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SBS2008 - the best response yet to the "Why no ISA or other built in Firewall" question

Yesterday, I was working my way through my SBS Support posts on Mark Minasi's forum. I noticed the question that has come up before from other people regarding why Small Business Server 2008 requires an external hardware firewall. Well, I wanted to...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 8:58 AM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server
Brushing off the cobwebs...

Sorry for the lack of posts, informative and not. It seems that time is limited lately! In an attempt to kick things off again here… While I was gone, the following happened: Flight Simulator The Microsoft Flight Simulator Team released FREE Acceleration...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2008 1:37 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Flight Simulator, Small Business Server
Small Business Server 2008 will be a Single NIC solution

Read more on Sean’s blog

Published Fri, May 05 2008 1:49 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server
Small Business Server 2008 - From the Summit

Once again, I was amazed at how much the Small Business Server team shared with us at this years summit. I must quickly mention that a lot of that is to do with Kevin Beares, so thanks man! A lot of what we heard is still very much NDA, but there are...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 12:13 AM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server, MVP Summit 2008
MVP Summit - part one

When I originally started writing this post I had just arrived in Seattle, now as I go to post it I am already on my return journey… this summit has been THAT packed full of good content, good people, good drink. Of course, it would not be a Nick...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2008 9:54 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Flight Simulator, Small Business Server, Windows Home Server, Planes and Automobiles, MVP Summit 2008
SBS2008 at IMTC

I wanted to post up a quick comment regarding SBS2008 and the Demo I showed at IMTC. I have been getting a few comments on the blog, and via email, asking why and how I was allowed to show such detail of the new product even though it is under NDA. Well...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 11:30 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server
Wild and Crazy - Apparently

Owen says I am “ Wild and Crazy ”. Really? Who knew. Yes, I will be attending this year’s MVP summit in Redmond. I missed the last one because of the house move that was going on (still is to some extent). This year Microsoft have given...

Published Sat, Mar 03 2008 6:45 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Flight Simulator, Small Business Server, MVP's
IMTC 2008

For those interesting in learning more about Windows Small Business Server 2008 living in the UK or Ireland, you should seriously consider coming to the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference on the 2 nd and 3 rd April 2008. There are 8 Tracks and 40 sessions...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2008 7:26 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server
SBS Wizard fails on Feb 29th (Today)

Aghghghghgh… That’ll teach me to skip over a blogpost! I just lost an hour of my life to this problem! Feb 29 th 2008, the certificate generation in SBS fails today. Set the date to yesterday to get around the issue.

Published Fri, Feb 02 2008 7:00 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server
Small Business Server 2008

… has just been announced on the official Small Business Server Blog.. Be sure to check out what is coming with the new version! Via the official blog: “Today Microsoft is announcing the Windows Essential Server Solutions family of products...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2008 1:55 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server
The next version of SBS

I was just reading the daily blogroll, and I noted that Susan posted some important information for those of you that wanted to know “will I be able to upgrade to the next version of SBS”. Now, I had not posted this because I had thought it...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2008 10:01 AM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server
New Media Technologies Exam from Microsoft - 70-625

Now, I detest having to do Microsoft exams… for that matter, any exams… I am really a “hands on” type of guy! (hellooooo ladies). That all said, this is a semi-cool exam that I must do.

Published Sat, Jan 01 2008 10:42 AM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server, Netstreams, Windows Home Server
"Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be required to boot up the computer"

This happened to me today on an Acronis restored Small Business Server box (to different hardware using universal restore). The issue is that the HP server that the image came from had HP drivers that ended up blocking the broadcom drivers on the Dell...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2007 2:26 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server, Broadcom
Intuit: "Sir, I guarantee you Small Business Server is 64 Bit....."

… “and that is why we don’t support Quickbooks running on it”. Aghghgghghghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhghgghgghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! You could have heard my screams from the moon after my discussion with the line supervisor on...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2007 6:43 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server
Small Business Server Best Practices Analyzer released

Is now available . Get it, and use it! Any problems, email sbsbpabu@Microsoft.com

Published Thu, Oct 10 2007 10:29 AM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server
Small Business Server Best Practices Analyzer

Here is something that is really great news for Small Business Server installers / administrators. Over the coming weeks you are going to see a release of a Small Business Server Best Practices Analyzer. It will be much the same as the ones you have probably...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2007 12:21 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server
Unable to Assign Static IP Address option greyed out

Quick one that came up today. Looking on the web for the search term above only found mention that the RRAS server may not have been set to use a static pool of addresses and that is why, in AD Users and computers on the dial in tab, this was grayed out...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2007 2:00 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server
Tuning a SBS 2003 Server

Susan Bradley has touched on this subject before over various posts on her blog, but I wanted to give a summary of how, on our recent “up to date” installations, we are tuning memory on our SBS Servers. Our servers are normally around the...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2007 10:32 AM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server
New Irish Small Business Specialist Community Blog

Even though I keep trying and failing to attend all the new Small Business Specialist events that are kicking off in Ireland at the moment, I can report that Sinead O’Grada has just started the Irish SBSC Program Blog . Keep an eye on that one…...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2007 12:22 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server
VMWare Perflib Errors - Event 1023 - SBS

A quickie…. If you have installed VMWare on your server and are receiving thousands of 1023 Errors then the workaround is to simply rename the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMware\Performance to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2007 5:16 PM by NickWhittome

Filed under: Small Business Server

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