I’ve been getting quite a few reports back from people that after installing the latest Update Rollup 2 (UR2) on SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, that the client computers have appeared offline and the backups have failed. I blogged about the release of UR2 earlier this month here. One of the things that I observed during the … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2012
Skype for Windows Phone 7
Wow – I saw on Facebook tonight that Skype for Windows Phone 7 is now in beta. woohoo… I rushed to get it and was sadly disappointed… you see it seems that it’s only available for certain regions at the moment… Sorry – really not impressed. For those of you in the USA – I’m sure it will work for you. I hope that Microsoft release it to those outside the USA … [Read more...]
Windows 8 Conference – Now Virtual as well
MVP Nation is on next week as you will have seen from previous blog posts. I’m going to be there to be part of it and also as a presenter presenting on Community related topics that I’ve come to know pretty well over the years. Harry (the conference organiser) has announced in the last few days that he’s also organised to make it easy for those not able to get to … [Read more...]
WSUS not working on SBS2011
I was investigating a fault today for a client – their new SBS 2011 server had stopped working with WSUS. As my investigation went on I found that this issue would also affect the SBS Client Connect as well as other web based applications on this server. The SBS console was reporting “An error occured while retrieving updates information.” as the screen below shows. I … [Read more...]
Computer Monitoring Error since BPA Installed
Since I installed the latest BPA on my Western Digital DX 4000 which has Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials on it, I’ve had the alerting pop up with a Computer Monitoring Error as you can see in the screen shot below. This alert pops up on all the client machines that are connected to the server. I’m not the only one to have seen this however, a number of … [Read more...]