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Zanacore has launched a new website. Over the course of this year we will be adding more of our products and services to the website. Most of 2009 was spent on our internal processes and getting our product line where we want it. 2010 will be about letting everyone know about all these new products and services and the website will be a big part of providing that information.
Be sure to check it out and let us know of any suggestions.
www.zanacore.com
Over 1 Million people have downloaded the Office 2010 beta, Have you?
I have been using the beta, and before then the Tech Preview version. I have been real happy with the new features, and the Ribbon in outlook is great. We had one PC at our last event that had it installed on it and people were spending a lot of time checking it out. So, you should check it out too!
Official Microsoft Site (Also where Download it)
www.microsoft.com/2010
Offical Blog for Office 2010
http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/default.aspx
Well after migrating our SBS 2003 to SBS 2008, we found we also migrated a lot of our problems in SBS 2003. One of the downsides of using your own systems for testing is you sometimes end up with a lot of left over garbage. We were hoping the migration to 2008 would help clean it up (which I think it did some), but a few issues still remained.
After some talk we decided it would be best for us to start over. This would allow us to change our domain name to match the new company name and to get things ready for some new technologies we plan to start playing with and in turn start using.
The biggest factor in this decision was the domain name. If you remember Zanacore was formed by multiple IT companies coming together. We then came up with a new name (Zanacore Technologies). For the most part we just built on the Senior Tech (one of the previous companies) info structure . Adding to it as needed, and when we got the new name, just added the email domain.
Well now we are starting over, which means for me instead of logging in at work as SenorTech\JPoole, it will now be Zanacore\Jason. I know, it’s seems small, but it really makes everything feel more complete.
The coolest thing about all of this is how we are going to do it. We have setup a Server 2008 with Hyper-V to act as a virtual server host. We will build the complete network up there in a virtual LAN. This allows us to keep using the current servers until we have installed, setup and configured the new SBS 2008 server. We are also going to pre setup SharePoint, a backup Domain controller, a Terminal server and a Windows Deployment Server.
I’ll expand on each of those as we move along, but we wont switch to the new network until everything is up and running. We can also fully test everything before we take it live. Our downtime will be very little. Just long enough to move some data.
It’s time to make the move. The best way to make sure everyone on our staff knows the how to use SBS 2008 is for them all to start using it in everyday life. So it’s time to migrate our SBS 2003 server to SBS 2008.
We have done a few test migrations in our labs. So far nothing real big has caused any problems. We did notice the Migrated Group Policies seems to overwrite the default SBS 2008 Policies. Having the in mind we feel we can migrate our server without any issues.
If you haven’t seen this before take a look at this video. I have been following this project since it was part of Microsoft research. THe prototypes looked more like a overhead projector with a camera on it. I heard AT&T stores are going to use these and some high end bars. Enough talk Take a look!
So I got a voicemail today from my brother asking “Is it true? Is everything bigger in Texas?” Well I’m not sure. Today I went out to eat, and the hamburger was about the same size as what you could find in Georgia. But if I look at the windows, I do see a few things that are much bigger then in Georgia.
For example, in my house we order a lot of pizza. In fact for a while Friday night was pizza night and my kids just loved it. I’ve seen a lot of pizza places, but in Texas, they had the biggest on I have ever seen. Anyone seen a Pizza Hut bigger then that one?
