Two weeks ago, the morning after my biggest client (a large mining company) applied patches to all their servers, one of them failed to come back up. It would boot to the Windows logo screen and would just keep churning through… I booted into safe mode using their iLo and during the listing of files being loaded, it stopped after ACPITABL.DAT. Naturally I googled and … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2010
Hyper-V Best Practice Analyser Released
Microsoft has released a Hyper-V BPA this week, but unfortunately it’s only for Windows Server 2008 R2 which is a shame for us SBS focused types. The Hyper-V BPA is available as an update via Windows Update or here. I’ve run it on my test Hyper-V R2 server this morning and it gave these results. If you go into each of the options you can see what is compliant and … [Read more...]
SBS 2008 Best Practice Analyser – When did you run it last?
When was the last time you ran the SBS 2008 BPA on your servers or your clients servers? There are regular updates to the rules used in the SBS 2008 BPA that mean you should consider running it on a monthly basis to ensure that all things are working well. I ran it tonight on my production SBS 2008 box and found a few new items that I was not aware of. The … [Read more...]
Microsoft to visit Australian SMB IT Pro Community
I’ve been working on this for the past 3 years now and recently while in the USA, I was told that they finally had budget for it :-) The aim was to get Microsoft to send a real Product Manager from the SBS team here to visit our SMB IT Pro Community. Finally it’s paying off. Microsoft have confirmed that they will send not one, but two members of the SBS team to … [Read more...]
SBS 2008 Slow Reports – Fixed with UR4
I reported some time back now about problems with SBS 2008 reports and alerts being delayed many hours. Well I’m pleased to announce that today Microsoft has released a fix for this… well most of it anyway :-) The fix is incorporated into SBS 2008 Update Rollup 4 (UR4) and you can read more about it here This is a must have fix in my view, it not only resolves most … [Read more...]