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I'm hoping my Case will arrive in the next couple of days. I'm also going to try and setup some stuff using the GPIO for my nephew to play with. can anybody thing of something interesting to do for a 10 year old bar turning on a light which is fairly easy/cheap to source components for?

yes you should be able to - I know you can from express to full maybe worth going with express then convert to full (install over top)

yes you should be able to. How big a DB are you wanting to run? sql express runs up to 10gb dbs now.

Can you not just say take a copy using windows server backup and schedule once a month/every couple of months? unless you use any print management not a lot will change.

can you put up a picture? I'll take the lot and just recycle the server. EDIT: how many network cards does it have?

Personally I would build another as a DC install DHCP and configure and then change the IP of the old one and to the new one and migrate files over after. But normally I wouldn't use a DC as a File Server

I'll have the disks - is it 2 x 12 or just 12? Don't really want the chassis just the Disks if possible!

If they are I'll have some disks! If there going!

Are they Def SAS drives not SCSI?

have you checked the Transport rules? Could be one in there including him in the mail.

If you Open up the GAL and find the group in an email and expand do they appear in there? Do your outlook clients use offline caching mode? has the user ever been part of that group?

SBS has some features which would actually be pretty good in the full version (such as its remote access RDP stuff). But thats about it. Sharepoint should just be shot and Exchange being removed is pushing people to the Cloud. Which A lot of my customers with SBS would not want to do. Therefore will look to alternatives as Exchange is expensive in the private world.

But you are then reliant on Hyper-V.. yuck

It was nice the sun today but unfortuntly it seems every time I walked outside it decided to pee it down within about a minute. Walk back into building and within a minute the torrential downpour stopped. Plus being in Central london which is just full of people (who get in the way). And a train which was supposed to leave @ 8:25 which didn't arrive into the station until 9:14 all in all crap day!!!

I think there is a module for FreePBX to accept SMS and forward to email. Alternative is look at Google Voice but it's coming in the future EDIT: after googling it appears it's in the UK although website says us only

Oh yeah and that - it needs TCP 1688 inbound

If you use Ubuntu for Backup PC its simply a case of apt-get install backuppc and the add a server setup what shares to backup. It comes pre-configured with a schedule for backups (incremental sat-thurs with Friday Full Backup.

Do the clients have firewalls on? Sounds like they are blocking the WMI check from the server.

I used what ever the DT technician had as Scrap the week i was installing!

Talk to @CyberNerd about TS he runs clusters of them off desktop hardware using SSD's and lots of ram - if you have a farm at a fraction of the cost and even if the odd component pops you have saved a lot. Just create an Image for a TS and reimage a new ssd.

I used to run a VM for remote access for staff with 10GB ram running 2k8 R2. You will be surprised at the performance from it!

Shares on Windows you can't beat BackupPC for free. Also with SQL maintenance plans and then use Backup PC to dump. Exchange use the in built Windows Server Backup.

I have a feeling it something like code.google or similar - if you open up the page and view the source you can see the Js its trying to pull i think.

You will find that Prezi launches Java script from one of google's servers. that is the cause of the issue with the page not being loaded as this tends to be blocked.

@Heebeejeebee The Campsites run completely seperate are they not from the actual Silverstone circuit i.e you book a ticket to the race track but have to get camping from a third party? That was always my understanding of the situation silverstone all the times I have been there.