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Disable SBS console

To remote desktop to your office you need to know the internet address of your terminal server for example ts.mycompanyname.com.au
Depending on the client operating system you may find the remote desktop client in slightly different locations
Under the start menu go to All programs -> Accessories

On older Windows XP systems remote desktop  is under the sub folder [...]

This tutorial will enable you to create or migrate an elastix asterisk voip server on a HyperV virtual machine.

This uses the latest stable version of elastix (1.6 at time of writing), but I expect the v2 beta should work with the same methods.

Download the Elastix 1.6 ISO from http://www.elastix.org/en/downloads.html
Create a new virtual machine in hyperv, [...]

Sony laptop no bluetooth use microsoft generic driver

The main problem you’ll have doing this is that HyperV does not recognise SCSI as a valid boot device, so if you’re VMWare machine is running using the default SCSI drive and you do the conversion from VMDK  to VHD and run a system under HyperV, you’ll get a blue screen error. Before converting you [...]

The instructions here
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_newguest_tools_linux.html
presume  that the CD-ROM mounts with no problem.
if you have not already done so you need to shut down the linux virtual machine, add hardware and add CDROM to the virtual machine.
power up the virtual machine and you should see the CD/DVD Drive 1 listed.

Now in the menu on the right Install VMWare

Press [...]

Running Window 2008 R2 server and VMWARE v2 with 3 virtual machines, we frequently find that after a restart, or loss and regain of network connectivity to the server that the virtual machines can no longer be contacted over the network.
pening the VMWare infrastructure web access and the console for that particular machine shows no [...]

How to cut down SBS monitoring memory usage on SBS 2003.

OWA, Exchange 2003, Forms-based Authentication, domain issue

To install samba on CentOS
At the command shell enter
yum install samba
You will receive a couple of prompts to download the packages – press y to confirm.
Configuring Samba:
cd /etc/samba
mv smb.conf smb.conf.backup
vi smb.conf
Paste content below in to your vi:
[global]
workgroup = wrkgrp
netbios name = smbserver
security = SHARE
load printers = No
default service = global
path = /home
available = No
encrypt passwords = [...]