So after a few hours of trial and error, I've finally gotten the main site for www.sbsfaq.com moved over to the new Windows Server 2012 R2 server. Along the way I've learned a lot about PHP, MySQL, IIS 8.5 and a host of other things that you normally deal with once in a blue moon. … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2015
Excuse me while I rearrange things..
It’s been a while since I posted a News articles, in fact January 2011 was the last time I posted a new article per se – I’ve been doing blog posts and FAQs since that time. Anyway, I’ve just completed an in place upgrade to WordPress 4.1. Now I’m in the middle of moving the entire site over to a new Windows Server 2012 R2 server, hosted with my friends at … [Read more...]
Interactive Services Detection – no it’s not a virus
I was onsite today with a client. While I was doing some work on a number of unrelated things, their helpdesk team leader came to me with an urgent issue. Apparently a large number of users had suddenly gotten this window pop up on their screens from the Interactive Service Detection. Initial user response was to panic of course, and the helpdesk team leader … [Read more...]
How to do Exchange 2013 Migration Without Migrating Public Folders
We’ve been doing a number of migrations from SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 over to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials + Exchange 2013., or other variations. So far all the clients have needed to migrate their public folders which is a long and complicated process that really is a pain. Recently we’ve had the need to migrate a client that has no Public Folders in their Exchange … [Read more...]