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David Houston

I have been working in the SMB IT sector since 1997, working with SBS since it was version 4.0. These are issues that I have come across and hope to save you time in troubleshooting your own problems.

If you wish to contact me with regards the site please email me at david at damecomputers dot com.

Legal Note: All advice is given with no warranty, it is simply my opinion, do with at your own risk

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By David Houston on Monday, September 08, 2008 1:01 PM

If you have users that need to use Outlook Web Access for long periods of time without being logged off after being inactive for a while, you will need to make a change to the registry to accomplish this. Warning - Editing the registry can make your server unbootable -Warning

 

Exchange 2003 OWA.

Change the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeWEB\OWA\TrustedClientTimeout

This is a hex a decimal number so input your time appropriately

 

Exchange 2007 OWA.

Change the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchange OWA\PrivateTimeout

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By David Houston on Sunday, September 07, 2008 1:07 AM

I have recently had an update the the blog post "Expansys, HTC and grey market mobile phones". I have been issued a full refund and I am awaiting the cheque before bying the HTC Touch Pro, which for those interested will not be through Expansys.

Please not that there is a Forum post over at SBS Ireland with regards to grey market stock and Expansys and it seems that I am not the only one, so please be careful.

 

Thankfully I did get the refund but others have been stuck with unsupported phones and deserve better.

Please post to the SBS Ireland forum if you have been stung.

Thank you
David

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By David Houston on Sunday, September 07, 2008 12:44 AM

I have just spent the last hour or so going over the sessions and events for the TechED event. The lineup looks very good for those in the Enterprise, but this is what gets to me personally, is that there seems to be only one session for all WESS which would include SBS, and another for EBS. So only two sessions for products that are launching only days after the event. To add insult to injury, TechED Australia has dedicated a complete day to WESS, and there had been a dedicated session just for SBS at TechED North America.

This to me makes no sense what so ever. There is a big wish for information on both SBS and EBS, and talking to those that are enterprise IT guys they do want to know more about it.

An event that will have over 4000 attendees, and not to avail of this turn out to inform them properly about SBS and EBS is incredible and seems to show a lack of understanding by Microsoft. To get the information out about the the two biggest Microsoft products t ... Read More »

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