ATTENTION: LES CONNER

Hi! I have to give a public thanks for all of your help over the last
couple of weeks--especially Saturday and Sunday. You have went way above
and beyond what any/most newsgroup support person would ever provide. I am
extremely greatful and so is the company I work for.

Your knowledge and experience of SBS and networking is above anybody else I
know. I was greatful for some advice, but you basically took me under your
wings and provided support superior to any I've ever received from MS
Support.

I can never provide the level of knowledge you have to pay you back, but if
you ever run across issues with custom program design and programming, I may
be able to help.

Again, thank you, thank you, thank you!

Marcia

Susan
Tue Nov 18 14:12:35 CST 2003

His fellow MVPs are in awe of that trait in Les. He will lead you hand
in hand and thread by thread and get you back on track. He won't give
up either.

Les is defintely MORE ;-)

Marcia Porter wrote:
> Hi! I have to give a public thanks for all of your help over the last
> couple of weeks--especially Saturday and Sunday. You have went way above
> and beyond what any/most newsgroup support person would ever provide. I am
> extremely greatful and so is the company I work for.
>
> Your knowledge and experience of SBS and networking is above anybody else I
> know. I was greatful for some advice, but you basically took me under your
> wings and provided support superior to any I've ever received from MS
> Support.
>
> I can never provide the level of knowledge you have to pay you back, but if
> you ever run across issues with custom program design and programming, I may
> be able to help.
>
> Again, thank you, thank you, thank you!
>
> Marcia
>
>

--
http://www.sbslinks.com/really.htm

Chris
Tue Nov 18 14:25:46 CST 2003

I agree. He definitely doesn't give up. I can point to two specifically (of
many other threads I have started). One has 27 posts, one has 45. If I
recall, one went into the very late hours of the evening.

"Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <sbradcpa@pacbell.net>
wrote in message news:u%23Mp3ChrDHA.2808@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> His fellow MVPs are in awe of that trait in Les. He will lead you hand
> in hand and thread by thread and get you back on track. He won't give
> up either.
>
> Les is defintely MORE ;-)
>
> Marcia Porter wrote:
> > Hi! I have to give a public thanks for all of your help over the last
> > couple of weeks--especially Saturday and Sunday. You have went way
above
> > and beyond what any/most newsgroup support person would ever provide. I
am
> > extremely greatful and so is the company I work for.
> >
> > Your knowledge and experience of SBS and networking is above anybody
else I
> > know. I was greatful for some advice, but you basically took me under
your
> > wings and provided support superior to any I've ever received from MS
> > Support.
> >
> > I can never provide the level of knowledge you have to pay you back, but
if
> > you ever run across issues with custom program design and programming, I
may
> > be able to help.
> >
> > Again, thank you, thank you, thank you!
> >
> > Marcia
> >
> >
>
> --
> http://www.sbslinks.com/really.htm
>
>

Les
Wed Nov 19 10:01:00 CST 2003

You're all too kind. It comes with the territory, I'm told.

Anyway, an explanation.

Marcia inherited an SBS2k installation. In newsgroup postings, it became
obvious that her SBS was so far off standard that it was impossible to give
troubleshooting advice that would normally work for SBS.

So we took this one off group. Somebody did their best to tweak the sbs hard
enough to more closely resemble wk2. Most of the SBS wizardry was defunct.

It took a bit of sleuthing, but Marcia and I put in a few hours and we now
have it working. It will never work like SBS2k was intended to work, but it
will live out it's days as a productive server, doing the things asked of
it.

Sometimes the newsgroup isn't the best forum to solve problems, especially
when there are lots of them and you can't see the other person's system.

But the important part is that the road to recovery can start here and end
here, even though it may take a few detours along the way.

--
Les Connor [SBS MVP]
-------------------------------------
SBS Rocks !



"Marcia Porter" <mporter@acbfparentadvocates.org> wrote in message
news:#hSz8WgrDHA.976@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi! I have to give a public thanks for all of your help over the last
> couple of weeks--especially Saturday and Sunday. You have went way above
> and beyond what any/most newsgroup support person would ever provide. I
am
> extremely greatful and so is the company I work for.
>
> Your knowledge and experience of SBS and networking is above anybody else
I
> know. I was greatful for some advice, but you basically took me under
your
> wings and provided support superior to any I've ever received from MS
> Support.
>
> I can never provide the level of knowledge you have to pay you back, but
if
> you ever run across issues with custom program design and programming, I
may
> be able to help.
>
> Again, thank you, thank you, thank you!
>
> Marcia
>
>

Marcia
Wed Nov 19 18:18:26 CST 2003

Hi Les,

You didn't give yourself enough credit. A few hours * 6 and 300+%. I
can never express how much I appreciated all that you did. I, even with
your concern of getting SBS2003 implemented in my scenerio, can't wait to
get a system configured the way it should be. I've played with SBS2003 beta
and liked much of what I saw. I have never had problems with NT4 like I've
experienced with this system.

I think this system, as sbs2k, will find a happy resting place the early
part of next year. I have to prepare a budget during the month of December
(while I'm off recovering from surgery). The budget will certainly propose
a new server, scrapping this software, probably installing Win2003 on the
existing server and having it as an additional member server. I have lots
of research to do.

Again I can't thank you enough. And, yes...I'm jealous of your
knowledge and expertise. But, Susan Bradley told me months ago in a
newsgroup posting to just take "baby steps". Thanks to all of
you--especially you Les.

Marcia


"Les Connor [SBS MVP]" <les.connor@cfiveDEL.ca> wrote in message
news:eAQtMZrrDHA.2004@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> You're all too kind. It comes with the territory, I'm told.
>
> Anyway, an explanation.
>
> Marcia inherited an SBS2k installation. In newsgroup postings, it became
> obvious that her SBS was so far off standard that it was impossible to
give
> troubleshooting advice that would normally work for SBS.
>
> So we took this one off group. Somebody did their best to tweak the sbs
hard
> enough to more closely resemble wk2. Most of the SBS wizardry was defunct.
>
> It took a bit of sleuthing, but Marcia and I put in a few hours and we now
> have it working. It will never work like SBS2k was intended to work, but
it
> will live out it's days as a productive server, doing the things asked of
> it.
>
> Sometimes the newsgroup isn't the best forum to solve problems, especially
> when there are lots of them and you can't see the other person's system.
>
> But the important part is that the road to recovery can start here and end
> here, even though it may take a few detours along the way.
>
> --
> Les Connor [SBS MVP]
> -------------------------------------
> SBS Rocks !
>
>
>
> "Marcia Porter" <mporter@acbfparentadvocates.org> wrote in message
> news:#hSz8WgrDHA.976@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Hi! I have to give a public thanks for all of your help over the last
> > couple of weeks--especially Saturday and Sunday. You have went way
above
> > and beyond what any/most newsgroup support person would ever provide. I
> am
> > extremely greatful and so is the company I work for.
> >
> > Your knowledge and experience of SBS and networking is above anybody
else
> I
> > know. I was greatful for some advice, but you basically took me under
> your
> > wings and provided support superior to any I've ever received from MS
> > Support.
> >
> > I can never provide the level of knowledge you have to pay you back, but
> if
> > you ever run across issues with custom program design and programming, I
> may
> > be able to help.
> >
> > Again, thank you, thank you, thank you!
> >
> > Marcia
> >
> >
>
>