Having fun wrestling with SBS 2008’s “Connect to the Internet” and “Add a trusted Certificate” wizards? Yeah, I thought so.
Here’s how to get around it: Treat SBS 2008’s SSL management like you would any other Exchange 2007 box, and do it all from the shell.
Note: My walk-through is based on using GoDaddy for the UCC [...]
I love working on a dual monitor system – it allows me to analyze a lot of information side-by-side at the same time. But the application that could most take advantage of two monitors, Excel, always wants to open spreadsheets in the same window, which I find silly.
I found a way to trick Excel into opening a [...]
When performing an upgrade from Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 to SBS 2008 in migration mode the process stops and you receive the following error:
The user account does not have the permissions that it needs to join to the domain. The user account must me a member of the Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins, and Schema [...]
We use Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and have several network drives that we map to various document libraries. While we can use the browser to navigate and retrieve documents, I find that using Explorer with mapped network drive letters is faster. It has also worked well for providing a seamless transition from our old [...]
Part of our role as a trusted technology advisor is to look at the issues our clients are experiencing, identify common themes and trends, and create comprehensive approaches for dealing with these issues across our client base.
One of the more disruptive and time consuming issues we’ve identified over the past few months is spyware infections. [...]
We just upgraded to Exchange 2007 at the end of the last week and ran in to one wrinkle with accessing a shared, team mailbox on our mobile phones through IMAP.
A little background
Our practice for creating and managing “shared” mailboxes using Exchange 2003 (I use the quotes to distinguish between the new Shared mailbox type [...]
When accessing a SharePoint UNC path from Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008, you may receive the following error:
You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network.
Here’s how to resolve the issue:
On Windows Server 2003, set the WebClient service startup to automatic, then start the service. You may need to reboot the [...]
We’ve been really excited to dive in to Windows Server 2008 and start working with Hyper-V. Last fall, we virtualized all of our servers using Virtual Server 2005 SP2 with decent success, though the performance of the virtual machines hasn’t been overly impressive (the server we had them is also four years old).
So far, we’ve [...]
A few details related to how Zenith’s BDR solution works with Exchange Server and Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS):
For Exchange Server 2003 and 2007, the recommended best practice is to disable circular logging.
To prevent the unfettered growth of Exchange transaction log, Exchange Server flushes its log files after each successful VSS-aware incremental backup, which, by [...]
When using the InfoPath to Word Wizard (part of the Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 SDK), you may receive the following error when clicking the Finish button “to generate an XSLT file from your document”:
To fix this, you’ll need to manually register the following 3 DLLs provided with the SDK using regsvr32.
html2xhtml.dll
(C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 2003 Developer [...]
We recently had a Qwest DSL installation for one of our small business clients turn in to a bit of a nightmare.
After the circuit was installed, the client reported that they weren’t able to log on to several websites, including their QuickBooks Online account and Hotmail. After some initial diagnosis, it became clear that there [...]
We recently had an interesting little adventure with Clearwire. We had a client who had an emergency need for a high speed network connection, and I had some familiarity with Clearwire because I helped some friends set up Clearwire in their restaurant so they could offer free WiFi to their patrons. So I recommended it [...]
I don’t know why I get certain things get stuck in my craw, but lately I have been annoyed at having to close a command prompt in order to get out of a telnet connection. I use telnet sometimes just to see if a server is awake and touching the Internet–you know, as an [...]
Microsoft has a penchant for complication. Today I spent way too long reading an 800 page document on the nuances of licensing Windows Server 2003 in a virtual environment, only to come away more confused than before.
After a bit more searching, I did come across this paragraph, which summed it up nicely:
The virtualization use rights [...]
I wiped my machine yesterday and installed Vista. So far, so good, but I’ve run in to a few minor issues. Here’s the first.
When accessing our SharePoint intranet via UNC (either through a drive mapped to a UNC path, or the UNC path directly), I would be prompted to re-enter my network login credentials, even [...]
