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I saw a little e-mail the other day that linked to an article at ZDNet about a new app for the iPad – OnLive Desktop – which promised to deliver a virtual Windows 7 desktop and Office applications over the air. Of course, I popped right on over to the web site at OnLive and [...]
One project we’ve been working on locally requires that a particular URL be added to the Trusted Sites zone in Internet Explorer for all users. Since this is a rather large site, we didn’t want to have to touch each machine individually, especially since some of the machines are shared.
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As discussed in the January 2011 Third Tier webinar on SBS 2011 Standard Installation, creating a bootable USB drive to run the installer from goes MUCH faster than running off a DVD, if you can find a DVD writer and dual layer media for the 6.5GB installation ISO for SBS 2011 Standard. Microsoft pr
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Yes, it’s June 24, and the new iPhones have been hitting the streets, and a number of people have been updating their previous iPhone models to the iPhone OS 4 (IOS4). As we’ve done for the previous versions, here are instructions for connecting your iPhone 4 to an Exchange server. From
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Yesterday I finally ran into my first failed SBS 2008 install, not one I had picked up from someone else, but one of my own where I’ve managed the source server for years and did all the prep work myself. It was both a good thing and a bad thing: good because we got to [...]
On Monday, March 29, Apple released a major update to its Snow Leopard operating system, making the incremental update of 10.6.3 available for download and installation. According to ComputerWorld ( http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9174337/Apple_delivers_record_monster_security_update) and oth
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While I’ve not been a huge fan of WSUS in the past, it’s been growing on me over the last year or so. Specifically, I’ve been really pleased with how WSUS 3.0 and SBS have been integrated (well, so long as you don’t hit a problem with the integration, which can then lead to a
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One of the significant differences in the minimum specs for installing SBS 2008 versus SBS 2003 was the minimum size of the C: partition needed for installation and operation. SBS 2008 requires a minimum of 60GB in the install partition or it won’t go. Those of us who were used to fighting the
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Earlier this month an associate pinged me about an unusual situation. He had an SBS 2003 server that was shutting itself down periodically, claiming that it was doing so because there was another SBS server in the domain. Well, this is expected behavior if there is, in fact, another SBS server in th
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One of the advantages of the activation process in newer versions of Windows is that you can install the OS in evaluation mode for 60 days without having to use a license key. Additionally, you can extend this evaluation for more than 60 days by following steps outlined in several public posts (I
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