Small Business Server

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Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:09:21 GMT

The RSS feeds are moving to a new location. If your are connecting to this weblog via RSS and have noticed that it has become static there is a reason for it. The RSS feeds have moved to a new location. The feeds have been enhanced and are available in 3 flavors as follows: RSS...

Microsoft Small Business Server Opportunities Are Growing

Wed, 02 Mar 2005 01:14:50 GMT
According to the Yankee Group, Small Business Server 2003 is offering consultants and value added retailers, plenty of opportunities for 2005. If you are a registered Microsoft Partner the study can be found in the Small Business News section on the Adam's Mindspace. Setting up a Small IT Solution for Mobility using Microsoft's Small Business...

Small Business Server Hardware on a Budget

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:40:21 GMT
MCP Magazine Online reviews four servers for under $1,000. 4 Dirt-Cheap Workgroup Servers Put to the Test HP wins the day hands down with twin 80Gb hard drives. The Dell system, on the other hand, is disappointing with one 40Gb hard drive. Surely Dell could do better than that.

.rar E-Mail Attachment With Virus Package Bypasses Filters

Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:11:05 GMT
There is a new attachment that virus writers are using that may bypass your antivirus scanner. It has the extension ".rar" and according to this article on e-Week most antivirus programs don't scan for it. I took a look at my antivirus program and the ".rar" extension was nowhere to be found. I went the compressed file section of my gateway and was able to add the extension so it...

Small Business Server Backup Failed - A Simple Problem

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:58:06 GMT
Last week I had a Backup Failure on Windows Small Business Server Premium. The Shadow Copy failed on drive C. When that happens SBS Backup reports failure because of the large number of open files it skips. This is a simple problem. One of the SQL Databases had been set to a full recovery model instead of "simple" recovery model. According to the

Bootable CD Saves The Day

Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:59:12 GMT
Travis has a great article, What's in your tool bag? He uses a bootable CD for system recovery. Bart's PE bootable XP CD could be a great addition to your set of tools.

Sharepoint Lists - Powerful Stuff!

Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:39:01 GMT
Serge van de Over writes about Sharepoint lists functionality right out of the box. There is a lot of power in Sharepoint. Here is an under the hood look at what you can do with lists.

Slipstream XP SP2 to an unattended installation CD

Fri, 26 Nov 2004 03:31:31 GMT
AseLabs has a short article on building an XP CD that slipstreams XP SP2 on to an installation disk then does an unattended install of XP.

Internet Time setup for Windows 2003 SBS

Fri, 26 Nov 2004 03:06:44 GMT
I am in the process of moving SBS to a new hardware platform. I wanted to setup the time service to find a reliable internet time server. This had been configured on the old server but it was hard for me to recall how this was done. Searching the Windows 2003 Server website revealed the following article How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server 2003....