2011年4月23日星期六
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When will Intel?s Many Integrated Core processors be mainstream?
I?m at Intel?s software tools conference in Dubrovnik, which I have attended for the last three years, and as usual the big topic is concurrent programming and how to write code that takes advantage of the multiple cores in today?s computers.
Clearly this remains a critical subject, but in some ways the progress over
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2011年4月22日星期五
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Presentation Material from SMBNation
Did you manage to make it to SMBNation 2010? Were you in the jammed packed rooms for ?Aurora? or ?SBS7?. Now that we have full product names, pricing and estimated release dates, it?s time to start talking about these great products.
While the names in the decks are unchanged, I am now making the SMBNation decks available to you for both sessions:
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (known at SMBNation as ?Aurora?), and
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard (known at SMBNation as ?SBS7?).
Click on the above links to download the decks presented.
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Microsoft releases IE10 preview, talks up native HTML5
Microsoft has released an early preview of Internet Explorer 10, which you can download now. It shows the company?s commitment ? for the moment ? to an energetic release cycle for its web browser.
Why use IE? Microsoft is pushing the notion that only IE is truly native on Windows:
IE10 continues on
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Related posts:Windows Multi Point 2011 and How it Fits into Your Small Business
I?ve talked about Multi-Point before, and I mentioned it in my presentation at SMBNation in Las Vegas at the end of last year, but yet I still get the questions about education only, or can we use it in business?
Well, it?s true that the current version of Multi-Point, 2010 that?s available today is out in the field for education only (or at least it?s hard to get or manage if you?re not in education). If you?re in the market for it, because you like the idea of a single computer and multiple users, there were two major problems. The OEM edition was non-domain joinable, and only supported 10 users. The Academic version was only via volume licensing to qualified people, and supported 20 users and the beloved domain-join functionality. So really, if you wanted something useful, really do have to be in the education field to even get your hands on it.
Also, there are some features that are good for education, but kind of confuse users outside in the working world, like if you put a thumb-drive into one of the USB ports at a workstation, it appears to all the work stations. Good for education, not so great for business.
Well, if you wrote off Multi-Point 2010 for business, you probably haven?t been paying attention to the new Multi-Point 2011, currently in Beta (obtain it here)
With Windows MultiPoint Server 2011, the licensing and purchase model has been simplified. There are still two versions as before, with similar restrictions:
- Windows MultiPoint 2011 Standard ? still cannot join a domain and still has a max of 10 work stations
- Windows MultiPoint 2011 Premium ? CAN join a domain as before and can have up to 20 workstations
The most important piece of information to note in the SMB space, is that BOTH of these MultiPoint editions are offered in multiple Microsoft licensing channels. So now you don?t have to be a large school to actually purchase the more useful edition of MultiPoint.
What?s better, is that USB issue mentioned above is fixed, a USB thumb-drive only appears to the session its plugged into, and not all the users on the server.
Additionally, the 2011 version of WMS has support for thin clients. Here is where I think the big win for Small Business lives. If you have 12 XP workstations, you can simply obtain 1 copy of MultiPoint Premium and now each of those XP workstations have another 5 years of life but yet, they get a full Windows 7 experience when used as a WMS workstation over the network.
What??
Yeah, that?s what. WMS is essentially a turnkey TS server on steroids. You can TS to it, or you can plug in USB based workstations, or use OS down-level desktops. I?ve even seen old useless Linux based laptops, that have support for RDP be instantly turned into a powerful Windows 7 workstation.
If you?re a VAP, selling it should be a breeze. Just show the business owner the console where you can get a thumbnail of each individual workstation. Business owners will love that they can snoop on their employees desktops for when they are using Facebook, or other non-productive functionality, or even to just confirm employee behavior.
You can really tell that the Windows MultiPoint Server, and the Windows Small Business Server teams share the same floor in Building 43 at Microsoft, our consoles look similar. Sadly, they do not completely integrate for this release.
