Since I installed the latest BPA on my Western Digital DX 4000 which has Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials on it, I’ve had the alerting pop up with a Computer Monitoring Error as you can see in the screen shot below. This alert pops up on all the client machines that are connected to the server. I’m not the only one to have seen this however, a number of … [Read more...]
How can I run the Best Practice Analyzer on SBS 2011 and Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials?
The Best Practice Analyzer is designed to review your server for any known issues that the Microsoft Support Team are aware of and to show you how to resolve those issues. This FAQ shows you how to install and run the BPA for the first time. The information in this FAQ pertains to Small Business Server 2011 Standard, Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Windows Storage … [Read more...]
SBS 2011 and Multiple Network Cards
SBS 2011 only supports a single Network Card by design. Many of the HP servers that we sell our clients come with multiple network cards installed in them. Most people will simply connect one of the cards and then leave the other disconnected. The downside with this is that it can cause problems with poluting the DNS with nonsense IPs and that in itself can … [Read more...]
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...]
SBS 2008 Best Practice Analyser – When did you run it last?
When was the last time you ran the SBS 2008 BPA on your servers or your clients servers? There are regular updates to the rules used in the SBS 2008 BPA that mean you should consider running it on a monthly basis to ensure that all things are working well. I ran it tonight on my production SBS 2008 box and found a few new items that I was not aware of. The … [Read more...]