SBS is just soooooo kewl...

OK - so Stu & I are in Sydney for the latest MS/HP SMB Partner summit. To keep costs down we're sharing a room (separate beds - c'mon now, cut it out!!).

There's only 1 Internet connection in the room. I decided to bring a spare Cisco PIX 501 with me so we could share the link, but alas it wouldn't work for some reason due to the way they set these things up.

We tried using ICS with my notebook plugged into the 'net and our notebooks “talking” over the wiresless cards but that was a problem too - with the XP SP2 firewall running.

So, hmmm, I realised I had a SBS server in Virtual PC on my notebook. Fired it up, made the wireless NIC the internal card and Stu's notebook became a DHCP client on the inside of the SBS. Got him connected and configured through ISA (it's an SBS Premium server I carry around) and voila - he's connected.

The speed is pretty cool too - so I'm also updating the SUS image I've got on the SBS. We were so impressed we called Wayne whilst he was ploughing through 2 years of inventory reports (that's another story completely) and told him to cheer him up.

So - even in a hotel room with a couple of notebooks, SBS provides an ideal solution. In reality it's a 1 user SBS network - now there's proof that SBS suits even the smallest network!!