Month: April 2009

Sydney Windows User Group – Starts in May 2009

By sbsfaq

Body: I’ve just heard that there is a new user group forming in Sydney. Starting in May, the Sydney Windows User Group will get off the ground.  They are focusing on everything Windows client related, and plan to demo Windows 7 RC at their first meeting.  There first meeting is on Wednesday May 13th, at Microsoft North Ryde office. Here’s the link to their website http://www.windowsusergroup.com/ Published: 26/04/2009 8:11 PM Attachments: http://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Attachments/308/image_2_5F6AB31E.pnghttp://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Attachments/308/image_thumb_5F6AB31E.png

Cannot connect to Remote Web Workplace on SBS 2008

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Body: If you’ve gotten the message below on your SBS 2008 server, then be sure that you have installed the Hotfix from Microsoft that you can get from this link. http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=961775&kbln=en-us I blogged about this some months back but I forgot to install the patch myself on a client machine and it gave the error below which I did not expect.   Category: SBS 2008 / Cougar Published: 20/04/2009 10:40 AM Attachments: http://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Attachments/307/image_2_465AAE87.pnghttp://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Attachments/307/image_thumb_465AAE87.png

Kyocera Print Mode Error from Outlook 2007

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Body: Last week my accountant called me with a problem. He was having problems “printing anything to the Kyocera printer”. He has a Kyocera Mita KM-1650 KX printer connected to his SBS 2003 Server via the network.  All users print to this main printer as their default printer. I asked him over the phone exactly what that meant and in typical client fashion he told me that “anything I try to print to the printer won’t work”.  Ok – he’s just around the corner so I thought I’ll drop in and see what the problem is. I arrived onsite and … Continue reading Kyocera Print Mode Error from Outlook 2007

Windows Live Family Safety Filter – How to Remove it

By sbsfaq

Body: Ok – so now I’ve finished testing it, there is one downside that I’ve found that “might” make it a little more difficult for me as an IT Pro.  During testing I’ve found a few times that the Windows Live Family Safety Filter will prevent me from doing some basic testing (Pings etc) unless it is signed in.  Now given I am administrator on my laptop it’s not an issue for me to circumvent this when I need to.  however now that I’ve done my testing I decided that I want to remove the Windows Live Family Safety Filter.  … Continue reading Windows Live Family Safety Filter – How to Remove it

Windows Live Family Safety Filter – monitoring my kids Internet Access

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Body: I’ve been trialling out the Windows Live Family Safety Filter so that I could have it running on the computers for my kids.  I’ve got a teenager and a soon to be teenager, and I need to monitor both and block some of the less than desirable web sites from their computers.  My kids often take their computers to friends places and therefore I needed a solution that will work regardless of where they are. I also needed a solution that will allow me to unblock legitimate sites if I need to. So I installed the Windows Live Family … Continue reading Windows Live Family Safety Filter – monitoring my kids Internet Access