Yes people there’s some big announcements coming on many fronts and early next week SBSfaq.com will have some exciting things to announce. It’s almost like Christmas in July :-) Some of these announcements will only be made to newsletter subscribers, so make sure you sign up to get the latest from us as soon as it’s available. … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2010
Top 10 biggest cloud outages of 2010… so far
I think it’s great to finally see the media look at the potential risk of cloud computing rather than just pump up all the benefits. Maybe we can see a more balanced thought process start to develop out there in both the channel and vendor community. CRN yesterday posted this article on the 10 Biggest Cloud outages of 2010 – so far. You can read a little about … [Read more...]
SBS 2008 and Hyper-V Supported Scenarios
Today I heard a new one – someone had configured SBS 2008 on a server, and enabled the Hyper-V role on that server. They had then put some Hyper-V guests on top of it. They installed ShadowProtect on the SBS 2008 server and were experiencing issues with the guest operating systems having their disks disconnected during the ShadowProtect backups. The long and the … [Read more...]
What is the password for the default SBS 2008 Administrator account?
When you install SBS 2008, the default Domain Administrator account called Administrator is actually disabled. People ask what is the password for this account. Quite simple really – when you installed SBS 2008, it forces you to create a Network Administrator account and give that account a password. It takes that password and stamps it on THE Administrator … [Read more...]
When should I enable the default administrator account in SBS 2008?
SBS 2008 is designed from the ground up as a secure environment. So much so that Microsoft designed it so that the Administrator account (often called the –500 account) is actually disabled during the setup of SBS 2008. Instead, during SBS 2008 setup, Microsoft ask you to give a name to create a brand new Network Administrator account. They do this so that … [Read more...]