I?ve installed WMS into my SBS 2011 Essentials (Aurora) network and it works great. I haven?t tried on an SBS 2011 Standard network, but there is nothing to prevent it from not working. I?m seriously considering having the standard version run at my house for when guests arrive and want to use a computer. Even John Zajdler has tried it in his Aurora Network?
If you haven?t tried it yet, and it?s interesting to you get on it because the release candidate is already out.. which has gotta mean it?s close, right?
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2011年4月21日星期四
Tabletop Pong on Make: Live -- Starting Now!
Make Live is starting NOW, (6 pm PDT/9 pm EDT)-- so join us over at Make for the live show. (Bonus: We'll be showing a sneak preview of next week's project!) You can also view the show preview, up now, and we'll be posting the non-live video link later, once it's posted. Update: The show video is up.
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The Open Source Hardware Logo
Following the public vote announced several weeks ago, the design above by Macklin Chaffe was selected as the v 1.0 logo for Open Source Hardware. We hope that this will, in time, become a recognizable mark indicating open source hardware projects and products. Part of what will help to spur adoption is making the design available in a variety of formats, ready for use in different contexts. Already, we've seen versions in OpenSCAD (for 3D fabrication) and KiCad (for circuit board design). To those examples, we're adding our own: the OSHW logo, ready to use in gEDA PCB, our favorite software for circuit board design.
Here's how the logo might look on a printed circuit board, as rendered in gEDA PCB. 
We've also rendered it in a few sizes and styles-- filled or not, and losing the text as the logos get smaller. You can download this set of examples for gEDA right here ( 82 kB .zip archive).
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- Re-cap of the gotcha's of Migration with SBS, with shout outs to Susan Bradley and Jeff Middleton as key places for help with your migration in the community and,
- The use of MultiPoint 2011 in SBS Essentials,
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All-new Adobe Audition is re-written for cross-platform, some features not yet ported
Adobe?s forthcoming Creative Suite 5.5 includes a significant change to its audio editing support. The Soundbooth application has gone, replaced by a new version of Adobe Audition for both Mac and Windows.
I thought this was good news. Audition has always been an excellent product, even back in the days when it was
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2011年4月20日星期三
Tabletop Pong on Make: Live -- Starting Now!
Make Live is starting NOW, (6 pm PDT/9 pm EDT)-- so join us over at Make for the live show. (Bonus: We'll be showing a sneak preview of next week's project!) You can also view the show preview, up now, and we'll be posting the non-live video link later, once it's posted. Update: The show video is up.
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EY Training Provider Program is here!
Last April, we announced Engine Yard University, and the first revision of our Zero to Rails 3 class. One year later, we are taking our game to the next level with the launch of our EY Training Provider (EYTP) Program. Through this initiative, school teachers, instructors, developers, managers, and entrepreneurs can work together to improve their curriculum, and lead classes with meaningful and direct support from Engine Yard.
Standing beside us on launch day are some of the most well known names in Ruby and Rails training. These include:
- Blazing Cloud: Sarah Allen's Ruby consulting and training company here in San Francisco
- Chariot Solutions: a leading Java Open & SOA organization embracing JRuby, Ruby and Rails
- Envy Labs / Code School: the guys behind Rails for Zombies
- Thoughtbot: our partners in Boston, famous for hiring the best and brightest, and makers of Hoptoad
Windows Multi Point 2011 and How it Fits into Your Small Business
I?ve talked about Multi-Point before, and I mentioned it in my presentation at SMBNation in Las Vegas at the end of last year, but yet I still get the questions about education only, or can we use it in business?
Well, it?s true that the current version of Multi-Point, 2010 that?s available today is out in the field for education only (or at least it?s hard to get or manage if you?re not in education). If you?re in the market for it, because you like the idea of a single computer and multiple users, there were two major problems. The OEM edition was non-domain joinable, and only supported 10 users. The Academic version was only via volume licensing to qualified people, and supported 20 users and the beloved domain-join functionality. So really, if you wanted something useful, really do have to be in the education field to even get your hands on it.
