Last week Trend announced the release of a number of patches for their Worry Free Business Security products targeted at the SMB market. These patches are both a rollup of all accumulative patches plus an additional patch that did not quite make the rollup itself. The information below comes from an informal channel communication that Kieran Cook one of the local Trend … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2009
Microsoft SharePoint set to expire
Microsoft today announced that they have another SharePoint opps in the works. The fact that the blog post came from a Corporate Vice President suggests to me just how bad this opps is and also just how seriously they take it. The blog post here shows that if you apply Service Pack 2 to a full SharePoint 2007 server, or Search Server 2008 Express that it will stop working … [Read more...]
The difference between Yoda and you
Just read a cute news article that talks about International Talk like Yoda day. As I read it I can t help but think of how this relates to the SMB IT Professional community. No not the actual talking like Yoda, but the persona that he is. Yoda is certainly old and wise that much is for certain. In all the Star Wars movies, you see Yoda using his years of experience to … [Read more...]
How to mess up your network with virtualisation
Got a call from a friend yesterday. He had some problems with his network which essentially revolved around Active Directory being messed up. The exact details are a little unclear, but the long and short of it was that around a week back, their main DC had some hardware problems so they resolved it by transferring the system over to Hyper-V (not sure how they did this … [Read more...]
SBS Migration to SBS 2008 Experiences today
Doing a migration tonight and thought that I d document some of the experiences for those that are interested. This is not a complete list, just some things that I see people falling over. This post is NOT A SUBSTITUTE for reading the excellent documentation that Microsoft have provided. Run the SBS 2003 BPA and fix EVERYTHING listed even the caution items. I had the … [Read more...]