We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You'll notice we didn't put things like "we're wicked smart" or "we're great haxors". We tried t ...[Read More]

I've seen these Event ID's appear in situations where:   Active Directory was unhealthy (or a single DC, that a workstation was attempting to connect to was unhealthy) DNS Servers that a workstation points to, are unhealthy Combinat ...[Read More]

We ran into this little gem today at a client site (running SBS 2008) – thanks for the detail Avi. The client called, explaining how their Outlook clients were unable to connect to the server (Outlook stated it was 'Trying to connect' in the botto ...[Read More]

Well, what do ya know?  Apparently, Microsoft loves, my love for SharePoint (and all those other related things I do – SharePoint, Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, IIS, ASP.NET – you know, all those things that SharePoint works with – I think I was ...[Read More]

First off, apologies to the original author of this content… I had tucked this away in an Outlook note probably 8 years ago (I've updated it a little as it references modems, thankfully of which, I haven't touched one in nearly that long). I didn' ...[Read More]

Larger companies deploying Enterprise SharePoint solutions should have formal planning sessions. But some businesses want to realize the immediate value of having their data available online and accessible from anywhere, at any time and on anythin ...[Read More]

Email has become the lifeblood of modern business and something in the order of 90% of global email traffic originates from Microsoft Exchange servers.  If your business email runs on Exchange, it can be argued that Exchange is the single most imp ...[Read More]

Small Business Server 2008   We are your Victoria and Vancouver Island SBS Experts   The best selling Microsoft  Small Business Server (SBS) has been a cornerstone technology for the small business market place over the last few years, especia ...[Read More]

Well, we’ve come across this in our office (thanks Robert for pointing it out) and we thought we’d share.   SBS2008 (Std & Premium) have been shipping with 2 server installation disks and each of these disks has a set of installation codes on ...[Read More]

Another "funny" on SBS2008 (thanks Rob)   It seems the WID instance that is installed as part and parcel of the SBS2008 install supports the local Sharepoint installation as well as the WSUS install and, maybe, a few other things as well ...[Read More]