Found this over on Sean Daniel’s blog.
It’s part of a Pimp My Infrastructure promotion being run in the US (only for businesses in US as well). Nice if we could have something like this over here eh?
A poster for every SBS’ers wall
Here’s a nice download from Microsoft. It’s a two page poster that covers the installation and setup of SBS 2008. It also has links to other information you’ll need to get SBS 2008 operational.
I’ve been telling people about this for ages
Looks like a pen right?
It’s a pen and a PC all in one!
And even with my fat little fingers I’ll be able to use a mobile device properly. No more keyboards, the device projects a keyboard image onto the surface in front of you, where your fingers cut the beam is the letter it reads. Smart stuff!
Truly amazing but given the rate at which things are changing now days it won’t be long before Dell and HP will be selling pens and giving you a free PC eh?
Here’s a pretty cool site
You’ll see that I’ve clicked on the Trend Tracker to get a load of interesting statistics.
You can navigate by clicking on the little page icons (looks a bit like the aero interface) in the top left of the window. Down the right hand side you’ll find a whole heap of handy links.
When you click on the TrendIQ section you’ll also find on the left a number of videos which aren’t too bad. They maybe something worth showing your customers to give them a better idea of the security threats faced and why Internet security is important.
I haven’t seen any advertising of this site by Trend which is strange because I think it is a great resource.
SMB Conference call
Got some time to kill Thursday morning the 25th of September (Sydney, Australia time)? Well, between 7 and 8 am Sydney time I’ll be chatting with Karl Palachuk from SMB Books about Sharepoint. To register go here:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/895127356
and don’t forget to convert the times to your local timezone (in Sydney it’ll be 7 am on Thursday September 25 2008, while in the US it will be Wednesday, September 24, 2008 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT).
The topic will be Windows SharePoint. We’ll focus on the strategic side of customizing and selling SharePoint. We’ll also talk more generically about developing a business around customizing existing products.
I hope that you’ll be able to join us.
Basic user operations in SBS 2008 video
Here’s a new video I’ve created that steps you through some of the basics for working with users in SBS 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG9njO97iv
I appreciate that it is very simple but I wanted to give people who haven’t yet seen SBS 2008 a quick overview of how easy it is. Going forward I plan to create more SBS 2008 videos and start to dive deeper into the capabilities of the product. Till then enjoy
I think this is way cool
What I really love about SharePoint is that it is so extensible. You can not only add SharePoint web parts but you can also include stuff like embedded YouTube videos, Google Calendar and other standard HMTL. In that vein, have a look at what I’ve been able to do with the following page:
Supportweb embedded SBS videos
When you click on a link (only two at the moment) a window should display over the current SharePoint page and one of my YouTube videos will start playing inside a box. To return to the SharePoint page simply click the Close button or just click outside the video box.
What I like about this solution is that it is simple to deploy and allows streaming video (or any other web content to be displayed) over the top of an existing Sharepoint page. That way I don’t have to host the videos on my Sharepoint site and I don’t have to use my bandwidth to display them, I let ‘someone’ else do all the heavy lifting. I think that is way cool.
I’ll be working to incorporate all the videos I have done up here shortly and completely link it from the main page. In the meantime drop me a note and let me know what you think, I’d love to get your feedback.
Subscribers to my Windows Sharepoint Operations Guide will get full details of how they can implement this in their own Sharepoint sites very soon. Don’t you wish you were a subscriber?
Login errors after Trend upgrade
Recently, I did an upgrade from Trend CSM Suite for SMB 3.6 to Trend Worry Free Business Security v5.0 on an SBS 2003 R2 Premium system using ISA 2004 as the firewall. The update went fine and no errors were encountered. That was until I received the server report logs the following day.
I got thousands of failed logins and the login process appears to be random junk as you can see above. Turns out that when you do an upgrade to the latest version of Trend, which includes a new feature called Web Reputation, you don’t get prompted for the proxy details for that component.
So previously with SBS 2003 Premium you probably had the proxy settings working under Preferences > Global Settings, problem is, with the new version of Trend you also need proxy settings for the Web Reputation and Behaviour monitoring. Once I had entered the same proxy login settings as I had for the Product updates area above I expected to see no more failed logins.
Oh how wrong I was! I now started seeing tens of thousands of failed login attempts instead of just thousands. What the hell? When I called Trend support they pointed the finger at Microsoft. Ahhhh no, the Trend update was the only thing that has been done to the server. Trend’s response? Sorry, we can’t help, have a nice day.
So after discovering some other SBS people who had the same issue I worked out (through the shared error experience) that the username and password fields for the Web Reputation proxy setting MUST BE less than 14 characters each! Yes, you read right, less than 14 characters for the login name AND the password. Anything over that and there will proxy login failures. In my case I actually had to create a new server user and remove the login domain\username and change it to simply username. The login for the product update area can remain as domain\username and be longer than 14 character but the details for the Web Reputation can’t.
Now really how can this sort of issue happen in this day and age? Clearly it does and it is us poor IT support people who are left to sort the crap out, in my case WITHOUT assistance from Trend. So if you experience the same issue, this solution worked for me and I hope it also works for you. Roll on Trend Worry Free Business Security 5.1.
CIAOPS 