May 2009 - Posts

Thu, May 28 2009 20:05

Problems with HP?

Body: I’ve heard in the community over the last few weeks a growing concern about various aspects of HP’s products and service/support. A large amount of this is coming from the Australian partner community. I’ve taken a number of those concerns direct...
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Thu, May 28 2009 15:47

Susan saves the world with a zipper…

Body: The one and only SBSDiva – Susan Bradley has taken it upon herself to get out there before the launch of Windows 7 and save the world with her one woman marketing campaign. Susan has had this cool logo created to help promote the fact that User...
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Thu, May 28 2009 6:59

Windows Server 2008 and Vista Service Pack 2

Body: Well – after months of testing the first service pack for Windows Server 2008 was released – Service Pack 2… yes – that sound strange doesn’t it – the first Service Pack for Server 2008 is SP2, that is because Server 2008 was released at SP1 level...
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Mon, May 25 2009 19:49

SaaS / Cloud Computing – interesting concern

Body: Microsoft today announced they will block access to MSN Instant Messenger for 5 countries on a sanction list according to the US government. CRN reported it here Ok – so with all the hype about cloud computing, the users are not supposed to care...
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Mon, May 25 2009 18:43

Sarah Arnold begins blogging – aka Australian MS Partner Program

Body: For those that have never met her, Sarah Arnold is the Partner Program Manager at Microsoft Australia. Sarah recently began a new blog focused on the needs of the Australian Partner channel. Her blog can be reached here http://blogs.msdn.com/auspartners...
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Mon, May 25 2009 17:35

Trend Micro WFBS 5.1 and 5.0 Patches

Body: Last week Trend announced the release of a number of patches for their Worry Free Business Security products targeted at the SMB market. These patches are both a rollup of all accumulative patches plus an additional patch that did not quite make...
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Fri, May 22 2009 17:45

Microsoft SharePoint set to expire

Body: Microsoft today announced that they have another SharePoint “opps” in the works. The fact that the blog post came from a Corporate Vice President suggests to me just how bad this “opps” is and also just how seriously they take it. The blog post...
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Thu, May 21 2009 16:45

The difference between Yoda and you

Body: Just read a cute news article that talks about “International Talk like Yoda” day. As I read it I can’t help but think of how this relates to the SMB IT Professional community. No – not the actual talking like Yoda, but the persona that he is. Yoda...
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Thu, May 21 2009 15:12

How to mess up your network with virtualisation…

Body: Got a call from a friend yesterday. He had some problems with his network which essentially revolved around Active Directory being messed up. The exact details are a little unclear, but the long and short of it was that around a week back, their...
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Thu, May 21 2009 8:16

SBS Migration to SBS 2008 – Experiences today

Body: Doing a migration tonight and thought that I’d document some of the experiences for those that are interested. This is not a complete list, just some things that I see people falling over. This post is NOT A SUBSTITUTE for reading the excellent...
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Thu, May 21 2009 3:54

Resources for SBS Migration to SBS 2008

Body: I’m doing another migration tonight for a client from SBS2003 to SBS 2008. We’re also doing it from a physical SBS 2003 system over to a Virtual SBS 2008 server on Windows Server 2008 with HyperV. Over the past week, I’ve already setup and got running...
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Wed, May 20 2009 2:46

Ingram Micro, Moneytech and Australian SMB Community

Body: I heard people today in the Australian SMB community talking about a letter they got from Ingram Micro. The letter talked about their account with Ingram and it stating that “your Ingram account is being transferred to Moneytech in May....” . Knowing...
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Tue, May 19 2009 22:21

When does a rollup become a service pack?

Body: I note with interest that today Microsoft released Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1. Basically this is a collection of fixes since they released Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 and can be applied to a server without the need...
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Sun, May 17 2009 22:26

Vote #1 - Keira McIntosh for SBSC PAL for Australia

Body: In all my life I have never really been vocal about politics at all – but there is one thing that really hits my heart and that is the SMB community that I work in. Therefore this blog post is 100% my personal view which you may well choose not...
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Sat, May 16 2009 0:41

Hyper-V and ShadowProtect – Slow Performance?

Body: Today I’ve been working for a client doing some restructuring of their servers. We’ve been taking a number of servers that were on physical hardware and virtualising them. To do that I’ve used ShadowProtect from Storagecraft. It’s a wonderful product...
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Sun, May 10 2009 6:16

Telstra come through for once

Body: I’ve lived in my current house for 11 years now, and we’ve had ADSL for the past 5 or so years but we are running off a RIM exchange and therefore I’ve had many many applications to move to ADSL2+ rejected due to this. A mate of mine suggested that...
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Wed, May 6 2009 16:13

Steve Riley has left the building…

Body: As a presenter, there are a few people that I really look up to in terms of knowledge, style and sheer balls. Steve Riley is one of them. Unfortunately, Steve just announced ( http://blogs.technet.com/steriley/archive/2009/05/06/good-bye-and-good...
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Tue, May 5 2009 16:57

SBS 2008 Reports – slow to generate and deliver

Body: I’ve found that on my SBS 2008 sites, that the reports coming from the system do not always come at the scheduled time. Furthermore I’ve done some investigation and found that they are not being generated on time. Often the reports are many hours...
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Tue, May 5 2009 5:44

CRN Australia – a new direction!

Body: Today people started to receive the new and improved CRN Magazine in the mail, and then shortly after I started to get phone calls and emails from people as my photo is on the front cover. No, it’s not for some embarrassing gaff I made in public...
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