Archive for April, 2001

How can I change the default Exchange drive letter to something other than M:?

Sunday, April 22nd, 2001

MS have written a KB article on how to do it. Q239747 How to Change the IFS Drive M to Another Drive Letter, shows how to do it.

Basically look in the registry for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EXIFS\Parameters Look for a value called DriveLetter. If it’s not there then add it as a REG_SZ data type. The value is the actual drive letter you want the Exchange data to appear on.

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How can I remote control individual PC’s from the Internet that are on my internal network?

Sunday, April 22nd, 2001

A few options exist here to allow you to remote control these PC’s.
http://www.famatech.com/documentation.htm

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How can I telnet into devices behind my Proxy Server from the Internet

Sunday, April 22nd, 2001

Proxy Server does not support reverse hosting of socket level applications and therefore can not provide this functionality by default. A product that can provide this is Surrogate Sockets. http://www.edu-tec.com/surrogatesocket/

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How do I change the default IP address of SBS 4.5? – MS

Monday, April 16th, 2001

You may for integration reasons desire to change the default IP address from it’s Microsoft set standard of 10.0.0.2 to some other address range. Microsoft have given a detailed step-by-step how to do this in a knowledge base article “Change the Default IP Address in Small Business Server [Q194562]”

Essentially the key steps are as follows.
1. Change the IP address in the TCP/IP properties, change also the WINS server IP to point to the new IP.
2. Change the DHCP scope accordingly and create a new scope with the correct options and settings
3. Change the LMHOSTS file as it contains an IP address which points to 10.0.0.2
4. Change the LAT for MS Proxy, and other various proxy config files as detailed in the KB article (although I have only seen server names here and not IP addresses)

Thant should be it!

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How can I get my faxes to print to a network printer? – Grey Lancaster

Monday, April 16th, 2001

By default the SBS 2000 installs the fax service starting as a LocalSystem account. LocalSystem accounts do not have access to network resources and therefore can not print to network printers even though the printer is installed on the local machine. You need to change the Fax Service to utilise an account other than the LocalSystem account. You can do this via Services located under the Administrative Tools program group.

Select the Fax Service, go to properties, and specify another account such as Administrator and enter the password. Restart the Fax Service once complete and you should then be able to have incoming faxes print directly to the network printer.

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What webcasts exist for SBS 2000?

Sunday, April 8th, 2001

Microsoft have a number of webcasts relating to SBS 2000.

http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/webcasts/slc042001/slcblurb042001.asp

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How can I extend the SBS 2000 Console? – Grey Lancaster

Sunday, April 8th, 2001

Right click on SBS console, author, console, add/remove snapin, add, link to web address, add,www.smallbizserver.com/sbs2k_resources.htm, next, SBS 2k Resources, Next, Close, Okay

Close the console and save changes.

Of course backup all the relevant files before you start. If you messup you can always reinstall the console as detailed in other articles here.

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How do I fix the Manage Console in SBS2000? – Grey Lancaster

Sunday, April 8th, 2001

I just messed up the manage console in SBS2k, how do I fix it?

The MMC snapin bits for the SBS Consoles are on cd3:\BKOFFICE\I386\Admin\Consoles\USA

Copy these in c:\docs and settings\All Users\Applicatioin Data\Microsoft\Back Office\Management\ directory.

Opening the snapin in a new window opens a new instance of the MMC with the same name as the host mmc. Since you were in author mode and saved settings, the original console snapin was overwritten.

And when you copy the file from the cd you need to uncheck read only attribute.

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How do I stop my Exchange 5.5 being used as a SPAM relay host? – Wayne Small

Thursday, April 5th, 2001

To avoid being used as a SPAM relay host, you need to ensur ethat you have the current Service Pack for Exchange Server 5.5 (currently SP4). Also check out the Microsoft articlehttp://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/exchange/relay.asp which provides key information on disabling relaying.

To test the results of your modifications, you can from the server, TELNET to mail-abuse.org on port 23. They will test the system and report back to you to indicate your relay status.

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How do I disable desktop wallpaper for Terminal Server clients? – Wayne Small

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2001

If you go into the Terminal Server Configuration tool and then Properties of RCP-tcp, you’ll find a Disable Wallpaper option on one of the tabs – this will disable all backgrounds for all RDP connections.

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