Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Ok, I’ve run into this enough times now, that it is time to write it down once and for all so I can find it and refer to it quick in the future.   If you are trying to use a CheckPoint VPN client and you are behind a Dlink, Linksys or other SOHO Class …

Small Business Server 2008   We are your Victoria and Vancouver Island SBS Experts   The best selling Microsoft  Small Business Server (SBS) has been a cornerstone technology for the small business market place over the last few years, especially so with the SBS2003 version.  However, as good as SBS2003 was, the needs of business …

When moving a workstation from one domain to another, the existing profile won’t load obviously (with all of their previous settings such as wallpaper, and other personalization’s and local profile data) and the default user profile will take effect for the new user… While there are automated migration tools you can use, they are often …

Over the years, I’ve seen lots of talk on the use of long passwords and complex passwords, etc. and I’ve narrowed the noise down to two options, that we recommend to our clients (and I tend to lean towards the 2nd option). In order to maintain good security (and to satisfy management security concerns), we …

Getting this, when performing an IISRESET? Restart attempt failed. Restarting of Internet Services has been disabled. Basically, IISRESET got disabled.  Don’t know how that happened?  I’ve seen lots of discussions online about some patches that do not finish correctly and leave IISRESET in a ‘disabled’ state. So, when/if that happens, here’s how you correct the …

Many error messages/pop-ups since Windows XP came out, are *clipboard friendly*. Thus, if you get an error message like this…     The trick/deal is, you can press CTRL+C while it is open, and capture all that text, so that you can put *accurate* entries into Google or wherever you might want to search, for …

Wow, what an ugly problem tonight. And a whole bunch of FUD I found on Google that produced no help whatsoever.   Inventory Here’s the inventory of systems I had here (yours may differ) Windows Server 2008 IIS 7 WSS 3.0   Errors Event ID 7023, 7036, 5172, 5036 and 5005 Error text included things …

Over the years, I’ve seen lots of talk on the use of long passwords and complex passwords, etc. and I’ve narrowed the noise down to two options, that we recommend to our clients (and I tend to lean towards the 2nd option). In order to maintain good security (and to satisfy management security concerns), we …

Another standard (and neat NotePad trick) at itgroove. Pop-up Change Control prompts for servers.   Here’s the deal… Installation 1. On every server, you place the (TWO) txt files (compressed in the ZIP), in the All UsersStartup folder (I’ve put a copy of these files on my Blog at: /wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/SharePointDox/Change%20Control%20Text%20Files/CopyToAllUsersStartUp.zip. – Windows Server 2003 and …

Documentation is always the bummer for the IT Professional.  At itgroove, we try to excel at it (maybe because it’s an effort to set ourselves apart or gosh, because it is in the best interest of the client, whom we deeply respect and wish to keep).   One of the simplest ‘documentation’ techniques for keeping …