SBS 2008 system health PM interview and demo

Posted By: David Tesar | Jul 7th, 2008 @ 1:39 PM | 57,688 Views | 2 Comments

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Adrian Maziak, program manager for SBS, tells us about the improvements we've made to system health with small business server 2008 over the previous version. One of the big changes is the addition of the 180 day trial versions of Forefront for Exchange and Live One Care. In this interview we cover:

How Forefront and Onecare operate with SBS
Why it uses the built-in firewall versus the one which comes with onecare
Details of Forefront product

Demo of the SBS system health parts of the console:

How the SBS server discovers the health status of the clients
[12:40] How to modify the forefront settings and some common reasons why you would need to
[15:32] Modifications made with the Live OneCare application for SBS
[18:06] - What updates are auto-approved
[19:09] - What the reporting console does & looks like
[21:11] - Reports on Windows Mobile 5 and 6

If you tune into "Over the Edge" at 22:53, you'll find a crashed motorcycle, motorcycle certificate of appreciation, Wine & Spirit education trust certification, England flag, and an Acorn electron.

SBS has hit RC1 and will release the product on November 12^th, 2008. Read this post for more announcements made around SBS/EBS for WPC. To learn more about SBS/EBS 2008 and download a public preview, go to www.multiplyyourpower.com

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Pete Cullen

Very helpful video, thanks. Could you guys maybe do the screen capture direct rather than zooming in and out on the demo screen?
It gets a bit hard to follow sometimes.

extreme

In reply to Pete Cullen

#Jul 9th, 2008 @ 5:24 AM

Thanks for the feedback - I'm glad you found the video helpful. We'd have to install screen capture software on the demo machine, take the additional time to edit, and then hope when it gets processed into the multiple formats the screen capture still looks good. I've got one coming up soon where I'm going to experiment with this, so we shall see.

In the mean time, keep in mind downloading the high quality video has a much better resolution than the stream. Also, would it help if I just left the camera on the screen instead of zooming in/out?