I forgot to post this last week, but Kerio are running a webinar this Thursday at a very Aussie friendly time of 8:30am :-) If you are at all interested in their products, you should take an hour and check it out. Details below. LIVE WEBINAR - DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER Intrusion Prevention System in Kerio Control … [Read more...]
What is all the fuss about Kerio?
Recently at SMBNation, long time SBS MVP Eriq Neale announced that he has ditched Exchange Server from his SBS 2008 installation and is now running on Kerio Connect for his mail system. Well, I’ve got a confession to make… yes – I too am using Kerio products for SBSfaq’s business requirements. I ditched my ISA server some time back and have been using Kerio Firewall … [Read more...]
How to configure a Thomson TG782T to work with SBS 2003 and SBS 2008
Doing some work for a charity organisation today, and had to configure their Telstra supplied Thomson TG782T router to work with SBS 2003 R2. Found it rather confusing though as the routers definition of firewall settings refers to outbound settings only – not inbound settings. Anyway – in order to make it work, I wanted to port forward ports 25, 80, 443, 444, 1723 … [Read more...]
What port do I need open to allow VPN to SBS?
Often a common question asked is about the ports that need to be open on a firewall/router device to allow the VPN to work with SBS 2003 and SBS 2008. Each router has it’s own configuration interface and as such may have extra options that need to be changed in order for the VPN to work correctly. In order to have VPN run correctly, you need to enable it on SBS 2003 or … [Read more...]
What inbound ports do I need to open on my firewall for SBS 2008 ?
Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008) requires a number of ports open on your firewall to allow inbound traffic from the Internet in to your network. SBS 2008 needs a lower number of ports open than SBS 2003 did. You will only need to open the ports below to enable all SBS 2008 functionality if you are using all facilities. If you do not need a specific function open then there … [Read more...]