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October 2004 - Aimless Ramblings from a Blithering Lunatic . . .

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  • Prepping Users for a Network Install

    Yesterday, Susan blogged about James who asked about what types of email to send to a client's employees to get them excited about an upcoming install. I started to post a comment on her blog, but decided it warranted a post of its own. Whoa James . ...
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  • PDF icon in Companyweb

    Ok - if you're like me, you have a list a mile long of those little things you want to fix / research / figure out / or just play with - and it seems that life has a tendency to make digging through that list take longer than we'd like . . . Well, one...
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  • Passphrases

    Ok, so everyone knows that we should be using passphrases instead of passwords, right? And everyone knows who Jesper Johansson is, right? Good. Well, the good Dr. J has posted part 2 in his 3 part series about pass phrases vs. passwords. The Great Debates...
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  • what are you?

    Which File Extension are You? Thanks to Susan / Dana for this . . .
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  • We've got company . . .

    Hey all - we've got three more MVPs blogging - so be sure to check them out: Scott Colson (CRM MVP): Scott's CRM World Web RSS Javier Gomez (SBS MVP) Javier's SBS Wonderland Web RSS Dean Calvert (Aussie SBS MVP) Looking At The World - From Down Under...
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  • Take a look . . .

    Hey all - Yeah I know - long time no write - it's been pretty darn hectic around here. And I'm going to keep it super short this time too - just want to point everyone over to Charlie's post today about SBS SP1 . . .
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  • It's about time . . .

    I may be a bit behind, but I just noticed today that Symantec has finally released an update so that Norton Anti-Virus will play nice with the Security Center in XP SP2 . . . needless to say, it's about time - there's nothing I hate more than having to...
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  • Error logging out of RWW

    This one was something new to me - this error appeared in our Server Report this morning. This followed an interesting behavior yesterday where we kept getting 'Page cannot be displayed' whenever we logged out of Remote Web Workplace. Critical Errors...
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  • Another one bites the dust . . .

    . . . or finally gives in to Susan and starts blogging :^) Seriously, we've got Sean Daniel from the SBS dev team in the blogging fold. I've added a link with the others (for those of you actually viewing the web edition) - and for the syndicators, you...
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  • A little extra security for your Remote Web Workplace . . .

    Ok, so we're all familiar with the inherent dangers with VPNs, right? Especially if we as administrators don't have control over the remote PC. Who knows what viri / malware / spyware it might be infected with, just itching for the chance to have an open...
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  • Handy little tip . . .

    If I remember correctly, I got this one from Jeff Middleton a while back . . . It's happened to all of us at one point or another. We need to TS into one of our servers to do a simple little configuration change for a client. However, when we try to connect...
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  • Hey all you Peachtree users . . .

    You guys know all about PAWCOM from Multiware, Inc. - right? If you're using Peachtree (or have clients using Peachtree) and you want / need to extend it's functionality, PAWCOM is the only way to go. So what is it? PAWCOM is a COM interface that let...
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  • New blog link . . .

    You'll notice that I've added a new link to Eric Fleischman's blog . If you're at all interested in AD, etc. - check this out. And the rss feed is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/efleis/rss.aspx
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