Two things not to turn off 1. Tablet pc functions. Disabling this turns off Snipping tool. An extremely helpful tool on Vista. 2. Error reporting.

... because you find out the dumb things you forgot... like.... The fact that the Live Communication server still had it's nic card pointed to .x rather than .y for it's DNS resolution even though .y is the new server.  So when I turned off .x it...

.... on my server when it comes to Antivirus.  Yes you read that right.  Why?  Because at this point in time I really feel that my antivirus vendors are putting me more at risk with the software on than off. Why do I say this? Because I don't trust...

When you have phones syncing to SBS 2003 and you move to SBS 2008, and you move the Godaddy cert from the one server to the other and thus do not need to deploy any new SSL certs.... the iPhones typically just need a powering off and powering back...

Another monitoring tweak that I did tonight was to get the SBS 2008 to send more direct/specific alerts regarding backup. I'm a control freak.  What can I say, so I want to know when the backup has run and to make sure it's completed successfully...

I'm tweaking auditing and alerting again. I like... okay no I LOVE it when I get an alert when someone fails to log into the server. Why?  Because I want to know who's banging on my ports.  But at the same time I don't want to be so overloaded with...