One of the members of the SMB IT Professionals Group in Sydney is Robert Crane. Robert has spent some time working with Windows SharePoint Services and has taken a vast amount of his knowledge and put it into writing in the form of his Windows SharePoint Services Operations Guide. This guide is comprised of many pages of information that walks you through from basics such as … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2008
SBS 2008 Migration Documentation
I'm finalising to do a migration this weekend from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 for one of our customers who is on the official Microsoft TAP program for SBS 2008. As part of that I needed to download and review the latest documentation relating to the official Microsoft supported methods to perform the migration. Basically they support a form of the "Swing Migration" method that I've … [Read more...]
Trend blocking Antivirus 2009
This came up in the SBS2K list where one of the members posted about his sites and the fact that the users were downloading and installing a product called Antivirus 2009. He wondered why the version of Trend he is using was not blocking them. I suspect that this came to him using a form of malvertisement and sure enough - after checking Sandi's blog, I am right. It looks … [Read more...]
I’m outta here..
Yup - for the next few days I'll be out of contact while I take a few days to spend with my family out west on a farm that has no mobile phone reception and no Internet access. I won't be back online till next Tuesday so if you email me I'll respond after that point. I'll be out west - in the center of this little map - so you can see there's not much around which will be … [Read more...]
SPAM Filtering Options in Trend Worry-Free Business Security
With the release of Trends WFBS 5.0 (formerly known as CS and CSM Security) Trend have upgraded the Antispam components in a number of ways. For some this is causing some confusion. Hopefully I can help resolve that. When you purchase WFBS Advanced over Standard, you get support for Exchange Server. This is the typical choice for Small Business Server owners who use Exchange … [Read more...]