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Sep
30

Registration Filling Fast for the Pre-Day Event!

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We’re down to just a few seats left for our SMB Nation Pre-day Technical Event in Las Vegas. The full agenda has been posted for the event over on the Registration Page, and we know of at least three people who will be completing their registration before the end of the week this week. That will leave fewer than 10 seats available for this event, and we cannot add any more! Registration will close as soon as we hit the cap, so don’t be left on the other side of that door. If you’ll be in Vegas for SMB Nation, why not stop in a day early and spend it with us!

We’d especially like to thank our corporate sponsors, HP, Symform, and StorageCraft for their assistance in making this event possible!

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Jul
19

Kerio Connect Webinar Online

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The July Third Thursday webinar featuring Eriq Neale and a Kerio Connect installation demo is now online. Head over to the Store where you can download the webinar for free!

Categories : Eriq Neale, Kerio, Webinar
Jul
15

Q&A from Kerio Connect Webinar

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The following is the Q&A from the today’s Kerio Connect webinar with Eriq Neale. The recording of the webinar will be available in the store later in the week.

Question: Shouldn’t we be using the 64 bit version?
Answer: Kerio Connect is 32 bit, but supports also 64 bit in compatibility mode
Question: So you are saying that the 2nd IP address on the NIC and 2 available Public IP Addresses are a REQUIREMENT (minimum needed) for this product’s implementation or this is unique to Server 2008 Foundation?
Answer: Only if you want two different web applications on the same box. Otherwise you can run one of the two web services on a non-standard port
Question: Think this will work on a WHS box?
Answer: Yes you can run Kerio Connect on Home Server
Question: Since this product uses an AD connector, will it require a step for AD and then in Kerio to add a new user?
Answer: Answered live.
Question: Outlook 2010 supported?
Answer: Yes, Eriq is using Outlook 2010 live now.
Question: The Kerio connector setup screens all referred speicifcally to Outlook *2007* – that’s why I asked about Outlook 2010 So Outlook 2010 support is a qualified ‘yes’?
Answer: yes, with the limitation I just decribed regarding the Kerio settings dialog
Question: Migration from Exchange? Migration back to Exchange from Kerio Connect?
Answer: Answered live.
Question: Shared calendars and contacts?
Answer: Demonstrated live.
Question: Client is thinking about repurposing a Win2000 Pro wkstn. Thoughts?
Answer: Windows 2000 Extended Support ended 2 days ago (July 13, 2010) so running a production mail server on a non-supported box probably isn’t a good idea.
Question: Is there a benefit to use Kerio over Exchange on an SBS 2003 network or would this be a potential change to make when upgrading server hardware?
Answer: Answered live.
Question: On whs, you could presumably use different ports so as to not conflict with the remote access web site?
Answer: Yes, you could use different ports, but that would keep you from being able to use ActiveSync internally and externally. You could manually configure Outlook to use the differnet ports as well as Internet Explorer, but some tools cannot have their port configurations changed and wouldn’t work in that scenario.
Question: Can you talk about DR and support (DR or just generall support) from Kerio (8-5, paid, included, email only, etc.)?
Answer: Answered live.
Question: Any anti-spam features?
Answer: Yes. You can get more details at http://www.kerio.com/connect

Categories : Eriq Neale, Kerio, Q&A, Webinar
Jul
8

Welcome Cliff Galiher!

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Third Tier is pleased to announce the addition of Cliff Galiher to our team! Cliff brings a wealth of expertise in networking, Active Directory, OCS as well as SBS. He has been active at Experts Exchange as well as in the SBS newsgroups and forums for quite some time. You can find out more about Cliff on his bio page.

Welcome to Third Tier, Cliff!

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May
28

Hyper-V Webinar Recording Posted

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The Third Thursday webinar that Wayne Small did on Hyper-V has finally been posted in the Third Tier Store for download. We apologize for the delay in getting this webinar posted as it has been one of the most asked-about sessions we have done.

0 Categories : Hyper-V, Wayne, Webinar
May
28

Third Tier at SBS Migration IT Pro Conference

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Third Tier staff members Eriq Neale and Steve Banks are attending the SBSMigration.com conference in New Orleans and will be speaking in various sessions this weekend.

Steve will be moderating and leading a discussion on “right-sizing” servers Friday afternoon from 3:00-4:15pm.

Eriq will be doing a demonstration of the Kerio Connect group collaboration solution Saturday morning from 9:15-9:45, then leading a panel discussion on monitoring and remote access form 9:45-10:45. Eriq will also be posting summaries of the various conference sessions over at his MVP Blog.

If you’re at the conference, be sure to stop them and introduce yourself!

