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...]
Does SBS 2008 or SBS 2011 support Network Teaming?
This is a question that often crops up in a few circles. The idea behind network teaming is the ability to take multiple physical cards and to “bind” them together to make them appear as a single network card to the operating system. Typically you would do this for redundancy and “performance” reasons on your network. HP and Dell and others do this via the … [Read more...]
Why are people disabling IPv6 on SBS 2008?
It’s interesting to hear feedback from the SBS support team at Microsoft in Las Colinas, TX about the issues that they see when supporting the product. One of the common ones that they see, and I hear out there in the community is around IPv6 being evil or bad on SBS 2008. Some people experience connectivity issues on SBS 2008 (and potentially SBS 2011) ad they do … [Read more...]