Microsoft have today released via Windows Update and WSUS, the 2nd rollup of patches for the family of products including SBS 2011 Essentials, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011 Premium. The individual patches are listed below for the relevant products. 2630429 Update Rollup 2 for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials is … [Read more...]
Exchange 2010 SP1 Update Rollup 4–removed from download site
Microsoft have pulled the above mentioned Update Rollup due to a number of issues seen in the field . So much so that Microsoft have taken action to remove it from the update site. Their blog post here talks about how there is the potential for data loss if the Public Folders are moved from within Outlook. Whilst the risk is minor they have pulled the update … [Read more...]
Microsoft pushes Office 365 to everyone
I was writing this blog post over the weekend and downloading Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 and could not help but notice, that Microsoft is now pushing Office 365 to you even when you go to patch your Exchange server. They really are desperate to get you to move to the cloud even if it’s not the right thing for your business. See the … [Read more...]
Why are all my Exchange Services disabled?
I was doing some work last week on an Exchange 2010 server and multitasking a little too much maybe . I lost connection with the Exchange server services and then discovered in the Services MMC that they were all set to disabled as you can see below. For a moment I had a heart attack and wonder just what the heck was going on… then I remembered that in my multitasking, I … [Read more...]
Should I install W2008 R2 Service Pack 1 on SBS 2011 Standard?
I’ve had this question asked of myself quite a few times now, and my response has been sure – as long as the application providers you run on your server support it. By that I mean things like your AV vendor and any LOB software that you run on the server need to support the Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2. I know that Trend as of WFBS 7.0 Build 1435 … [Read more...]