Thursday, July 28, 2011

SBS2011 loveliness

Some reminders

Always use the wizards

SBS wants to be the DHCP server, at least to run the first wizards. let it.

Can set internal domain to anything desired.

Once SBS is up, and btw Administrator is disabled, and you will make a new user as adminstrator of the site for general use. And later when setting up computers, that is the Network Administrator.

As was saying, once SBS is up, need to run a couple of wizards
1. Connect to Internet - mainly just sets router and IP
2. Internet Address - likley select Manual manage DNS - then input the domain name of (whatever) company.com and the wizard will create a self-signed certificate enought for basic uses.

Can see the external domain under the Transport Hub SBS Default Email Policy.

Might reduce the Password security restrictions, can do that in the SBS Console

Or might use Group Policy Editor and right click the (top) Default Domain Policy and edit.

To add computers, you must either browse to http://connect or copy the Launcher to a cd or flash drive and take to the machine. If it won't launch, may need to add the DNS domain suffix (domainwhatever.local)

At joining the domain you have to assign some users to the computer, and after two reboots you are forced to logon as the Network Administrator, and then you may after that logon as other domain users.


Later run the Backup Wizard


Create more users.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Another Youtube video loop

Tribute
Wonderland - Siouxsie & The Banshees



Note: had to take old code from old post and edit it for new youtube link. Current embedding, even the "old version" they offer doesn't seem to work for "loop."



Wednesday, July 13, 2011

HIPAA Email Compliance

There are a lot of regulations and for most small offices using hosted email, the vendor is supposed to be HIPAA Hitech compliant.

The following link gives a lot of information

LUXSCI


And don't forget that faxes over the internet would also need protection. Perhaps Unityfax can help...they have TLS encrypted email to the client. Not sure of other standards they might meet.

Here's one company offering secure Fax
http://www.safetysend.com/

Sfax review
http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2010/12/16/secure-fax-services-and-emr/

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Website Down or Not...and 24 hour status

It's very hard to find out the recent downs and ups of sites, becuase doing a google search for such tests yields tons of results which are fairly mindless ping tests, for the situation AT THE MOMENT.

Instead, for a better review of what's going on recently, try
DOWNRIGHTNOW

Good Uilities and Info On InPrivate Browsing

Traces of activity can be found

see Minty White's post

they mention two handy utilities
Recuva (for delted files)

and an Index.dat reviwer from SYSTENAX