March 13, 2007From the SBS Diva via IM today: Susan says (2:26 PM): btw give your gang a heads up win2k3 sp2 is on mu and there’s a “SBSers read this KB” that is not yet live yet the sucker is on MU right now they should have done it next week Here’s the Service Pack she’s [...]
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February 27, 2007How many times in the last 2 months has a customer asked you, “Does XYZ software work with Windows Vista?” Personally, I lost count. And obtaining the answer typically involves googling or surfing the manufacturer’s website. Fortunately, the good folks over at IeXwiki have a nice wiki that lists software compatibility with Windows Vista. The [...]
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October 25, 2006I was experiencing the joys of IE7 tonight (multiple 404 errors trying to enter Passport sites after XP SP2 resumes from Standby Mode) and decided to give up and reboot. After the reboot I hit to Ctrl-Alt-Delete and launched the Task Manager to watch the show. So as I sit patiently watching, my 1.5 GB of [...]
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October 23, 2006IE7 is finally out of Beta. Like a lot of folks, I ran the Beta on test machines and have been waiting for the final version. I took the plunge Friday and installed the final version of IE7 on my main production machine, and so far, it works great! Tabbed browsing (as in Firefox) is [...]
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October 23, 2006Microsoft has released 15 ‘Step-by-Step Guides for IT Professionals‘ to assist in deploying or migrating to Windows Vista. Each whitepaper is available as an individual download in Microsoft Word 2003 .doc format, and WGA is not required to access the downloads. Date Published: 9/11/2006 Document Format: Microsoft Word Download Size: 118 – 748 KB, or [...]
Posted in Beta, Downloads, Free, Microsoft, Support, Training, Vista, Whitepapers, Windows 575 Comments »
October 6, 2006On Tuesday October 10, 2006 (which is coincidentally Patch Tuesday) we’ll reach end of support for Windows XP Service Pack 1. If you’ve got any stragglers out there that haven’t installed XP Service Pack 2 yet – better get to it! And this would be a good time to remind everyone that support for Windows [...]
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September 29, 2006Has a customer ever asked you if CRM 1.2 will run on SBS 2003 R2? What about Small Business Accounting 2006 on a pre-SP1 SBS box? Is Vista RC 1 supported in an SBS environment, or is Office 97 supported by WSUS? The answers to these and many other SBS-related questions can be found on [...]
Posted in Beta, Exchange, Microsoft, Office, SBS, SMB Community, Support, Vista 663 Comments »
September 20, 2006This info comes courtesy of Andrew Delozey at Interprom. The Issue: Nightly backup was repeatedly failing within one minute of starting. The Error: Volume shadow copy creation: Attempt 1. “MSDEWriter” has reported an error 0x800423f4. This is part of System State. The backup cannot continue. Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:800423f4 Aborting Backup. [...]
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August 14, 2006Earlier this year a friend of mine, Allen Miller, hosted a roundtable meeting in Cincinnati and invited several Microsoft Small Business Specialists from the Cincinnati Networking Professionals’ Association (CiNPA) and Kentucky Small Business Server User Group (KYSBSUG) to attend. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the feasibility of creating a technical Q&A website for [...]
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