I’m sure that I’m not the only one who has become accustomed to opening up Computer Management on a server, and looking in the shared folders in order to find out who has a file open. Well, that was Windows Server 2003. Now that we have Windows Server 2008, it’s just a little bit different.

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Here’s how you do it.

In Server Manager, expand Roles, then expand File Services, and click on “Share and Storage Management”.

Internet headers are pretty handy to have access too. They can let you know the exact servers that delivered an email to you, as well as help you to figure out where SPAM is coming from.

I wanted to verify how a new mail server I'm setting up is getting it's mail out to the Internet. Since I use Gmail anyway, I always use it to test  inbound and outbound email. But how do you view the headers?

I may be a few days late with this post, but I think I’ll do it anyway.

With a new year comes new calendars, and here are a bunch of resources to find the one to fit your needs:

I'm going to get a little old school on you here today. Remember those crazy modem init strings? I bet you thought we were all done with those. Well, with Smart Phones that act like blue tooth modems, everything old is new again.

The problem that I ran into was that I had to specify my access point in the init string. Looking at the properties of the modem, the box where you enter the init string isn't available. Well, here's how you change it.

Step 1: