June 6, 2011One of the nice things about Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 is that you can use a variety of clients to connect to it and control it. Clients like: Desktop PCs Laptops Netbooks Thin clients USB stations Even iPads (yes, you read that right) I put together a short two-part video showing how to: Remote control [...]
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March 24, 2011A little over a year ago, my beloved little Xbox 360 Elite decided to take a dirt nap. No more Netflix, no more games, no more MP3 / AVI / DVD-MS / Media Center on my big TV. Just three flashing lights, taunting my soul. It was the fabled ‘Red Ring of Death’. All the [...]
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November 11, 2010One sunny day while mowing the yard with the old John Deere I thought, “How cool would it be if I could mount a Small Business Server on this lawn tractor?" The answer (as you already know) is “not very cool”. Nobody wants to see a lawn mower running Exchange and SharePoint. Obviously, I need [...]
Posted in Community, Hacks, Mobility, SBS, SBS 2011, SBSC, SMB Community, SharePoint 256 Comments »
January 18, 2010Invitation – January 2010 KYSBSUG Meeting #71 Meeting Date: Wednesday January 20, 2010 Time: 6:30 PM Eastern Location: Money Concepts Address: 323 Townpark Circle, Suite 100, Louisville, KY 40243 Topic: “Password Security and Password Cracking” Guest Presenter: Dana Epp, MVP (Enterprise Security) Founder & President of Scorpion Software (makers of AuthAnvil) Website: http://www.scorpionsoft.com/ MVP: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Dana.Epp [...]
Posted in Hacks, HowTo, KYSBSUG, Live Events, Security, User Groups 149 Comments »
January 16, 2010Inspired by the cool findings on CNET regarding the Windows 7 ‘God Mode’ (as bloggers are calling it), and yet another post about additional features, I did some more digging to see what other options I could find. First, the actual name for ‘God Mode’ is (anticlimactically) “All Tasks”: I then did a search in [...]
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January 15, 2010If you hate looking all over the control panel in Windows 7 for where Microsoft moved your favorite icon, you’ll love the “God Mode” hack. I found this on CNET. Basically, you open Windows Explorer, navigate to the C: drive, create a new blank folder in Windows 7 and give it the following name: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} [...]
Posted in Hacks, Windows 7 837 Comments »
February 12, 2009This idea came to me today while having lunch at my desk (don’t know why I didn’t think of it before). After putting the smack down on some tasty potato chips, I couldn’t find a chip clip to close the bag to keep it from going stale. However, I did have an ample supply of [...]
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September 24, 2008Thanks everyone who attended the KYSBSUG presentation on modding your wireless router with the DD-WRT firmware! Here are the show notes from tonight. P.S. Don’t forget to reset your wired NIC TCP/IP settings back to automatic after you’re done flashing your router. DD-WRT main page http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Awesome “Supported Devices” list of routers you can flash [...]
Posted in Hacks, HowTo, Live Events, Webcasts 546 Comments »
January 7, 2008Lately we’ve seen quite a few battery backups that have been either losing communication with the server, or PowerChute Business Edition is saying that the battery is old and needs to be replaced. This APC tip today comes courtesy of Cory Rammer, MCSA: “An APC tech let me in on a little trick on how [...]
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September 17, 2007You are invited to attend the September 2007 Kentucky Small Business Server User Group (KYSBSUG) meeting. This is our 43rd consecutive monthly meeting! Title: KYSBSUG Meeting – Sept 2007 Date: Wed Sept 19, 2007 Time: 6:30 PM Eastern Venue: University of Louisville – ITRC Building (Shelby Campus) Address: 9001 Shelbyville Rd, Louisville, KY USA, 40222 [...]
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