Usually, technology and convergence of digital devices are wonderful things.  But when a Best Buy Geek Squad employee abuses technology to *allegedly* use his cell phone to video record a female customer showering in their own home, that’s disgusting.  Just imagine if that was your wife or sister - it’s unbelievable! 
Best Buy does background & credit […]

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Back in January at the EVO Launch in Louisville I met a ton of new people.  One of them was Erik Eckel from Computer Troubleshooters (super-nice guy!) 
Erik recently had an article published on TechRepublic (April 6, 2007) that I’d like to share with everyone who works in smaller Windows networks that include Macs.
This article provides […]

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Do your clients have employees and remote workers who want to access mission-critical line-of-business (LOB) apps that weren’t designed to work across the web?  Now they can, and you can learn how install it on top of their existing Microsoft SBS 2003 infrastructure:
Webcast #1:  Web-enabled Line of Business Applications Automatically with Small Business Server and Citrix Access […]

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Does your SharePoint http://companyweb site running on SBS 2003 or R2 still show missing icons for PDF files you’ve uploaded?  Tsk-tsk.
Solutions:
GOOD - Back in the day we used to fix this problem manually by uploading the 16×16 PDF icon, updating the XML file, and restarting IIS.  Tedious, but effective.
BETTER - Then in 2004 Chad Gross [SBS-MVP] created a cool ZIP […]

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Handy Andy [SBS-MVP] posted this helpful time sync info to the SBS Group Leaders mailing list and on his blog today, and I thought I’d pass it along.
If your servers are not able to time sync lately, check out the batch of commands below.  This set of instructions is for servers that have been […]

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Filed under “Why didn’t someone think of this before?”
Video link:  On Channel 10 Deepfish blog: RSS feed available tooDeepfish website:  http://labs.live.com/Deepfish
What is Deepfish? 
Deepfish is a lightweight client application that leverages a powerful server side technology for delivery of content such as web pages to a Windows Mobile device. Content is displayed in a […]

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Microsoft announced yesterday (8 April 2007) that they’re opening up the Xbox LIVE IM network (6 million-strong) to the Windows Live Messenger (260 million-strong) network.
“Who cares,” you say?  Gamers, clients, employees, your kids.  Today is a travel day for Matt (hello Cleveland!) but I’m sure he cares too.  And so should you.
Think about it:
Scenario 1 […]

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I was moving my Microsoft Certified Professional ID over to Applied Tech today and noticed “MCPS and MCNPS” listed under “Tracks and Specializations”. 
If you’re not familiar with the alphabet soup of Microsoft Certifications:

MCAD - Microsoft Certified Application Developer
MCDBA - Microsoft Certified Database Administrator
MCDST - Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician […]

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How many new viruses come out per month?  Back in the day we quoted 300 per month, then 400.  And today some say 1,968 per month.  That’s 64 new viruses per day / 21 each night while you sleep / 2.6 per hour.  Sobering thought, isn’t it?
Fortunately, you’ve got anti-virus software to protect you.  But how […]

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