Occasionally you might need something on the inside of your network, like a monitoring machine or copier, to be able to anonymously relay to external domains through Exchange 2010. We've used 192.168.1.1 for our Exchange Servers IP and 192.168.1.23 for…
We often run audit reports on our clients networks to ascertain age of equipment, but identify where each computer is can be tricky from just the name and potentially the Last Login. We also endeavour to keep the computer description…
You need to setup a VPN then install and configure remote desktop connection. VPN More details can be found at http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2007/07/mac-on-sbs-creating-vpn-connection-to.html Open Finder. Click on Applications. Double click on Internet Connect.asp. You will be presented with the following window: Click on…
If you're getting an ASP error in your event logs reading "Error: The Template Persistent Cache initialization failed for Application Pool 'AppPoolName' because of the following error: Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool. The data…
Here at Focused IT we regularly test our clients backup by performing a bare metal restore to dedicated hardware every three months to ensure it's going to be okay in the event of a disaster. Whilst this was working for…
We've always liked CutePDF as a quick way to create PDFs from any application but v2.8 by default installed the Ask Toolbar, urgh, a bit of research indicated that /no3d got rid of it. So we updated our installation routine…
Flash Player updates seem to come out all the time and we certainly don't advocate local administrative rights to users so we use a couple of batch files and Group Policy to keep machines up to date. Download WGET from…
It's important that your backups are stored offsite, which means it's important that they are encrypted. We used an article (How to encrypt backups and optionally the system disks on Windows Server 2008 and SBS 2008 and Windows Vista too)…
If Internet Explorer is insisting on 'hosting' Office documents for you when you'd rather have them open in their respective Office Application then you used to be able to change this in the File Associations Advanced Edit as per How…
We were getting a Application Event Log Error from SharePoint Foundation with 5586 after you install SP1 with the following error: Unknown SQL Exception 2812 occurred. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.Could not find stored procedure 'proc_UpdateStatisticsNVP'…