Windows Power Essentials Tips & Tricks
January 16, 2012 12 Comments
I have never been able to understand coding. It has always been a bit of a mystery, or black art to me, left for the likes of Slytherin house to enter their Parseltounge into Visual Studio or your developer tool of choice.
I mean, it literally makes no sense at all does it. Read more of this post
January 3, 2012 2 Comments
I currently have a clients server that every so often experiences a condition where it stops responding to network requests.
You can still ping the server, and it still processes some basic commands, like a shutdown command, but it does not allow browsing files or folders, and you cannot RDP to the server. You will also be unable to launch applications if you manage to logon to the server locally.
You may have experienced a similar condition after regaining access to the server you will most likely see that the System log is full of Errors. In my experience this will be Event ID 2019, Source, SRV.
The Server was unable to allocate from the system Nonpaged pool because the pool was empty.
I have seen this occur on Servers and Workstations, there are a lot of fixes suggested online, but so far Read more of this post
December 20, 2011 3 Comments
Right now i am dealing with an SBS 2008 Server that was missing the Terminal Services Gateway service. This meant that RWA was not working. Users could login to the RWA, choose which computer to connect to, but then they got an error saying that the Terminal Services Gateway service was not running and to call and shout at their Administrator Read more of this post
December 13, 2011 Leave a comment
Some time ago Microsoft released an Add-in for SBS Essentials that allowed you to control your SBS Essentials Server (as well as a corresponding Add-in for Windows Home Server 2011) by using your Windows Phone 7.
At the time i was not lucky enough to have a WP7 handset, but recently i managed to pick up an HTC Trophy and have a play with the Add-in.
There are two parts to set this up, Read more of this post
December 9, 2011 2 Comments
A lot of people deploying SBS 2011 Essentials seem to have developed a special affection for the Launchpad app. That is to say they seek to disable it at the earliest opportunity.
Personally on my deployments i have only disabled it on the users request, Read more of this post
December 7, 2011 26 Comments
Please note this article is not for renewing expired certificates used with remote web access!
I had a call today from a partner IT firm who we work with sometimes that had an issue on an SBS 2008 Server. One of the default SSL Certificates had expired, and in turn knocked out Sage 200 that was installed and running on this server. Sage links into the Default website and some of its operations require an SSL certificate. I wont pretend to understand what or why or even how because what i know about Sage can be written on top of a pin head with a power drill.
However, i did manage to help said partner replace his SSL Certificate and make Sage a happy bunny again.
Firstly i found that on my own SBS 2008 server,
November 30, 2011 17 Comments
As you may be aware Microsoft have released the Office 365 Integration Module for SBS Essentials to public beta.
If you want to take part in the beta, you can download the software from here.
On December 22nd Microsoft released the module for public download. A finished product. At last. Read the Official SBS Blog post here and Download from here and see what you think!
You can get an overview of what the module will do for you from the above blog post, and i imagine you already have an idea of what the module is designed to do already.
As i have been chronicling the other major (ish) releases for SBS Essentials, i decided to install the module and see exactly what the almost finished article looks like.
Before you continue i think it only fair to warn you this is a long, long post.
I have split the post into the following sections.
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