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Happy Turkey Day!

Here in the US, the 4th Thursday of November is always our Thanksgiving holiday. I had a great day with my family. My immediate family alternates from year to year, one year we're with Dad's extended family, and the other year we're with Mom's. This year...

Published Thu, Nov 25 2004 22:46 by cgross

Filed under: Cool!
I want to make a request . . .

Ok - so I'm pn-site with a client today, and log in to an XP Pro SP2 workstation. The login script fires off, and proceeds to update Trend's OfficeScan module. In order to do the update, the OfficeScan service is stopped which results in one of our Security...

Published Wed, Nov 24 2004 20:34 by cgross

Filed under: Security
Anyone up for some Office Automation?

Ok, I'm going to try to make this quick. After I left the office this afternoon, I stopped to check out the new Best Buy that opened up close to home. While I was there, I picked up the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (great movie - but the book...

Published Tue, Nov 23 2004 21:41 by cgross

Filed under: Small Biz, Cool!
OT: We have a new leader . . .

Ok, so regulars know that ever since it was originally posted, my 'Oh Stormy Night ' post has been the most popular - thanks solely to the mention of a certain product , which has brought Googlers en masse. Well, I was reviewing the stats and discovered...

Published Thu, Nov 18 2004 14:15 by cgross

Filed under: Cool!
There goes the neighborhood . . .

Wired News: Advertisers Muscle Into RSS: http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,65745,00.html

Published Thu, Nov 18 2004 13:13 by cgross

Filed under: Community
UPDATED! SBSers - Make sure you're not wrongly listed as an Open Relay!

** Updated on 11/12/04 5:19 P.M. CST (GMT -6) The original post is further down - this is the update. I'm sorry. Where's the duct tape? Because I need to seal a few outbound ports and keep from hurting myself :^) Here's the skinny: Almost all of our clients...

Published Fri, Nov 12 2004 12:30 by cgross

Filed under: SBS, Exchange
Passwords vs Passphrases - Part 3

Ok, I blogged a couple weeks ago about part 2 of Jesper Johansson's 3 part series in comparing passwords and passphrases. Well, the good Dr. J's 3rd & final installment is now available: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/secnews/articles/itproviewpoint110104...

Published Wed, Nov 10 2004 23:07 by cgross

Filed under: SBS, Small Biz, Community
Yet another new blog

Ok kids - if you're interested in the happenings with the new MSN Search product, you can follow the team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch or pull the feed from http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/Rss.aspx

Published Wed, Nov 10 2004 22:52 by cgross

Filed under: Community
Poor Man's CRM - Update

Ok - so I'm overdue with updating everyone on the status of this. The bad news is that I don't have anything concrete for you yet. There's just not enough hours in a day to get to everything that I want to get to - and unfortunately, work has been taking...

Published Tue, Nov 9 2004 23:07 by cgross

Filed under: SBS, Small Biz, WSS / Companyweb
Dead Server Walking

Yesterday we got a call from a partner who sells / installs digital multi-function machines (those nice big copier / printer / scanner / fax units) who ran into a networking issue with a customer where he was trying to install a new unit and asked for...

Published Wed, Nov 3 2004 18:38 by cgross

Filed under: SBS, Exchange

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

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Happy Turkey Day!

I want to make a request . . .

Anyone up for some Office Automation?

OT: We have a new leader . . .

There goes the neighborhood . . .

UPDATED! SBSers - Make sure you're not wrongly listed as an Open Relay!

Passwords vs Passphrases - Part 3

Yet another new blog

Poor Man's CRM - Update

Dead Server Walking