Cleaning tasks today (rather than gardening). Cleaning the upstairs office as Comcast is coming Tuesday to update to Cable rather than DSL. Geek tasks - warning folks that the WU agent update is an all or nothing update. If you install the Windows update agent update to your workstations and then do not update the WSUS patch on the server you will get the workstations having a Windows Update error 800B0001 as they check in with the WSUS server. On Jun 29, 2012, at 4:39 PM, "Lawrence Garvin"

We've received the sad news from Donna's husband that she passed away unexpectedly on December 13, 2011. Donna has been a strong advocate for security and education for many many years and helped guide many in their interest of security on various forums. She will be missed by many. Her blog will remain as a tribute to her passion for security and her willingness to contribute to others. (comments have been opened up on this post for a short time) Other locations where tributes have been

From the Cloud essentials newsletter comes this info: Great News! Microsoft is waiving the requirement to sell 50 seats of each online service in your organization's first year of program enrollment because your organization enrolled in the Microsoft Cloud Essentials Pack between November 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011. This means your organization can continue using these valuable Microsoft Online Services Internal Use Rights benefits in the second year of program enrollment. Okay that's good

How to Migrate Companyweb to a SQL 2008 R2 Standard Instance on SBS 2011 - Part 3: Migrating the Content Database - The Official SBS Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/03/07/how-to-migrate-companyweb-to-a-sql-2008-r2-standard-instance-on-sbs-2011-part-3-migrating-the-content-database.aspx If you have some spare time between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. (yeah yeah I know) learning more about SQL is a good thing. Line of business stuff tends to use databases and getting

Microsoft Showcase: SBS 2011 Standard Learning Bites - Administrative Console: http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/620ed52e-2bdb-4515-909f-97681d2d8597 Microsoft Showcase: SBS 2011 Standard Learning Bites - Managing Users: http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/514da254-f3b7-4ca1-92e4-7eb05ef1d835 Microsoft Showcase: SBS 2011 Standard Learning Bites - Groups and User Roles: http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/8991999e-fc80-490f-898a-82672a0dde6b Microsoft Showcase

So you have youngsters with ipads, iphones, itouch, ithis and ithat and want to watch the digital videos I blogged about yesterday? http://www.youtube.com/user/SmallBusinessServer Try Youtube ;-) (link courtesy of Michael Leworthy)

Last week Steve Ballmer gave a speech at the University of Washington on Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy. This speech was an important step in illustrating to customers and industry how Microsoft’s comprehensive cloud strategy is helping change the way people and businesses use technology. On Wednesday Allison Watson, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Group, will speak to members of the Microsoft Partner Network via webcast about the opportunities cloud

IT Resource Center forums - DL370 G6 and NC375i issues: http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1262919480946+28353475&threadId=1361771 Had an interesting situation this morning. Got a call while I was getting ready for work that the network wasn't responding and sure enough I couldn't get to it remotely. Went into the office and you could tell the nic card on the HyperV server wasn't getting network connectivity (the icon indicated as such). Made