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Feb
1

IPv6 is Here! Learn all about it: Third Tier welcomes Tom Shinder’s IPv6 Course

by Third Tier

2011 is the year of IPv6! With the last IPv4 address allocations made in January of this year, the future of TCP/IP networking is IPv6. Over the next five years you’ll find the major carriers rolling out support for native IPv6 networks and providing IPv6 allocations to their customers. In the past there wasn’t much to motivate you to learn IPv6, since nobody was using it other than bleeding-edge implementers and techno-geeks. Those days are gone and the time has come to bring IPv6 into the mainstream. To help you get started on your IPv6 trek – Tom Shinder is offering a 32-week IPv6 course to all members of the Microsoft community. Don’t let the 32-week thing intimidate you. The course will be a couple of hours, every two weeks.

Third Tier is please to be part of the community effort to provide education to IT Professionals on IPv6. Tom Shinder will present a year long course (delivered in bite sized pieces) designed to train IT Professionals on understanding and using IPv6. As part of the community effort, Third Tier will provide the webinar location, TechNet wiki, TechNet Forums and Edge Man blogs will provide continuing education and an opportunity to contribute to the conversation after the webinar sessions. Third Tier will also record the live sessions for later viewing.

This course, slated to being in April 2011, will focus on IPv6 fundamentals for those entirely new to IPv6. The focus will be on the Microsoft implementation of IPv6 and we will use Joe Davies’ award winning book Understanding IPv6, Second Edition as our textbook. The only prerequisites are that you have a basic understanding of IPv4 (you don’t need to be a networking guru), that you purchase the book and you want to get a head start on understanding IPv6 so that you’ll be prepared for the inevitable adoption and deployment of IPv6 on both home and corporate networks. The course will be delivered online and will be archived for later viewing. This is a community effort and we’ll adopt a number of community accessible tools (such as the TechNet wiki and TechNet forums and the Edge Man blog among others) to create a highly interactive and valuable learning experience. More details will be available in March 2011.

Let me introduce you to Tom Shinder, Principal Knowledge Engineer, DAIP iX. Anywhere Access Team

The “Edge Man” blog : http://blogs.technet.com/tomshinder/default.aspx
Twitter: http://twitter.com/tshinder
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tshinder

Stay tuned for details as the launch of this educational series draws near. Meanwhile, you might want to pick up the text book, Understanding IPv6, Second Edition

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Jan
25

January Webinar Available for Download

by Third Tier

For those who were not able to attend last week’s webinar, the first in the Managing SBS 2011 series, the LiveMeeting recording is now available for download from our Store page (http://www.thirdtier.net/store/). To view the webinar, download the file, extract the ZIP file, go into the folder, and open the ReplayMeeting.htm file.

0 Categories : Amy Babinchak, Eriq Neale, SBS 2011, Webinar

Jan
20

Q&A from Managing SBS 2011 – Installation webinar

by Third Tier

Here is the Q&A from today’s webinar on Managing SBS 2011 – Installation:

