Microsoft has been investigating an issue that affects all Windows Server 2008 products, but is shown up more so by things like Trend WFBS 5.1 and other antivirus software. The issue is that anything that uses the common firewall driver in 2008 will be affected. SBS2008 servers may start to have Active Directory errors, issues accessing the server via RDP and a variety of … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2009
Windows 7 Beta and SBS 2008
SBS2008 is designed to allow the end user to easily connect computers to the SBS 2008 network. It does this via the Connect computer wizard where all the user needs to do is to type in http://connect into their Internet Explorer on their new PC and it will walk them through the rest of the process doing all the hard work. Microsoft have tested this and support it with Windows … [Read more...]
HP Australia listening to the SMB IT Professional community
Tonight we had the first meeting of the SMB IT Professionals group in Sydney for the year. We had some really good presentations from HP, StorageCraft and LogMeIn. The big thing of the night was the announcement by local HP Server Product manager, Ari Palandjian that following huge community feedback HP Australia will be bringing back the HP ConfigureAider program that we all … [Read more...]
Hyper-V and SBS/EBS coming soon
I ll be travelling the country side later this month working with Microsoft to deliver some sessions on Licensing and Hyper-V. My session will be focused just on Hyper-V with SBS and EBS. The outline is below. You can register for the event here Hyper-V with SBS and EBS Want to know more about how to run SBS and EBS in a Hyper-V environment? Wayne Small will share his real … [Read more...]
PC Authority starts up a Business Section
Respected publication PC Authority, today launched a Business Technology Centre. I was fortunate enough to be able to pen a few words on my thoughts for 2009 in an article here. Keen for feedback as always. … [Read more...]