While many are up in arms now about the decision to remove Drive Extender from SBS 2011 Essentials, and Windows Home Server Codenamed “Vail”, it’s great to see that some can still have a laugh at things. Tim Barrett has taken the trophy today with his carton on the topic. Personally I think the Windows Home Server product is the big one affected here. I really … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2010
Drive Extender removed from SBS 2011 Essentials
Sadly, today Microsoft announced that they would be ceasing development of the Drive Extender feature that was to be part of SBS 2011 Essentials and the new Windows Home Server version. No – Microsoft are NOT cancelling SBS 2001 Essentials OR Windows Home Server, but they are removing what I consider to be a key feature to those products. They announced it today … [Read more...]
Good Support from BackupAssist
I want to take a moment to say thank you to Linus from BackupAssist. Linus is not only the CEO of the company, but also the lead architect in their software and a really nice guy. One of Correct Solutions customers suddenly had a very strange issue with their Hyper-V server. Backup was being done using BackupAssist on the Hyper-V host and the customer was … [Read more...]
SBS 2008 and Windows Server Backup is limited to 2TB in total
SBS 2008 uses the inbuilt Windows Server Backup under the covers of their wizards. This backup is a block level backup that stores it’s information as a VHD file on the destination disk no matter if it’s on a USB hard drive or a remote drive share. The SBS team have placed a wizard over the top of this for configuration, but essentially under the covers, it’s just … [Read more...]
Upgrading to SBS 2011 and SBS 2011 Essentials
With the announcement of SBS 2011 recently, many resellers are looking forward and planning future sales for their clients. One of the key questions that comes up is around migration to SBS 2011 in both versions. Currently there are a few methods to get to SBS 2011. Your choices are using the Microsoft Whitepaper method, Jeff Middleton's Swing Migration method … [Read more...]