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I'm sure everyone will have (or should have) their own list of things that they really like about SBS2008. Consultants will find things that benefit a sale or installation, whereas an IT professional or an office person using SBS every day will find...
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...
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 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,...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Eric Neal and Tim Barret have posted a concise, step by step, article up on the M&M SmallBizServer site - Configuring IMAP over SSL with SBS2003 Standard (No ISA 2000/2004). This will be helpful to those trying to connect up iPhones!
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....
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...
This comes from a recent Sunbelt's WServerNews e-letter, but the remarks are similar to what's being said all around the web: Just Say NO to iPhone You are going to be asked (or already have been) to hook up the iPhone to your network's email...
Cell phones are great (when they work), and even better when they sync up with your email, contacts, tasks and calendar items from Outlook/Exchange. However, recently I had to resync a phone, and I'm still not sure what I did to create this situation...
Exchange 2003 SP2 includes the Intelligent Message Filter (IMF v2). Microsoft indicated that IMF definition updates would be released twice a month. These IMF updates can be obtained via WSUS or Microsoft Update (MU), which requires a reg edit to be made...
It's easy enough to search the web for various instructions on how to do an offline defrag of your Exchange database. With SBS, an online defrag occurs every morning. However, that does not actually reduce the size of the .edb/.stm files. Performing an...
None of my SBS sites use the POP3 connector any longer, having migrated them to SMTP even before SBS2003 was released. However, there are still a lot of sites that continue to use it. What surprised me was that I always thought that you were pressing...
Tell me we don't see this question come up at least once a week!! Charlie Russell recently posted a nice set of instructions for doing this. He's expanded slightly on my own method, so I've incorporated his points. I hope this helps someone in the future...
I was a little late in implementing IMF on my Exchange server, but did so recently. Here are three things I had to do to help me manage and control the spam that IMF was catching: The first trick I discovered was that I needed a way to monitor the spam...
As you may know, you can configure SBS/Exchange to handle more than just one domain name for sending/receiving email by setting up an additional recipient policy for each domain that you want. For example, my SBS server at home is configured to use kwsupport...
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