Technical bits and pieces

Change the Central Admin app. pool account

SBS 2008 includes the latest version of Windows SharePoint Services, WSS 3.0 and companyweb is built on this version. In order to properly configure the environment we have to go through a list of...

Add custom links to RWW on SBS 2008

Remote Web Workspace had a very nice face lift in SBS 2008. Along with it came the ability to add custom links, which it comes handy when you want to track different sites. The...

Join a Vista computer to the SBS 2008 domain

SBS 2008 RC0 is out and I’m very excited with everything I’ve seen so far. The server is 64 bit so I had to go and buy a new hard drive for my Intel...

Firefox 3 is here

Expanding VM disk and adjusting the O/S partition

One of my test servers (Windows Server 2003 R2) runs as VM within VMWare. When I looked at the remaining disk space, I saw that I had just 3GB left (the total allocated space...

Backup and Restore of IIS Configuration

With the tight integration of the SBS components, IIS is in the center of all of them. Backup, Monitoring, OWA, OMA etc., all rely on IIS. Although the backups of the IIS metadata happens...

Pricing for Windows Essential Server

The first public news, as far as pricing goes, for Microsoft Windows Essential Server came out of Redmond today. The full announcement can be found here The first thing that I noticed is the...

Another successful TechBash

TechBash 2008 was a big success! Everything run smoothly, the presenters were great and the swags…. well… can’t say much about the swags other than they must have been about $10K worth of software...

Active Directory Backup and Restore in WS2K8

The most recent issue of TechNet magazine had a very informative article on the backup and restoration of Active Directory in Windows Server 2008. The article goes into also describing the new backup component...

Techbash 2008

On Saturday, May 10th our .NET user group will present its annual FREE technology conference. Last year it was a blast. Very interesting presentations both for developers as well as IT professionals and lots...