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Apr
15

Q&A from Hyper-V 101 Webinar

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Here is the Q&A from April’s Hyper-V 101 Webinar hosted by Wayne Small

Question: How does Hyper-V deal with servers where memory is “assigned” to a specific processor? Is all the memory and the cores just accumulated automatically or is there something that needs to be configured?
Answer: It is a configurable option. Wayne is actually going to cover this later in the presentation.
Question: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (the free edition) does not have the memory limitations as the non-R2 version had.
Answer: thank you for that information
Question: check http://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v-server/en/us/default.aspx for a R2 Comparison Chart.
Answer: Thanks Tim!
Question: You no longer need to know command line to run the free Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, check out the Core Config tool at http://coreconfig.codeplex.com
Answer: This is a community created add-on, not a feature of the product but a good reference none the less. Very few people are good at command line server management anymore.
Question: Is it ok to put a file share – not app – on the Hyper-V host without license issues?
Answer: I will ask Wayne this question at the end.
Question: Charlie Russel and Craig Zacker’s “Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2″ book is available as a free eBook – http://blogs.technet.com/eec/archive/2009/10/30/3290424.aspx
Answer: Free is good. Thanks for the tip.
Question: How soon will the recorded meeting be available for review….or do I need to take notes. :(
Answer: The recording will be posted in a few days.
Question: how to create an isolated network (from a dhcp point of view, eg for creating an sbs test environment without affecting the live sbs environment) but for it to still have internet access – http://mundy.net.au/Hyper-V/testing-sbs-in-hyper-v-isolating-dhcp-while-allowing-full-internet-connectivity
Answer: Thanks for the link.
Question: Not clear on the IDE part – have Proliant ML350 servers running with NO IDE drives – just SCSI
Answer: The IDE drives are virtual not physical. Your physical server can be scsi, while the virtual disks are IDE. That’s how I run mine. Same as Wayne.
Question: Can Wayne address the advantages of one large striped and mirrored drive vs separate spindles for each guest O/S
Answer: I will ask him at the end of the session
Question: So when you create a few snapshots and your testing is completed how do you merge all of the changes that you have made into the parent VHD?
Answer: We’ll address this question at the end of session.
Question: can you delete snapshots to increase the performance again?
Private Answer: Yes you can.
Question: Can y’all recommend some “how-to” videos on Hyper-V?
Answer: I used the Microsoft eLearning tools and virtual labs. We will ask Wayne for his suggestion.
Question: I just saw Waynes Tweet on this, So I’m 1hr late, is there going to be a slide deck download available? Thanks
Answer: The presentation is being recorded and will be available on our website in a few days
Question: what about memory allocation for the TS server?
Answer: Recall that Wayne said that they added 8 more GB’s of ram to bring the server to 24GB total. The added 8GB went to TS. It was not reflected in the slide.
Question: The folder on host in question is an Install share used by all of the lan users.
Answer: yes that would be a violation on the licensing agreement
Question: What is Wayne’s take on joining the host to the SBS domain as a member server?
Answer: All of Wayne’s hyper-v hosts are not joined to the domain because there is no other domain controller besides that hosted SBS server. You can join it to the domain when you have a non-virtual domain controller.

Categories : Q&A, Virtualization, Wayne, Webinar
Apr
15

SBS 2003 Monitoring and Update Services Node Failing on April 14

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Many SBS 2003 R2 servers experienced an unusual interruption in the daily monitoring reports and system administrators also noted that the Update Services node in the Server Management Console failed to display correctly starting Wednesday, April 14, 2010. The Official SBS Blog has a post explaining the issue and a workaround/resolution for the problem at http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2010/04/14/windows-sbs-2003-update-services-gives-error-the-element-already-exists-in-the-collection.aspx.

If you’ve been experiencing this issue with your SBS 2003 R2 servers, follow the instructions in the SBS Blog to address the problem.

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Apr
13

RunAs Radio: Eriq talks Macs and Active Directory

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Third Tier’s Eriq Neale will appear on the April 14th episode of RunAs Radio (http://www.runasradio.com) discussing issues surrounding incorporating the Macintosh platform into an Active Directory environment. This will be the second time in as many months that a member of Third Tier has been the featured guest on the program (Amy Babinchak appeared in the March 31 episode discussing security in EBS).

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Apr
2

Mac Mini an Alternative to SBS?

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In a March 31 article at crn.com (http://www.crn.com/software/224200956), ChannelWeb correspondent Kevin McLaughlin posits that Apple’s special configuration of a Mac Mini with Snow Leopard Server preinstalled could pose a serious threat to sales of Small Business Server. Third Tier’s Eriq Neale was interviewed for the article and offered some insight on the topic. To get a deeper view of Eriq’s take on the premise of the article, come to SMB Nation Spring in East Brunswick and sit in on his session Alternative Solutions in the SMB Space. Even if you saw the session he did at the Fall conference in Las Vegas, this is one you won’t want to miss!

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