One thing i love about doing SBS installs is that unless its a 100% new network (new PCs, printers, the lot!) i that always learn something The install i’ve been doing this week i originally planned to swing migrate, but after further investigation (like a really poorly named domain name for starters!) i decided a
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Internet Explorer error when installing SBS R2
Just in case anyone else makes the same mistake i did <blush> If you install IE7 before you install the R2 “bits” you’ll get the following error Setup encountered an error while installing the cumulative security update for Internet Explorer. For more information see the log files at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Integration\Windows Small Business Server 2003\Log\KB912812.log..
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My Amazing Sense Of Timing
So after my post yesterday talking about leaders who say the right things (etc), tonight we have big fight [sic] Vlad explains why he isn’t going to SMB Nation which generates a nice discussion and generates posts from Susan and HandyAndy (and i’m sure there will be more) as to why they are going to SMB nation
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SBSC Team Captains
Warning…football (soccer) analogy!! I’ve had this idea for a post rattling around in my head but i’m not sure if will work so bear with me 🙂 When i’m not doing geeky techie stuff my other passion is football. I love playing and one of the things i do is play 5-a-side every week I hurt my back last week so
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SBS EMEA Chat after-thoughts
The Technet SBS Chat finished about 30 minutes ago As i thought may happen it was mainly centered around people who wanted to know about Cougar and not about SBS2003 support as it was originally billed! The chat transcript will be available here soon Most of the Cougar stuff is available elsewhere on the internet
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A different kind of community
Last night i went to a seminar on Health and Safety, Employment Law and advice for startups to turn ideas into a viable business The reason for going was three fold First of all, since we’re having a growth spurt and actually giving people jobs it makes sense to make sure we’re doing it right
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Install Netmeeting on Vista
We have used Netmeeting (Remote Desktop Sharing) in some support situations in the past but it’s no longer installed with Vista I found this hotfix that allows you to install Netmeeting 3.02 on a Vista PC However, What you can’t do is setup Remote Desktop Sharing on that Vista PC. You can still connect to older
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Just a reminder
All being well i’ll be logging onto this at lunch time Join Microsoft Experts for an Online Chat! Small Business Server 2003 Chat (EMEA Community) Join the Small Business Server team for questions and general discussion on SBS2003. Bring your comments and concerns on the product and discuss them with the team. Friday, July
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Joining the majority
Sometimes there are things i just dont get straight away Twitter, MySpace, Facebook are good examples I’m not saying i don’t see the point. I just don’t usually see the point for me! My other half and a couple of friends have been asking me when (not if!) i’ll be getting in on the act.
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SBS 2003 SP2 Best Practices
Just a quick one The official SBS blog posted a link to a KB article with best practices for install the service pack There isn’t anything that hasn’t been mentioned elsewhere but it’s nice that it brings it all together in page you can easy bookmark (or even print out!) It also mentions the printer SNMP