After nearly 5 years of server-awesomeness, Small Business Server 2003 is being superseded by its predecessor, Microsoft Windows Server codename "Cougar"; better known to the public as Small Business Server 2008. Microsoft released an official launch date of November 12th 2008. This is an exciting day for those of us who have been enthusiastically supporting [...]
Despite considerable begging and pleading from Microsoft customers, Bill Veghte, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Online Services and Windows Business Group, issued an open letter to customers, holding steadfast to the June 30th end-of-life for Windows XP. He went on to reiterate that security and other critical updates for the now, 6 year old Operating [...]
It never ceases to amaze me what some people will come up with when you ask them to change their password. I see people naturally wanting to use their name, their cats name or their 4 digit bank account PIN number (and I’m certain this isn’t you). It is equally disturbing when I see service [...]
2008 is going to be one of the biggest years for change that technology professionals have yet faced; changes that are certainly going to rival in magnitude, the forced-shift that technology providers had to make to stay alive several years back when retailers and lower-tech providers died out. The Hampton Roads area has seen so [...]
The moment we’ve all been waiting for (well, not really). As of 5:45am February 4th Windows Server 2008 Officially RTM’d. This means that Windows Vista SP1 is also RTM. (RTM == Release to Manufacturers). For all of you who want to go ahead and jump on it keep in mind that you need to consult [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Even though I am not a web designer, I get several dozen requests a year to relocate a customer’s website to a new hosting provider. This is something I am happy to do for a customer if they have a relatively simple website, otherwise I refer them to a web design firm. Some things you [...]
