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So, I was over at the Game Studios very briefly at this years MVP summit.   It is great to see that at least they have retained a good core group of people that can make “something” happen in the future….   what that something is, well…   I don’t know. But I have a “community question” that I would like as many… Read more →

Remember this post Microsoft have released a hotfix patch now as promised.    It really must be installed on SBS2008 setups and will be included in SP2 http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=967358&kbln=en-us   Tags: SBS2008+Hotfix, FRSM Read more →

So yesterday at the MVP summit, I upgraded my Vista Laptop to Windows 7 beta…   the one that everyone got their hands on recently from Microsoft. This product rocks! Vista is coming off my machines…. But even better than that, late yesterday I managed to lay my hands on a newer build with a new desktop.    Whilst the bunnies are… Read more →

OK, I am on twitter.    I gave up as everyone else just kept at me about it. I still don’t see the point, but I am a Lemming…… http://twitter.com/nickwhittome Updates from the MVP summit currently     Tags: Twitter Read more →

If another person texts me and makes some smart comment about England and my “ex pat” status….   I may just have to inflict some pain. Let me make this clear…   again….   I support Ireland when it comes to international rugby, I support Munster when it comes to provincial rugby. To my English Friends and Family, deal with it….  You’ll get… Read more →

I am currently sitting at Cork International Airport, on route to the MVP Summit 2009 and the sad news is that one of our fellow SBS MVP’s will not be with us. http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2009/02/27/thank-you-frank-you-were-a-diamond.aspx http://msmvps.com/blogs/kwsupport/archive/2009/02/27/frank-mccallister-in-memoriam.aspx http://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=269e4081%2Dac58%2D42a6%2D9a54%2D383a6a3fb0d8&ID=301 Frank was a guy that I knew not enough.   The three or four times we met it always ended up being a conversation about his… Read more →

In less than 24 hours I am leaving for the MVP summit 2009.    I cannot wait, as this will be my only business trip this year due to the economic downturn!   I am aiming to squeeze in as much as possible, including meeting the SBS / WHS teams, the remnants of the ACES team, fellow MVP’s and old friends. Hopefully I will… Read more →

My Sales guy has been hassling me for a couple of weeks that his out of office has not been working in Outlook 2007.   Frankly, I ignored him… because he should never be out of the office.    It does however turn out to be a known issue that the Official SBS blog have just put up on the site. The error… Read more →

I keep getting emails from people asking what I think about the ACES studio closure…   so I am going to give in and write this post to those that want my thoughts and ramblings. Initially, I was devastated.   I kept thinking about those on the team I now consider friends and how they were going to deal with the whole thing.  … Read more →

OK, so today I got this error detailed on this EMEA SBS Team blogpost http://blogs.technet.com/asksbs/archive/2009/01/26/sbs2008-cannot-configure-backup-schedule-error-when-you-run-configure-server-backup-wizard-on-small-business-server-2008.aspx It turns out however that my problem was not what the EMEA team were reporting, my issue was that my Dell OEM preinstalled SBS2008 server had a FAT32 Partition on it that looked like this: The fix for me was to convert the FAT32 drive… Read more →