Part of having your servers hosted in the cloud means you can’t control the scheduled downtime when your hosting provider needs to do some maintenance. Fortunately for me my hosting provider VMVault has had very reliable systems and anytime there’s been a failure in one of their systems, I normally find out about it when they are telling me that it’s fixed, not when … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2011
Slow Network Performance on SBS 2011?
Back in the SBS 2008 days we had many people that had slow network performance problems and it was finally narrowed down to a Microsoft TDI driver. The fix was easy – install either it or Windows Server 2008 SP2 onto the server and reboot and the problem was gone. The problem mainly manifested itself if you have AV from Symantec, Trend or Kaspersky or Microsoft's … [Read more...]
Dating Websites–a whole new twist to privacy concerns…
It’s with great concern that I read today an article that is suggesting that like it or not, [email protected] is about to have a dating profile created for him on some US based dating website… this is regardless of if I want to or not – it’s going to be done and I won’t have even ever visited the site. How can this be legal I hear you ask ??? It will be done using … [Read more...]
The offers are flooding in…
Sorry for the pun, but since StorageCraft announced their offer to help, it seems that many others are pushing forward to aid the recovery even before the flood waters recede. These include offers of assistance in terms of product and services from IT professionals and other organisations. Microsoft have offered free storage on their Azure platform here CIA Ops … [Read more...]
How can I use ShadowProtect and Head Start Restore to move a server quickly?
I blogged some time back about how I moved a terminal server which was a Hyper-V guest from Sydney to Brisbane in 7 seconds. People have asked me how I did that so I figured I’d put some notes together for you on how to use ShadowProtect to move a server quickly from one platform to another. You might not achieve the same 7 seconds that I did, as it depends on many … [Read more...]