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About Mike F Robbins

Senior Systems Engineer and Technology Consultant with over sixteen years of professional experience providing enterprise computing solutions for educational, financial, healthcare, and manufacturing customers.

Let’s Go Walking Mississippi

I rarely write non-technical related blog articles. This is one of those rare occasions, although it’s about being a well rounded technology professional. We all get caught up in being too busy to eat healthy and exercise. This seems to be especially … Continue reading

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Unable to Grant Domain Local Groups Full Access Permission to a Exchange 2010 Mailbox using the GUI

John Doe is a user in your Active Directory environment (Windows Server 2008 R2 Forest Function Level) with a mailbox on the email server (Exchange Server 2010 with SP2): You want to grant a domain local group named “Test Group” … Continue reading

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Initial Thoughts of the Apple iPad 2

Santa Claus brought me an iPad 2 for Christmas a few weeks ago. I must have been really good this past year for him to leave me something so cool (or he left it at the wrong house). This is the … Continue reading

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Oh Where, Oh Where Have My Group Policy Options Gone?

You are unable to find specific GPO options such as “Compatibility View” settings for Internet Explorer. One of the first things to look at is: Where are the policy definitions being retrieved from? The default for an Active Directory environment is … Continue reading

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Open a SharePoint Document Library with Windows Explorer

When attempting to open a SharePoint document library from a machine running Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 by using the “Open with Explorer” button as shown in the image to the right, you receive:  “Message from webpage > Your … Continue reading

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