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This is the first in a short series of running Windows Sharepoint Services v3 on your SBS 2003 / R2 server. First the caveat: Upgrading and/or running your companyweb site with Windows Sharepoint Services v3 is not supported - neither by Microsoft nor myself. Just because I'm blogging about it doesn...
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Can you believe that this Wednesday, October 25th - marks the 5 year anniversary of the launch of Windows XP? 5 years! Wow, no wonder things have been pretty comfortable and cozy on the help desk front - work with an OS for that long and you're bound to know it inside and out. But alas, progress marches...
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So, with my last post I talked about using smigrate to backup and restore your SharePoint sites. With this post I'm going to go one step further and attack a specific scenario that I seem to be getting more and more questions on - migrating your companyweb SharePoint site from on existing SBS 2003 installation...
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Susan has already blogged about this - but I wanted to make a point of mentioning it as well. In just about a month, I'll be in sunny southern California for the first ever SMB Technology Network Summer Conference! I'm still preparing for it, but I think it's a safe bet that I'll be talking a lot about...
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Event Name: Wednesdays on the Web with TS2: Conversation with a Partner Event Date: Wednesday, March 16th 2005 Event Time: 4:00 P.M. CST (GMT -6:00) Duration: 60 Minutes Description: Join us as we talk with Chad Gross, SBS-MVP about using Windows Sharepoint Services as a business application development...
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Earlier this week, we were contacted by a prospective client who wanted us to check out their relatively new SBS install and make sure that everything was up to snuff, and get Exchange working. Now, when Steve relayed to me that we needed to get Exchange working, that bothered me - because this was supposed...
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Ok, so everyone knows that we should be using passphrases instead of passwords, right? And everyone knows who Jesper Johansson is, right? Good. Well, the good Dr. J has posted part 2 in his 3 part series about pass phrases vs. passwords. The Great Debates: Pass Phrases vs. Passwords. Part 2 of 3: http...
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If I remember correctly, I got this one from Jeff Middleton a while back . . . It's happened to all of us at one point or another. We need to TS into one of our servers to do a simple little configuration change for a client. However, when we try to connect we get that dreaded message that we can't connect...
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If so, you do realize that you have a very flexible, capable solution most likely sitting there idle on your SBS2k3 network? It's called Windows SharePoint Services . . . Seriously. I'm not just rambling here - we're using Sharepoint internally to manage our service calls, projects and customer data...
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Hey now, get your mind out of the gutter - this is a PG (ok ok, PG-13 ;^) blog and I'm talking about migrations . . . If you follow the microsoft.public sbs newsgroups, you probably know that I'm a big fan of temp dc migrations (or swing migrations as Jeff calls them). Well, lucky enough for me - I haven...