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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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