Lose the Shutdown Event Tracker
This tip has been around for a while, but I think it’s still worth sharing due to its possibly high annoyance factor.
On a production machine, I consider the Shutdown Event Tracker worthwhile, especially in environments with multiple administrators. When in a lab situation or testing environment, this prompt before shutdown gets old quickly.
To change the [...]
OWA 2007 E-mail Display Issue when a Plus Sign is in the Subject
This was a particularly odd issue, e-mails wouldn’t display in the web browser when a plus sign was present in the subject line. This manifested on a Windows Server 2008 system with Exchange 2007.
The answer was actually on a TechNet blog dedicated to Entourage, thanks to Amir for the answer. It makes sense that it would [...]
Windows Server 2008 and UAC
I know a lot of people are really annoyed by UAC or User Access Control in Windows Vista. You know, it’s the the flash of the screen and a prompt for you to say it’s okay to install a program or modify your system.
I actually don’t mind it on my Vista system, since I only get [...]
Emergency Patch Today!
A critical flaw in Internet Explorer (some say Exploder) has been found and patched today.
This is a very critical update due to the fact your system can be affected by just visiting a website.
Go to Windows Update and patch your system!
Vista SP2
There seems to be quite a laundry list of items coming in Vista SP2. This service pack actually covers Windows 2008 as well, in case you missed that news a while back. The advent of Vista SP1 coincided with the release of Windows 2008 in order to once again unify the kernel, ala NT4/W2K.
What’s in the [...]
Critical Windows Patch
This doesn’t happen often for Microsoft, a patch outside the usual second Tuesday routine. Apparently a Critical patch for the server service that affects earlier versions of Windows (2000/XP/Server 2003 (they don’t mention the expired NT4)) and an Important fix for the latest versions (Vista/ Server 2008) was needed for this vulnerability that they just couldn’t [...]
Microsoft IFilter Pack
Thanks to Paul Thurrott for posting this about the MS IFilter pack made available last week.
These Office 2007 search filters can be added to SharePoint, Exchange and SQL so that the new Office files based on XML can be indexed by the search service.
These filters are already apart of Windows Desktop Search 4.0 in Vista, XP [...]
Adding a Windows Server 2008 DC to a Windows 2003 Domain
Having just promoted a Windows Server 2008 system to Domain Controller status, there were some things that needed to happen. Similar to previous Windows Server releases there needed to be some updating to the schema and domain since the Active Directory was Windows 2003.
Since this new 2008 server was in a different site than the [...]
Windows Server 2008 Inside Out
As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m currently working on an Exchange 2007 roll-out and it’s on Windows 2008 servers.
During this endeavor, I’ve been using the Windows Server 2008 Inside Out book as a reference guide and I must say it is quite good. William Stanek is a good author and the book delves into [...]
Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008
I’ve just begun a project involving an Exchange 2007 deployment on Windows 2008, one FE (Hub and CAS roles) with a clustered BE (Mailbox role only), the Edge role will be Sendmail.
This is an intra-organization migration replacing a single Exchange 2003 server. Part of this is getting the prerequisites out of the way. TechNet has a couple [...]