A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
A few weeks ago I had some friends ask me how to dual boot windows 7 and XP. I could think of many ways to do this, but I found this tutorial on sevenforums.com that I liked very much and want to share with you! OPTION ONE When XP is Installed First NOTE: If you have a RAID setup, you […]
Read moreHere’s the problem. You’re cheap…huh? 🙂 … have one or two wireless laptops that you want to get connected to your LAN, and don’t want to buy an access point or wireless router to do it. Can it be done? NOTES: • The following procedure is for WinXP Home, but will work with XP Pro. It will not work with […]
Read moreIntroduction Wireless networks are wonderful things – when they work! But many consumers find that even if they manage to get their WLAN (wireless LAN) working, keeping it up and running reliably with good performance is often frustrating and a struggle. Though flaky equipment and improper setup can sometimes be the cause, all too often the growing popularity of WLAN […]
Read moreToday’s post will cover the basics of performing a bare metal restore on Small Business Server 2008. As you will see, a bare metal restore allows you to recover your Operating System, installed applications and data without first having to install an OS or backup software. The Small Business Server Backup Wizard will create backups that are bare metal capable. […]
Read moreJust as it was in SBS 2003, Remote Web Workplace (RWW) is an integral component in the SBS feature set for 2008. Its purpose is to provide a secure centralized web portal for employees and administrators to access network resources. Users can perform the following actions when logged in: Check their E-mail. Access the Internal Web Site (CompanyWeb). Connect to […]
Read moreSBS 2008 installation The installation process is split into two sections: Installation of the operating system and other files to the disk Installation of everything that makes it SBS 2008 You cannot separate the two or stop the second half from happening; although, you will be required to provide input to the server at each stage. Operating system installation If […]
Read moreWhen you’re deploying POP3 for Exchange Server 2010 you’ll generally need to configure the email client settings manually. Even though you can make things a little easier by publishing the POP3 client settings where users can find them they will still need to set up their email client with the correct settings. Windows Live Mail is one email client that works […]
Read moreExchange Server 2010 includes support for POP3 remote access to email.  The POP3 service for Exchange Server 2010 runs on the Client Access server role.  However POP3 is not enabled automatically on Exchange 2010 servers, and will require some initial setup and configuration before you can use it in your environment. POP3 is disabled by default because it can be an […]
Read moreExchange Server 2007 allows administrators to control the configuration of mailbox forwarding. This is useful in many different scenarios, such as when a staff member leaves the company and you need to forward any ongoing email to a different user. It is also handy when you want to have different named mailboxes in the Global Address List for different purposes […]
Read moreThe headers of an email message contain very useful information for Exchange Server administrators. Header information includes such things as which email servers were involved in the transmission of the message, and whether the email message was scanned for spam or viruses. This is useful both for internal and external email messages. In one recent real world example we used […]
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