It’s easy to lose track of how long you’ve taken to do a migration, particularly if you have multiple projects running at the same time. Lucky for us in SBS 2011 Standard, Microsoft have an easy way to know how many days left you have to do the migration before the SBS 2003 or SBS 2008 server will shutdown automatically. Firstly – you need to know that you have a maximum … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2011
SBS 2011 Migration Tool Updated
Microsoft this week have released an update for the SBS 2011 Migration tool that ships on the SBS 2011 DVDs. This tool takes into account more then a dozen additional checks that need to be done prior to a migration to ensure that the smooth migration form SBS 2003 or SBS 2008 to SBS 2011 Standard. It’s quick and easy to get the update, when you run the Migration … [Read more...]
Optimising a heavily loaded desktop
We ran a training session at Correct Solutions last night for the team and today I’m in the office running on my laptop and wanting to produce the video that I recorded via Camtasia. The only problem is that doing this makes my laptop non responsive while the video is being produced – not an ideal situation. Naturally I want to have my cake and eat it too – so I … [Read more...]
IP Subnet Calculator
Back in the days when I did my TCP/IP for NT4 training, you had to be able to understand subnets and decide on them manually. Now further down the track, there’s a lot more use of TCP/IP as it’s the foundation of life, the universe and everything. One of my guys in the office showed me this cool website that you can use to do all the basic calculations for you for … [Read more...]
How to crack passwords
Many people have asked after my recent article on passwords, about how they can crack their own passwords. There are many ways to do this and I am by no means an expert on it. One person who is an expert on security is Dana Epp – an Enterprise Security MVP who runs Scorpion Software. Dana announced at SMBNation about a new site and video series he is launching – called Crack … [Read more...]