Entries from August 2008

SBS 2008 Hits RTM

Date August 21, 2008

It’s official: Thursday August 21, 2008 Windows Small Business Server 2008 hit Released to Manufacturing (RTM) status! More details on the official SBS blog: http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2008/08/21/sbs-2008-released-to-manufacturing.aspx Rating 3.00 out of 5

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KYSBSUG Meeting 08-20-2008 – ConnectWise

Date August 20, 2008

Just a friendly reminder that the Kentucky Small Business Server User Group (KYSBSUG) meets tonight: Topic: ConnectWise Date: Wednesday August 20, 2008 Start Time: 6:30 PM Eastern (GMT -5) Location: Money Concepts, Louisville, Kentucky USA Registration URL: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=130623 Description: Are you bleeding billable hours?  Are contacts, timesheets, scheduling, sales, email, accounting, projects and service tickets [...]

Posted in Free, KYSBSUG, Live Events, Managed Services, SMB Community Comments 650 Comments »

FREE SBS 2008 Training Webcasts

Date August 19, 2008

Register today for this 8-part training series of Academy Live Windows SBS 2008 Core Technical Training. The presenters are David Fabritus, Nicholas King and Michael Toot: Windows SBS 2008, Part 1 of 8: Introduction   Thursday August 21, 2008, 12 PM – 1 PM Eastern Windows SBS 2008, Part 2 of 8: Planning & Installation [...]

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2008 SBS Partner Group Tour Registration Open

Date August 18, 2008

Good news for SMB Resellers interested in getting the scoop on SBS 2008 – Microsoft has recently announced the SBS 2008 Partner Group Tour, so go ahead and block the date on your calendar (these are typically evening events). Unfortunately, the tour can’t come to every city, but there are 14 stops planned so far.  [...]

Posted in Live Events, SBS 2008, SBS Tour, SMB Community Comments 622 Comments »

Windows Live Messenger Spam

Date August 14, 2008

This must be the week of crazy screen shots. My first IM spam from MSN Messenger: No thanks! Rating 3.00 out of 5

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Spyware – Antivirus XP 2008

Date August 14, 2008

Since some of my blog readers are end-users, and not IT pros, I wanted to pass along the following info. The hot malware infecting machines lately seems to be "Antivirus XP 2008". It starts simply enough: (I especially like the typo of "aviailable" – nice). The unsuspecting user clicks on the ‘e-card’ hyperlink, runs the [...]

Posted in Crazy Screen Shots, Helpdesk, Malware Comments 772 Comments »

Crazy Screen Shots – How Big is Your Monitor

Date August 13, 2008

This screen shot comes courtesy of Cory Rammer: OS: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with an S3 ViRGE DX/GX. That equates to a grid of 640×480 monitors 15 wide x 20 tall (300 of them). That’s a lot of bling for a BDC.  Actual setup is a single 800×600 monitor.  Rating 3.00 out of 5

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Peachtree Phone Support is Spendy

Date August 12, 2008

First, the crazy screen shot – check out the service category LOLZ. Wonder how long the hold time is for "*Coming Soon*" category of support? Silly web-programmers Now for the sticker-shock price per minute: Fees: For those of you playing the home game, that’s $5 per minute, or $300/hour. Not exactly chicken feed. Initial Impressions: [...]

Posted in Crazy Screen Shots, Helpdesk Comments 144 Comments »

Lazy Hackers

Date August 7, 2008

Dear ‘hackers’ of the world; If you’re going to try and pretend to be Microsoft and fool people into downloading your malware / IE 7, at least come up with a better domain name! "tierarzt-andersen.de"? Seriously? Punks! Rating 3.00 out of 5

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