Anyone who has spent any time with me is familiar with my complete and utter loathing of everything Intuit. But instead of ranting about how it's an inferior, bloated, poorly-coded application that ignores both IT and accounting best practices, I'm going to provide some hopefully useful information on...
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...
Ok, for those of you who are either outside North America or simply have been living under a rock lately, Best Buy is making a move into the SMB solution space. Specifically, they're rolling out a Best Buy for Business program, and naturally using their Geek Squad as their troops on the ground. Since...
I'm sure that most people here are aware that there are circles in the IT community where SBS is a punchline. One of the most common assertations is that ISA on SBS is a security compromise. So I figured it was time to address this head on. Is ISA on SBS a security compromise? Completely - because the...
So, it appears that everyone has survived the first SMBTN Summer Conference. I've got to take my hat off to Roger, Jim and everyone else who put in tons of effort to pull this off. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire event - and the best part is being able to just sit down and visit with everyone else about...
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...
Ok, I blogged a couple weeks ago about part 2 of Jesper Johansson's 3 part series in comparing passwords and passphrases. Well, the good Dr. J's 3rd & final installment is now available: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/secnews/articles/itproviewpoint110104.mspx
Ok - so I'm overdue with updating everyone on the status of this. The bad news is that I don't have anything concrete for you yet. There's just not enough hours in a day to get to everything that I want to get to - and unfortunately, work has been taking a priority followed closely by getting the house...
I may be a bit behind, but I just noticed today that Symantec has finally released an update so that Norton Anti-Virus will play nice with the Security Center in XP SP2 . . . needless to say, it's about time - there's nothing I hate more than having to tell a user “oh, it's safe to ignore that...
Ok, so Charlie (Anthe - Release Manager for the next version of SBS) isn't a horse, but you get the idea . . . . SBS SP1 will include: Windows 2003 SP1 Exchange 2003 SP1 MSDE SP4 SQL Server SP4 (Premium) ISA 2004 (Premium) Windows Sharepoint Services SP1 And on the desktop side: Windows XP SP2 ActiveSync...