March 2008 - Posts

ISA Guru MIA? Where is AMY
Do you miss reading SMB tips and tricks by the ISA MVP & Guru Amy Babinchak? Are you wondering what happened to her? Well wonder no more, she moved her blog and you can now find her at http://securesmb.harborcomputerservices.net We told her not to...
Meet my PAL
Well if you live and work in my part of the world, we share the same PAL, read about Mark Crall HERE, or better yet stop by the next meeting of the Charlotte SBS Group and meet him in person Read More...
Recession, What Recession?
Well according to D&H anyways, there ain’t no stinkin recession and they are willing to put there money where there mouth is, so to speak. Read the story on Channel Insider. They are betting 10 million that it’s just media hype. Read More...
Hyper-V Getting close, RC0 Released
Have you been hearing rumblings of this thing called Hyper-V and wondering what it is all about. Well RC0 was just released maybe it’s time to take a look and see what your future holds? Besides what better place to install your new copy of ServerCore...
Windows Vista SP1
So by now you have heard that Vista SP1 is up on the Microsoft Download Site, but there are a few things you should know. First if you have run any of the SP1 beta’s make sure to uninstall them before going any farther. Second I have not run into...
Exchange Defender Gets an Update
Dear Clients, Did ya notice less spam in your mailboxes? Were you wondering if the spam problem on the Internet is gone? Well it is still out there alive and well, it is just that Exchange Defender (all our clients mail goes through ED) got a major update...
Microsoft Never Tells Us
It seems I hear this all the time from folks and I just don’t where it comes from. Microsoft communicates us to death, I need a full time person just to read all the partner news coming from Redmond. Let me help you out, here is your full time partner...
EBS (essential business server) now accepting nominations for beta testers
That is right, just announced on the New EBS Blog they have opened up the nomination process for testers of the upcoming Essential Business Server. Want to nominate yourself to participate, CLICK HERE HA-note: The nomination link on their blog is temporarily...
Want to put a Windows 2008 Server on your SBS Lan
The SBS Doc Team has just release step by step instructions on the proper way to add a WS08 computer to your SBS Lan either as a stand alone server or even an additional domain controller. READ IT HERE Looks like this is one web page I won’t have...
Lesson in Customer Service
Every once in a while you hear about some company (Lowes in this case) or some person (Mark Strenta in this case) stepping up to the plate and doing it the way it should be done. Then you scratch your head and wonder why it has to be the exception instead...
Free SBS Offer if you can answer correctly first
Yes you read that right, Vlad is stuck and willing to give you a free copy of SBS R2 if you are the first to correctly answer this question for him. I want to use mrtg to plot two integer values on the same graph. I have a shell script that returns two...