My SBS 2008 server is running on a 2 year old ML110 G4 and the disk subsystem is not up to the task. I’m unsure if it’s a hardware issue or just old as I frequently get the system pausing whilst the hard drive light is flat out on. Anyway – I decided to look at restoring it to an ML110G5 – newer disk controller, 3GB SATA drives etc. Here’s the process I used. 1. I … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2009
What do you want in SBS next version?
I’m fortunate enough to be heading to Redmond the home of the SBS product and development teams in a few weeks. I’ll be there listening and contributing to future product development for Microsoft SMB server range. I know what I’d like to see in the products, but wanted to throw the question out to you all. What do YOU want to see in the next versions of SBS … [Read more...]
Cost Cutting – what are the wrong things to cut?
My weekly blog post on CRN ChannelWeb is up now – this week it’s focused on what costs you should and should NOT cut in tight times. http://community.crn.com/groups/smb-channel-voice/blog/2009/11/11/cost-cutting-what-are-the-wrong-things-to-cut Please check it out and contribute to the discussion. … [Read more...]
Stop devaluing your products!
I was chatting to a couple of people earlier this week about some of the insanely steep vendor discounts that are offered from time to time. You know things like 50% of our software if you buy it this week only. Ultimately vendors do this to promote sales of their products, typically when THEY are not meeting THEIR budgets. I wonder however just how many … [Read more...]
Want Tape Backup for SBS 2008?
One of the biggest changes from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 was the removal by Microsoft of the inbuilt support for Tape Drives as a destination for the backup utility. Melbourne based BackupAssist has for a long time made their product take the pain out of running the inbuilt backups that Microsoft have supplied with their server products. Recently they have released a … [Read more...]