Australian & New Zealand MVPs

Going away for a while

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:17:05 GMT

Body: From Friday 12th December 2008 until early January 2009, I’m taking a break from everything. There will be no blog posts, no community forums participation, no website updates etc during this time. I hope to come back totally refocused and energised for the New Year. I already have plans for a...(read more)

A little known Exchange 2007 secret

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:46:08 GMT

Body: I learned something cool when I was in the USA last time. When you have an Exchange 2007 system connected to Exchange 2003, you get the following Exchange 2007 Administrative Group and the Exchange Routing Group to connect the systems together. You are also warned not to change the name of the...(read more)

SBS 2008 Administrators Pocket Consultant

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:32:07 GMT

Body: I’ve not written about this before, but long story short, Microsoft Press and I have parted ways with my work on the SBS 2008 Administrators Pocket Consultant. I won’t go into the details, but will say that it was due to a difference of opinion on things combined with some very personal factors...(read more)

SBS 2008 Migration Documents – UPDATED

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:37:49 GMT

Body: Today Microsoft released the latest revision of their SBS 2008 Migration documents. You can access them here NOTE that this is only the ONLINE documentation that is updated. The downloadable copy of the document is NOT updated at this time. Category: SBS 2008 / Cougar Published: 5/12/2008 9:37...(read more)

You know you are an idiot when…

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:55:44 GMT

Body: You go against all the good advice that Microsoft offer when they design the product and you don’t even care enough for your clients well being to heed advice given by others. Such is the case of some people who believe that they can put the Hyper-V role ONTO the main SBS 2008 server and still...(read more)

Insane November is over…

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:46:10 GMT

Body: Yes – November is over and I feel somewhat relieved. It’s been a mad month this month but I’ve got to say that I’ve really enjoyed it a lot. I’ve visited Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth once each. Brisbane twice and Adelaide three times (twice this week alone). I’ve presented / trained many people...(read more)

Microsoft Servers in the SMB Market – Part 2

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:17:38 GMT

Body: Part 2 of my series for CRN is now up on their site. It focuses more on EBS 2008. Looks like they got the formatting better for this one than the one before. Here it is – keen for all comments please! Category: EBS 2008 Published: 28/11/2008 6:17 PM Attachments: http://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts...(read more)

HP Configuraider to return!

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:19:14 GMT

Body: For those of us in Australia, we’ve been bemoaning to HP about the loss of this excellent tool that they have had now for many years. Well – I '”believe” that shortly we will find that this decision will be reversed and that based on input from the community which are the SMB IT Professionals...(read more)

SBS2008 – Exchange 2007 Mail Store Size

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:42:01 GMT

Body: I need to make a correction. I’ve been aware of the fact that Exchange 2007 Standard Edition which is part of both SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 has an “unlimited” mail store size. Now I’ve also been aware of the fact that Exchange 2007 Standard Edition can have up to 5 Storage Groups with up to 5 Mailbox...(read more)

Microsoft Servers in the SMB Market – Part 1

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:50:03 GMT

Body: I’ve just started writing for CRN Australia, and my first article is funnily enough on Microsoft servers in the SMB Market. Naturally I am keen for feedback – both good and bad, so please take a look and let me know. http://www.crn.com.au/feature/5272,microsoft-servers-in-the-smb-market.aspx Category...(read more)

It’s official – SBS 2008 Premium – Second Server CAN be downgraded to Windows 2003 R2

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:34:25 GMT

Body: I few weeks back I blogged that the SBS team were working on providing downgrade rights for the 2nd server in the SBS 2008 Premium product to Windows Server 2003 R2 – well it’s official now. Its official ! They will offer Alternative Version rights – see here for details - http://www.microsoft...(read more)

SBS 2008 Virus Protection Options

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:32:03 GMT

Body: Today Microsoft announced the death of Windows One Care including OneCare for Server which comes as a trial product for SBS 2008. See here for a blog on how it affects SBS 2008 . So what then do you use to protect your SBS 2008 server? Well fortunately TrendMicro release yesterday their Worry-Free...(read more)

Netgear WGR 614 Router Config Tip

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:07:54 GMT

Body: I had to program a Netgear WGR614 Router last Thursday and the normal http://routerlogin.net would not work. Most frustrating indeed. I did some searching and found that if I did a hard reboot of the router and then went to http://192.168.1.1/basicsetting.htm and you can reconfigure it without...(read more)

The Internet must be down…

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:02:32 GMT

Body: I’m travelling right now as part of the SBS / SMB IT Professionals Group tour here in Australia, and I’ve just spent a nice relaxing weekend doing pretty much nothing at all. I’ve caught up with friends here in Perth, watched a bit of TV and a few movies and slept…. a lot! So it was a surprise...(read more)

“there wasn’t much real Microsoft content that hadn’t been released already”

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:39:15 GMT

Body: The comment above came from Hilton Travis, and was used in the context where he was referring to the SBS/EBS Virtual Launch event that Microsoft conducted on November 12th, 2008. This blog post is not to pick on Hilton, but to use his comments as an example. It’s a comment I’ve heard more than...(read more)