Our family has a number of laptop computers, with each member having their own. My wife and son both wanted to have Windows 7 on their laptops, but my daughter however wants to stick with Windows Vista. For now I’ll let her so stay on Vista as she’s got the right to make up her own mind what she wants. My wife’s laptop is a HP 6910p. We had been running Windows Vista x64 … [Read more...]
SBS2000 to 2003 Upgrades – a checklist for success
Ok - my preference for installations of SBS2003 is to do a totally fresh installation. However there are times when this is not possible due to budget contraints or time limitations. I've had two such customer scenarios this week that needed to have the inplace done, one for budget reasons, and the other for time constraints. So we've used the inplace upgrade method. Before … [Read more...]
How do I change the internal IP address on SBS2000? – Wayne Small
The default installation of SBS2000 uses an internal IP address of 192.168.16.2. If you want to change it later then you need to make a number of alterations within SBS, 1. Change the IP address on the Internal Network card to the new IP address. Whilst here remove any IP addresses for the DNS server and press OK. You will get a warning and it will point it the DNS … [Read more...]
What are the installation paths and commands for the default applications in SBS 2000?
The following paths are the commands used to define the source and installation strings for the applications on SBS2000. In the examples below replace SMALLSVR1 with your server name. Internet Explorer Windows 9X Path \\SMALLSVR1\ClientApps5\IE5\ie5setup.exe /C:"ie5wzd /s:""#e"" /M:1 /Q" Windows NT Path \\SMALLSVR1\ClientApps5\IE5\ie5setup.exe /C:"ie5wzd /s:""#e"" … [Read more...]
Why can’t I browse the network with SBS 2000 and Win200/XP clients?
If you have Trend OfficeSCan for SBS2000 installed then you may want to try this patch from Trend. http://solutionbank.antivirus.com/solutions/solutionDetail.asp?solutionID=10523 … [Read more...]