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Installing EBS: A Diary
So now that I have a day or two to play (and need it up already!), I decided to start installing my Essential Business Server environment today.  This is not my first kick at this can (I have installed eight or nine previous iterations in either...
A Gotcha to Installing EBS in an Existing Environment
I encountered a problem this week-end that baffled me for a while… Here is the infrastructure, the problem, and the solution. This network diagram is a rough sketch of the relevant portions of the network. At present I have a server (HP DL585 G2) working...
Windows Home Server - How did I ever live without it?
In January last year I was introduced to a new product: Codename Q Server , or what would eventually become Windows Home Server. I joined the beta program, discussed it with other MVPs, but never got around to installing it. Well last week I did, and...
Unified Messaging (UX perspective) - COOL!!
I had a conversation with my Exchange Server last night. Microsoft has been talking about Unified Messaging for a couple of years now, and I have been interested in it since the outset but because I do not always have the infrastructure (or the time)...
The Internet... Do YOU Know Where YOUR Children Are?
One evening this week at the dinner table Theresa and I were discussing some of the steps that we took to protect Aaron (our nine year old) while he surfs the Internet.  He piped up that he did NOT like any of these measures, and I told him that...
A Great Feeling...
The past two years I have failed to send out my regular Holiday Update Letter to friends and family.  The reasons are irrelevant, but yesterday and today I decided to revive that tradition, and sent it out.  If you did not get it then please...
RSS Feeds... Why not?
In the beginning there was the Internet. And upon the Internet there was chaos, and all manner of information was transmitted in all sorts of ways, and it was complicated. And then the Blog was created, and we looked upon it and said it was good. And...
Lessons Learned!
Some of you may know that I spend an inordinate amount of time at a particular cafe that has always had wireless Internet. Unfortunately you really do get what you pay for, and ever since they stopped charging for the wifi the service has gone down considerably...