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The View from the Dark Side
I have a confession . . . I took my first step moving to the dark side three months ago. You see, my beloved Treo 700w had finally died for the last time - it had lived a long, hard life of just over 2 years and had been dropped countless times. I was...
Companyweb & Sharepoint v3 - Part 1
This is the first in a short series of running Windows Sharepoint Services v3 on your SBS 2003 / R2 server. First the caveat: Upgrading and/or running your companyweb site with Windows Sharepoint Services v3 is not supported - neither by Microsoft nor...
The Winds of Change . . .
Can you believe that this Wednesday, October 25th - marks the 5 year anniversary of the launch of Windows XP? 5 years! Wow, no wonder things have been pretty comfortable and cozy on the help desk front - work with an OS for that long and you're bound...
Posted: Oct 22 2006, 05:30 PM by cgross | with no comments
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Swinging Your Companyweb
So, with my last post I talked about using smigrate to backup and restore your SharePoint sites. With this post I'm going to go one step further and attack a specific scenario that I seem to be getting more and more questions on - migrating your companyweb...
SMB Technology Network
Susan has already blogged about this - but I wanted to make a point of mentioning it as well. In just about a month, I'll be in sunny southern California for the first ever SMB Technology Network Summer Conference! I'm still preparing for it, but I think...
Coming to a web browser near you . . .
Event Name: Wednesdays on the Web with TS2: Conversation with a Partner Event Date: Wednesday, March 16th 2005 Event Time: 4:00 P.M. CST (GMT -6:00) Duration: 60 Minutes Description: Join us as we talk with Chad Gross, SBS-MVP about using Windows Sharepoint...
Thanks Tucker!
Earlier this week, we were contacted by a prospective client who wanted us to check out their relatively new SBS install and make sure that everything was up to snuff, and get Exchange working. Now, when Steve relayed to me that we needed to get Exchange...
Posted: Dec 02 2004, 11:27 PM by cgross | with 9 comment(s)
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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...
Posted: Oct 23 2004, 03:38 PM by cgross | with 2 comment(s)
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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...
Posted: Oct 02 2004, 01:39 PM by cgross | with 1 comment(s)
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Are you a small IT provider looking for management software solution?
If so, you do realize that you have a very flexible, capable solution most likely sitting there idle on your SBS2k3 network? It's called Windows SharePoint Services . . . Seriously. I'm not just rambling here - we're using Sharepoint internally to manage...
Swingers Rock - Yeah Baby!
Hey now, get your mind out of the gutter - this is a PG (ok ok, PG-13 ;^) blog and I'm talking about migrations . . . If you follow the microsoft.public sbs newsgroups, you probably know that I'm a big fan of temp dc migrations (or swing migrations as...
Posted: Aug 08 2004, 04:35 PM by cgross | with 2 comment(s)
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Ok Marc, here you go . . .
You requested it, so I added a category for Retail Management System . Now, I can't guarantee that I'll be posting much in that area in the near future, as Amy is our resident RMS expert. However, here's something I'm going to throw out, not only for...
Posted: Aug 06 2004, 02:50 PM by cgross | with 1 comment(s)
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