February 2009 - Posts

Fri, Feb 27 2009 16:46

Frank McCallister – Rest In Peace

Body: Via Facebook this morning, I received an email from someone I did not know… "Frank had a massive heart attack last Wednesday and passed away this morning at 1:50." My first thought was “who is this person sending me an email about someone...
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Tue, Feb 24 2009 16:23

He came… He saw… He listened – Thanks Nick!

Body: Last Wednesday was the last SMB iT Professional meeting that Nick King and I had the chance to do last week. Sydney finished off a whirlwind 3 day tour of Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Nick’s visit to Australia was something he personally asked...
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Fri, Feb 20 2009 19:39

SBS 2008 R2 – I want it now!

Body: Funny you know – SBS 2008 was released in November last year, and we all know that it’s based on Windows Server 2008 which was released in February 2008. Given that many people have still not made the move to SBS 2008 nor understand it’s features...
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Mon, Feb 16 2009 6:50

HP ConfigureAIDER DX is Here.

Body: As reported last week in my blog, HP have listened to community feedback and are re-releasing the HP ConfigureAIDER progam which made it so easy for us to spec and quote HP Servers. You can download it direct from HP here http://h20427.www2.hp.com...
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Sun, Feb 15 2009 4:06

Nicholas King hits town.

Body: Next week, Microsoft Technical Product Manager, Nicholas King will make a visit through the Eastern capitals of Australia. Nick is actually a Kiwi (but we won’t hold that against him) normally based in Microsoft Redmond campus and he’s responsible...
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Wed, Feb 11 2009 15:30

Trend WFBS 5.1 on SBS 2008

Body: Microsoft has been investigating an issue that affects all Windows Server 2008 products, but is shown up more so by things like Trend WFBS 5.1 and other antivirus software. The issue is that anything that uses the common firewall driver in 2008...
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Tue, Feb 10 2009 14:51

Windows 7 Beta and SBS 2008

Body: SBS2008 is designed to allow the end user to easily connect computers to the SBS 2008 network. It does this via the Connect computer wizard where all the user needs to do is to type in http://connect into their Internet Explorer on their new PC...
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Tue, Feb 10 2009 2:56

HP Australia – listening to the SMB IT Professional community

Body: Tonight we had the first meeting of the SMB IT Professionals group in Sydney for the year. We had some really good presentations from HP, StorageCraft and LogMeIn. The big thing of the night was the announcement by local HP Server Product manager...
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Thu, Feb 5 2009 17:46

Hyper-V and SBS/EBS coming soon

Body: I’ll be travelling the country side later this month working with Microsoft to deliver some sessions on Licensing and Hyper-V. My session will be focused just on Hyper-V with SBS and EBS. The outline is below. You can register for the event here...
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Mon, Feb 2 2009 22:21

PC Authority starts up a Business Section

Body: Respected publication PC Authority, today launched a Business Technology Centre. I was fortunate enough to be able to pen a few words on my thoughts for 2009 in an article here . Keen for feedback as always. Published: 3/02/2009 3:21 PM Attachments...
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Mon, Feb 2 2009 15:33

The shape of things to come

Body: It’s been a long time coming, but I’m currently rebuilding my main website ( www.sbsfaq.com ) and this blog onto a new platform. Yes – I will be moving away from a SharePoint based website and onto another platform. I’ve tried hard to push SharePoint...
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