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Register now for our SMBNation All-Day Training
Posted by: | CommentsContent? Yes, we have content.
Eriq Neale: Configuring and Using Remote Desktop Services Remote Apps – A Love Story
Dave Shackelford: Things you didn’t know were in Exchange 2007
Cliff Galiher: AutoDiscovery, DNS and ActiveSync in depth. Like seriously deep
Wayne Small: Hyper-V R2, yes is does make a difference. Configuring Disk subsystems and effects on performance
Thanks to our sponsors, Hewlett Packard, Symform and Storagecraft we are able to keep the cost down to only $50. So head on over to the store and reserve your space for this all-day training session! http://www.thirdtier.net/store Training takes place October 21st.
Third Tier offering Technical Training at SMBNation PreDay Event!
Posted by: | CommentsI’ve been dying to announce this. I’m so excited! We’re doing a pre-day event at SMBNation in Vegas on October 21st. Make your flights accordingly. Very soon we will be posting a registration form. You must register in advance so keep an eye out for it.
Speakers are our own fabulous staff: Dave Shackelford, Cliff Galiher, Eriq Neale and Wayne Small
Our content has been selected by the guys to reflect the growing concern over compliance, business continuity, manageability and issues surrounding these that our customers are contacting us for help with. Case studies and examples will abound and they guys will show you how to configure the products they will be working with which including Exchange, Sharepoint, Terminal Services and Hyper-V. Expect the sessions to be intense with advanced material. Your brain will be exploding by the end of the day.
I’ll be posting more and more specifics about the content as the event gets closer. Let’s have a look at what Eriq is going to cover first:
Configuring and Using Remote Desktop Services Remote Apps – A Love Story
Many people have heard of Remote Desktop Services Remote Apps (formerly Terminal Server Remote Apps) but either haven’t had an opportunity to implement the solution or just are not sure how to. In this session, Eriq Neale will show how to configure RDS Remote Apps on a Remote Desktop Server and then go over several real-world deployment scenarios. We will also go over how to set up RDS Remote Apps to work with Remote Web Workplace on an SBS Server. Eriq will include case studies on when and why this technology is used.
Configuring RDS Remote Apps
Publishing an Application through RDS Remote Apps
Publishing an Application with multiple configuration options through RDS Remote Apps
Publishing an RDS Remote App through Remote Web Workplace
Please make your flights accordingly and plan to join us for a full day of intense training on October 21st.
Shout Out to Hewlett Packard, Symform and Storagecraft. Without awesome vendors that get the small business space and are willing to invest in partner education, this event would not be possible.
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Where’s Wayne?
Posted by: | CommentsIf you are a close follower of the SMB IT community, then you may have noticed the news that Wayne Small has been hired by Storagecraft Australia as the General Manager for Technical Services. Since we’re all big fans of Storagecraft around here, we’re elated with the news and a hardy congratulations for both parties is in order.
But this makes Wayne an even busier guy than usual. He’s a man of many, many hats including: SBSFAQ, Correct Solutions, Microsoft, Kerio, Trend Micro, Third Tier, an author and an MVP. Over here at Third Tier Wayne has taken on EBS and Virtualization projects for clients. Wayne plans to continue doing everything, only maybe a little bit less of each. So Wayne will remain a Third Tier consultant and no doubt our clients will benefit from his insight on Storagecraft and business continuity issues.
Hyper-V Webinar Recording Posted
Posted by: | CommentsThe 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.
Q&A from Hyper-V 101 Webinar
Posted by: | CommentsHere 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.
Third Thursday Webinar: Hyper-V 101 with Wayne Small
Posted by: | CommentsWayne Small , Third Tier consultant and owner of SBSFAQ.com has been deploying Hyper-V based solutions to 80% of his clients. Hyper-V can be simple to deploy, yet powerful enough for high availability applications. It is also technology that your clients really don’t understand at all. So how does he sell it to them? Wayne will tell us how to get up and running, the impact this technology can have your business and how to sell the idea to your clients.
Heard all the hype about Hyper-V? Want to get your clients up and running on Hyper-V in an hour? Want to know the key things to look out for with Hyper-V and how to avoid the pitfalls? This session will run through all of the basics on Hyper-V as it relates to our SMB clients. It will cover the various flavours of Hyper-V available, what to use when and how to get your first Hyper-V client quoted, and installed. I’ll walk through a typical scenario that we’ve deployed in the past and how we’ve addressed the clients concerns and taken advantage of Hyper-V to save the customer money, and increase their uptime.
Join us on Thursday April 15th at 5:00pm.
Third Tier has invited you to attend an online meeting using Microsoft Office Live Meeting.
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/join?id=WQFW5K&role=attend&pw=92X%2C%24Rs*t
Meeting time: Apr 15, 2010 5:00 PM (EDT)
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https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/meetingICS?id=WQFW5K&role=attend&pw=92X%2C%24Rs*t&i=i.ics
Welcome Wayne Small
Posted by: | CommentsThird Tier is pleased to announce the addition of Wayne Small to our staff.
Wayne has expertise in many areas including: Small Business Server, Essential Business Server, Trend Micro, Hyper-V Virtualization, Exchange, ISA, Networking, DNS/DHCP, and Active Directory. He is also a long time SBS MVP. His biography is located at http://www.thirdtier.net/who/wayne-small
Wayne lives and works in Australia, which is +10 GMT, effectively presenting Third Tier with an opportunity to better serve our clients across a wider range of hours. You may know Wayne as the Aussie that attends and speaks at many conferences in the USA and the owner of SBSFAQ a well known community resource.
Welcome to Third Tier, Wayne!
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