Also, there are some features that are good for education, but kind of confuse users outside in the working world, like if you put a thumb-drive into one of the USB ports at a workstation, it appears to all the work stations. Good for education, not so great for business.
Well, if you wrote off Multi-Point 2010 for business, you probably haven?t been paying attention to the new Multi-Point 2011, currently in Beta (obtain it here)
With Windows MultiPoint Server 2011, the licensing and purchase model has been simplified. There are still two versions as before, with similar restrictions:
- Windows MultiPoint 2011 Standard ? still cannot join a domain and still has a max of 10 work stations
- Windows MultiPoint 2011 Premium ? CAN join a domain as before and can have up to 20 workstations
The most important piece of information to note in the SMB space, is that BOTH of these MultiPoint editions are offered in multiple Microsoft licensing channels. So now you don?t have to be a large school to actually purchase the more useful edition of MultiPoint.
What?s better, is that USB issue mentioned above is fixed, a USB thumb-drive only appears to the session its plugged into, and not all the users on the server.
Additionally, the 2011 version of WMS has support for thin clients. Here is where I think the big win for Small Business lives. If you have 12 XP workstations, you can simply obtain 1 copy of MultiPoint Premium and now each of those XP workstations have another 5 years of life but yet, they get a full Windows 7 experience when used as a WMS workstation over the network.
What??
Yeah, that?s what. WMS is essentially a turnkey TS server on steroids. You can TS to it, or you can plug in USB based workstations, or use OS down-level desktops. I?ve even seen old useless Linux based laptops, that have support for RDP be instantly turned into a powerful Windows 7 workstation.
If you?re a VAP, selling it should be a breeze. Just show the business owner the console where you can get a thumbnail of each individual workstation. Business owners will love that they can snoop on their employees desktops for when they are using Facebook, or other non-productive functionality, or even to just confirm employee behavior.
You can really tell that the Windows MultiPoint Server, and the Windows Small Business Server teams share the same floor in Building 43 at Microsoft, our consoles look similar. Sadly, they do not completely integrate for this release.
I?ve installed WMS into my SBS 2011 Essentials (Aurora) network and it works great. I haven?t tried on an SBS 2011 Standard network, but there is nothing to prevent it from not working. I?m seriously considering having the standard version run at my house for when guests arrive and want to use a computer. Even John Zajdler has tried it in his Aurora Network?
If you haven?t tried it yet, and it?s interesting to you get on it because the release candidate is already out.. which has gotta mean it?s close, right?
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Using the KeepVault Connector to backup Roaming Client Computers
Previously, I covered the basics of Proxure?s KeepVault Online Backup, as well as what you got if you went Pro. With the release of the RC of KeepVault for, I noticed I didn?t cover the KeepVault Connector, which is a separate add-in for Windows Home Server 2011, and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials than the original KeepVault add-in.
This add-in allows you to do the incredible. Back up roaming computers via a ?Sync? while the computer is connected to the Internet, anywhere. Now I use Windows Live Mesh to sync most of my items between my computers and the cloud, but there are some things that I don?t. For example, if I?m travelling and I process photos, those don?t get into my Mesh, but I still worry about them. This solution solves that.
Simply download and install the KeepVault Connector for Mac & PC. Make sure you choose the WHS/SBS 2011 version, and not the WHS Original. Once installed, and the dashboard restarted, you?ll notice that KeepVault has an extra tab
This add-in installs into the dashboard and adds a \KeepVault directory to your default website. It also reads your servername (orange above), your remote access domain name (blue above) and provides an extremely secure recommended password (yellow above). Simply click the link to Download and install the client setup. This downloads the client component directly from your server:
For me I created a ?backup to home server? folder as a test, and dropped a few files in there. While I?m local on the network, the backups are SUPER quick, but away from the network they?ll be throttled by my connection speed back to my server.
