Category Archives: General

Lessons from a Recent SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration

Here are some lessons learned from a recent SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migrations. Migrating a network you have barely touched is much more difficult than a network you built from the ground up. Always follow the instructions in this … Continue reading

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Dell v. Lenovo

For years, I have been a Dell supporter.  I tend to recommend Dell to my clients for a couple of reasons: Their support, for the most part, is pretty good. Their machines, for the most part, don’t come preloaded with … Continue reading

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A New One Every Day….

Here is a new one. I have a client who just purchased a software package.  For reasons that shall be soon made clear, I cannot mention any names. The client wants to load some data from another source into the … Continue reading

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Network Scanners and Exchange 2007

There are some nice additions to Exchange 2007, and one of the items is the ability to have it easily accept emails from in-network machines (like MFPs, Copier/Scanners) so you can scan to email without having to set up a … Continue reading

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There is Hope for Me Yet….

Ok.  Unless you have been living under a rock, you have seen this already.  And, you may have even seen this a few years back.  Which brings me to the following thoughts: WTF?  England gets this, and we get David … Continue reading

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iTunes Has (Almost) Met Its Match

If you are like me (and if so, please return my wallet), then you have multiple songs/albums that are missing the important tags that make iTunes useful.  I had a ton of mp3 files that…um…fell into my lap off of … Continue reading

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Requiem

One of the interesting things about being an IT consultant, is that you get to work and interact with a variety of people.  I like people (which seems to be an oddity in the field I am in), and I … Continue reading

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SBS 2008 Printer Update

So I got the SBS 2008 printer issue resolved (see here for some background).  To sum up, while I was able to get the HP printer drivers in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, I could not get the Konica-Minolta 2300DL … Continue reading

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A New One

I got a call from a client this weekend.  Their server stopped responding to network traffic.  I checked remotely…yep; no access. When I went on site this morning, I did the regular checks (IP Sec causing the problem?  Nope.  Cable … Continue reading

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Resolution and SBS 2008

SBS 2008 Migration Two things: 1)     I’m going to try to blog more often. 2)    I did my first SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration this weekend. I have done several SBS migrations in the last couple of years.  Migrating … Continue reading

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