Tonight whilst presenting at the SMB IT Professionals meeting in Sydney, I showed off a cool tool that I used called Royal TS. This tool allows me to connect via RDP to multiple servers at once. A new feature however integrates it with Hyper-V servers and allows it to see the sessions on that server as well. They have a free version for up to 10 connections, … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2011
Want to find out more about Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials?
Then come along to the Sydney SMB IT Professionals meeting tomorrow night where I’ll be presenting a dive into this new and exciting product. Learn how to integrate it into existing SBS 2008 or SBS 2011 Standard Edition environments so that you can provide this cool technology to your clients. There is a whole heap of power under the covers of this exciting new … [Read more...]
Migrating SharePoint from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 Standard
Microsoft have provided some documentation on how to do this as part of their guide, however local Sydney SharePoint guru, Robert Crane has provided a much more indepth and detailed series of steps on his blog here. Rob’s steps include not just the basics, but also quite a few advanced tips and tricks including better memory optimisation, and importantly how to use BLOB … [Read more...]
SBS 2011 Essentials Release Candidate Now Available
Microsoft today announced on their blog that they have released the Release Candidate build of SBS 2011 Essentials. What this means is that this build is so close to the final product that they are looking for any last minute bugs and issues that people may see. This build does not include the Drive Extender technology that they pulled from the product before … [Read more...]
What size partition should I use for SBS 2011 Standard?
This is becoming a common question for people thinking about deploying SBS 2011 Standard. With SBS 2008 I always used a 80GB partition for the C: drive, ad then created additional partitions for Exchange databases and the Users data. Many people are unsure of what size to make the C: drive on their SBS 2011 servers. The issue however is not just what size to … [Read more...]