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Today in Madison, Wisconsin USA I saw half a dozen pregnant women firing off model rockets in a field….
I think I will call this picture, “Rocket Moms“
(c) 2007 Tim Barrett, All Rights Reserved
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The 30% discount on training vouchers for the SBSC, WSS and MOSS Exams is almost over – this opportunity ends June 1, 2007!
Details after the jump: Exam Palooza Promotion
Credit: Ron Grattopp – Microsoft TS2
According to the latest Apple security update (2007-005), Macs need patches just like any other personal computer. And these aren’t soft and fuzzy patches for iPods.
This security update corrects 17 vulnerabilities affecting software packages that ship as part of OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.9. Some of these vulnerabilities allow attackers to execute any code they choose on your OS X machines.
Three of the fixed vulnerabilities include remote code execution in CoreGraphics, local privilege elevation in PPP, & Denial of Service vulnerability in Bind.
Here’s the complete list:
As my good friend Ron always says, “It’s easy to say you’re bullet-proof when nobody’s firing at you.” I use both Macs and PCs, and somehow I don’t think they’ll make a Mac vs. PC ad out of this, do you?
I got this information from Tina Parkhouse on the TS2 team today and I’m passing it along to everyone. 🙂 You are invited to participate in the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist promotion to become a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS). The first 250 partners that are ready to take a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) exam will receive a free Exam voucher good for one free exam and a retake. Exam vouchers expire on June 29, 2007.
Next steps to follow if you are ready to take the MCTS exam:
If you are not quite ready to take the exam and need additional training, follow these steps:
What are the current certifications available?
The Technology Specialist certifications enable professionals to target specific technologies and to distinguish themselves by demonstrating in-depth knowledge and expertise in their specialized technologies. Microsoft Technology Specialists are consistently capable of implementing, building, troubleshooting, and debugging a particular Microsoft technology.
There are currently 17 Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certifications. More will become available as new technologies are introduced. The 17 MCTS certifications are as follows:
I hope you are able to take advantage of this promotion!
Usually, technology and convergence of digital devices are wonderful things. But when a Best Buy Geek Squad employee abuses technology to *allegedly* use his cell phone to video record a female customer showering in their own home, that’s disgusting. Just imagine if that was your wife or sister – it’s unbelievable!
Best Buy does background & credit history checks before they hire people. Yet with over 90,000 employees, there are obviously some rotten apples in the bunch. How many other bad apples are out there (at GS & other companies). Have you done background checks on your employees?
I’ve got to wonder what the backlash and ramifications for everyone in the SMB market will be. It seems like industry regulations for IT can’t be far behind.
One thing is for sure, this dude will never be a “Sleeper“, and that’s a good thing.
Source: Gizmodo
(I use the word ‘allegedly’ for legal purposes.)
Back in January at the EVO Launch in Louisville I met a ton of new people. One of them was Erik Eckel from Computer Troubleshooters (super-nice guy!)
Erik recently had an article published on TechRepublic (April 6, 2007) that I’d like to share with everyone who works in smaller Windows networks that include Macs.
This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to add Macs to a Windows Vista Workgroup. This article is a great reference with screen shots, and it’s well worth reading and bookmarking. Saving it as a PDF is probably a good idea too, and you can do that right from the TechRepublic site.
When I met Erik, I had no idea just how prolific a writer he really is. You can check out Erik’s bio and other articles (over 300 of them) on TechRepublic here.
Nicely done Erik!
P.S. He’s also got an article on how to add Windows Vista machines into a Mac network.
