Since this site started in November 2000, I’ve focused pretty much on SBS as it’s been the core product that I’ve built solutions around. It’s been that way now for many many years. However over the last few years, you’ve seen that I’ve expanded the scope of the site a little more and I’ve covered other topics including things such as Cloud Services, Essential … [Read more...]
Disaster Recovery from the Cloud…
I’m sure you’ve all heard about the massive rain and flooding that is affecting Queensland here in Australia at the moment. My heart really goes out to those poor souls affected in the floods as they will likely have lost everything. Few so far have lost their lives which is I guess so very fortunate. Possessions can be replaced, life however never can. … [Read more...]
How can I subscribe to this blog?
I was asked yesterday by a regular reader how they can subscribe to this blog. I realised then that I don’t have a funky RSS icon or anything like that on my site. Ok – so I’ll fix that in the new year along with a few other thing, but for now – you can subscribe to this blog a few ways. RSS – This will give you a live feed and you can subscribe to it … [Read more...]
Microsoft didn’t kill SBSfaq.com
You may have read my post from yesterday about how SBSfaq.com was dead in the water for 4-5 hours yesterday. I was instantly suspicious of Microsoft and their patches as being the root cause of the problem. I mean it had to be Microsofts fault because patches had just been applied to the box and it had been rebooted right!!! WRONG. It just goes to show that … [Read more...]
SBSfaq.com Website Down – here’s why
I awoke this morning to find that SBSfaq.com was in fact dead in the water. I logged onto the server console and found it had rebooted after last nights Microsoft patches. Oh great I thought – something is messed up with the patches. I reviewed the list of patches and could not see anything that would make it fail like this. None of the patches looked like … [Read more...]