SBS FAQ - Wayne Small - SBS MVP

Problems with HP?

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:05:09 GMT

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...(read more)

Susan saves the world with a zipper…

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:47:29 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Server 2008 and Vista Service Pack 2

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:59:50 GMT

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...(read more)

SaaS / Cloud Computing – interesting concern

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:49:44 GMT

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...(read more)

Sarah Arnold begins blogging – aka Australian MS Partner Program

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:43:29 GMT

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...(read more)

Trend Micro WFBS 5.1 and 5.0 Patches

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:35:30 GMT

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...(read more)

Microsoft SharePoint set to expire

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:45:55 GMT

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...(read more)

The difference between Yoda and you

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:45:39 GMT

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...(read more)

How to mess up your network with virtualisation…

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:12:41 GMT

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...(read more)

SBS Migration to SBS 2008 – Experiences today

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:16:35 GMT

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...(read more)

Resources for SBS Migration to SBS 2008

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:54:21 GMT

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...(read more)

Ingram Micro, Moneytech and Australian SMB Community

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:46:36 GMT

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...(read more)

When does a rollup become a service pack?

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:21:04 GMT

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...(read more)

Vote #1 - Keira McIntosh for SBSC PAL for Australia

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:26:50 GMT

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...(read more)

Hyper-V and ShadowProtect – Slow Performance?

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Sat, 16 May 2009 05:41:46 GMT

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...(read more)

Telstra come through for once

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:16:43 GMT

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...(read more)

Steve Riley has left the building…

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:13:16 GMT

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...(read more)

SBS 2008 Reports – slow to generate and deliver

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:57:08 GMT

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...(read more)

CRN Australia – a new direction!

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:44:54 GMT

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...(read more)

Sydney Windows User Group – Starts in May 2009

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:11:35 GMT

Body: I’ve just heard that there is a new user group forming in Sydney. Starting in May, the Sydney Windows User Group will get off the ground. They are focusing on everything Windows client related, and plan to demo Windows 7 RC at their first meeting...(read more)