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Fare thee well EBS 2008, we hardley knew ye !

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:42:21 +1100

EBS 2008 is dead. Long live EBS (Or should that be SBS)
Keywords: EBS, Microsoft, 2008, Discontinued

The rise and now fall of Microsoft Essential Business Server. The axe has fallen and EBS 2008 is now out cold, in the street, homeless. I am shocked but what can we do?

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8 March 2010 - Mickyj.com

Not downloading Offline address book files. A server (URL) could not be located.

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:42:21 +1100

	Outlook Send/Receive causes an error Keywords: oultook, exchange, offline, address books Outlook is telling me it did not do a successfull ssend receive with Exchange. It logs an error into the Sync Issues subfolder. After much digging about, I found that there are many solutions on the internet. Again for me, Exchange Rollup 9 fixed the issue (As per yesterdays blog). There are many other solutions so I thought I would post my links to those I found with good credible solutions. Ms Exchange Forums Petri pages 123 Together support
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Outlook 2007 on SBS 2008, authentication popup; revisited

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:38:52 +1100

	Password popup solution Keywords: Outlook, Autodiscovery, exchange, password Back on the 23rd December 2009 I commented on a password popup issue I had with outlook 2007 on Exchaneg 2007. It looks like Exchange 2008 Rollup 9 fixes this issue once installed. If anyone else gets this issue, give it a try.
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SBS 2008 changing user details in the wizard

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:31:54 +1100

	It causes an error ? Keywords: SBS 2008, Wizard, user On more than one occasion, I have had to change a setting for a user in SBS 2008. It might be to give them remote web workplace access or some other role. Upon trying to apply and exit the wizard I get the error "Invalid E-Mail alias", "This e-mail aliias already exists. Type a different e-mail alias". I was not changing their existing e-mail alias so I have no idea why the alias was ok when I opened the wizard but by the end it was not acceptable ? My quick and dirty solution was to give the person another Alias and then open the Exchange management tool and change the Alias back. All back to normal but .. this is weird.
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IE6 Security Alert !

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:27:06 +1100

	Vulnerability in IE6 now has a patch ! Keywords: China, Google, hack, vulnerability, out of band, patch, IE6, Microsoft IE6 Security Alert ! Upgrade to IE8, turn on Autoupdate's or manually install the following patch. Protect yourself from the vulnerability that allowed Chinease hackers to hack Google and others. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-002 - Critical
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Hide Drives in My Computer

Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:18:44 +1100

	Hide drive Access (As opposed to blocking access) Keywords: Hide, drive letters This is the last policy to help my friend block children from causing chaos (Refer the last two days of blogs) This setting allows you to control which drives are visible in My Computer and Explorer. It is possible to hide all drives or just selected ones. Open your registry and find or create the key below. The "NoDrives" value uses a 32-bit word to define local and network drive visibility for each logical drive in the computer. The lower 26 bits of the 32-bit word correspond to drive letters A through Z. Drives are visible when set to 0 and hidden when set to 1. If your not happy working in Hex, add these decimal numbers to hide the drive(s): A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 8, E: 16, F: 32, G: 64, H: 128, I: 256, J: 512, K: 1024, L: 2048, M: 4096, N: 8192, O: 16384, P: 32768, Q: 65536, R: 131072, S: 262144, T: 524288, U: 1048576, V: 2097152, W: 4194304, X: 8388608, Y: 16777216, Z: 33554432, ALL: 67108863 For example to hide drive A and drive D, you would add 1 (A) + 8 (D) which means the value should be set to "9". To disable all the drives set the value to "67108863". Restart Windows for the change to take effect. (Default) REG_SZ (value not set) NoDrives REG_DWORD 0x03ffffff (67108863) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\... Registry Settings User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] Value Name: NoDrives Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) To hide just drive C:, use a value of 4.
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Hide Control Panel, Printer and Network Settings

Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:14:38 +1100

	Lock down by denying access! Keywords: Policy, block, Control Panel, non domain Following on from yesterday, today lets block the control panel. This restriction removes the Control Panel, Printers and Network Connection settings from the Start menu. If the Taskbar settings are also hidden it causes the Settings menu to be completely removed. Open your registry and find the key below. Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called 'NoSetFolders' and edit the value according to the settings below. Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect. (Default) REG_SZ (value not set) NoSetFolders REG_DWORD 0x00000001 (1) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\... Registry Settings User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] Value Name: NoSetFolders Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) Value Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled) Note: This tweak may also disable the Windows Explorer hotkey shortcut (Windows + E).
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How can I hide a user from the Welcome Screen in Windows XP?

Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:04:24 +1100

	Hidding logon users Keywords: Policy, regedit, users, logon, non domain I have a client who looks after a parent with wayward children. They log onto the home PC, install things and generally cause issues. The client is used to a Domain controlller running Active Directory and Group polcies. They need to start thinking local policies and registry editing. The client wants to block access to control panel, hide drive C: and hide the parents logon account at the Welcome screen. Lets start with the Welcome screen and in tomorrows blog, move to the control panel etc. Open Registry Editor. In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList Create the following entry: Username: REG_DWORD (Where Username is the username of the user you want to hide from the Welcome Screen). Assign a value of 0. Close Registry Editor. Reboot. This will prevent the user from showing up on the welcome screen. You will need to press CTRL-ALT-DEL twice at the logon screen to get the domain logon style box to be able to logon to the account you've hidden. Adding a username and setting the value to 1 will cause that user, such as Administrator, to show up on the Welcome screen as well. (The Administrator is hidden by default)
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