I’ve been away for a few days and came back to find that my WD Sentinel DX4000 has software updates available for it. You can do the update manually or enable it to do automatic updates. Personally I prefer to do manual updates on a number of my key servers so that I can review what has changed prior to installing the update. You can check out what is now in … [Read more...]
WD Sentinel DX 4000 – Initializing
Yesterday, my WD Sentinel DX 4000 appeared to have locked up – it had stopped responding to the front panel buttons. I wondered why it had done this and then I found I had inadvertently taken it off the UPS when I re-cabled some things the other day and I suspect we had a power fluctuation which caused it to glitch. Anyway – the only way to resolve this was to hard power it. … [Read more...]
WD DX 4000–Software Update Available
I really like my WD Sentinel DX 4000 – it’s great little product for me and I’ve actually got two of them in the SBSfaq.com offices. I walked into the office this morning though to see the display below on them “Software Update Available”. This is cool and I’d love it if my normal servers would do the same – makes it nice and simple to see what is going on. Ok – … [Read more...]
How to troubleshoot Client Connector Install issues on SBS 2011 Essentials
I was helping one of our techs out when he was deploying SBS 2011 Essentials for a client this week. He had a couple of computers that crashed with errors when the Client Connector Installation was going through. I commenced to dig into the log files and also put together a blog post when I hit a problem I didn’t know about. I turned to Google and low and behold, I … [Read more...]
Where can I get support for my WD DX 4000 Sentinel?
There’s an online support forum available here which seems to have a reasonable bit of traffic. … [Read more...]