Windows Power Essentials Tips & Tricks
August 4, 2012 10 Comments
Ugh VPNS! Is what a lot of the MVPs said when we were told that VPN was being reintroduced as a feature on the Essentials SKU. No one uses VPNs anymore right? too insecure, too difficult to configure probably, doesn’t work in a hotel… or a star bucks. Read more of this post
July 30, 2012 16 Comments
First day back from holiday today, and already blog post fodder is flying at me.
I have seen this issue reported on the forums a few times, but only ever seen it myself once on a Windows 7 desktop machine, when an Acronis image was in progress. Read more of this post
July 11, 2012 4 Comments
Congratulations on your new download of the Windows Server 2012 Essentials Beta.
I am going to walk through the process of installing the beta, it’s really very simple, just as easy in fact as installing SBS 2011 Essentials.
June 20, 2012 8 Comments
It has been a year since i first went through the process of installing a Third Party SSL certificate onto my SBS Essentials server.
I going through the renewal process, so i thought it might be an idea to document and blog it in case anyone else is also doing this.
SSL Certificates and renewals, are one of the topics i am asked about most frequently. Read more of this post
June 18, 2012 Leave a comment
Books are one of my favourite ways to learn new technology, and brush up on the existing technology we have deployed.
I always have a stack of ‘Pocket Consultant’ books on my desk, and especially now with the surge in popularity of eBooks, and a Kindle App for my phone, i have even more books in my pocket when i am on the road. Read more of this post
May 4, 2012 10 Comments
Update – This post will also apply to Windows Server 2012 Essentials
I have seen a number of posts on the forums about people who are having trouble with DNS Resolution on SBS 2011 Essentials.
Sean Daniel posted an excellent explanation of the how’s and whys of Essentials and DNS, and why the Server has a Dynamic IP… <shudder>
Anyway, knowing why something does something, and not being happy with it doing it, are two separate things.
So, if you want to force your DNS Forwarders to be something other than your Default Gateway, or, to use something else instead, you can build a simple scheduled task to do this.
May 3, 2012 Leave a comment
I have a new client who migrated to SBS 2011. They run some shipping label software that FTP’s information down from a server online to a local database on the server.
It used to run on a Server 2003 member server, but part of the migration was to move this onto the SBS 2011 box.
The company who support the software did the transfer, but when the software stalled when trying to ftp in, they had exhausted their knowledge and were out of ideas.
“…er, yeah don’t know how to do this on SBS…” Read more of this post
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