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The Problem(s) I recently came across a situation where using SharePoint Designer 2010, I was unable to connect to my server. A second symptom of (what I believe to be) the same issue, was that I was unable to add a new user as a member to a site-collection, other than the root site collection …

We have a number of customers that have virtualized environments (ESX/ESXi) that are starting to hit issues with backups using “traditional” backup tools.  We also have the same issues in our own virtual environment.  To solve some of these issues we are working with customers to implement Veeam Backup and replication within their environments and …

I’ve been called out on my last post regarding SBS and SharePoint as it may be confusing.  Well, welcome to the world of SharePoint!  It can be VERY confusing!! The thrust of my last post is that you *really* need to think about what it is you want to do with SharePoint before you jump …

We have a number of customers that ask about SharePoint and SBS.  This might be a bit surprising as SharePoint has been an integral part of SBS since SBS2003 (Companyweb, anyone?) but it is a very good question nevertheless because of the nature of SharePoint. Microsoft has always pushed the use of SharePoint as an …

There are times when those of us that work in IT Consulting have the same kinds of experiences that customers have when it all goes horribly pear shaped.  So, this is a cautionary tale that proves even the “gods of IT” (hmmm, maybe I’ll trademark that) are mere mortals. I shouldn’t have to explain the …

Louis asked a good question the other day as to why you would want to use a Swing Migration over the SBS2008/SBS2011 migration process provided by Microsoft. Back in the days of SBS2003 this question would not have been asked as there was no Microsoft provided tools for migration into SBS2003 or to a replacement …

All new generation Sonicwall firewalls support “centrally controlled access” wireless management via the built-in wireless in the TZ100W, TZ200W, TZ210W, NSA220W, NSA250MW and/or via one or more SonicPoints. Both the built-in wireless and the SonicPoints allow for provisioning multiple “virtual” access points or VAP’s. A VAP is a specific wireless profile that can have settings …

The following is a rehash of an internal blog post I did for the office.  ESXi allows for different types of datastore connections and the following is the “quick and dirty” on those connections.  Please do NOT consider this the be all and end all regarding ESXi and datastores, it is more like a “Coles …

We just wrapped up another SBS2003 to SBS2011 migration and we once again made use of the SwingIT migration kit.  This migration was a bit more complicated as the source SBS2003 system was a complete mess as there were many, many fingers in the “administrator” pie since the system was initialized. Overall, the migration went …

VMware makes a great virtualization bundle available for any size organization but it really hits the “sweet spot” for SMB’s.  VMware vSphere Essentials is a license bundle that gives licensing for up to 3 physical servers, up to 6 CPU’s (think CPU sockets) and up to 192GB of RAM across those servers (32GB per CPU).  …