Fellow SBS MVP Boon Tee from Adelaide, SA, has launched his own version of a Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 appliance. He’s chosen to base his on the HP Microserver chassis. Below is a quick video that you can check out from “Jessica” aka Susan Bradley doing her best “Aussie” accent to help promote things. I’ve not had a chance to look at Boon’s offering myself, … [Read more...]
Update Rollup 2 for SBS 2011 Essentials and Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials
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...]
Looking for a community mailing list for Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials?
Then look no further. Long time SBSer – Grey Lancaster has started a more traditional mailing list on yahoogroups. The group is in it’s infancy right now, but you can sign up below and get involved. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/WSSE/ … [Read more...]
WD Sentinel – Small Office NAS and Backup for SMB Clients
I’ve had the pleasure of having a WD Sentinel running in the SBSfaq.com office network here for the last 2 months. The WD Sentinel was released late last year by Western Digital as their first device focused around Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. I’ve been given the DX 4000 model which has 2 x 2TB drives in it to review although they have other models as … [Read more...]
WD Sentinel – First Video
Susan Bradley has just posted a brief video about the Western Digital Sentinel DX4000 which features Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. The word is slowly creeping out now about how cool this technology is and what you can do with it. Tomorrow, I’ll be posting my in-depth review on the WD Sentinel DX4000 tomorrow after having had it running here in the SBSfaq … [Read more...]