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Are you a small business with IT needs, and can't afford someone full time? Is there always too much to do and not enough time to do it? If that's the case, you need the help of a professional who has been providing solutions to small organizations for over 15 years. With a vast array of experience, from networking, firewalls, Microsoft Office, Windows Server, and many others, Brett Gorley consulting will provide you with the solution you need.

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Windows Server 8 – Looking Good

InfoWorld just did a nice little article on the top 10 features in Windows Server 8.  Problem they had was that there were so many improvements it was hard to pick just 10. Here’s the summary for all you nerds out there: 10: Server Manager- Improved GUI and multiserver management.  Views are search driven, so …

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Normal Tech Support Call

Had this one today: IT Croud  

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End Users (aka. Other Reasons I Drink)

Just had an end user manage to reboot our terminal server through a control panel item I thought was blocked, but wasn’t. Kicked off a dozen users, cost everyone at least 10 minutes of work time, plus screwed up the screen font size for everyone, forcing me to have to reboot the server again later …

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Software Restriction Policy on Terminal Server

So, due to certain pieces of custom software requiring elevated rights, we had to loosen up on user rights in our terminal server environment. But, in an effort to avoid too much damage, we instituted Software Restriction Policies, so users cannot run any executable other than what we specify. Needless to say, it has been …

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IIS and FTP

Using IIS as an FTP server is annoying.  Having issues with people using IE to just download a file.  Firefox works a little better- at least you can authenticate, just can’t view anything.  Filezilla works beautifully- no problems. Plan is to scrap IIS and use Filezilla server.  

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IIS and FTP Windows Server 8 – Looking Good Normal Tech Support Call End Users (aka. Other Reasons I Drink) Software Restriction Policy on Terminal Server