Do your clients have employees and remote workers who want to access mission-critical line-of-business (LOB) apps that weren’t designed to work across the web? Now they can, and you can learn how install it on top of their existing Microsoft SBS 2003 infrastructure:
Webcast #1: Web-enabled Line of Business Applications Automatically with Small Business Server and Citrix Access Essentials
Event Dates: 4/10/2007, 5/8/2007 or 6/12/2007 (same content)
Presenter: J.J. Antequino & Augie Gonzalez
Event Time: 1:30 PM Eastern, USA & Canada (DST) = GMT – 05:00
Duration: 60 minutes
Course Level: 100
Description:
Sure, we’d all love to have our line of business applications rewritten for the Web. But what can we do right now, quickly and inexpensively, while we wait on the original developer to pull it off? It’s actually pretty straightforward using Citrix Access Essentials software. And you don’t have to write a line of code. Learn what you can achieve for under $250 per user including Windows Terminal Server CALs.
Citrix Access Essentials enables small organizations to access their central business systems over the Internet from home, hotels, airports, customer sites, wireless hotspots and across firewalls. The software makes it possible for remote and mobile personnel to run line-of-business applications on a central Windows server as if right at the main computer site.
Webcast #2: Citrix Access Essentials and Small Business Server – Behind the Scenes
Event Dates: 4/12/2007, 5/10/2007, or 6/14/2007 (same content)
Presenter: J.J. Antequino & Augie Gonzalez
Event Time: 1:30 PM Eastern, USA & Canada (DST) = GMT – 05:00
Duration: 60 minutes
Course Level: 100
Description:
In Webcast #1 You heard what Citrix Access Essentials can do. Now see it from the system administrator’s perspective. We’ll start with a basic configuration that builds on Windows Terminal Services to get you off the ground, and then move into an advanced environment that kicks in must-have features for a rich, secure, responsive Web experience.
Source: Ron Grattopp – TS2 Presenter Extraordinaire
Does your SharePoint http://companyweb site running on SBS 2003 or R2 still show missing icons for PDF files you’ve uploaded? Tsk-tsk.
Solutions:
GOOD – Back in the day we used to fix this problem manually by uploading the 16×16 PDF icon, updating the XML file, and restarting IIS. Tedious, but effective.
BETTER – Then in 2004 Chad Gross [SBS-MVP] created a cool ZIP / batch file to automate the PDF insertion process for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0.
BEST – Skip forward to 2007 and Chad’s super-handy tool has gotten WAY better. The new version works with WWS 2.0 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0! Chad’s rewritten it in VBS, updated the icon to a newer PNG, and it creates an output logfile at C:\pdficon.log so you can make sure everything went smoothly. Mega sweet! Download the NEW PDF icon tool and try it out today!
I carry it on a USB drive keychain with my other must-have utilities. Getting a PDF icon to display in SharePoint has never been easier. Thanks Chad! You rock!!
Source: Chad’s Blog
Handy Andy [SBS-MVP] posted this helpful time sync info to the SBS Group Leaders mailing list and on his blog today, and I thought I’d pass it along.
If your servers are not able to time sync lately, check out the batch of commands below. This set of instructions is for servers that have been synching fine, and all of a sudden just stopped. (If your server has never been able to time sync, see the M&M’s article on synching time on SBS. )
Here are the commands;
w32tm /configure /manualpeerlist:time-a.nist.gov,0x8 /syncfromflags:MANUAL
net stop w32time
net start w32time
w32tm /resync
pause
Copy and paste those commands into notepad, save the file as timefix.cmd on the desktop of your server. Then just double-click it to run the batch of commands. Be sure to watch the last command and make sure it says the sync was successful.
Note: you may want to change the time source to one local to you (here is a list of time servers), but time-a.nist.gov works fine for me (GMT -5 Eastern USA).
Source: Handy Andy [SBS-MVP] & SmallBizServer.net
Filed under “Why didn’t someone think of this before?”
Video link: On Channel 10
Deepfish blog: RSS feed available too
Deepfish website: http://labs.live.com/Deepfish
What is Deepfish?
Deepfish is a lightweight client application that leverages a powerful server side technology for delivery of content such as web pages to a Windows Mobile device. Content is displayed in a familiar desktop format that requires no additional work by the content or site author.
Deepfish provides:
Source: Funboard