This weeks blog post I did for CRN Channel Web talks about DR for the travelling exec based on personal experiences. You can read it here I’ll be doing a review of the technologies I use to support this over the coming weeks … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2010
Free Public WiFi on a plane?
Recently whilst on a trip to the USA from Sydney, I was at 10,000m and had just crossed the International Date line on the flight from Sydney to LA. There were about 6 hours to go in the flight and I’d just noticed that my wireless was turned on – opps forgot to switch it off. Lucky the plane had not crashed :-( What’s more though is that I’ve noticed it’s telling me there … [Read more...]
Stop bitching about Vendors and get on with it.
I’m tired of the attitude of many resellers in the SMB space. I’ve been involved in this space for near 15 years now and I’ve noticed over the past 5 + years a growing attitude that makes me angry. In the overall grand scheme of things SBS makes a certain percentage of the MS revenue. A very small percentage from what I hear. Yet many resellers in the SMB space think … [Read more...]
Diagnosing Power issues with HP Servers
Working onsite with a client this week, they asked why one of their new Hyper-V servers was rebooting. I checked the event logs on the server and could not see anything obvious at all. All the event logs showed was unscheduled reboots occurring around every two weeks at 11:53am in the morning. Given that these servers are HP 300 series servers, they all have … [Read more...]
Insanity with Windows 7 Upgrade paths…
I'd not realised before just how insane Microsoft's upgrade path for Windows Vista clients is. And I'm pretty sure that many other resellers are not fully aware of the finer details of it. Here's a graphical overview of it http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/files/2009/08/windows-upgrade-chart.png I was doing some charity today for a church with a number of PCs that had Windows … [Read more...]