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Getting rid of the Red X's of the mapped drives

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:15:00 GMT

How Autodisconnect Works in Windows NT and Windows 2000: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;138365 Mapped Drive Connection to Network Share May Be Lost: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297684 Mapped drive shows an X - Super User:...(read more)

TS Gateway service and patching

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:38:00 GMT

Of interest is that this patch stopped the TS Gateway service Thus dropping the RWW session. Once again proving that you can't consistently patch over a RWW session and you need some other methodology to patch....(read more)

What if?

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:45:00 GMT

Just so you see the visual... two vhd files sitting on an external USB drive.... are powering a copy of the SBS 2008 that I built at the office. Once you have the "server" in vhds you can just copy and move them around. This is where a nice...(read more)

No excuse anymore

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:08:00 GMT

So at the office I've been doing a dry run of the migration and the resulting migrated SBS 2008 is sitting as two vhd files on a HyperV server. So I went to Office Depot, bought a small usb powered 500 gig drive, turned off the SBS 2008 running in...(read more)

So how fast are you?

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:28:00 GMT

So tonight I'm taking my sister's "baby laptop", the old Travelmate C110 (a match of what I have) and moving it from an older slower harddrive up to a 7200 rpm drive. While I can't justify the pricetag of a solid state drive, I can...(read more)

The sensible deployment

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:17:00 GMT

I'm taking a break from the Migration dry run blogging tonight because I had to do a slide show for a group of folks I'm doing a presentation for tomorrow. My Dad's retired executives groups. All of those years that I had to listen to Dad...(read more)

>>>Partner Community Hot issues November 2009 -- Client<<<

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:10:00 GMT

>>>Partner Community Hot issues November 2009<<<: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/partnerwinserver7rcthreads/thread/cf96edb8-afd7-48e2-aac9-519844f5d048 >>>Partner Community Hot issues November 2009<<< TOP...(read more)

Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Processor-Power

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:48:00 GMT

Once a day, every afternoon, I'd get an alert from my box with this: EVENT # 10069 EVENT LOG System EVENT TYPE Warning OPCODE Info SOURCE Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Processor-Power EVENT ID 37 USERNAME NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM COMPUTERNAME DATE / TIME 11...(read more)

Odds and Ends

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:13:00 GMT

Just a quick note, I don't necessarily recommend an 80 gig server here.. I just did a minimum install for purposes of the migration test. IMHO 60 gigs is too small as the WinSXS file grows. And I plan to move the Exchange, WSUS and data to another...(read more)

P to Ving with the Sysinternals tool

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:13:00 GMT

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx Testing this out. Have a HP ML370G4 that has a physical install of SBS 2003 on a raid/hardware system. Have a HyperV on an HP ML370G6. In a test run (where I screwed up because I didn't...(read more)

The video card RDP bug nailed me today

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:23:00 GMT

So I'd always heard about this, not seen this in action... well now I did today. Nvidia video driver and AFTER the installation of .NET family patch (that I had been holding off installing) I could no longer remote to a machine. I would rdp and the...(read more)

Happy Halloween

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:12:00 GMT

Tonight to answer the door of the trick-or-treaters I'm asking the door as Danica Patrick's older, less sexy, sister that is a Mini Cooper race car driver. Okay so it's a stretch, I'll admit, but with a Mini Cooper racing shirt and a black...(read more)

>>> NEW TOOL: Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer <<<:

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:03:00 GMT

>>> NEW TOOL: Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer <<<: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/partnermsgexchange/thread/421c8eb2-7579-4806-a276-3aaeb90a10a4 Announcing the release of Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer for...(read more)

So what about those action pack licenses?

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:20:00 GMT

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2009/10/30/mpan-program-closed.aspx So the bigger and more important question is ...what about the action pack license that was allowed to be purchased by CPAs as a result? Are they still licensed? Can they renew...(read more)

MPAN program closed

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:09:00 GMT

Dear valued MPAN member: We are writing to let you know that Microsoft ® Office Accounting will no longer be distributed by Microsoft after November 16, 2009. As such, MPAN membership will also be closed to new members effective November 16, 2009...(read more)

Join the live celebration of worldwide availability of Windows 7

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:56:00 GMT

"Join the live celebration of worldwide availability of Windows 7 with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Windows 7 Launch event on October 22, 2009, at 8:00 A.M., Pacific daylight time. If you can’t watch the event live, come back later to...(read more)

Are you ready for Windows 7?

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:26:00 GMT

Having a launch party here at the office tonight for our SMB Fresno group... And we're doing a MacBook Pro (courtesy of Vlad from www.ownwebnow.com ) versus Win7 comparison. First comparison, there's no video output for the MacBook Pro. Tomorrow...(read more)

So how do you check binding order on SBS 2008?

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:12:00 GMT

So how do you check the binding order in Windows 2008? Like this: When you are in the network connections window, click the Alt key. This opens up the advanced button which then exposes the advanced settings button. Then click that and find the binding...(read more)

For those into hardware

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:39:00 GMT

The new baby will be arriving soon.. but for those into hardware...here's the specs. Yes, I overbuy. Yes I ensure that RAM is way way way plentiful but it's going to be a HyperV base (I have premium). 519578-005 1 HP ProLiant ML370 G6 Small Form...(read more)

Windows 7 -- it's like Crystal Meth for Geeks

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:45:00 GMT

http://www.thirdtier.net/2009/10/special-webinar-windows-7-its-like-crystal-meth-for-geeks/ October 22nd... we have a presentation for you. Noon Eastern. A windows 7 launch party but without the cheesy balloons, Japanese animation inspired bags, Windows...(read more)