Firstly Happy New Year to you all, I know this post is slightly late into 2012 but as you can imagine we have been pretty busy working a couple of projects for the new year. I wanted to write down a couple of ideas and opinions that I believe will … [Continue reading] about Our 2012 Technology Predictions
Small Business Server 2008 Backup failure
Just recently I have had to carry out a bare metal restore on my Small Business Server 2008 setup in my home lab. I had to migrate my email over to Microsoft’s BPOS offering to ensure I could still gain email access for the family. Now after … [Continue reading] about Small Business Server 2008 Backup failure
When venter 4.1.0 fails to startup after install
Hello all, before I start ranting about my problems over the weekend trying to recover my Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 and Active Directory, I will tell you about a small problem with my vCenter installation. If (like me) you know about … [Continue reading] about When venter 4.1.0 fails to startup after install
Our new VMware lab layout
OK so for those of you who know me, I have a home lab setup of 3 servers (at present) running about 10 virtual machines at the moment, which is planning to expand once I have built my new SharePoint 2010, SQL 2008 environments. Now on the … [Continue reading] about Our new VMware lab layout
Hyper-V Management with Windows 7
OK, so as I start to upgrade / rebuild all my laptops and desktops to Windows 7 (good job Microsoft I love this O/S - I can not actually remember the day when I said that, arr Windows 2000 / XP). So when it comes to installing all those apps that … [Continue reading] about Hyper-V Management with Windows 7