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Archive for November, 2007

Excluding email addresses from IMF Filtering

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Microsoft has published an article and hotfix if you want to include or exclude email addresses from IMF Filtering. The Microsoft KB article is 912587

Call Microsoft Product Support Services and telling them you want the hotfix. It is free of charge. This applies to Exchange Server 2003 SP2.

NT Password Recovery Boot Disk for Vista

Monday, November 19th, 2007

If you’ve lost your local Windows password in the past then you may have already found this tool.  This is a very handy boot disk to change your Windows password and should be a part of any technician’s toolkit. 

This post is a warning though….the previous versions of this tool should not be used on Vista!!!  There is a new version which supports Vista and that is the only version that should be used.  Using the previous version on a Vista machine will corrupt the filesystem and make it difficult to get your system to boot again.  Somehow, it corrupts it to the point where the Vista installation CD cant even be used to repair it.  To get my system to boot again after making this mistake I had to use an XP installation CD to run chkdsk and correct the errors. 

 Here is the link to the latest version of the Password Recovery Boot Disk:
http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Small Business Server 2003 Transition Pack

Friday, November 9th, 2007

With SBS 2003 there is a ‘Transition Pack’ to grow out of the 75 user cap or move your servers (ie. Exchange or SQL Workgroup) to other dedicated servers. Here are links for the SBS Transition Pack. When installing the Transition Pack, make sure that the media is newer than the version you are upgrading to (ie. if the media is Transition Pack R2, then you must uninstall Windows Server 2003 SP2 before installing).

Microsoft Documentation - link

Moloy’s Blog on the Transition Pack - link

SBS page - link