Category Archive: SBS2008

Jan 25 2012

How to disable SMB 2.0 …

For Windows 7 Open an Windows Command Prompt and enter the following to disable: – sc config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/nsi sc config mrxsmb20 start= disabled To enabled, enter the following: – sc config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/mrxsmb20/nsi sc config mrxsmb20 start= auto For Windows Server 2008 Run "regedit" on Windows Server 2008 based computer. Expand and …

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Apr 07 2011

Microsoft Forefront

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  I’ve spent a little time looking at Microsoft Forefront as Microsoft Security Essentials is so good I wanted to know what the “professional” tools brought… The management software has very odd requirements:- Needs to be Windows Server 2008 R2 Not a Domain Controller Configuration Manager 2007 Which is great for enterprise but doesn’t fit …

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Sep 14 2010

Exchange 2007 SP1 – Can’t send/receive emails

So your Exchange Server has been running fine for months and all of a sudden it doesn’t want to send or receive external emails. All else seems OK, the stores are mounted, you can telnet in externally, you can telnet externally. You could be running into an issue with E2007 once the C:\ drive get …

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Jul 01 2008

My 64 Bit Nightmare continues…..

  VMWare player crashes when you try and run Virtual PC along side…. great.  When I try to open the VHD, it can’t convert.  So now I have to spend time installing Windows XP/Vista clients, which I already have into VMWare….. I’m actually thinking of building a new PC to run Windows Server 2008 on …

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Jun 30 2008

Windows SBS 2008

  I’ would like to be writing about Windows SBS 2008… but I’m having a hard time getting things up and running. SBS 2008 is a 64bit OS, because Windows Server 2008 is a 64 bit OS, nothing really surprising about this. So how do we test new software these days, we tend to use …

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