Since I installed the latest BPA on my Western Digital DX 4000 which has Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials on it, I’ve had the alerting pop up with a Computer Monitoring Error as you can see in the screen shot below. This alert pops up on all the client machines that are connected to the server. I’m not the only one to have seen this however, a number of … [Read more...]
SBS Best Practice Analyser updated this week
Well the tool was called the SBS Best Practices Analyser (Analyzer for the US guys) but it’s been called the Windows Server Solutions BPA since it was re-released for the SBS 2011 platform. Microsoft have released an update for this just this week. They announced it here. The BPA works on SBS 2011 Standard Edition, SBS 2011 Essentials, Windows Storage Server 2008 … [Read more...]
WD Sentinel – Small Office NAS and Backup for SMB Clients
I’ve had the pleasure of having a WD Sentinel running in the SBSfaq.com office network here for the last 2 months. The WD Sentinel was released late last year by Western Digital as their first device focused around Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. I’ve been given the DX 4000 model which has 2 x 2TB drives in it to review although they have other models as … [Read more...]
WD Sentinel – First Video
Susan Bradley has just posted a brief video about the Western Digital Sentinel DX4000 which features Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. The word is slowly creeping out now about how cool this technology is and what you can do with it. Tomorrow, I’ll be posting my in-depth review on the WD Sentinel DX4000 tomorrow after having had it running here in the SBSfaq … [Read more...]
WDFME.EXE consuming high CPU all the time
I got a few CPU alerts from my Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials over the last few days about high CPU usage. I brought up Task Manager to check it out and found a process called WDFME.EXE was using up a large portion of it. I did some googling and found that this was linked to the Western Digital SmartWare software that I had installed on the system as it … [Read more...]