Well home state boy anyways. Funny I had to move across the US to make friends with a fellow native Californian. Check out Mark speaking on outsourcing IT in the video below.
Check Out Mark Crall on YouTube
found on Mark’s Blog
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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
Microsoft 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
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. |
Michael 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/
James Wirth of Team CNS has offered to present Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V. James is the Columbia Group Lead and did a terrific job earlier this month presenting in Charlotte. He is also doing his presentation in Upstate SC on July 24th. So he should have all the kinks worked out by the time he gets to us :>) We will get see how easy it is to introduce virtualization to our clients on the latest platform released from Microsoft.
Come join us on August 5th, it should be virtually enlightening!
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Keep an eye on our website at www.tSBSg.org for updates
OH YA I would be remiss if I didn’t mention SMB Nation’s 2008 Conference
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Well in the past Susan liked to call folks like me (and herself) who saw the advantange of Software Assurance a rounding error, because there were so few of us.
But with this announcement of what you will get if you have SA on SBS R2, it is a no brainer. Are you a trusted advisor? Making this kind of recomendation is just the thing to build some of that trust, you stand to save them around a thousand dollars (assumes premium version), if they buy in now!
| SBS 2003 R2 Component Product | Upgrade Path |
| FrontPage 2003* | SharePoint Designer 2007 |
| Outlook 2003 | Outlook 2007 |
| For Mac Users: Entourage 2004 | For Mac Users: Entourage 2008 |
| Internet Security Acceleration Server (ISA) 2004* | ISA 2006 + separate copy of Windows Server 2003 R2 **Until such time ISA successor product, Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010, is released upon which, a TMG 2010 license will be granted. *** |
*Premium Edition ** ISA 2006 does not run on Windows Server 2008 *** Version number subject to market availability
Note: Customers will have to purchase SA separately (independent of SA for SBS) in order to receive future upgrades of the granted components as part of ongoing SA entitlement, except in the case of the ISA, where SA does not have to be attached to ISA 2006 in order to get TMG 2010 (I.e. SA attachment to SBS 2003 R2 entitles customer to TMG 2010).
Also note: SBS 2003 R2 CALs with SA will upgrade to SBS 2008 CAL Suite or SBS 2008 CAL Suite for Premium Users or Devices, depending on which edition of SBS server software your SA rights entitle you to.
This morning I read Mark’s diatribe on why you have to be a major msp player or you don’t deserve to exist, OK maybe I paraphrased it a bit. While I was trying to come up with a catching comeback to defend myself and the downtrodden SPF’s of the world, as Vlad likes to refer to us, I got the shock of my life, Vlad wants to be one of us, here is proof in writing. He wants the “lifestyle”.
Just so I don’t have to read about massive suicides of SPF’s in CRN tomorrow, let me once again assure you, you can be happy and make a fine living without a hundred empyoyees and a system so automated you never get to touch a computer again.
No I am not saying you don’t need to have a good business background/understanding to be a consultant in this industry, you really do. The days of being able to get by with just some nuts and bolts tech knowledge are numbered for sure. But there is no reason to jump off a bridge if you enjoy doing things yourself and have the business smarts and the tech smarts to go with it. If you don’t and you only know the tech side, I would really advise you try and find a businessman/woman to partner up with, because if you can’t see and understand how the business runs and how the technology interacts with it, you are no longer going to be able to be the trusted advisor you have been in the past. The world is surely changing, I just do not believe it MSP or nothing.
So as Nick point out in HIS POST, the /console switch is gone in the upcoming Windows 2008 Server and Vista SP1, having been replaced by /admin. It sure would have been nice to throw up a warning when you use the old switch and let the user know they are not connecting to the console instead of just dumping them quietly into a non console session. Oh ya, also in case you haven’t made the connection yet in your mind this aslo means if you use the rdp gadget on your Vista desktop, it also connects you to a regular session when you click the console check box, and once again no warning. it almost feels latley like they are going out of their way to make it look and feel like we don;t know what we are doing, could Vlad be on to something here? I sure hope the shy is not really falling, now where is that steel umbrella?
My Friend Wayne Small, of SBSFAQ fame has just been recognised my CRN, read about it in Wayne’s Own Words
