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So I'm googling for some info to get a 98 attached to a SBS 2003 box for ...what else... a beancounter. A beancounter that SHOULD be signed up for the Microsoft's Accountant Network and not forcing his IT guy to jump through hoops as he'll be able to...
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You cannot find options under "Use Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)" on a computer that you upgraded from Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 to Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;902934...
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I'll be surfing out on Amazon.com and after I've stuck something in the shopping cart...like...oh .... Dr J's and Riley's new book ..... I'll click the back button and I get a page not displayed. Rats. Stupid Amazon.com. Does this to me all the time....
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I went to a NT user group meeting tonight and one of the guys sitting next to me said they hadn't yet deployed XP sp2 because Microsoft CRM didn't support it. I knew they had already sent out a patch to fix this... so ... if you are they guy who talked...
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Dear Microsoft/WagEd/whomever was in charge of your communication on the 'expiring blocking mechanism of 4/12/2005”: Next time, can you try to do a better job of communicating than you did? Your article here totally is confusing, misleading and...
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Dual monitors means I multitask.... doing a spreadsheet on one screen, got last years TechEd DVD content playing on the other [geek radio you know]. And I'm listening to Steve Riley's presentation on the changes in XP sp2...and he says that the computing...
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A bit of background first from Steve Riley : " Therefore, we admit we broke our promise and we added features to a service pack, but we did it because we believed it was absolutely necessary to improve the resiliency of the operating system to live in...
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In buying some USB cables at Office Depot tonight, I noticed that Office Depot had XP sp2 cdroms in the same shelf as the AOL cdroms. Kewl. I was posting to a listserve some of my accumulated “stuff” about XP sp2 and I'll copy it here.......
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Here are some tips stolen from the newsgroup: Method 1: Stop the Automatic Updates Service 1. Click Start. 2. Choose Run. 3. In the Run box, type services.msc. 4. Click OK. 5. Right-click the Automatic Updates service. 6. Select Properties. 7. Under Service...
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Fixing my sister's laptop that has been giving problems with USB devices like the thumb drives and I was trying to get her new gig drive working and it kept coming back with an error message: “ The specified service does not exist as an installed...
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The question was asked again in the newsgroup today -- “ Do I need the XP sp2 firewall enabled on the workstations inside my network when I have a firewall on the outside ?” First off some background. In your computer, in any computer there...
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Jeff from Vancouver also writes in that he wants a more detailed description of what the group policy can and cannot do. You know [in my opinion] the best source for seeing the power of group policy is? In an Excel spreadsheet . Now granted I think it...
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