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edwalt’s: If I cannot remote, there is no hope…. right?

edwalt’s – Things I Wish I’d known about Small Business Server…… : If I cannot remote, there is no hope…. right? Here’s the scenario; I am the Network Administrator and for whatever reason the remote desktop option has been disabled on the XP client I am trying to reach. It worked fine a couple of [...]

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XP and only one wireless access point

I’m looking help from the blogoshpere for a way to have XP only connect to my wireless access point. I do not want the user to have the ability to see other available wireless networks and more importantly I don’t want them to have the ability to connect to wireless networks other than the one [...]

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Anyone know what software this is?

I’ve been looking for a nice looking, easy to use knowledge base software package. I came across the website for the help desk of the University of Wisconsin and really like the looks of their knowledgebase. Does anyone know what software it is? I suppose it could be written in house but just thought I’d [...]

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Hopefully no more wiki spam

My wiki has been the target of spam recently. Yesterday when I went to it, the content of the main page was gone and was replaced by spam links. One of the nice things about wiki’s is was easy to revert to the original page. I couldn’t figure out how this was happening. I disabled [...]

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Was my site down all day or not?

I was not able to get here or any of my sites at all today. I couldn’t even SSH in. I was thinking it may be a DNS issue, so I logged in remotely to another computer system at work and tried to communicate to the Linux server via the internal network and I got [...]

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Quickbooks in a Terminal Server environment

Yesterday, I had the task of setting up an extremely limited access user to be able to run QuickBooks(and QuickBooks only) through a terminal server session. I headed to the QuickBooks support site to see if there were any initial pointers before I embarked on this journey. Only to find that QuickBooks basic, pro, and [...]

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Slipstreaming away

I just finished creating a new Windows XP CD with SP2 built in to it. It’s very easy to, I just followed this guide that Neowin has on it’s site. Slipstream SP2 into Windows XP

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Yet another outage

Well, our office experienced another power fluctuation today. As a result both our main server and the Linux server lost power. Pretty obvious that the UPS that those two systems are on is basically useless. We swapped out the useless, inadequate UPS with a brand new inadequate one. It’s ok though, I’ve been given word [...]

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Fixed the problem with the server

In case you were visiting over the weekend(or at least trying to), the site was extremely sluggish. It wasn’t just this site but every site on the server. Well, sometime early Saturday morning our office experienced a power outage. Long enough to run the UPS’s dry. Someone at the office called me and told me [...]

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Another reason to hate HTML email

This one may be specific to OL2003, but I hate the fact that you actually have to open the message up to print it. Why??????????

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