11:05 pm on January 26, 2012
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 cause many things f...
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11:00 pm on January 25, 2012
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. See below for th...
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11:20 pm on January 21, 2012
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 issue with tha...
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11:15 pm on January 21, 2012
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 issue with tha...
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11:30 pm on January 19, 2012
Today we were doing a Disaster Recovery for a client. Well not so much as a Disaster Recovery, but a recovery of old data from an old tape. The tape was from April 2011. The data we wanted to recover was from an NTBACKUP of Exchange 2003. We needed to recover the CEOs Mailbox as he’d “lost” certain emails that were now considered important.
Anyway –...
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11:00 pm on January 17, 2012
Robert Crane is running a workshop on Sharepoint – Beyond the Basics. Rob is well known as an authority on how SharePoint can be used in the SMB space, and he has recently been awarded as a Microsoft MVP in Office 365 – a core component of Office 365 is SharePoint.
The course information is below and you can register directly with Robert for it Read more
11:00 pm on January 16, 2012
Robert Crane has posted his latest podcast and it’s all about Office 365. Robert interviews Loryan Strant – an Office 365 MVP and discusses what Office 365 is all about as well as other cool cloud stuff. Well worth a listen.
You can check out the most recent podcast here, but als...
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11:00 pm on January 10, 2012
Microsoft are doing their bit at CES this week to show the world how great Windows 8 will be and how much we all will need it. Windows 8 from a client desktop perspective certainly has some great new features that will be of great use to single person computer environments – what I mean here is the scenarios where we have one user to one desktop computer.
I’m wondering ...
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11:08 pm on January 9, 2012
I was reading one of my regular websites when I found an article about Soluto. I figured I would give it a go and see what it was like.
Soluto a cool web based tool that installs an agent on a PC. It then allows you – the helper/friend/IT Professional, to analyse the problems that the computer has and assist in dealing with them. Below you can see me the user ...
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11:00 pm on January 5, 2012
When doing the SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 migration, make sure you have the latest version of the document and ALWAYS review the document in full.
Microsoft made a recent change in the documentation which included a step designed to get around this issue – it’s documented on Page 17 where you need to give the built in administrators group the right to logon as a batch job. If you ha...
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