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Archive for April 2010

Apr
28

Looking for those Outlook file locations?

by steve

Trying to find the signature file location, where the nk2 file is located, or other Outlook settings so you can take them with you over to your new Windows 7 PC? Check out Microsoft's KB 287070 for great info on PST files, and the best part, where the nk2 and signature files are located. Copied that info below for you too.

How to back up Outlook settings files

If you have customized settings, such as toolbar settings and Favorites, that you want to replicate on another computer or restore to your computer, you might want to include the following files in your backup:

  • Outcmd.dat: This file stores toolbar and menu settings.
  • ProfileName.fav: This is your Favorites file, which includes the settings for the Outlook bar.
  • ProfileName.nk2: This file stores the Nicknames for AutoComplete.
  • Signature files: Each signature has its own file and uses the same name as the signature that you used when you created it. For example, if you create a signature named MySig, the following files are created in the Signatures folder:
    • MySig.htm: This file stores the HTML Auto signature.
    • MySig.rtf: This file stores the Microsoft Outlook Rich Text Format (RTF) Auto signature.
    • MySig.txt: This file stores the plain text format Auto signature.
    The location of the signature files depends on the version of Windows that you are running. Use this list to find the appropriate location:
    • Windows Vista: Drive\users\Username\appdata, where Drive represents the drive that Outlook was installed to and Username represents the user name that Outlook was installed under.
    • Windows XP or Windows 2000: Drive\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook, where Drive represents the drive that Outlook was installed to and Username represents the user name that Outlook was installed under.
    • Windows 98 or Windows Me: Drive\Windows\Local Settings\Application Data, where Drive represents the drive that Outlook was installed to.

Note If you use Microsoft Word as your e-mail editor, signatures are stored in the Normal.dot file as AutoText entries. You should back up this file also.

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Apr
28

Retrieve Default SQL Server Backup Folder using PowerShell

by edwin
As I've been translating a lot of my TSQL script to Windows PowerShell with SMO, here's another article I wrote on how to check for the default SQL Server backup folder
Categories : Edwin Sarmiento
Apr
15

Q&A from Hyper-V 101 Webinar

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Here is the Q&A from April’s Hyper-V 101 Webinar hosted by Wayne Small

Question: How does Hyper-V deal with servers where memory is “assigned” to a specific processor? Is all the memory and the cores just accumulated automatically or is there something that needs to be configured?
Answer: It is a configurable option. Wayne is actually going to cover this later in the presentation.
Question: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (the free edition) does not have the memory limitations as the non-R2 version had.
Answer: thank you for that information
Question: check http://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v-server/en/us/default.aspx for a R2 Comparison Chart.
Answer: Thanks Tim!
Question: You no longer need to know command line to run the free Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, check out the Core Config tool at http://coreconfig.codeplex.com
Answer: This is a community created add-on, not a feature of the product but a good reference none the less. Very few people are good at command line server management anymore.
Question: Is it ok to put a file share – not app – on the Hyper-V host without license issues?
Answer: I will ask Wayne this question at the end.
Question: Charlie Russel and Craig Zacker’s “Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2″ book is available as a free eBook – http://blogs.technet.com/eec/archive/2009/10/30/3290424.aspx
Answer: Free is good. Thanks for the tip.
Question: How soon will the recorded meeting be available for review….or do I need to take notes. :(
Answer: The recording will be posted in a few days.
Question: how to create an isolated network (from a dhcp point of view, eg for creating an sbs test environment without affecting the live sbs environment) but for it to still have internet access – http://mundy.net.au/Hyper-V/testing-sbs-in-hyper-v-isolating-dhcp-while-allowing-full-internet-connectivity
Answer: Thanks for the link.
Question: Not clear on the IDE part – have Proliant ML350 servers running with NO IDE drives – just SCSI
Answer: The IDE drives are virtual not physical. Your physical server can be scsi, while the virtual disks are IDE. That’s how I run mine. Same as Wayne.
Question: Can Wayne address the advantages of one large striped and mirrored drive vs separate spindles for each guest O/S
Answer: I will ask him at the end of the session
Question: So when you create a few snapshots and your testing is completed how do you merge all of the changes that you have made into the parent VHD?
Answer: We’ll address this question at the end of session.
Question: can you delete snapshots to increase the performance again?
Private Answer: Yes you can.
Question: Can y’all recommend some “how-to” videos on Hyper-V?
Answer: I used the Microsoft eLearning tools and virtual labs. We will ask Wayne for his suggestion.
Question: I just saw Waynes Tweet on this, So I’m 1hr late, is there going to be a slide deck download available? Thanks
Answer: The presentation is being recorded and will be available on our website in a few days
Question: what about memory allocation for the TS server?
Answer: Recall that Wayne said that they added 8 more GB’s of ram to bring the server to 24GB total. The added 8GB went to TS. It was not reflected in the slide.
Question: The folder on host in question is an Install share used by all of the lan users.
Answer: yes that would be a violation on the licensing agreement
Question: What is Wayne’s take on joining the host to the SBS domain as a member server?
Answer: All of Wayne’s hyper-v hosts are not joined to the domain because there is no other domain controller besides that hosted SBS server. You can join it to the domain when you have a non-virtual domain controller.

