One of my biggest concerns about the cloud in general is that you can have so much of your data, email and your life stored in the cloud where you have no control over the security at all. My good mate Dana Epp – fellow Security MVP and owner of Scorpion Software, has been developing solutions that will help protect your Office365 stored data from password breaches. … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2012
Umm… Sir… they killed SBS…
I apologise in advance for anyone taking offence to this… I will say I did NOT have a hand in producing it, but kudos for the person who did – they captured my thoughts very well. I will say that Windows Server 2012 Essentials holds much promise, provided Microsoft think seriously about the 25-75 user market that they’ve grown over the past 15 years. … [Read more...]
Trying to run Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8 on Hyper-V?
If you are trying to test out Window Server 2012 or Windows 8 by running it on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V system then you may well see your guest machines lockup on a frequent basis. I’ve seen this myself, but only after I started to do backups on the Hyper-V host on a regular basis. To resolve this problem, you need to download this hotfix and install it on … [Read more...]
Oh how quick we forget SBS 2003
Our team is migrating around 2x SBS 2003 servers as week right now over to SBS 2011 Standard. We’ve gotten pretty darned good at it but every now and then something stops you dead in your tracks. Today one of the guys was onsite doing part of the preflight check on a migration. As part of that we need to revert the server from a 2 NIC configuration with ISA as … [Read more...]