Similar to the post I did on SBS 2011 Standard Migration White Papers, I’m doing this one to create a permanent placeholder for all migration whitepapers on how to get to SBS 2011 Essentials Editions. SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 Essentials Migration White Paper Migration to SBS 2011 Essentials on new hardware For migration white papers on moving to SBS 2011 Standard – check this … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2011
Where can I get the Small Business Server Best Practice Analyser from?
Microsoft has for some time produced a Best Practice Analyser (Analyzer for the Americans) This BPA allows you to review your SBS installation and will highlight any of the common misconfiguration issues that the Microsoft SBS Product Support Team has identified over time. The BPA will download the latest updates for it each time it is run and therefore will always … [Read more...]
Kerio Partner Forum – Sydney
Come on all you Kerio Partners – the Sydney Partner forum is on June 1st. If you don’t sell Kerio now, you might well want to take a look at the offerings they have. I’ve personally played with the Kerio Control (Firewall) and Kerio Connect (Mail Server) products and think they are well suited in the SMB space that we work in. Below is an extract from the … [Read more...]
Why are all my Exchange Services disabled?
I was doing some work last week on an Exchange 2010 server and multitasking a little too much maybe . I lost connection with the Exchange server services and then discovered in the Services MMC that they were all set to disabled as you can see below. For a moment I had a heart attack and wonder just what the heck was going on… then I remembered that in my multitasking, I … [Read more...]
Should I install W2008 R2 Service Pack 1 on SBS 2011 Standard?
I’ve had this question asked of myself quite a few times now, and my response has been sure – as long as the application providers you run on your server support it. By that I mean things like your AV vendor and any LOB software that you run on the server need to support the Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2. I know that Trend as of WFBS 7.0 Build 1435 … [Read more...]