2003. Set Server
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:58 PM

Controlling more

It's all about control isn't it? Patching. Monitoring. And whether your flavor is Level Platform or MOM.... if you aren't looking into tools to control and do... maybe you need to look into it? Some recent postings about MOM , made me realize that in
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:01 PM

To defrag or not defrag that is the question...

There's a direct relationship between disk fragmentation and performance: As the number of disk fragments increases, performance drops. The reasoning is simple: The more work the disk drive has to do to deliver data, the longer the rest of the system
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Monday, August 08, 2005 11:15 PM

Signing up for RSS

Looking to stay up to date on stuff like Security... stuff like Admin'ing networks? Truly where a lot of great information lies in today is...right here.. in a blog. It's another 'been there, done that' person like yourself, saying 'hey this worked for
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:00 PM

Cleaning house

There's one problem with my C:drive. It's too big. It's so big that I get lazy and don't clean it up. Like... I don't throw away the Trend quarantined files, nor the junk in the bad mail. [Mind you Trend does a bit of an automagic clean up ...but still]
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:37 PM

Looking for Macintosh Advice?

Looking for all those really good Mac postings? Look no farther than Eriq Neale [and look for him in Seattle in September at SMBnation ] Lessons Learned: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB: Lessons Learned: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS
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Monday, April 04, 2005 9:00 PM

What's the best POP connector?

From the mailbag today comes the question “ What is the best POP connector program ?” I'll start with an answer from the “Consultant crowd”: SMTP instead And I'll include my answer: A patched one :-) But if you'd like additional
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:00 PM

How to Shutdown

Ever notice how there's like four or five ways to do the same thing? I posted about my Remote Web Workplace experience and wanted to know if there was a way to remotely shut down. Matt posted in the comments "shutdown.exe" but there's a couple more. Handy
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:10 PM

See it's like this.... don't mess with "My Business"

Answering another question from the mailbag tonight. Part II actually. One about Scripts and I thought I'd also mention our other annoying 'feature' of SBS. Let's face it SBS has a few ... well... eccentricities. One that “LanWench” from the
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Monday, March 14, 2005 12:46 PM

LimitLogin tool

Hmmm...haven't tried it but I wonder if we can use this to build a report of logons and logoffs? Hmmm... may have to play around with this We are happy to announce the availability of LimitLogin v1.0, an application that adds the ability to limit concurrent
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Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:40 PM

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 page
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Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:47 PM

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 you use the
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 9:24 PM

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
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Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:21 PM

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
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Saturday, February 05, 2005 3:38 PM

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 setting
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:26 PM

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! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | live it!
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Sunday, January 23, 2005 12:19 AM

So exactly "what" does connect computer do anyway?

Remember I said how we add the domain/connectcomputer to the IE trusted zone to properly run it? So exactly what does connect computer script do anyway you ask? psst... yes it DOES do way more than manually connecting the computer to the network through
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