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Date: 06/11/2007

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Date: 04/03/2007

Goodbye CSS, Hello TS2

After 8 years in Product Support at Microsoft (CSS, formerly PSS), I decided to make a career...

Date: 01/16/2007

Installing and Configuring the Windows Mobile Stand Alone Emulator w/MSFP Images

As a follow-up to this post, here are the steps to download and install the “stand alone” device...

Date: 10/02/2006

MobileAdmin and Small Business Server 2003 - Server Error in '/MobileAdmin' Application.

With the popularity of the Windows Mobile 5.0 devices with the MSFP, more and more people are...

Date: 09/11/2006

The IP address of your local network adapter does not exist in the Local Address Table (LAT) for ISA Server

When running the Small Business Server Configure Email and Internet Connection Wizard, you might see...

Date: 09/07/2006

Error 0x86000108 with a Treo 700W tyring to sync with Small Business Server 2003

This call gets the "weird case of the week" award. One user cannot sync their Calendar items on...

Date: 07/17/2006

"No network provider accepted the given network path" accessing shares across a WAN link

Interesting call this week. It was really quick fix. Really quick for 2 reasons: I know the default...

Date: 06/02/2006

80090308 "The token supplied to the function is not valid"

The customer was getting the above error when clicking on Public Folders in Exchange System Manager....

Date: 05/12/2006

Error 0x80830003 with ActiveSync and a Cingular 8125

Scenario: SBS20034 devices - all sync fine 2 Cingular 2125 SmartPhones 2 Cingular 8125 PocketPC...

Date: 05/08/2006

Marbles in my server...

That's what I thought the sound was! Upon further review, the hard drive was making that horrible...

Date: 05/01/2006

SBS2003 server cannot ping 2 clients on the local LAN

Ok, simple stuff here. The call was: 1. SBS2003 with a single NIC (192.168.16.2) 2. Clients on the...

Date: 04/12/2006

SBS2003 Exchange spewing out 33,000 emails

The way that "relay" can present itself can be very interesting. The customer reported that he was...

Date: 04/11/2006

Stop 0x000000D1 DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (8a400000, 00000002, 00000000, f77e00a9)

I had a great call yesterday. Great meaning I was able to empower a customer to debug a memory dump...

Date: 03/23/2006

You know you are a geek when...

You take your SBS Premium box, web publish the /MobileAdmin virtual directory, hit the MobileAdmin...

Date: 02/22/2006

The Migration is complete...sort of...

Well, sort of. Companyweb still has to be restored. Man, what a job. I ran into some serious...

Date: 02/14/2006

SBS2003 Migration Part 1

Here we go! The goal is to "migrate" from SBS2003 on Box A to a clean install of SBS2003 on Box A...

Date: 02/08/2006

NTDS Replication error 2095 and Virtual Server (long post)

Well, I broke down and bought a new workstation last weekend. It is a dual core AMD64 with 2 gigs of...

Date: 02/04/2006

85010001 Error Trying to Sync with WM5.0 Device/ActiveSync4.1/ISA2004

Well, this is a new one. Pull out ERR and look up 85010001 ! The configuration was SBS2003 Premium...

Date: 02/02/2006

WMI Error 0x80004002

WMI cases can be fun. Here were the symptoms: 1. Trying to "connect" to WMI (right click My Computer...

Date: 01/17/2006

Migrating SBS2003 using the DCPromo method and Virtual Server

Well, that is sensationalism at it's best! I am going to be "OOF" next week (Out Of Office) so this...

Date: 12/31/2005

Open relay on Small Business Server 2003 when the config is perfectly correct

Interesting call today. The customer was reporting that his Exchange Server queues were full of...

Date: 12/29/2005

Trip to the "Mothership"

Well, it has been about a month since my last post. Apologies... My time was spent preparing for a...

Date: 12/21/2005

A quick "How To" install/configure a PocketPC Emulator

So you are a consultant selling/supporting SBS2003. Wouldn't it be cool to demo a...

Date: 11/16/2005

HTTP_500 with a PocketPC device trying to sync with Exchange

An HTTP_500 error on the PocketPC is a very generic error. It typically means IIS passed something...

Date: 11/14/2005

Unable to send email to some domains

Today I worked on an issue where the SBS2003 server could not send mail to some domains. The NDR...

Date: 11/04/2005

Servers locking up and crashing...

Today I had the "hardware problem bit" set to 1! First, I worked on an issue where a server was...

Date: 11/01/2005

LSASS error on boot 0xc00002e1

Ok, I am realizing that a "once per day" post is a bit ambitious! My new restated goal is once every...

Date: 10/21/2005

Using SBS2003 as a POP3 server for remote clients

Today I worked on an issue where external POP3 clients (Outlook Express in this scenario) were not...

Date: 10/10/2005

Working on a Saturday afternoon

If you call what I do "work"! I love my job and goofing with computers. Friday's I worked on an...

Date: 10/08/2005

Public Folder Permissions AGAIN!

See my previous posts for the details, same story, different day. Migration, LegacyDN, etc...

Date: 10/06/2005

I am now having nightmares about Public Folders...

Another Public Folder migration/permission issue Well, I am a day behind again....hopefully I will...