Yes - that's right folks, the community focused Shockey Monkey system launched by Vlad from Own Web Now and built using 100% community input is coming to Sydney. It's due to officially launch shortly, and Vlad is shipping servers to Australia as we speak so that he can work around some of the privacy laws that surround storage of customer data. Check out Vlads blog for more … [Read more...]
Windows 2008 Step by Step Guides
Microsoft have released a number of step by step guides on how to configure Windows 2008 Server. They are not SBS specific (I'll have some on my site soon) but I figure they are a great place to start for people wanting to get the lowdown on Windows Server 2008. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=518d870c-fa3e-4f6a-97f5-acaf31de6dce&displaylang=en&tm … [Read more...]
HP RAID Controller – Drive Expansion
I'm onsite today doing some work with a client - one of the things I've had to do is to add some disks to an existing HP RAID setup. Part of the screen below includes an animated refresh button which "might" give them impression that it's refreshing the screen often. It's not. The tip of the day is to HIT the REFRESH button. Had I done it earlier, I would have realised that … [Read more...]
Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 have RTM’d
Ok - so i'll be blog post number 3,458,266 to tell you that after a long wait, Vista Service Pack 1 has been released today (Tuesday here in Australia but Monday in the USA). In addition Windows Server 2008 went RTM as well putting it on target for the official launch later this month. I found this morning that Windows Server 2008 is now available on MSDN for those … [Read more...]
Exchange 2007 SP1 fixes lots more than is documented
I've been wrestling with Exchange 2007 on my one of my larger sites now for the last 7 weeks. I've had the case with MS PSS here in Australia for that long too and they have not been able to make ANY progress on it at all. When I first lodged the case, Exchange 2007 SP1 was in beta - and at that time I asked if the issues we were experiencing were resolved by it at all - … [Read more...]