You can also choose to modify the backup locally only, or over the Internet. Given that the built in Client Backup functionality runs when you?re local, you might not use this. However, it?s some nice flexibility if you use a tethered 3G connectivity, so you can choose to sync when you?re on wi-fi and by default not always. Speaking of Sync, you?ll notice at the very bottom you can click the hyper-link to work offline, so if you end up tethering your PC to your cell phone and then dumping a ton of pictures in there, you can click that and work offline, and prevent the backup from happening over your 3G connection, if you valued cost of data over loss of data. :o)
If I had a gripe with this system, it?s only that the KeepVault connector isn?t also available to launch directly from Launchpad via the Add-ins area. As you can see AWIECO does take advantage of this, it?d be great to see ?KeepVault Connector? in here:
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I?ve heard on a few occasions that the road warrior doesn?t like the stop in the office to do a much needed backup, perhaps this solution can help. Backups can be done from home, or coffee shops, or in my case, at work to my home!
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2011年4月19日星期二
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CloudBerry Backup add-in now supports SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011
CloudBerry Backup, a piece of software I have reviewed for Windows Home Server v1, has recently (February) released an update to support both the new Windows Home Server 2011, as well as the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials.
For the most part, I liked CloudBerry, their software is a pay once, and according to their website, upgrade to the WHS 2011 version for free.
The biggest problems I had with CloudBerry were
- The complexity of setting up the Amazon S3 account
- The cost of using Amazon S3
So really I think if you want to use Amazon S3 as your back-end, it?s a great solution.
You can pick up their Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Release Candidate, or their Windows Home Server 2011 Essentials Release Candidate.
I haven?t tried this version yet, but I?m surprised there is a price difference between SBS and WHS Versions. The UI looks identical, and I know that the SDK they use to develop their version is identical. The costing is called out on this webpage, but it really doesn?t say what Small Businesses are getting on top of the WHS product for a pretty hefty difference in price.
If anyone knows, drop it in the comments below.
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Yuri's Night Bay Area 2011
We just got word that the Maker Faire folks will be exhibiting at Yuri's Night Education Day tomorrow at NASA Ames! We'll be bringing a few projects to show off for part of the day to the kids and educators who will be attending. Yuri's Night is an annual worldwide party to celebrate Yuri Gagarin's first flight into space. This year is the 50th anniversary. Even if you're not in one of the classes attending the Bay Area Eduction Day, you can check the list of events to see if there's one happening near you or register your own event.
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Is Appcelerator Titanium native? And what does native mean anyway?
Of course we all know that Microsoft?s IE9 and the forthcoming IE10 are native ? VP Dean Hachamovitch said so many times during his keynote at the Mix 2011 conference earlier this week. That has sparked a debate about what native means ? so here is another interesting case.
Appcelerator?s Titanium cross-platform tool for
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Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 and Interaction with Small Business Server 2011 Essentials
I know I have talked before about Windows MultiPoint Server 2011, and how it can help your Small Business with thin clients, old clients, seasonal employees and even reducing the number of machines in the office by getting one nice one.
I wanted to touch on this again, now that the Release Candidate of Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials is available. With this release of SBS 2011 Essentials, a new level of integration between MultiPoint 2011 Premium and SBS 2011 Essentials is here. MultiPoint has some features that just work well with SBS, and vice versa. Let?s take a look at those so you know what to expect. You are required to get MultiPoint 2011 Premium for these features to work as that's the version that allows domain join.
1. MultiPoint Server Premium can Join the SBS 2011 Essentials Server
That?s right, MultiPoint can go straight to http://server/connect and join just as if it was a client computer. As the MultiPoint administrator on one of the local sessions, simply browse to the server /connect page and click the Join this Windows PC. The join is pretty seamless, which then brings us to the next point?
2. Domain users can log into the MultiPoint 2011 Premium Server
Once domain joined, the MultiPoint server allows all domain users to log in as standard users to the server. This includes local sessions or remote TS sessions. This can essentially render the Users tab of MultiPoint useless to you, but now you can manage your users from inside the Small Business Server 2011 dashboard.
