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http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21981 I still have no absolute confirmation from anyone….   but the silence is deafening. Apart from Hal….   who leaves us this: http://halbryan.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C24F386005A2CCEF!1892.entry Steve Lacey writes this: http://www.steve-lacey.com/blogarchives/2009/01/the_end_of_an_e.shtml   A great product, killed.?   I simply cannot understand how it is not a profitable product.   Or maybe the greed at the top of the Microsoft chain want MORE profit…?    grrrr. Read more →

Following on from this post The remaining issue with the SBS2008 machine was that somehow the Folder redirection policy got screwed up and even though the Group Policies on the network were now functioning, this policy was still missing and giving me this error in the SBS console: So, to fix that I had to call in Damian (the man) once… Read more →

Interesting error today on a migrated SBS2008 Machine in Group policy Management: “The data present in the reparse point buffer is invalid” Also, the SBS 2008 redirection utility would not function and was giving this error: On top of that, this client had previously been running a folder redirection policy of their own which had been deleted in the group… Read more →

Update Rollup 1 addresses the following issues in Windows Small Business Server 2008   Issue 1 The Security tab in the Windows Small Business Server 2008 Console incorrectly reports the spyware and malware status of Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based clients that are joined to a domain. Specifically, some security applications are reported as incompatible in the antivirus and malware… Read more →

Hey, good interview here on RunAs Radio with Mark Minasi.    If only for the reason that he gives Susan and I a mention “While still at Windows Connections in Las Vegas, Richard and Greg talked more with Mark Minasi. This time the conversation was a bit more serious, digging into Microsoft’s Cloud Computing technology called Azure. Happy New Year!” Good to see… Read more →

You may have already seen this.   But we are finally getting some repair documentation for SBS2008.   Long overdue (depending on whom you talk to), but great to see it making it out the door of Microsoft. Via Seandaniel.com: More Troubleshooting & Repair documentation Live The User Assistance folk are continuing to crank out some great documentation.  Live today are some… Read more →

OK OK….  this is on my list of things to be at this year, but economy, budget and work are all getting in the way.    Joe and Aidan are representing Ireland anyway Now, that said, if any economy busting technical conferences or travel are going to be approved, this will be the conference I will be at first and foremost!… Read more →

EDIT:  DON’t use my method, use Chad’s!    Much better way of doing it without losing your SBS2008 sharepoint features.   Thanks Chad. Original Article: NOTE:  Completely unsupported by Microsoft, and WILL DELETE YOUR SBS2008 Companyweb, so backup first! If, like me, you did not wait for Small Business Server 2008 to get Sharepoint 3 up and running, you may be in… Read more →

I have been playing around with Hyper-V and Small Business Server 2008 migration from Small Business Server 2003 more and more lately. Today I ran into a problem and could not figure out what was going on in the background.   A simple tip saved the day, SHIFT + F10 brings up the command prompt during the migration wizard and allows… Read more →

There is a noticeable difference in the noise level in our office today. No, I did not make my section of the office soundproof, I simply powered down our faithful Dell PowerEdge 2500 server for the last time.   As soon as it switched off, I realised that this server alone amongst the others was causing 90% of the noise. Not… Read more →