Subtitled - “Wow, I learned something new today!”  So in the Third Tier support queue today, Jon posed an interesting question: How do I exclude Folder Redirection from applying to one domain-joined laptop that is out of the office & disconnected from the domain most of the time? To revisit Group Policy basics for everyone – GPOs can apply to either computer accounts or user accounts.  GPOs that apply to computer accounts are processed when computers boot up (we’ve all seen the “Applying

Earlier today Susan blogged about upgrade season in her office, and getting ready to migrate from SBS 2003 to 2008.  In that post , she talked about uninstalling ISA and mentioned a post that Kevin has on that subject.  I thought I’d take a moment to expand a little bit on Kevin’s post and add a few thoughts from my own battle scars with removing ISA. First and foremost – Kevin mentions removing the ISA firewall client from all of your PCs before you remove ISA from the server.  I

Ok, so I thought I’d share a real-world support scenario that happened to me today: So I have a new contract customer I just signed a couple weeks ago, and they went live as of 9/1.  I was doing various maintenance tasks on their network over the weekend, removing unnecessary apps from PCs to improve performance, getting patches installed, etc.  So about the only thing that was left last night was patching their Windows 2003 terminal server.  So I push the patches out via Kaseya, patches

As some of you may know, I assist Susan with administering & maintaining the blogs here at msmvps.com.  For various reasons, over the past few months I have become familiar with various approaches to blog migrations – most notably the BlogML project .  As a result, I’ve sort of become the neighborhood go-to guy for moving blogs, including assisting Steve Riley with his move from msinfluentials.com to wordpress.com A couple weeks ago I was presented with an intriguing request / challenge

So I just had an e-mail come through from twitter telling me that I had a new follower – unfortunately, it appears to be a twitter bot (you know, the personal picture of a scantily-clad blonde, who is following 1300 people, but has zero tweets & zero followers?).  So I decided to log on to twitter’s website and clean up my followers since I was pretty sure there were one or two others that had started following me this week.  As I was waiting for the page to load, I received an interesting

A while back, someone in the SBS 2008 newsgroup had a good question.  Short story is that they are making extensive use of their companyweb, including content approval in some document libraries.  They have configured email alerts on these libraries, so approvers are notified when new documents are added and waiting approval.  However, a few of these approvers travelled regularly, and were often out of the office.  When they received new email alerts from their companyweb, the

I’ll admit this post is long overdue.  I’m sitting here staging a new server for a client and just finished running through these steps on their server, so I figured now was a good time to post since the process is fresh in my head.  Particularly, the task at hand is to configure companyweb on our SBS 2008 to properly index Office 2007 documents and PDF documents, so their contents will appear in SharePoint search results. Yes, you read the correctly.  Small Business Server 2008’s

OK gang - The SBS team has blogged explaining where our 2436 errors come from on SBS 2008. The short story is that SBS is thinking it is protecting itself. Recommended solution is to edit the registry to add the public URL for your companyweb (e.g. remote.company.com) to the BackConnectionHostNames, allowing that URL to bypass your SBS server’s loopback check. Google searches will result in a multitude of work-arounds different people have posted, most of them you do not want to implement including

I have a tendency to be a bit behind the curve on some things.  For example, just last week I finally got a chance to load up Windows 7 for the first time.  My initial impression after a few days:  Wow.  No really . . .  WOW I decided to sacrifice my Vista Ultimate box for the test.  Being a glutton for punishment, I did try an in-place upgrade of Windows Vista Ultimate (x86) to Windows 7.  The upgrade took an exceptionally long time, and ended up hanging on the

*UPDATE: Still not why the steps below work on some boxes but not others. However, the SBS team just blogged about the implications of the Loopback Check registry key as well as the ability to register your public URL on your SBS box so that it bypasses the loopback check without having to completely disable the loopback check. I still recommend reconfiguring SharePoint Search as noted below in addition to registering your public URL to bypass the Loopback Check. *UPDATE: We have confirmed that the