The Adelaide SBS users group met tonight - it was a great night, even though the "demo gods" were against us (more on this later).
We had around 12 attendees, including me, plus our special presenter - George Alexandritis (from Trend Micro).
We started with introductions for new attendees and some notices including the impending release of Harry's latest SBS book. Get your copy here from Feb 7th (this date possibly subject to change). Not only will it be a great addition to your library, it will give you incredible information from some of the best SBS brains on the planet (FYI I'm NOT a contributing author - not enough brain cells!!) including Jeff Middleton, Susan Bradley, Wayne Small, Andy Goodman, Steven Banks and many more. Harry refers to them as the 'international "dream team" of the world's leading SBSers'.
George presented the fantastic offerings from Trend Micro - designed to protect your network from virii, spam and spyware, from the servers and gateways all the way down to your PDA.
The installation of the CSM suite onto our Virtual PC SBS server (Lexi) went fine but the "demo gods" were against us when it came time to access the management console - something to do with the SSL certificates.
I think next time we'll follow Kevin's BLOG about installing CSM onto SBS - why try to reinvent the wheel? By the way, George did a great job - thanks George. You're welcome back ANYTIME.
The meeting was well received and we had some great side discussions including a chat about swing migrations and backups (tape (9) vs disk (6) vs optical (3) and software used - SBS (5) vs Backup Exec (9) vs ArcServe (0) vs anything else).
Our next meeting is Monday Feb 21, starting 6:30pm at Enterprise House - 136 Greenhill Road, Unley (parking onsite). Please RSVP to info@sbsusers.net.
Oh - there were several articles we were looking for from the meeting.
Firstly there's the article on the IPXFER tool - http://kb.trendmicro.com/solutions/search/main/search/solutionDetail.asp?solutionID=5987
Secondly the ability to eliminate the pre-scan in the OfficeScan 3.5 client installation - Locate AUTOPCC.INI in the \AUTOPCC.CFG folder in the OfficeScan server. Search for the [INSTALL] section change the line
NoPrescan=0
to
NoPrescan=1
The prescan will be disabled next time the OfficeScan client program is deployed to clients.
Oh, thanks again to Kel for bringing the data projector.
Posted
Jan 24 2005, 10:45 PM
by
calvert