Recently I was asked to be part of a panel discussion with Microsoft's new SBSC Program Manager Wendy Smith. These were a series of discussions held in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in which Microsoft wanted to hear from the SBSC's to understand what they could do better. Personally I applaud Microsoft for doing this and I hope that this bodes well for the future as I … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2007
Update for Trenders
Thank you to the people that have emailed me about the Trend issues I have mentioned. It seems based on the feedback that I've gotten that what I see as ONE issue is to separate issues. I've got some info on how to resolve one of them and I'll aim to update the blog in the next 24hours with that. I've been a little slow in the update of this as I've been busy preparing for … [Read more...]
Last call for two great community events
This is the last call for two great community events we're having here in Australia this week. The Sydney SBS Group meeting is on tonight and we have guest speakers Jeff Alexander, Dana Epp and Amy Babinchak along with Susan Bradley and Eriq Neale - you can register & find out more here And on Friday we have the SMB Security Summit, which has been fantastically supported by … [Read more...]
Calling all Trenders…
I'm trying to take the temperature from the community here on an issue that I've seen pop up on a few of the computers at a few of my sites. I've lodged the issue with Trend now here in Australia, and I've started to hear from a few others around the world that they too might be experiencing the same issue. So what I'm trying to do is to use the power of the community to … [Read more...]
DCDIAG and Redirected Printers
I'm doing a migration this weekend in a large, non SBS site. As part of that I've replaced the domain controller in a remote site with a new box. After making it a domain controller, I ran DCDIAG to check that all was fine. I got a number of errors in the output log that didn't make sense. The error below is from the DCDIAG output. Starting test: systemlog An Error … [Read more...]