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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
There's one problem with my C:drive. It's too big. It's so big that I get lazy and don't clean it up. Like... I don't throw away the Trend quarantined files, nor the junk in the bad mail. [Mind you Trend does a bit of an automagic clean up ...but still...
Looking for all those really good Mac postings? Look no farther than Eriq Neale [and look for him in Seattle in September at SMBnation ] Lessons Learned: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB: Lessons Learned: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS...
From the mailbag today comes the question “ What is the best POP connector program ?” I'll start with an answer from the “Consultant crowd”: SMTP instead And I'll include my answer: A patched one :-) But if you'd like additional...
Ever notice how there's like four or five ways to do the same thing? I posted about my Remote Web Workplace experience and wanted to know if there was a way to remotely shut down. Matt posted in the comments "shutdown.exe" but there's a couple more. Handy...
Answering another question from the mailbag tonight. Part II actually. One about Scripts and I thought I'd also mention our other annoying 'feature' of SBS. Let's face it SBS has a few ... well... eccentricities. One that “LanWench” from the...
Hmmm...haven't tried it but I wonder if we can use this to build a report of logons and logoffs? Hmmm... may have to play around with this We are happy to announce the availability of LimitLogin v1.0, an application that adds the ability to limit concurrent...
From the mailbox today comes this tip from WayneV While I was trying to find an answer to a web based program/IIS problem I stumbled on a checkbox worth mentioning. I was getting the error: The page cannot be displayed There is a problem with the page...
The question came up regarding Fax documentation and I thought I'd throw up a few links: How does GFI FAXmaker compare with SBS Fax/Windows 2003 Fax? Windows Server 2003 FAX Fax Service Manager overview Fax Console overview So how many of you use the...
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