I mentioned earlier that the default of 20 minutes on a public computer is way too long. Therefore, I recommend that you change this value to 5 or 10 minutes to provide increased protection for your system in case a user walks away from a public kiosk without logging off. 1. Run Regedit. 2. Navigate down the tree to the following key: … [Read more...]
Changing the Company Name in the RWW Display Screen
I have used this modification on our demonstration SBS 2003 server. Prior to going out to demo SBS to a new customer, I alter the displayed name to be that of the customer I am going to see. This gives the customer a degree of ownership even before they get the quote for the new system. 1. Run Regedit. 2. Navigate down the tree to the following key: … [Read more...]
How do I view an external website with the same domain name as my internal domain? – Wayne Small
I've configured my internal domain as company.com despite Microsoft's best practices suggesting I call it company.local and now when I attempt to go to our externally hosted website atwww.company.com I get 404 errors. The website works just fine if I connect to it from the outside world. How can I resolve this? In order to do this you need to add an A record to your … [Read more...]
How can I change my administrators password? – Wayne Small
User password security is always important, but the single most important user account on your network is the Administrators account. For the best security, the password for this account MUST be a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers and punctuation and ideally 8 characters or more. This will provide a password that is very hard to guess using dictionary … [Read more...]
How can I see multiple peoples calendars? – Wayne Small
In a small office environment there is often the need to see multiple calendars at once. Microsoft have produced a small add-on for Outlook that will allow you to see and combine multiple calendars into one. It's called the Team Calendar for Outlook. You can download it direct from Microsoft at the following … [Read more...]