September 2007 - Posts

Sunday, September 30, 2007 11:54 AM

Reading my blog...

Body: If you are reading this via any other URL then you might not get the full postings in your RSS reader. The true URL to read this blog it http://blog.sbsfaq.com - go visit it and subscribe using the URL on the site. Published: 1/10/2007 2:54 AM Read...
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Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:37 AM

We’ve Got a Guy.

Body: More announcements from the SMBNation Keynote. Eric Ligman has announced the "We've Got a Guy" campaign starting real soon now. It's focused around the "We've Got a Guy" where often we the SBSC's have to go and...
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Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:28 AM

Who wants a trip on Microsoft’s dime?

Body: Today here at SMBNation, Eric Ligman announced a new promotion for FY-08 exclusively for the SBSC channel. The grand prize is a trip for you and your team to the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, including rafting trips, helicopter flights and much much...
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Friday, September 28, 2007 6:41 PM

SBS Best Practice Analyser – available soon.

Body: Exchange, ISA, SQL and Windows Server all have a best practice analyser – the BPA looks at the system and reviews the particular product for it's setup and configuration and compliance to the recommended best practice as put forth by the MS...
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Friday, September 28, 2007 6:06 PM

Grey has left the building...

Body: I don't know if it's a good day or not. I've just been told that long time SBS MVP, Grey Lancaster, the man who I believe is the community grandpa of SBS, has left the SBS MVP family. No – he's not passed away or anything, in fact...
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Friday, September 28, 2007 5:42 PM

SBS Cougar Preparation...

Body: So I've spent some time today here in Redmond with the SBS Product team. I and other MVPs are hearing from Microsoft on what they have planned for the next version of SBS aka Cougar due out some time after Windows Server 2008 is launched. I...
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Friday, September 28, 2007 5:37 PM

SBS Tech Center – New and Improved

Body: NEWSFLASH: I'm here at Microsoft Redmond today and in the last 45 minutes they have launched a new Tech Center on the MS Technet website specifically for SBS 2003. Which has some cool new features. You can get to it at http://technet.microsoft...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:04 PM

The day before it begins!

Body: Today is the day before SMBNation begins – we've been involved in a few meetings with the Centro team which are really cool. I'd like to say more but they have threatened me if I do J Also got to meet my editor @ MS Press – Karen Szall is...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:23 AM

Backups while I’m away from home

Body: I use a combination of backups on my home SBS network – naturally, it's not your normal network. I've got an SBS 2003 R2 server with a few extra tweaks, a large server that hosts a number of virtualised systems (both WS 2005 R2 and VMWare...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 6:16 AM

Handy maps to have when visiting Microsoft in Redmond

Body: I'm here in Redmond for a few days to attend SMBNation and also to visit a few people at Microsoft on various teams to make good contacts so I can write even better and more informed things on Cougar, Centro, and the other products I'm involved...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:21 PM

SharePoint on an Airplane

Body: No – it's not the title of some B grade movie, but something that I'm doing for real. For some time now, I've trialled a number of software packages to take SharePoint sites offline. The aim being to make as much content in a SharePoint...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:24 PM

SMBNation – I’m on my way

Body: In a few hours I fly out from Sydney heading to Seattle. I'm presenting at SMBNation on conjunction with SBSDiva Ms Susan Bradley on the topic of patch management in the SBS/SMB environments. I must admit, I've known Susan for a long time...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:18 PM

SMB Security Summit – November 23rd, 2007

Body: In conjunction with Trend Micro, I am pleased to announce that on November 23, 2007, here in Sydney, we will be hosting the first ever SMB Security Summit. Come and hear respected industry professionals such as Susan Bradley, Dana Epp, Amy Babinchak...
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Friday, September 21, 2007 3:53 AM

SMB Security Summit – Sydney – November 2007

Body: I've been busy this last week, finalising all the arrangements for the cancellation of the SMBFocus conference that I had planned for November here in Sydney. From the fallout from that however comes something really good and exciting. Trend...
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Sunday, September 16, 2007 6:26 AM

DHCP Server Error

Body: Category – Common Errors The error below occurs during startup only on a number of SBS 2003 servers. It does not occur on ALL of them for some reason. Event Type: Warning Event Source: DhcpServer Event Category: None Event ID: 1056 Date: 16/09/2007...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:12 AM

SMBFocus 2007 Conference Event - Postponed

Body: It is with a heavy heart that I send this email and regret to announce that I will be indefinitely postponing the SMB Focus 2007 Conference Event originally scheduled for November. A number of business and personal reasons have led to making this...
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Friday, September 07, 2007 9:09 PM

ISA on a DC no longer supported...

Body: Unless it's ISA 2004 on an SBS 2003 Premium or SBS 2003 R2 Premium server. Microsoft has withdrawn support for ISA 2004 or ISA 2006 on a Domain Controller in certain scenarios. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/isa/2004/plan/unsupportedconfigs...
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Friday, September 07, 2007 6:56 PM

Moving SBS2003 from a 5yr old server to a new one using StorageCraft

Body: We normally do a swing migration for many of our clients when we upgrade from one server to another. This has the effect of minimising the downtime to the client and at the same time having a new server in place that's faster and cleaner than...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:19 PM

Exchange 2003 to 2007 Migration issues – mail stops flowing.

Body: We're in the middle of migrating one of our clients from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. As part of that we currently have both Exchange servers in the domain and therefore some users on one version and some of the other version. Today we got...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:32 PM

WSUS 2.0 synchronises but will not download content

Body: Onsite today and I was checking a WSUS 2.0 server to ensure that I approved any waiting patches etc. I found that the WSUS server had stalled in the download process. It could synchronise successfully, but it sat at Downloading 0.00MB of xx MB....
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