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This past week, I went through the process to get the SBS 2003 Software Assurance fulfillment for a couple of my customers who are finally needing to activate those SA rights. The process was a little more cumbersome than I had hoped, and I could not...
This post will be the first in what I hope will be a short series related to issues I've encountered in my SBS2008 migration of my internal server. I'd love to say "hey, everything worked as advertised" but we're not quite that lucky...
Back in March 2007, I put up a couple of posts about the missing audible alarm in the Dell PERC RAID controller. There was a flurry of activity following those posts, and that's been the most read pair of posts from this blog. Well, 18 months has...
I've had a few comments show up on the series of PERC 5/i posts I had early in 2007. There have been a few questions about the status of things, so rather than respond in the comments, I thought I'd summarize what I know at this point in a separate...
Sometimes life throws you a curve ball. Sometimes it throws you a curve ball, followed by a sinker, a wicked change-up, then a knuckleball. Yeah, that's my story this week. I was asked to come to Redmond to work on a training and certification project...
Well, my experiment with Leopard and Parallels has come to a close. As of this morning, I'm back running Tiger and Parallels build 4128. I was able to get Build 5582 running on Leopard and mostly had everything the way it should be, but performance...
In yesterday's post , I covered the problems being seen in the community regarding the unexpected behavior on SBS 2003 R2 boxes because of a problem with a WSUS definition update. Given the volume of traffic that post generated (more hits in the first...
This morning (November 12, 2007) a rash of reports are floating around the net about problems viewing the Monitoring report on SBS servers. This appears to be an issue with SBS R2 servers with the R2 WSUS installed. Several factors indicate the problem...
Strike one for Apple. Late Friday afternoon I knew that my copy of Leopard wasn't going to arrive on the 26th as stated on the sales order, so I decided it was time to try and get as much detail as I could. When I had spoken with a sales rep fromt...
What the hell has happend to the notion of customer service in today's business environment? In the 20+ years I've been in the IT industry, I've always done my best to ensure that my clients are pleased with the service they've received from myself or...
In previous posts , I’ve lamented about the issues I’ve had with the PERC 5/i controller in Dell servers that I have rolled out to clients and put in my own office. Today, I had a conference call with Dell support and someone from the NOS group about...
For what it's worth, I now have an official stance on Windows Server 2003 SP2: Don't install it. At least not yet. I keep running into folks who have issues with their servers following the installation of SP2. the majority of issues seem to be cause...
So in a previous post , I railed about my surprise at finding out that the Dell PERC 5/i controller has no audible alarm and why that's a concern for me. Well, here we are, nearly two weeks later, and after much going round and round with Dell on the...
So I got back into the office following the MVP summit and need to do some work on one of my test boxes, and I'm running into a little trouble with a piece of software complaining about the CPU not being 64-bit (this is on a server acquired a month ago...
Well, turns out it's not just me that can be a little off when it comes to updating things. Today, (well, yesterday based on the time this actually gets posted) Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003. Only there are a couple of issues...
What's the exact phrase? " The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry "? Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Sometimes Mother Nature just gets in the way. Take this past week, for instance. Tuesday, I started getting the head cold that's been going...
It's just one of those things, I guess, but when it causes so much pain, it's hard to see it as a little thing. I mean, come one, everyone makes little mistakes occasionally, don't they? I do, I own up to it when I do, also. And I've made some doozies...