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November 2007 - KWSupport

  • 2007-12-01 "Do You Hear What I Hear?"

    We kick off December with the first of 25 Christmas / Holiday song parodies. We start with one of my favorites, "Do You Hear What I Hear?" Listen Said the PC to the little Mac, Do you see what I see? (Do you see what I see?) Way up over there...
  • SBS and the 3GB switch

    For several years, there has been an on going discussion on whether or not to enable the /3GB switch in the boot.ini file for an SBS server. By and far, the consensus of opinion has been to NOT use the /3GB option - especially considering that WSS 2.0...
  • Vista and Sign Certs

    Vista handles self-signed certificates differently than XP. If you don't set it up properly, RPC over HTTPS will not work properly for you. Here's what to do: 1. Run IE as an administrator (Right click on IE, sleect 'run as administrator'...
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  • RWW and Per User Restriction

    RWW in SBS 2003 does not allow you to define 'per user' restrictions. Here's an interesting work around if you want to ensure that a particular user can only access specific computers: 1. Go to: Server Management | Standard Management | Users...
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  • iTunes, ISA and SBS

    I'm sure this is posted in other blogs, but just in case ... if you are running SBS2003 and ISA2004, after installing ISA's service pack (SP2 or SP3), you may find that you can no longer access iTune's store. The reason is that with ISA 2004...
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  • Windows Server 2003 SP2 and SBS

    Just as a reminder ... if installing W2K3 SP2 on an SBS 2003 box, there is a Microsoft KB article (555912) outlining some "known issues" and how to resolve/fix them: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555912
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  • Missing Lookout? WDS too slow? Try Lookeen!

    Lookout was a marvelous tool for quickly searching through Outlook email and local files fast. It was a mainstay of every computer I used. That is, until Office 2007 came along, and Lookout would not work. I was recently pointed to Lookeen as a possible...
  • Laughing at Vista

    If I had not already stepped up to the plate, and converted my primary workstation to Vista, I would not be writing this post (see http://msmvps.com/blogs/kwsupport/archive/2007/07/02/vista-sbs2003-and-the-4th-of-july.aspx ). I think once in awhile it's...
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  • SBS and Member Servers

    It's always good to remember that various documents exisit for the SBS environment. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/techinfo/productdoc/default.mspx For example, here's how to hook up a member server to an SBS network: http://go...
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  • SBS with Muscles?

    Microsoft officially announced the big brother to SBS --- Windows Essential Business Server 2008. This is SBS for the mid-sized companies, and will use e a minimum of three servers. http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2007/11/07/5955270.aspx
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