I m doing another migration tonight for a client from SBS2003 to SBS 2008. We re also doing it from a physical SBS 2003 system over to a Virtual SBS 2008 server on Windows Server 2008 with HyperV. Over the past week, I ve already setup and got running a virtualised ISA 2006 server, virtualised SQL 2008 server and a new virtualised Windows 2008 Terminal Server. Tonight is the … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2009
Ingram Micro, Moneytech and Australian SMB Community
I heard people today in the Australian SMB community talking about a letter they got from Ingram Micro. The letter talked about their account with Ingram and it stating that your Ingram account is being transferred to Moneytech in May.... . Knowing from past experience that Ingram have not always been the best at communicating, I sought to clarify the situation. I just got … [Read more...]
When does a rollup become a service pack?
I note with interest that today Microsoft released Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1. Basically this is a collection of fixes since they released Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 and can be applied to a server without the need to apply the previous rollup packages. The question comes to mind though, is when is a service pack now different to a rollup? You … [Read more...]
Vote #1 – Keira McIntosh for SBSC PAL for Australia
In all my life I have never really been vocal about politics at all but there is one thing that really hits my heart and that is the SMB community that I work in. Therefore this blog post is 100% my personal view which you may well choose not to agree with. Ok so it s now public that Microsoft have announced their intention to seek guidance from the community for the role … [Read more...]
Hyper-V and ShadowProtect Slow Performance?
Today I ve been working for a client doing some restructuring of their servers. We ve been taking a number of servers that were on physical hardware and virtualising them. To do that I ve used ShadowProtect from Storagecraft. It s a wonderful product and one that I ve had for some years now. One of the cool things that I am using it for today is to take an image of a … [Read more...]