Categories : Q&A, Virtualization, Wayne, Webinar
Apr
15

SBS 2003 Monitoring and Update Services Node Failing on April 14

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Many SBS 2003 R2 servers experienced an unusual interruption in the daily monitoring reports and system administrators also noted that the Update Services node in the Server Management Console failed to display correctly starting Wednesday, April 14, 2010. The Official SBS Blog has a post explaining the issue and a workaround/resolution for the problem at http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2010/04/14/windows-sbs-2003-update-services-gives-error-the-element-already-exists-in-the-collection.aspx.

If you’ve been experiencing this issue with your SBS 2003 R2 servers, follow the instructions in the SBS Blog to address the problem.

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Apr
13

RunAs Radio: Eriq talks Macs and Active Directory

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Third Tier’s Eriq Neale will appear on the April 14th episode of RunAs Radio (http://www.runasradio.com) discussing issues surrounding incorporating the Macintosh platform into an Active Directory environment. This will be the second time in as many months that a member of Third Tier has been the featured guest on the program (Amy Babinchak appeared in the March 31 episode discussing security in EBS).

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Apr
9

How to talk to your clients about security and get it right

by amy

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Dana Epp is having a pre-day event at SMBNation East on April 29th. Dana’s event is occurring right before the conference that Eriq and Amy are speaking at. http://www.thirdtier.net/2010/02/were-speaking-at-smb-nation-east/ This is going to be a good one. Small crowd. Intimate access to some amazing professionals.

Dana Epp is the premier security expert in the small and medium business space. You are probably aware of his AuthAnvil product which provides two-factor authentication to secure a variety of access needs. But you may not have heard Dana talk about valuing business assets and implementing security protections based upon these calculations. Approaching security in this way, allows an IT pro to approach management with facts that make sense to them. When it makes sense to management, you will get the green light from the business owner and CFO to go ahead with the project while providing them valuable information about their data. This is what being a trusted advisory is all about.

Attendees will learn how to discuss business and technical risk to business owners, how to build an asset catalog, and how to build a consultive trusted advisory process to generate new revenues in response to the application of risk mitigation techniques. This will help attendees to explore and find business opportunity while protecting their clients most critical information assets.

WHEN: April  29th, 2010
TIME: 9:00am to 5:00pm

Hear in Dana’s own words what he’s going to cover at this day long seminar and make your plans to attend now, before it fills up. http://blog.scorpionsoft.com/blog/2010/04/announcing-the-information-assurance-workshop.html

0 Categories : Amy Babinchak, Eriq Neale, Friend of TT, SMB Nation
Apr
6

Third Thursday Webinar: Hyper-V 101 with Wayne Small

by amy

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Wayne Small , Third Tier consultant and owner of SBSFAQ.com has been deploying Hyper-V based solutions to 80% of his clients. Hyper-V can be simple to deploy, yet powerful enough for high availability applications. It is also technology that your clients really don’t understand at all. So how does he sell it to them? Wayne will tell us how to get up and running, the impact this technology can have your business and how to sell the idea to your clients.

Heard all the hype about Hyper-V?  Want to get your clients up and running on Hyper-V in an hour?  Want to know the key things to look out for with Hyper-V and how to avoid the pitfalls?  This session will run through all of the basics on Hyper-V as it relates to our SMB clients.  It will cover the various flavours of Hyper-V available, what to use when and how to get your first Hyper-V client quoted, and installed.  I’ll walk through a typical scenario that we’ve deployed in the past and how we’ve addressed the clients concerns and taken advantage of Hyper-V to save the customer money, and increase their uptime.

Join us on Thursday April 15th at 5:00pm.

Third Tier has invited you to attend an online meeting using Microsoft Office Live Meeting.

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/join?id=WQFW5K&role=attend&pw=92X%2C%24Rs*t

Meeting time: Apr 15, 2010 5:00 PM (EDT) 

Add to my Outlook Calendar:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/meetingICS?id=WQFW5K&role=attend&pw=92X%2C%24Rs*t&i=i.ics

0 Categories : Virtualization, Wayne, Webinar
Apr
4

Fixes for 64-bit Adobe Reader preview handler and thumbnails

by steve

Leo Davidson is a testimony to there still being great people out there. Thanks for taking the time to write your Adobe Reader preview fix, and for offering it for free to the rest of us. For those who use it, please drop him a donation. He deserves it!

Thanks again Leo,
Steve

Categories : Uncategorized
Apr
2

Mac Mini an Alternative to SBS?

by Third Tier

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In a March 31 article at crn.com (http://www.crn.com/software/224200956), ChannelWeb correspondent Kevin McLaughlin posits that Apple’s special configuration of a Mac Mini with Snow Leopard Server preinstalled could pose a serious threat to sales of Small Business Server. Third Tier’s Eriq Neale was interviewed for the article and offered some insight on the topic. To get a deeper view of Eriq’s take on the premise of the article, come to SMB Nation Spring in East Brunswick and sit in on his session Alternative Solutions in the SMB Space. Even if you saw the session he did at the Fall conference in Las Vegas, this is one you won’t want to miss!

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