While troubleshooting Exchange Active Sync for a client today, I spun up a WM6 virtual Pocket PC to test the certificate & server settings. After troubleshooting was complete, I noticed a pop-up for the Customer Experience Improvement Program. For most folks with WM6 this is a big ‘whoop-dee-doo’, but since I’m still on WM5 with [...]

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Seam carving is one of those new technologies that you have to see to understand.  I’ve heard this called “content-aware image resizing”, “retargeting” “rescaling”, etc., and those names fall flat.  You really need to see this – it’s just too cool to even try to describe: Pretty nice, eh? Wanna try it yourself? Download The [...]

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Title: How to Sell, Deploy, and Build Business with Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 and SBS 2003 R2File Name: Selling_WSS_and_SBS_Kit.zip Version: 1.0 Date Published: 11/15/2007 Language: English Download Size: 3.2 MBDownload URL: Click here Description:  A new partner enablement tool that helps you create solutions using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Windows Small Business Server [...]

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Thanks to everyone who attended the November 2007 Kentucky Small Business Server User Group (KYSBSUG) meeting last night on "Best Practices". SPECIAL THANKS: Thanks to all who attended, especially those traveling from Lexington. Also, MAJOR thanks to Matthew Snoddy from Network Therapists for presenting!  We’re really looking forward to the Lexington SBS group launch in [...]

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If you’ve got a member server in your SBS network (especially if that server is a beefy SQL box) it may make sense from a performance standpoint to install Windows SharePoint Services version 3 on the member server instead of directly on the SBS box.  This is actually a pretty straight-forward process, but in case [...]

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You 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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This annoyance has been around for a very long time, and it’s been covered in numerous places throughout the web.   But since it still exists and since I came across it twice today, I thought I’d post the fix here. The annoyance in question is the factory wallpaper from Dell (or any other manufacturer) that [...]

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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 [...]

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