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Information and Observations from the Front lines of Small Business Computer Networking and Support…

Entries for January, 2008

Its all about the tools! Meet AutoRuns

Most of us have used StartupList and Hijack This; this tool takes it a step further. Written by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell previously of Sysinternals, this tool examines every place in your machine that applications can be started automagically. I have already used this tool a half dozen times to resolve things from virus [...]

Everyone likes something shiny and new!

Last week I attended the Windows 2008 Partner Preparation course. I learned of quite a few new and useful features included in Server 2008. I wanted to outline a choice few here:
–> Byte Level DFS(r) – Well this is a very cool feature to be included in the Standard and Enhanced versions of Server 2008. [...]

Method for recovering mailbox from OST.

You are trying to open an OST that has been orphaned and are getting "ost file was configured for another mailbox".
Just Googling this turns up all kinds of people looking for a solution here. There is a (relatively) simple way of recovering when 2 things are true.
1.) You haven’t removed the user’s local profile that [...]

SBS Backup User, Interactively run backup

If you support SBS and are like most IT Pros, you have probably logged into a server in the evening and been working on one thing or another and up pops the scheduled SBS backup. That is, if you always use the console session as it  is a best practice (mstsc /console).
As an aside, I [...]