Question: sas or sata drives?
Answer: We are using primarily sata drives. Where we find that they aren’t fast enough, we generally provide a second sever for file storage with those drives.
Question: A lot of DVD burners do support DL, but good luck finding the media! I have found it easier to find Blu-Ray burnable media than DVD DL media…
Answer: Good tip. We’ve found the same thing. The USB setup is very simple and so much faster.
Question: Can we build SBS 2011 and fully configure it with our unique “recipe” (GPOs, tweaks, setup wizards, etc) then image it? Could we then apply that “custom” image to new servers and then tweak a few things for that specific customer? And… If we build that base as “company.lan” can we change that after that fact to “xyzcorp.local”?
Answer: You can’t do all of those things, but you can do most of them. This is a pretty complex questions. We’ll talk about it at the end during Q&A
Question: Do i need an trial key, for trial period of SBS2011. (Have downloaded from MSDN)
Answer: It will let you run without a key for a few days. If you have an MSDN subscirption you can get a key from your downloads section.
Question: I have a customer installation with my ISO file. But need an trial period, before I get the key to my customer. OEM editions have not been released yet in Norway.
Answer: You should be able to install without a product key when you run the install and then add the product key later.
Question: So i dont need an trial key for getting 60days trial
Answer: There is no place in the install where a key is asked for, so no trial key is needed. I’m not certain about the timeframe allowed before a key must be entered, but it doesn’t prompt for a key during install.
Question: Are you all using HP or Lenovo/IBM hardware or whitebox/HAAS hardware for SBS 2011, in particular I’m interested in the RAID controller and any out of band management you deploy.
Answer: Eriq’s company is using Dell hardware for hardware. We’ll discuss this more in live Q&A.
Question: I have started an SBS2011 server installation with 8GB ram for a customer, and i am worried that this will be a problem for my customer. Should i sell more RAM or keep on with 8GB?
Answer: If the customer is very small, it might be OK. But you will find it slow. I would recommend a few more GB minimum. Ram is pretty cheap these days.
Question: It is a 4user business with a simple MySQL database for an LOB software
Answer: I think I would still get them another 4GB. It will help the server have a long healthy life
Question: Most of customers coming from SBS2003. Firewall recommendations and why… What to look for?
Answer: We are using Calyptix. I would recommend a UTM appliance of your choice because attacks today come from all angles.
Question: We use HP 410i with 512MB FBWC controller + 4x146GB SAS 10K disk in RAID5. Choose BBWC or FBWC on the controller. Makes it much faster.
Answer: Thanks for the recommendation.
Question: When we virtualise SBS & a seperate SQL box then we have a mix of SATA and SAS.
Answer: Thanks for the recommendation
Question: If we are okay with using “company.lan” as the internal domain for all customers can we use the “confgiure and image” method and just change the external domain name “xyzcorp.com” using the wizard (in other words not run that wizard before imaging). In other words if we are okay with a generic internal domain name for AD are there any other reasons we cannot build an image of SBS 2011 for use in deployment?
Answer: This is a much better choice. We haven’t tried it. Do some experimentation first and keep us posted on how it goes.
Question: Is there anything new in SBS 2011 that better supports Macintosh / Ipad / Iphone Os es?
Answer: answered live
Question: Amy, how much cache ram on the raid controllers for your SATA installs?
Answer: 256 or 512mb
Question: Teaser question re migration: it sounds like I need another physical server even when I have a perfectly capable box currently running sbs2008. Is this true????
Answer: There’s no in place upgrade. This is function of Exchange. So you do need two boxes. We either replace the existing hardware or if we reuse it we virtualize the SBS 2008 on a temporary server.
Question: Does Remote (RWA) work from Safari Browser?
Answer: It depends..Yes but you can’t remote control a machine in the domain.
Question: Have you tried doing an install on an SSD? If so what RAID options did you choose, if any? Since SBS 2011 is based on Windows 2008 R2, it supports TRIM to increase SSD life span. I have my production SBS 2011 running on 2008 R2 Hyper-V and the virtual disk on an SSD and the performance is amazing! I’m not doing this for customers yet but was just wondering if you guys have played around with SBS on any type of SSD structure yet.
Answer: We have not. But this is great information for everyone. Thanks for sharing.
Question: Will handout or recording of the slides be available?
Answer: The webinar has been recorded and will be available on the site. Most likely there will be a subscription available for supporting materials later.
Question: Are there any documents I should follow or that Eriq can recommend for Macintosh join on SBS network SBS 2011?
Answer: I’ll be doing a post on Macintosh connectivity to SBS 2011 in the near future (read weeks, not days )
Question: Have you found a way to disable the remote file share access that shows up in the remote web?
Answer: answered live
Question: Do you feel it is too soon to put SBS 2011 into a client production environment?
Answer: Eriq does not, we have a number of proposals out right now for SBS 2011 migrations.
Question: Thanks. That’s too bad than you can’t filter somehow. Just like the remote control server only shows up for admins, not normal remote users.
Answer: Yes, we’ve bugged it for a future update, but no idea if/when it will be updated.
Question: This might have been discussed earlier, but when clients with SBS 2003 need a hardware refresh and aren’t ready for SBS 2011 yet, do you typically P2V it? If so, what tech do you use?
Answer: I use Storagecraft backup restore into a MS hyper-V machine. MS P2V should work equally as well
Question: Any difference in specs for virtual installs?
Answer: Not much experience with this yet. We expect that the requirements will be higher for virtual servers.
Question: Thanks – Great Job, as usual!!!
Answer: You’re welcome!

0 Categories : Amy Babinchak, Eriq Neale, Q&A, SBS 2011, Webinar

Jan
12

Third Thursday Webinar: Managing SBS 2011 Installation

by amy

Eriq Neale and Amy Babinchak will present this months Third Thursday webinar on SBS 2011 Installation. This is the second in what will be a complete series on Small Business Server 2011.

Topics to be covered:

Specifications and real-world specifications
Using the Answer file
Booting from USB
Verify the installation
and more

Please plan to join us. This webinar series is scheduled each month for the Third Thursday at Noon Eastern time. That’s January 20th.

Mark your calendar now.

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/join?id=RBSQ5R&role=attend&pw=jG*xS6n%22F

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Dec
21

SBS 2011 Release Party Download Available

by Third Tier

Last week’s Third Thursday webinar presentation of the SBS 2011 Release Party is now available for download from the Store page. To view the recording, download and extract the ZIP file, then open the contained folder and open the ReplayMeeting.html file.

Categories : Amy Babinchak, Eriq Neale, SBS 2011, Webinar

Dec
6

Announcing Give-Aways for the SBS 2011 Party

by amy

You’ll have to bring your own party favors, snacks and drinks to the SBS 2011 Release party next week. But we’ve got prizes!

From Susan Bradley: Kindle
From Tim Barrett: Have U Rebooted Yet? Signed copy of your choice
From Amy Babinchak: XL Wireless Detector t-shirt

Don’t forget to reserve your space.

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/meetingICS?id=4T8QHH&role=attend&pw=d7%3BH%22.%23H7&i=i.ics

0 Categories : Amy Babinchak, Eriq Neale, Friend of TT, SBS 2011, Webinar

Nov
29

Got Dec 16th, Noon Eastern reserved on your calendar yet?

by amy

It’s the Third Tier, Small Business Server 2011 Release Party!

