I’m doing more and more with Powershell and whilst I’m no programmer, I’m going to post a few tips that I find along the way that make it easy to deal with things. Todays tip is about Services and how to handle them. Here are a few that I’ve used today whilst onsite doing work for a client to deal with their servers service configurations. We needed to stop … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2011
Microsoft announces death of ForeFront TMG inside Gartner Report…
Wow.. what is the world coming too… now I have to pay $1995 USD to read a Gartner Report in which Microsoft supposedly announce that they will not continue on with ForeFront TMG aka ISA Server anymore… I would have thought that such an announcement would be made to their channel partners via a blog post or something, but no… I need to pay $1995 to see this critical piece of … [Read more...]
ShadowProtect Virtual Edition released
StorageCraft last week released a new version of ShadowProtect for Virtualised Server environments. This new version is specifically linked to the virtualisation platforms for Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and Oracle. The retail price on these for a 3 virtual server pack is the same as the price for a single physical license. Great price point for sure. The … [Read more...]
SMB IT Professionals – Australia
Over the last few years, the original SBS groups that were started here in Australia by myself, Dean Calvert, Henry Craven and Stuart Applegate have gone through a bit of a growing up phase. The groups have been focusing on forming a national initiative and have as a result rebranded themselves as the SMB IT Professionals group. Their official website is … [Read more...]
Are RDX Backup Drives supported on SBS 2011?
RDX Backup Drives are the cool little units that have an interchangeable cartridge which is in fact a small 2.5” Hard Drive. The come from a variety of vendors including Dell and HP and are commonly sold with backup software designed to work with them. You can see below Disk 6 is a 300GB RDX drive and this is how it appears in Disk Manager – note that it shows as a … [Read more...]