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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 because it shares the same code base as Windows Vista.  So Microsoft have now created Service Pack 2 – which applies to both Vista AND Windows Server 2008 (and therefore SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 and Windows Server 2008 Foundation too). Tonight I decided to “quickly install” Vista Service Pack 2 on … Continue reading Windows Server 2008 and Vista Service Pack 2

Body: Ok – so now I’ve finished testing it, there is one downside that I’ve found that “might” make it a little more difficult for me as an IT Pro.  During testing I’ve found a few times that the Windows Live Family Safety Filter will prevent me from doing some basic testing (Pings etc) unless it is signed in.  Now given I am administrator on my laptop it’s not an issue for me to circumvent this when I need to.  however now that I’ve done my testing I decided that I want to remove the Windows Live Family Safety Filter.  … Continue reading Windows Live Family Safety Filter – How to Remove it

Body: I’ve been trialling out the Windows Live Family Safety Filter so that I could have it running on the computers for my kids.  I’ve got a teenager and a soon to be teenager, and I need to monitor both and block some of the less than desirable web sites from their computers.  My kids often take their computers to friends places and therefore I needed a solution that will work regardless of where they are. I also needed a solution that will allow me to unblock legitimate sites if I need to. So I installed the Windows Live Family … Continue reading Windows Live Family Safety Filter – monitoring my kids Internet Access

Body: If you like me totally forgot about it then you might notice that your appointments on your Windows Mobile device are out by an hour today vs what you have in your Outlook Calendar.  I’m based in Sydney, Australia and Daylight savings was modified last year to end on the First Saturday in April – it used to be the last Saturday of March.  This simple change means that unless you know about it and have updated all your Windows based computers, servers, mobile devices and Outlook that you will have your appointments occuring 1 hour different this week. … Continue reading Are your appointments out by an hour today?

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

Body: Yes – that’s right folks, the community focused Shockey Monkey system launched by Vlad from Own Web Now and built using 100% community input is coming to Sydney.  It’s due to officially launch shortly, and Vlad is shipping servers to Australia as we speak so that he can work around some of the privacy laws that surround storage of customer data.  Check out Vlads blog for more info here Category: Software Published: 17/02/2008 9:39 AM

Body: Microsoft have released a number of step by step guides on how to configure Windows 2008 Server.  They are not SBS specific (I’ll have some on my site soon) but I figure they are a great place to start for people wanting to get the lowdown on Windows Server 2008. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=518d870c-fa3e-4f6a-97f5-acaf31de6dce&displaylang=en&tm Category: Software Published: 12/02/2008 6:42 PM

Body: I’m onsite today doing some work with a client – one of the things I’ve had to do is to add some disks to an existing HP RAID setup.  Part of the screen below includes an animated refresh button which "might" give them impression that it’s refreshing the screen often. It’s not.  The tip of the day is to HIT the REFRESH button.  Had I done it earlier, I would have realised that my drive expansion was actually FINISHED.  DOH! Category: Software Published: 12/02/2008 11:10 AM Attachments: http://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Attachments/103/Image0000_2.jpghttp://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Attachments/103/Image0000_9.bmphttp://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Attachments/103/Image0000_thumb.jpghttp://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Attachments/103/Image00008x6.bmp

Body: Ok – so i’ll be blog post number 3,458,266 to tell you that after a long wait, Vista Service Pack 1 has been released today (Tuesday here in Australia but Monday in the USA).  In addition Windows Server 2008 went RTM as well putting it on target for the official launch later this month.  I found this morning that Windows Server 2008 is now available on MSDN for those subscribers, but Vista SP1, and apparently we should expect Vista SP1 to be coming out in the next few weeks too.  I’m not sure why they can’t release it now … Continue reading Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 have RTM’d

Body: I’ve been wrestling with Exchange 2007 on my one of my larger sites now for the last 7 weeks.  I’ve had the case with MS PSS here in Australia for that long too and they have not been able to make ANY progress on it at all.  When I first lodged the case, Exchange 2007 SP1 was in beta – and at that time I asked if the issues we were experiencing were resolved by it at all – apparently they could find no such solution to our problem in the notes for SP1 – therefore they did not … Continue reading Exchange 2007 SP1 fixes lots more than is documented