Trend this last week silently released another patch for WFBS 7.0 to combat issues people are seeing in the real world. The patch is cumulative of the previous public released hotfixes and supersedes the 1370 patch (Trend WFBS 7.0 – Patch 1370 Now Available) released in December. I found out about the patch via the WFBS Security Console. This is a new feature in … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2011
Things to do on SBS 2008 after you do a restore
If you use ShadowProtect or any other backup program to restore your SBS 2008 server to alternate hardware, OR if you have it virtualised and you move it from one virtualisation host to another, then there are a few things you simply MUST do to ensure things work correctly with SBS 2008. First thing is that upon the first boot, you must use F8 to get into Safe mode. From … [Read more...]
Are you a Professional? Really?
Many in the IT field love to be called professionals. They take pride in the fact that being called a professional puts them “above the rest”. But really – can you claim to be a professional just because of some badge or achievement or exam you’ve passed? I talk to many professionals in the SMB space, and one of the things I constantly hear is that they never have … [Read more...]
Active Directory Issue – Event ID 1864
My largest site has 28 DCs spread across Australia and New Zealand. Some of them are in very remote location as they are a mining company. I was working on some Exchange 2010 migration with them when I happened to see this error in the event logs of one of my servers. I further checked and found it in the event logs of ALL of my DCs… This put me into a spin … [Read more...]
Server Manager issues after applying patches
I was building a couple of virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 servers for a client for an Exchange 2010 deployment project last week. I noticed this morning that one of them would not allow me to add roles or features to it which was rather strange. I got the error below when I investigated – 0x800F0818. I found this Blog post which helped me resolve the issue. … [Read more...]