That’s it – it’s done. All virtualised servers for SBSfaq.com (aside from our public website) are now running on Windows 8 Hyper-V. Yes – I know that Microsoft have said do not run this in production, but I am taking steps to minimise the risk so that I can learn the technology that will be the basis for whatever Microsoft does in the SMB market over the next few … [Read more...]
Free Veeam Backup & Replication NFR License
Veeam is a product that I’ve been meaning to look at for some time now since a good friend of mine introduced me to them a while back. One of the things that has stopped me however is that I’m a user of Hyper-V and not VMWare. Their latest version v6 supports Hyper-V now so it’s time to check it out. I’ve just been alerted to a free NFR offer that they have … [Read more...]
Active Directory Issue – Event ID 1864
My largest site has 28 DCs spread across Australia and New Zealand. Some of them are in very remote location as they are a mining company. I was working on some Exchange 2010 migration with them when I happened to see this error in the event logs of one of my servers. I further checked and found it in the event logs of ALL of my DCs… This put me into a spin … [Read more...]