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I haven't had to do a migration for some time, since the days of consulting have been over for 3 years now. Image by mooing brontosaurus via Flickr Even then, I'd only done a couple of 2000 to 2003, and one SBS 2000 to SBS 2003 migrations. This project involved moving from SBS 2003 to a Standard 2003 environment. I was a bit intimidated, and purchased the excellent Swing It! SBS Migration kit from Jeff Middleton . One good thing about it was that Exchange had been moved to a hosted solution last year, and they didn't use Sharepoint . Turns out this was a good purchase for a guy doing a solo project with few peers to bounce questions or ideas off of. Jeff freely provides answers and guidance in his forums, and his expert help is just a phone call away if you are current with your subscription. Pre-pay, and your support requests are responded in an even quicker manner. Fortunately, I didn't need to ask but a few questions, and I was on my way with the docs, and...

One of my clients required job accounting for an iR C2550 Canon printer. This is how I did it TM . Step One : Set up printers on server Set up two printers on the server. One will be used for color, the other for B&W. Give them names that differentiate this. On the Security tab of the drivers, ensure that the Manage Printer ACL is not checked. B&W Specific Driver Settings: General Tab , Printing Preferences, Quality Tab, Color Mode is set to Black & White . Advanced Tab, Printing Defaults, Quality Tab, Color Mode is set to Black & White. Device Settings Tab, Job Accounting is checked. Device Settings Tab, Job Accounting, Settings, Allow Password Setting is checked, and 1000 is in the ID field. Password is blank. Do not use Job Accounting for B&W and Confirm Password when Printing are not checked. Color Specific Driver Settings: Quality steps 1 & 2 from above should default to Auto Detect. This should not be changed. Device Settings Tab,...

I've been using GFI Faxmaker since around version 10, but mostly in Exchange environments, and usually trying to get it to work with a variety of analog modems. Image via Wikipedia I have a customer that's moving to a hosted Exchange solution, and we've just moved the last of the users mailboxes off-site. Now came the simple task of pointing the Email2FAXGateway settings to send mail to the hosted servers. We don't use GFI Faxmaker to send, so won't have to resort to any special TextAPI formatting, outlined at GFI's support site. We initially performed a test, sending inbound fax messages directly to the hosted servers, and it seemed to work well, but a few days later noticed there was a problem. I think what was happening was the hosting mail servers performed an RDNS ( reverse DNS ) lookup, which fails, since mail sent out of GFI appears to be coming from faxmaker.com. The solution was to set up IIS SMTP services, and relay all messages to our hosting...