I was customizing a new Windows 7 Media Center PC for a friend and I ran across an interesting problem that was driving me nuts. This brand new PC has an internal tuner card and is connected to a 10/100/1000 network with an HDHomeRun dual-tuner on the LAN as well. So with the one internal […]

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Title: Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 Authors: Charlie Russel, Craig Zacker with the Windows Server Team at Microsoft Publisher: Microsoft Press Date Published: © 2010 Microsoft Corporation Pages: 200 File size: PDF 11 MB / XPS 28 MB […]

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Join Susan Bradley and I this week as we combine super-forces to to give the following presentation:
Title: “Windows 7: It’s Like Crystal Meth for Geeks” Presenters: Susan Bradley [SBS-MVP] & Tim Barrett Date: 10/22/2009 Time: 12:00 PM Noon Eastern (GMT –5) […]

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Another one from the mailbag:
Question – How do I change the timeout in SBS 2008? Users are complaining that Companyweb times out when they get involved in a phone call or when someone walks in their office.

Answer:

Click Start | Administrative Tools | Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager (not IIS 6.0 Manager)
Expand the Server name […]

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This question comes up a lot, so it’s worth documenting:
Question: How do I rename a VPN connection in Windows 7? There’s no option to rename it in the Network and Sharing Center or on the taskbar.

It’s true that there’s no way to rename a VPN connection on the Network and Sharing center main screen:

…and if […]

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