Last week on two separate Windows Server 2008 R2 servers on a clients site, both of them decided they would not correctly recognise the tape drives anymore. These servers had not been patched in a few months (due to the onsite IT Admin) and therefore there were a large number of patches installed. The problem showed up in Device Manager with the HP LTO Tape Drive … [Read more...]
Update Rollup 5 for SBS 2008 available
Microsoft last week released Update Rollup 5 for SBS 2008. If you have default settings for your SBS 2008 patch management then it will automatically download it for installation on your SBS 2008 server as per my screenshot below. Installation for me did not require a reboot and took only a few minutes. The list of things fixed by this is documented here … [Read more...]
Trend Micro WFBS 7.0 Patch 1396 Released
Trend this last week silently released another patch for WFBS 7.0 to combat issues people are seeing in the real world. The patch is cumulative of the previous public released hotfixes and supersedes the 1370 patch (Trend WFBS 7.0 – Patch 1370 Now Available) released in December. I found out about the patch via the WFBS Security Console. This is a new feature in … [Read more...]
Server Manager issues after applying patches
I was building a couple of virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 servers for a client for an Exchange 2010 deployment project last week. I noticed this morning that one of them would not allow me to add roles or features to it which was rather strange. I got the error below when I investigated – 0x800F0818. I found this Blog post which helped me resolve the issue. … [Read more...]
Exchange 2007 SP3 Update Rollup 2 available for Exchange 2007 and SBS 2008
Microsoft this week has released more update rollups for Exchange 2007 – if you are up to date with your patching on your SBS 2008 servers then the one that interests you most is Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 Update Rollup 2. Wow – what a mouthful. You can find out more about what's in this patch here, but the key thing is that it fixes the broken files links for … [Read more...]