I few weeks back I blogged that the SBS team were working on providing downgrade rights for the 2nd server in the SBS 2008 Premium product to Windows Server 2003 R2 well it s official now. Its official ! They will offer Alternative Version rights see here for details - http://www.microsoft.com/wess/en/us/offers.aspx Component compatibility for maximum flexibility When … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2008
SBS 2008 Virus Protection Options
Today Microsoft announced the death of Windows One Care including OneCare for Server which comes as a trial product for SBS 2008. See here for a blog on how it affects SBS 2008. So what then do you use to protect your SBS 2008 server? Well fortunately TrendMicro release yesterday their Worry-Free Business Security suite for SBS 2008 which also works on EBS 2008. You can … [Read more...]
Netgear WGR 614 Router Config Tip
I had to program a Netgear WGR614 Router last Thursday and the normal http://routerlogin.net would not work. Most frustrating indeed. I did some searching and found that if I did a hard reboot of the router and then went to http://192.168.1.1/basicsetting.htm and you can reconfigure it without the wizards. I could not find anywhere on the Netgear website about this little … [Read more...]
The Internet must be down
I m travelling right now as part of the SBS / SMB IT Professionals Group tour here in Australia, and I ve just spent a nice relaxing weekend doing pretty much nothing at all. I ve caught up with friends here in Perth, watched a bit of TV and a few movies and slept . a lot! So it was a surprise this morning when I went to chat to Susan Bradley on MSN IM and found that she … [Read more...]
there wasn t much real Microsoft content that hadn t been released already
The comment above came from Hilton Travis, and was used in the context where he was referring to the SBS/EBS Virtual Launch event that Microsoft conducted on November 12th, 2008. This blog post is not to pick on Hilton, but to use his comments as an example. It s a comment I ve heard more than a few times now about the information being released around SBS 2008 and EBS 2008. … [Read more...]