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I upgraded my Trend CSM 3.6 to their new Worry-Fress Business Security (WFBS) Advance 5.0 solution for SBS, and like the hero from the movie The Rocketeer , I can say, "I like it!". Without even digging into all the new features, I can say that the spam filtering is much improved, and the Trend...
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This is for all you IT support people ... no, I don't have to use the 'telnet' command often, but when I do, I expect it to be there! So, lo and behold, I have an emergency issue with a client's SBS/Exchange server today, and I find that I cannot do a simple 'telnet' from my Vista...
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I just came across a new product, currently in beta, that turns Outlook into a "social networking tool". Not only does it give you lightning fast email searches, but it brings a wealth of information that I certainly did not think possible, much less needed. Email analytics, extract phone numbers...
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We've had some recent posts in one of the SBS listserves asking how to manage Outlook archived PST files for users, and it was asked if the PST files could be stored on the server. Microsoft's KB 297019 specifically says that .pst, .ost, and .pab files are not designed to be stored on a network...
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In one of the public newsgroups recently, there was a discussion of IMF filtering internally generated admin email (alerts, performance reports, etc.). Steve Mills suggested adding the loopback IP address (127.0.0.1) to the IP Accept List. Click here to go to the web page with full instructions. Meanwhile...
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For those of you using Office/Outlook 2007, here's a Microsoft add-on that hasn't gotten much press ... it's called the Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007 -- or CPAO for short ( kapow! ). After installing it, you might have trouble finding it -- I certainly did. You won't find...
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I've been beta testing Lookeen for several months. It's a 3rd party Outlook 2003/2007 search tool that is a wonderful replacement for those who have previously used LookOut, and a step up from what Microsoft supplies. They have officially launched version 1.0 today! Check it out at www.lookeen...
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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 replacement product for Lookout. It's still...
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I have blogged previously on using IMF to filter out unwanted emails. The question then comes up: how do I know that it's working? The answer is: learn to use Performance counters. Here's a quick how to do it (with thanks to Les Connors!): 1. Click Start > Administrative Tools > Performance...
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On my SBS 2003 R2 server I recently started getting the yellow ballon popup on my server telling me I have updates to approve. But when I look, it's for two outdated IMF updates, one from late 2006 and the other from early 2007. I checked with some other SBS'ers and found that several of them...