Nick King - Senior Product Manager - Core Infrastructure SMB
Getting Ready for Small Business Server 2008 - Microsoft Courseware Pre-Reqs Beta
Part of my role as a Technical Product Manager is to ensure that you get the right content in your...
Author: USNK Date: 06/01/2008
Port 3389, Remote Web Workplace, and the Terminal Services Gateway
You may have noticed we no longer call out port 3389 when we talk about the ports for EBS and...
Author: USNK Date: 05/31/2008
Essential Business Server 2008 Health Workloads - Vlog Slice
After the overwhelming interest in my previous videos, we're going to keep expanding the catalog of...
Author: USNK Date: 05/31/2008
EBS 2008 Slice - The Security Tab
Following on from the post yesterday, here is my next installment covering the security tab on...
Author: USNK Date: 05/29/2008
SBS 2008 Video Slice
Having spent a fair amount of time with SBS and EBS, I thought I'd put together a series of videos...
Author: USNK Date: 05/29/2008
Server Quest
Check this out. How Geek are you? https://www.server-quest.com/
Author: USNK Date: 05/28/2008
SBS 2008 RC0 Public Beta goes live!
Sign up below! https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc184870.aspx
Author: USNK Date: 05/28/2008
Removing Orphaned Items from the Shell Right Click Handler
In setting up my machine yesterday I needed to get access to an old file, which forced me to install...
Author: USNK Date: 05/27/2008
SBS 2008 - The long weekend deployment
The long weekend. Favored by many as a time to rebuild and re-architect their home environment. This...
Author: USNK Date: 05/27/2008
Some shameless self-promotion - Public Beta announcement
A short interview we did last night around some of the marketing messaging around SBS and EBS.
Author: USNK Date: 05/13/2008
The Kimono's officially open!
At long last we're public. No longer cagey posts on what to expect, only the gritty details on...
Author: USNK Date: 05/13/2008
Virtualization - Some of my hints and tips
Being on vacation this week I've had a chance to catch up on some of my home network maintenance...
Author: USNK Date: 04/22/2008
Extreme Makeover: Server Room Addition
Here's something from the archives. Previous to Essential Business Server we did a ton of...
Author: USNK Date: 04/18/2008
You know your product is real when.....
You have logos on cars. Check this out. Oliver Sommer from Germany has recently updated...
Author: USNK Date: 04/17/2008
Using Powershell to find unsecured accounts with no passwords
Since it's inclusion in Windows Server 2008 I've been tinkering a lot with Windows Powershell. ...
Author: USNK Date: 04/12/2008
Kiwiana Creme Egg Smasher
Some people just have way too much time. Check this out. Creme Eggs are a NZ Easter treat...
Author: USNK Date: 04/11/2008
Got RAM?
One of the coolest parts of my job is getting to use and influence new software, but recently a...
Author: USNK Date: 04/08/2008
Backstage at a Keynote
Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at a keynote? This weekend I spent most of my time...
Author: USNK Date: 04/08/2008
K-nearest neighbor - Heuristic what?
I was reading an article the other day about heuristics and how taking historical data allows you to...
Author: USNK Date: 04/04/2008
5w/50 SBS Webcast Recorded and Ready to View
Last Friday I presented a Webcast on Small Business Server 2008 to the US and now Worldwide Partner...
Author: USNK Date: 04/01/2008
Nitro Power!
So after spending long hours in building 43, guess what we do in the weekends? Check out one of my...
Author: USNK Date: 03/30/2008
Networking Basics - Subnet's
Recently I've had a couple people pick up on my notation style for IP subnet's. I thought I...
Author: USNK Date: 03/29/2008
Big Dog Beta - Swt Robot Skillz - part 2
Ok this was too funny not to share. You may have caught my post earlier this week about the...
Author: USNK Date: 03/26/2008
Hyper-V Remote Management now RTW
One of the things I noticed about RSAT was that Hyper-V management was missing. After a bit of...
Author: USNK Date: 03/25/2008
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) go live
If you've recently moved to Vista SP1 you may have noticed that some of the management tools were...
Author: USNK Date: 03/25/2008
Introduction to SBS 2008 Webcast
I'm running a Webcast this week on SBS 2008 as part of the 5w/50 Webcast series in the US. ...
Author: USNK Date: 03/24/2008
Would the real nicholas.king@hotmail.com please stand up
So it seems that every three years or so I go through some form of online identity...
Author: USNK Date: 03/24/2008
Sean talks on Small Business Server 2008
Sean Daniel one of our illustrious PMs recently did a talk on Technet EDGE on SBS 2008. It's...
Author: USNK Date: 03/20/2008
What type of Geek are you?
Author: USNK Date: 03/20/2008
Boston Dynamics - Swt Robot Skillz
Ok so I caught a glimpse of this on youtube this morning getting ready for work. I've seen...
Author: USNK Date: 03/19/2008
Work Efficiencies - Part 2 - 9 Simple things
So after plowing through a ton of email, the next thing I do is follow 9 simple steps that I read...
Author: USNK Date: 03/19/2008
Work Efficiencies - Part 1 - Uber email management
Last month marked my third year working for MS, and I was doing some reflection on how my work style...
Author: USNK Date: 03/18/2008
EBS Private Beta accepting more applications
Eric Watson updated the details on how to apply for the private beta program for Essential Business...
Author: USNK Date: 03/13/2008
How to add a Windows 2008 Server to an SBS 2003 network
This document describes how to join a computer that is running the Windows Server® 2008...
Author: USNK Date: 03/09/2008
Information Technology Lifecycle Management for SMB
A good friend of mine NickMac from NZ blogged about this a while a go and I thought I would do my...
Author: USNK Date: 03/08/2008
Internet Explorer 8 - Beta 1
Check out IE8's readiness tool kit here New features Activities - Activities allow users to...
Author: USNK Date: 03/05/2008
Ok, so where else can I go to get information on WESS
So it's about time we talked about where you can go to get more information on Windows Essential...
Author: USNK Date: 03/04/2008
Back and recovering from Windows Server Launch LA
Last week was a manic week, with a trip down to LA to attend the Windows Server 2008 launch at the...
Author: USNK Date: 03/04/2008
Essential Business Server 2008 - Japanese goes Beta 2
The roll continues! EBS Japanese beta 2 was signed off today! This is a significant...
Author: USNK Date: 02/22/2008
Small Business Server 2008 - Component Technologies
Let's talk a bit about the underlying technologies that make up SBS 2008. This time round we're...
Author: USNK Date: 02/22/2008
Yesterday was a big day for announcements
I thought I'd do a bit of a recap of yesterday's announcements. Check out the press release...
Author: USNK Date: 02/21/2008
Hello World
Well after much deliberation, I've finally decided to begin a blog. A bit about me; I...
Author: USNK Date: 02/20/2008