SMB Nation Fall 2008 Update
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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Harry Brelsford | CEO | SMB Nation, Inc. | www.smbnation.com
Please attend our SMB Nation 2008 fall conference, October 4-6, 2008
Archive for July, 2008
The Mini Wars
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008So y’all probably know by now the Diva has ordered a Mini.
One of the guys in my IT Pro Group has been a Mini Owner for years.
He just threw down the gauntlet I wonder what she will come up with ?
Here is the e-mail he just sent her;
DNS Update Fix for SBS 2003
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Microsoft has updated the article on the DNS Update problem for SBS 2003.
I suggest you read the entire article at KB956189 before proceeding.
For myself I am putting the fix here were I can find it faster when I forget the kb number, but I have read the article, you should too.
Use at your own risk as always
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, add the port that is needed by the service to the ReservedPorts registry value. This prevents the DNS Server service from listening on that port. The following ports are known to cause conflicts:
| Ports | Program that uses the ports |
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| 1645-1646 | IAS |
| 1701-1701 | L2TP |
| 1718-1719 | H.323 Gatekeeper (ISA 2000 only) |
| 1745-1745 | ISA Server 2000 or ISA Server 2004 |
| 1812-1813 | IAS |
| 2883-2883 | AUTD |
| 3500-3619 | ISA Server 2000 only |
| 4500-4500 | IPSEC |
To configure the ReservedPorts registry value, follow these steps:
| 1. | Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. | ||||||||||
| 2. | Locate and then click the following subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
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| 3. | Right-click ReservedPorts, and then click Modify. | ||||||||||
| 4. | Type the range of ports that you want to reserve.Notes
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| 5. | Click OK.Note If you receive the following warning message, click OK
Warning:
Data of type REG_MULTI_SZ cannot contain empty strings. Registry Editor will remove the empty string found. |
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| 6. | Exit Registry Editor, and then restart the computer. |
Notes
| • | You must restart the computer after you make these changes for the changes to take effect. |
| • | If you are using any third-party applications on the server that might require you to use a static UDP port that is higher than port 1024, you should also add it to the list of reserved ports. |
Monitor Additional Servers & Workstations
Sunday, July 27th, 2008Michael Pope (Triangle SBS Group Leader) was answering a post to the Triangle SBS Group list, and I grabbed a copy of the post, to share here with y’all. I think some others may have posted this a few years ago (Susan comes to mind) but sometimes we just need a reminder to look at the inexpensive solutions from time to time, this one is Free, this is as inexpensive as you can get :>)
Question: At the last meeting you mentioned the Server reports could be used to
monitor attached workstations.
What was the tool/add-on/thingy that needs to be installed or configured
to do so? I cannot seem to Google it.
Answer: I was talking about using the built-in Health Monitoring. We use it in places to monitor additional servers in the domain – not workstations. But that would work also.
To do it, run setup.exe from \HEALTHMON21\I386 on the SBS 2003 Disk #3 on the computer you wish to monitor. Select to install the agent (not the console). Then, open Health Monitor on the SBS server and right-click the domain to add additional computers. You can now setup additional alerts as you want them.
Michael
RTP Computer Services, Inc.
105 West NC Highway 54
Suite 265
Durham, NC 27713
Phone: 919.806.8845
Fax: 800.853.3365
Email: michael@rtpcomputer.com
Web: http://www.rtpcomputer.com/
Be that trusted advisor you claim to be!
Friday, July 25th, 2008Yes I am talking to you. Hear is a chance to earn some of that trust. Act now and put you clients into SBS 2003 R2 with SA, even if they may have it already without SA, it is less expensive to make the move now then it will be to buy in, in the 2008 time frame. So earn some of that trust and read Eric’s excellent explanation. And then do the right right thing by your clients, at least show them the potential savings.
And btw, if they are running 2003 and don’t want to go through the upgrade twice, you don’t actually have to install R2, just buy it with SA now and sit on it until Cougar Ships.
And don’t forget you reward for doing the right thing, hop on over to SBSrebate.com and register your sale.
StorageCraft New Contact Info
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Been having trouble reaching anyone at StorageCraft latley?
Here is the latest contact info;
Here is contact information for each of the Business Development Managers:
Mark Baird (see map for territory coverage)
Business Development Manager
Cell: 801.699.1444
Office: 801.545.4739
Matt Rutter (see map for territory coverage)
Business Development Manager
Cell: 801.787.2106
Office: 801.545.4737
Brandon Fabert (see map for territory coverage)
Business Development Manager
brandon.fabert@storagecraft.com
Cell: 801.230.2698
Office: 801.545.4741
For pre-sales support or for resellers to schedule a joint webinar for their customers, please contact:
Dave Stufflebeam
Sales Engineer
Dave.stufflebeam@storagecraft.com
Cell: 801.358.1900
Office: 801.545.4738
Post sales support is being addressed through our forums, knowledge base, the support@storagecraft.com email account and phone support by calling 1.801.545.4700
http://forum.storagecraft.com/Community/web2case/
http://forum.storagecraft.com/Community/faq/
http://forum.storagecraft.com/Community/forums/
http://forum.storagecraft.com/Community/kb/
Mike Kunz, Sr. Director of Sales, is now managing the StorageCraft reseller partner team. If there is any confusion in getting issues resolved in the future, then Mike would be the person to contact (feel free to contact me if he doesn’t happen to be available due to travel, meetings, etc.). You can contact him at:
Mike Kunz
Sr. Director of Sales
Office: 801.545.4729
S+S Finally in laymans terms
Friday, July 25th, 2008Mark Crall finally describes Software + Services so we can understand it. So many people have tried to define it in so many different formats, thankx Mark for putting it in perspective :>)
First Winner Announced by Calyptix
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Remember when I told you to sign up for the free drawing for the SMB Nation Admittance offered by Calyptix?
Well today they announced the first (yes you can still sign up) winner.
Here is a copy of the note I just got
Andy,
Click here to add your name to the list of hopefuls or visit our website at www.calyptix.com
The Calyptix Security Team
Calyptix Security Corporation
8701 Mallard Creek Rd.
Charlotte, NC 28262
www.calyptix.com
Time to Start Thinking About SBS 2008
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008So are you thinking about your roadmap to SBS 2008 for your clientsyet? If you find yourself needing to buy hardware you should be thinking what am I going to need. Of course by now you have heard there is not going to be a two nic solution. You have also heard SBS 2008 only runs as a 64 bit server. Has it registered yet that means no in-place upgrade? OK I will wait for you to pick yourself up off the floor.
Here are a couple of really good posts to get you thinking in the SBS 2008 Reality.
And have you ever wondered just went on in the secret offices in Redmond, Sean shares a candid view
What, you haven’t even heard SBS 2008 was soon to release, Dean will fill you in on some of the new Features
Long Awaited WHS Bug Fix Arrives
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Well it has been a long time coming, but it is finally here. Power Pack 1as it has been christened includes the fix for thedata corruption bug that had given Windows HomeServer a black eye for so long.
Finally we can trust it again and use it as the great product it was destined to be.
HA-Edit: Seems Vlad just did a mini-review, read the Good, the Bad and the (how could you call such a cute product ugly, I won’t do it) :>)