Ok. It isn’t really a migration; in reality, you are joining an SBS 2008 machine to an existing Server 2003 domain. However, since you have to do similar tasks as you do for a migration, I’m calling it that. In short, you are following the same instructions that are found in this Microsoft Technet posting. In a nutshell: Prepare the...
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When researching this problem, I ran across several postings for an anti-malware program that I had never heard of. I hesitated to use it, as apparently you cannot believe everything you read on the internet, so I tried the manual method which took some time. After that I talked to some colleagues who had seen similar infections, and they tried the...
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I was struck yesterday how my most useful tool is also Microsoft’s most reviled creation. I’m referring to, of course, Clippit. I was reminded of this when I used a common paper clip to perform two jobs that I do all of the time (not counting actually clipping two pieces of paper together.) 1) I had a CD stuck in a drive. Unhinge a paper...
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