Archive for Webinar
Get your basics down with Amy and the support guys at Calyptix
Posted by: | CommentsCalyptix has long been a friend of Third Tier and this month Amy will be a guest speaker presenting Networking Best Practices with the guys from the support staff over at Calyptix in their series, Getting to know your Access Enforcer. If it’s been a while since you reviewed the basics, or you jumped right into server work and never got the basics down cold, then this webinar is for you.
- Don’t know when to use a cross-over cable and when to use straight-thru?
- Fully understand how DNS and DHCP work?
- What’s a CIDR?
- When to segment the network into multiple subnets and when not to
Register now, bring your questions and let’s get the basics down.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/726018419
Get the most out of your AccessEnforcer by investing 60 minutes in online training from the comfort of your own environment. Join Calyptix Security team members in this live session for a technical review and discussion covering a range of troubleshooting topics. The program will conclude with a question and answer session (time permitting). Participation in this training session is limited to current customers and authorized Calyptix Partners. The following items will be covered in this session.
The following items will be covered in this session:
o Overview of networking concepts
o DNS, DHCP, WINS servers and more…
o CIDR Ranges
o Managing Subnets and Multiple LANs
o Implementing Network Segmentation
o Using VLANs with AccessEnforcer
o Questions & Answers
Contact Calyptix Security at 704-971-8986
or info@calyptix.com with any questions.
Title: "Networking Best Practices"
Date: Tuesday, Aug 31, 2010
Time:12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
Kerio Connect Webinar Online
Posted by: | CommentsThe 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!
Q&A from Kerio Connect Webinar
Posted by: | CommentsThe 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
As you may have heard Eriq has moved himself and some of his clients off of Microsoft Exchange in favor of Kerio Connect. He spoke at the spring SMB Nation at length on why he has done this. He has published to his blog and in SMB Nation magazine those reasons as well. Now it’s going to show us how to get a Kerio Connect mail server up, running and configured.
Join Third Tier’s Eriq Neale for a first look at what it takes to get Kerio Connect, an Exchange alternative collaboration solution, up and running on a Windows server. Eriq will walk through the initial setup, installation of the AD Connector, a tour of the Administration Console, and setting up Outlook to interface with Kerio Connect.
Third Tier has invited you to attend an online meeting using Microsoft Office Live Meeting.
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/join?id=685ZTG&role=attend&pw=9x%3A4P%5Cqmd
Meeting time: Jul 15, 2010 12:00 PM (EDT)
Add to my Outlook Calendar:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/meetingICS?id=685ZTG&role=attend&pw=9x%3A4P%5Cqmd&i=i.ics
—–
Need more help with this or some other sticky situation? Click to hire us.
We’re Third Tier. We provide advanced Third Tier support for IT Professionals.
Get Support
Blog
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIN
Webinar postponed
Posted by: | CommentsThursday’s Kerio webinar has been postponed due to family emergency. New date and time will be posted soon. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
—
So who wrote this blog and what do they do for a living anyway?
We’re Third Tier. We provide advanced Third Tier support for IT Professionals.
Get Support
Blog
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIN
Webinar: First Look at Kerio Connect
Posted by: | Comments
For various reasons we are off schedule this month. This months webinar will not be on the 3rd Thursday, but rather it will be held on the 4th Thursday at the usual time (Noon eastern –5 gmt)
As you may have heard Eriq has moved himself and some of his clients off of Microsoft Exchange in favor of Kerio Connect. He spoke at the spring SMB Nation at length on why he has done this. He has published to his blog and in SMB Nation magazine those reasons as well. Now it’s going to show us how to get a Kerio Connect mail server up, running and configured.
Join Third Tier’s Eriq Neale for a first look at what it takes to get Kerio Connect, an Exchange alternative collaboration solution, up and running on a Windows server. Eriq will walk through the initial setup, installation of the AD Connector, a tour of the Administration Console, and setting up Outlook to interface with Kerio Connect.
When: Thursday, Jun 24, 2010 12:00 PM (EDT)
Scheduled to Occur: Once
Duration: 1:30
Third Tier has invited you to attend an online meeting using Microsoft Office Live Meeting.
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/join?id=2J7S49&role=attend&pw=9%3CDH%28RpSN
Meeting time: Jun 24, 2010 12:00 PM (EDT)
Add to my Outlook Calendar:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/meetingICS?id=2J7S49&role=attend&pw=9%3CDH%28RpSN&i=i.ics
—
So who wrote this blog and what do they do for a living anyway?
We’re Third Tier. We provide advanced Third Tier support for IT Professionals.
Get Support
Blog
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIN
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.
Webinar: Team Bradley is in the house! Thursday
Posted by: | Comments
Third Tier welcomes Team Bradley to our webinar series. Back in the day, smaller businesses were exempt from most regulation, but not in the new era of information security. Are you making the right recommendations to your clients? Do you need to get up to speed on the new regulations and laws that effect nearly every business? This webinar is for all of us that need to educate our clients on security and information privacy.
Join Team Bradley – Susan Bradley and Bradley Dinerman – from the hotbed states of California and Massachusetts, as they discuss the impact to small firms of recent privacy, security and disclosure legislation. From PCI data security standards (DSS) to the Massachusetts data security law to the upcoming FCC "red flag" rules, they will discuss and answer your questions regarding security and compliance issues. Come listen to what you need to do to be compliant, including taking steps such as the development of a written information security policy (WISP), implementation of encryption systems, firewalls, antimalware, employee training and much more. We will even touch on the security of social networking sites and how they can affect your organization, for better or for worse.
Brad Dinerman is the founder and president of the National Information Security Group (NAISG, www.naisg.org) and the president of Fieldbrook Solutions LLC (www.fieldbrook.net), an IT, MIS and security consulting firm based in Ashland, MA. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Security as well as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and a Certified SonicWall Security Administrator. He also earned a Ph.D. in physics from Boston College to help him calculate how long it would take to launch his frozen computer across the local highway. Brad is a frequent contributor to various online TechTips sites and gives user group/conference presentations on topics ranging from spam and security solutions to Internet development techniques. He also published numerous articles in international physics journals in his earlier, scientific career.
Susan Bradley is frequent speaker at SMB conferences, most recently SMBnation East. She writes the Patch Watch column for Brian Livingston’s Windows Secrets, and was one of the authors of Windows Server 2008 Security Resource kit, and Small Business Server 2008 Unleashed. In real life she’s the IT wrangler at her firm, Tamiyasu, Smith, Horn and Braun, where she manages a fleet of Windows Servers, an Exchange Server, desktops, a few Macs, several Windows mobile and iPhones and tries to keep patches up to date on all of them. In addition, she provides forensic computer investigations for the litigation consulting arm of the firm. She blogs at www.sbsdiva.com on the topics of small business server, tech topics and whatever she stumbled over that day.
Third Tier has invited you to attend an online meeting using
Microsoft Office Live Meeting.
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/join?id=968BJF&role=attend&pw=N%60%2Fm%3E_z6K
Meeting time: May 13, 2010 12:00 PM (EDT)
Add to my Outlook Calendar:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/meetingICS?id=968BJF&role=attend&pw=N%60%2Fm%3E_z6K&i=i.ics
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)
Add to my Outlook Calendar:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/meetingICS?id=WQFW5K&role=attend&pw=92X%2C%24Rs*t&i=i.ics

