Susan Bradley has just posted a brief video about the Western Digital Sentinel DX4000 which features Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. The word is slowly creeping out now about how cool this technology is and what you can do with it. Tomorrow, I’ll be posting my in-depth review on the WD Sentinel DX4000 tomorrow after having had it running here in the SBSfaq … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2012
SBS 2011 and Multiple Network Cards
SBS 2011 only supports a single Network Card by design. Many of the HP servers that we sell our clients come with multiple network cards installed in them. Most people will simply connect one of the cards and then leave the other disconnected. The downside with this is that it can cause problems with poluting the DNS with nonsense IPs and that in itself can … [Read more...]
Why won’t my server respond to Ping?
I’ve just finished building a couple of dedicated application servers for a client. One is for IIS and the other is for SQL. I was somewhat confused though that they did not respond to a PING command. A little digging into the firewall on the server showed me that by default the ICMP Response is disabled unless you have enable File and Printer Sharing. … [Read more...]
How do you run a Domain Controller with a Dynamic IP Address?
SBS 2011 Essentials is a bit different from all other Microsoft servers in the past. Traditional network design calls for the Domain Controllers to have a FIXED IP address within your network. Well in SBS 2011 Essentials, Microsoft understood that most clients could not figure out how to disable the DHCP on their routers and therefore they redesigned SBS 2011 … [Read more...]
Credit Card skimming sucks – Have you ever had your Credit Card skimmed?
Until today I could say no. This afternoon we received a call here at home. The bank was calling to find out if we had indeed purchased over $3000 of gear at various Apple Stores around Sydney during the day… Naturally the answer was No. The Banks Fraud division already knew that though and were going to cancel the AMEX card on that account. Great – No … [Read more...]