Month: September 2008

Body: The Grand Poobar of Search Engine Guide – Jennifer Laycock has posted a summary of the recent Small Business Marketing Unleashed event in Columbus, Ohio.  http://www.searchengineguide.com/jennifer-laycock/recapping-fall-small-business-marketing.php  Now her view might well be biased by the fact that she was the key person responsible for the event, or it might well be reflective of the others that attended the event. Talking to the many that were present at the event, I believe it’s the later 🙂  At any rate, I’ll be watching out for the dates for the next event in April and hoping it lines up REAL close with … Continue reading Small Business Marketing Unleashed – Review

Body: Today is Wednesday here in Columbus, Ohio, and I’m sitting here by the pool doing some work after the Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference wrapped up last night. This is the second time I’ve been to this event, the last time was in Houston in April this year. I decided to come back to attend the event a second time round as I really felt like I had missed out on a lot of content the first time round. Typical of most events, there were multiple streams and as always you can not be in both streams at once … Continue reading How to make friends and influence people

Body: In a few moments, I board my first of three flights today to get from Sydney, Australia through to Columbus, Ohio.  This is the start of a 3 week trip in which I’ll be attending 2 conferences and 2 weeks of solid long day training on the new SBS and EBS products.  I’m in Ohio for the Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference and I’m really looking forward to catch up with the people I met earlier this year and also to learn even more about how we can promote / market our business online.  Then next Thursday, I fly … Continue reading I’m on my way….

Body: SBS 2008 has the ability to automate some of the things that often got customers tied up in knots. One of these is the purchase and management of their public domain name.  SBS 2008 allows you via the wizard to purchase and manage a domain name from one of currently three domain name registrars. In terms of management of the domain name, it will configure the required DNS records to point to your SBS 2008 server and utilise the inbuilt SBS 2008 Dynamic DNS client to keep the records up to date even if you have a dynamic IP … Continue reading SBS2008 Domain Name Wizard Options

Body: I’ve got a larger non SBS site and we discovered that a recent upgrade to GFI WebMonitor caused the AV updates to randomly stop to the servers. The site uses Trend Micro’s OfficeScan product and we were experiencing an error message during the update cycle that suggested that the AV pattern file updates were corrupt.  We traced it back to the GFi WebMonitor software which was intercepting all downloads including the AV Pattern File updates.  To solve the problem simply add *.trendmicro.com to the Whitelist in the GFI console and Save Settings.  Now things work once more. Category: Software … Continue reading GFi WebMonitor causes AV updates to stop