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Installing security update MS05-019 or Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 may cause network connectivity between clients and servers to fail http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;898060 Lately some folks have been complaining about RWW...
Well I finally did it tonight. Patched the real baby at the office with Exchange 2003 sp2. I manually shut off the Trend Exchange antivirus I shut off the server antivirus I manually shut down the SMTPservice ...just in case.... And I hit the 'No to all”...
First off, a REMINDER that if you happen to load up Windows 2003 SP1, and you are a SBSer, you aren't done yet... right in that “Windows 2003 SP1“ page it says: Important If you are running Windows Small Business Server 2003, please install...
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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: If you have an OEM installation of SBS 2003, you must use a special procedure to install WSUS Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:13:33 -0700 From: Tim Elhajj (MSFT) Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs There...
Fellow MVP Harry Waldron reports that first sightings of a virus/worm bundled up to take advantage of the recent security patches on Tuesday have been sighted: MS05-039: Zotob.A Internet Worm -- In-the-wild: http://msmvps.com/harrywaldron/archive/2005...
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From the mailbag tonight comes the question...” What spyware protection and registry maintenance do you recommend for the SBS 2003 server ?” ...uh..dude? You surfing at that server so it needs spyware protection? Don't. Let's nip that right...
******************************************************************** Title: August 2005 Microsoft Security Response Center Bulletin Notification Issued: August 04, 2005 ******************************************************************** Summary ====...
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There are two other patches that came out today... one is a re-release of the GDI+ patch that affects Visual Basic, .NET framework and Windows Messenger. The other is a patch for the XP sp2 firewall and is available on Windows Update. Since it's not deemed...
Just a reminder... your end users.. your customers? THEY DON'T NEED TO OPEN EVERY ATTACHMENT THEY GET . They don't need .scr or .exe or .pif or any of that gunk. Go into Scanmail and click on “enable attachment blocking“. Click on the “Ok“...
Thought I'd show you what I did to enable the NoLMHash How to prevent Windows from storing a LAN manager hash of your password in Active Directory and local SAM databases: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299656 First I opened up...
Hmmmm..... there's two patches that won't push down from MBSA/Shavlik so I'm doing them manually. The first is the . NET 1.1 sp1 and the second is the 03-31 for the SBSMonitoring SQL/MSDE instance. One tweak I'm putting in place is the “ Dr. J Password...
Download details: ISA Server 2000 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c8d3d98b-1cd4-406a-a04a-2aa2547d09a3&displaylang=en Now do I install this Friday night...or wait until right before Memorial Day weekend...hmmm.... ;-...
This document helps you plan, install, deploy, and test Software Update Services (SUS) Server 1.0 in order to update your Windows® Small Business Server 2003 network. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5f1cc6f0-79b7-4a95-bcab-49bee6d5df13
Some customers may wish to exclude their SBS 2003 installation from the scope of Web search sites such as Google.com. This may be because you would prefer to restrict knowledge of your installation only to those who can use it, or, you may want to keep...