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SEP 11 Cannot communicate with console from clients on remote subnets on SBS 2003

Have you seen this before in the SEP management console on a clients computer

This is the sign that you are not seeing the little green dot on the computers tray or on the console. When you install SEP 11 by default, and install it to the default website, because of the security that […]

How to tether ATT Fuse phone without incurring a new plan

I came across this article on how to tether the AT&T Fuse phone after hooking it up and realizing that I could not tether it. http://www.fuzemobility.com/how-to-set-up-internet-sharing-tethering-on-the-att-fuze/

Thanks to the XDA team for figuring this out!

HTTP crawl, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) crawl and Exchange crawl do not work correctly in Windows 7

I came across this article today for Windows 7 and SharePoint. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972360 Make sure you get the hotfix installed!

setup auto reply for a distribution group

I was doing some research on setting up auto reply’s for a email distribution group for Exchange 2007. I came across this really good article at http://www.amset.info/exchange/groups-autoreply.asp . One thing to note, if you want the auto reply to work from outside the organization, make sure in Exchange hub transport to select under the remote […]

Running applications as a service on Windows 2008 or SBS 2008

Recently I was presented a challenge of making an application run as a service. That part is usually not to hard, we can use the free Windows NT Resource Kit utilities and SRVANY.EXE to accomplish this. Many great how to’s have been written on this, and I will include links at the end to some […]

What ports do you open for Quickbooks on Windows servers?

This comes up a lot in my field, here is a great link to the offical Quickbooks site: http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/pages/knowledgebasearticle/403317

And for what permissions to set on the folders, see http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/Pages/KnowledgeBaseArticle/1004414

Microsoft launches Windows 7 Upgrade Option for OEMs

Today Microsoft started a new program for customers that buy PC’s with Windows Vista installed. From now till January 31st, 2010, this program is effective.

If you purchase:

Windows Vista Home Premium you will get Windows 7 Home Premium Windows Vista Business you will get Windows 7 Professional Windows Vista […]

SBS 2008/Windows Server 2008 mail getting stuck in outbound queue

I ran into a strange issue on a SBS 2008 box with relation to mail flow. I was noticing that mail being sent to outside companies is stuck in the Queue. Not all mail, but a lot of it. When looking at the “Last Error” in the Queue Viewer, I notice most of those connections […]

Frustrations with BlackBerry documentation

I was setting up a new Blackberry Professional Server today for a client and I was following the detailed instructions provided by Blackberry at http://www.blackberry.com/select/professional/install/fscommand/installingBlackBerryProfessionalSoftware.html . After wondering why the Blackberry would get stuck on “Activating” for over 20 minutes, I called the carrier and verified the customer had the enterprise plan as this is […]

Remote control for Windows and Macs

Today I was shown this cool tool used for remote support and also for screen sharing. The best part is, it is free! http://www.mikogo.com

It appears to work with Macs and PC’s.