There’s a lot of news in the media at the moment about massive system hacks by a number of rogue hacker groups. One of the local ones recently has been domain registrar DistributeIT based here in Australia. Their systems were not only hacked, but totally and utterly destroyed by the hackers. The most recent news article on this has DistributeIT talking about … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2011
PowerShell– Hyper-V Scripting
Whilst digging for PowerShell scripts for Hyper-V, I found this very cool resource on the Microsoft TechNet Wiki site so I thought I would share it here. The Wiki has a load of scripts that will do basic things as well as more complex items such as compacting VHDs. Basically I’m looking to put a few scripts together to enable me to quickly create entire VMs for testing … [Read more...]
Are you sorry for what you do?
Ever had someone apologise to you when they totally screw things up? Have you ever done the same to your customers and admit it when you cause unexpected problems? I’ll be the answers were yes and no from most of you. Sadly that is the truth. So many so called IT Professionals out there will never admit their mistakes to their peers, let alone admitting them to their … [Read more...]
SBS 2011 Licensing in Upgrade and Downgrade Scenarios
Microsoft have produced a number of learning bite webcasts – this one is focused on the upgrade and downgrade scenarios around SBS 2011. They also go into depth about the Premium add-on so that it’s easier to understand how to get to SBS 2011 from the various previous versions of SBS. … [Read more...]
SBS 2011 Licensing in Virtualisation Scenarios
Microsoft have produced a number of learning bite webcasts – this one is focused on the Virtualisation Scenarios that can be built around SBS 2011. They make it simple to understand the potential that exists here and how you can correctly license it for SBS 2011 Standard, SBS 2011 Essentials and SBS 2011 Premium. Specifically they clarify that you cannot use SBS … [Read more...]