3. MultiPoint Server shows up in the SBS 2011 Essentials Server Dashboard
Yep, you can see your MultiPoint server in the dashboard, just along with your other clients, it appears online or offline depending on the state of the server.
This now brings me to my next point, because you probably saw that the backup status of this MultiPoint server is Successful
4. MultiPoint 2011 is backed up by SBS 2011 Essentials
Yep, as if it?s a client computer, the MultiPoint 2011 Server is backed up as if it?s a client computer. In fact, it?s the *only* server operating system that can be backed up by the SBS 2011 Essentials backup engine.
5. MultiPoint appears in the Remote Web Access of SBS 2011 Essentials
Last but not least, the MultiPoint 2011 server automatically appears in the Remote Web Access for SBS 2011 Essentials, and users can connect directly to this server remotely.
Using the SBS 2011 Essentials dashboard, you can control which users have access to this computer simply on their user properties object
There you have it. As mentioned before, MultiPoint is a TS-in-App-Sharing server on steroids. You can use local settings via USB, or remote sessions using either thin clients, remote computers, or just local computers you don?t want to upgrade to Windows 7, but still have this experience. The more users you configure to connect, the better the hardware you should configure.
While this is all content that applies to RTM, currently SBS 2011 and MultiPoint 2011 are in Beta.
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How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware
Well, I?m positive this is something that HP will not support, so don?t even think of calling them if you go down this road, but I figured it?d be fun if you wanted to continue to use the same hardware. I took this opportunity to get an HP ProLiant MicroServer, plus it does at least RAID1 (Mirror) where the MediaSmart or DataVault servers cannot do any form of RAID. But it?s still a cute little form factor. Also, I think the MicroServer is quieter than the MediaSmart (at least the ex475 that I had)
Additionally you?ll have to use the EX490/495 or DataVault as Vail requires at least 2GB of RAM, which aren?t in earlier models of the MediaSmart servers (e.g. EX470/475). So if you?ve got the grey top, you?ve got a lot more work to do that isn?t covered here. (I hear it works on the ex48x, but I only tried the ex49x)
Creating the Bootable Thumb Drive
The first step here will be to prepare your media, usually on your client computer. The image is slightly bigger than 4GB, so I had to step up to an 8GB thumb drive. I?m actually using the Data Traveller by Kingston. First you?ll need to format it and make it bootable. I already have instructions on how to do that here. Next up you?ll have to copy the Windows Home Server 2011 DVD to the root of the disk. This makes the Thumb drive and the DVD look identical in Windows Explorer. You?re almost there. As you probably know, the MediaSmart or DataVault server doesn?t have a video input, so you?re going to need to do the install via an ?unattend file?. The unattend file is called cfg.ini, and needs to also be in the root of the thumbdrive with the WHS 2011 DVD image on it.
Inside the cfg.ini, you?ll need to answer questions, so design your file like this:
[WinPE] InstallSKU=SERVERHOMEPREMIUM ConfigDisk=1 CheckReqs=0 WindowsPartitionSize=61440 [InitialConfiguration] AcceptEula=true ServerName=VAILSERVER PlainTextPassword=Passw0rd PasswordHint=some password hint Settings=All
Where VAILSERVER is the name of the server, Passw0rd is the server password and some password hint is the hint to remind you of what you set your password to.
Erasing the Primary OS Hard Drive
In order to have the MediaSmart or DataVault boot off the Thumb Drive for installation, you?ll need to completely erase the primary hard drive (the lowest one in the MediaSmart/DataVault server).
Remove the drive from the server and attach it to another PC (I used Windows 7) and then erase the primary partition. When you?re finished, place the drive back into the MediaSmart or DataVault server.
