Month: November 2008

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 on SBS 2008 and EBS 2008.  I’ve done two webcasts, one to the entire channel and another for Dell to bring them up to speed.  I’ve also done a heap of training sessions one on one with some of the largest OEMs, Distributors and Partners here … Continue reading Insane November is over…

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 / SBS Groups of Australia, that HP are listening to us and the feedback we’ve given.  Poor old Deke from HP has taken more than his fair share of a beating from the community over the last few weeks and yet he keeps coming … Continue reading HP Configuraider to return!

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 Stores in each Storage Group. Further more each Mailbox Store can be up to 16TB in size.  Now the bit where I have been incorrect is that I’ve stated that you can have 5 Mailbox Stores in EACH of the 5 … Continue reading SBS2008 – Exchange 2007 Mail Store Size

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 this morning when I went to chat to Susan Bradley on MSN IM and found that she herself was offline.  What is the world coming to when “THE Susan Bradley” is offline!  Maybe, just maybe Susan has had some nice relaxing … Continue reading The Internet must be down…

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 a few times now about the information being released around SBS 2008 and EBS 2008. So we have JUST had the launch of the product here in Australia this week. The next version has been 5 years coming, and people have been wanting information for … Continue reading “there wasn’t much real Microsoft content that hadn’t been released already”