Hidden Features and Other Things that Microsoft’s Marketing Won’t Mention

If it’s not on your calendar then click here to RSVP.

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/meetingICS?id=4T8QHH&role=attend&pw=d7%3BH%22.%23H7&i=i.ics

We’ll have some fun. We’ve got some give-aways. We’ll have some great content. We’ve got wonderful people. We’ll take your questions.

When? December 16th. Noon Eastern

What? An SBS 2011 Release Party – Hidden Features and other Things that won’t be in Microsoft’s marketing

Where? https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/meetingICS?id=4T8QHH&role=attend&pw=d7%3BH%22.%23H7&i=i.ics

Who? You, Tim Barrett, Eriq Neale, Susan Bradley and Amy Babinchak

http://www.thirdtier.net/2010/11/third-thursday-webinar-an-sbs-2011-release-party-hidden-features-and-other-things-that-wont-be-in-microsofts-marketing/

0 Categories : Amy Babinchak, Eriq Neale, Friend of TT, SBS 2011, Webinar

Nov
22

Third Thursday Webinar: An SBS 2011 Release Party – Hidden Features and other Things that won’t be in Microsoft’s marketing

by amy

When? December 16th. Noon Eastern

What? An SBS 2011 Release Party – Hidden Features and other Things that won’t be in Microsoft’s marketing

Where? https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/meetingICS?id=4T8QHH&role=attend&pw=d7%3BH%22.%23H7&i=i.ics

Who? You, Tim Barrett, Eriq Neale, Susan Bradley and Amy Babinchak

Microsoft has a list of features and benefits for Small Business Server 2011 but Tim, Eriq, Amy and Susan have been deep diving into SBS 2011 and will tell you about the cool “hidden” features that you are your clients are going to love. Tim has also thrown down the gauntlet and is already claiming to have the fastest SBS 2011 server. He’ll fill us in on why his server is so fast.

So join us for some fun. We’ll show off some features, Tim will show us his fast server and we’ll probably banter back and forth a lot because we’re that way. We’ll also be taking live Q&A.

Reserve your space now by clicking the link above. See you on Third Thursday!

0 Categories : Amy Babinchak, Eriq Neale, Friend of TT, SBS 2011, Webinar

Nov
18

Q&A: Remote Desktop Apps

by amy

Thank you to everyone for attending today webinar on Implementing Remote Desktop Apps. Here is the Q&A from today’s session. Remember our webinars take place every Third Thursday at Noon Eastern. Keep on eye on www.thirdtier.net/blog and our various social media locations for an invitation to the next webinar.

Question: Do you know of a Remote App client for the iPad???? That would be a killer app.
Answer: Eriq has heard of one, but has not seen it or used it.

Question: If the server is being run as a virtual installation, do you use that virtualization role?
Answer: We’ll ask Eriq at the end of the presentation.

Question: Is this the same as ‘change user/install’?
Answer: Yes it is. The installation process for this is pretty much the same as other TS components.

Question: Are apps on this list assumed to be installed in TS mode?
Answer: Yes

Question: The local drive is shown. I thought it was disabled?
Answer: You can make both local and remote drives available to the users.

Question: access to the servers drives and resources are still the same as when logged onto the local network – so no difference – right?
Answer: Permissions and security groups and such all still apply as usual.

Question: is there no way to pass through users Domain credentials?
Answer: I’ll ask Eriq at the end of the presentation. But in the example, he is showing the user computer is not a member of the domain.

Question: How does this handle situation where an application needs to start a second app to function?
Answer: I’ll ask Eriq this question at the end of presentation.

Question: I think what I saw was under the RDS role section.
Answer: The remote dekstop virtualization host enables user to connect to virtual machines.

Question: We are using eClinicalWorks medical app in RemoteApp and it works pretty well, but from time to time the app will seize up and leave a big black box in the middle of the screen that won’t go away.
Answer: We aren’t familiar with this application. Perhaps a permissions issue? If you go to the server are you able to figure out what is supposed to be displayed? There could be many different solutions.

Question: Black window problem hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981156
Answer: thanks!

Question: but not all sessions will desire to have drive restrictions set. Hmm – needs work!
Answer: Yes, but there are global settings on the server itself in the session host configuration manager, under client settings. This effects the whole server and everyone that connects to it. Group Policy is another option.

Question: Thanks guys!
Answer: welcome
Question: Very nice presentation. Vastly underrated feature and it is FREE!
Answer: absolutely
Question: Great sesion thaks for taking the time to share your knowledge….
Answer: thanks
Question: Great info as usual – Thanks!!
Answer: thanks

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0 Categories : Eriq Neale, Remote Desktop, Webinar

Nov
18

RDS Remote Apps Webinar Starts Soon

by Third Tier

Eriq Neale’s Third Thursday webinar on RDS Remote Apps starts at noon Eastern. Here’s the link to join the meeting:

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/harborcomputerservices/join?id=8KN645&role=attend&pw=3CdN%3Fp%2F%3AR

See you there!

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