Installing Windows Home Server 2011
This is where the fun starts. Installation without feedback. Please note that this will erase the ENTIRE primary hard disk on your server, so make sure you have a backup of ALL your data, and customization. While you can most likely do a factory reset to bring back WHS v1 and get access to your data on other disks in the system, I don?t cover that detail on this blog, and don?t recommend taking that sort of risk with your data.
I recommend putting the box up on the desk where you can see the Health LED light and also listen to the hard drive(s). So let?s get started:
- Connect your MediaSmart or DataVault server to power, and network.
- Insert the USB drive into the bottom-rear USB port and disconnect all other USB devices. It needs to be the bottom-rear USB port.
- Power on the server. The server should automatically boot off the USB key, format the drive and install all of the operating system files. The health LED will blink the aqua through the BIOS bootup, then aqua/red during the OS installation. The OS installation takes ~ 8-10 minutes. You should hear the hard drives during this phase. I also constantly refreshed my router DHCP list so I could see when the server obtained an IP address.
- While the Answer file should take you all the way through setup, once you find your server get?s an IP address you can browse to http://<ip address> and you should see a webpage for WHS 2011 to download and run the wizard. I?d just leave it use the answer file, but if you left out the [Initial Configuration] piece out of the answer file above, you could also just run setup from here.
- The installation of the rest of the server took ~20-25 minutes for me. The LED light stopped blinking aqua/red and just went back to blinking aqua when it was done. Also, when I went to http://<ip address>, I saw the remote access site being turned off:
- At this point I used ?MSTSC? or Remote Desktop to connect to the server. clicking Start, then Run, and typing in MSTSC /V VAILSERVER, or whatever name you called it in the file above. When you log in using the VAILSERVER\Administrator, and the password you created in the cfg.ini file, you?ll see that the server is indeed setup and ready to roll:
I wouldn?t say the MediaSmart or DataVault server is as fast as my MicroServer, and it certainly is lacking 4GB of RAM, but it runs reasonably well:
That?s all there is to it. Now just plug in your USB Backup drive, and set it up however you like.
Troubleshooting
- Make sure you choose a name for your server that doesn?t conflict with another name on the network, this will halt the unattended configuration
- Make sure you have at least 2GB of RAM, this will halt the unattended configuration.
- Make sure you clean the system hard drive, otherwise it won?t boot to the USB disk.
Kudos to MediaSmartServer.Net
While I did these instructions myself, I was struggling at the location of having to format the hard drive, so kudos to the folks over at MediaSmartServer.net for the help here. Their steps helped get me over that hump, although I noticed that their cfg.ini file is a beta version, which has since been updated. My cfg.ini file is the correct one for the RC2 and RTM releases of Windows Home Server 2011. They also go into details about using the EX47x series that I don?t cover here.
Installing Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials
I targeted this post to Windows Home Server, as it?s more likely to have enthusiasts in the consumer space try this than in the business space. Businesses typically want the hardware RAID functionality that the DataVault or MediaSmart doesn?t offer. Additionally, being able to see what?s going on in a hardware failure is critical to a business, so the lack of a video card of a headless device is a show-stopper. HOWEVER, if you?re the type that wants to run SBS in your house, or you want to take this risk on to leverage this hardware, the same steps above work for SBS 2011 Essentials as well. The cfg.ini file is different though as it has more required fields:
[WinPE] InstallSKU=SERVERHOMEPREMIUM ConfigDisk=1 CheckReqs=0 WindowsPartitionSize=61440 [InitialConfiguration] AcceptEula=true CompanyName=Some Company Name ServerName=AURORASERVER NetbiosName=COMPANY DNSName=COMPANY.local UserName=Admin PlainTextPassword=Passw0rd StdUserName=SomeUser StdUserPlainTextPassword=Passw0rd Settings=All
You?ll want to replace the bold items above with your own. Also, you?ll notice that you can use the cfg.ini file to change the .local of your internal domain name to whatever you want. We recommend .local, or .lan, or .internal work well too. DO NOT choose the same DNS name that you plan on using for your Remote Web Access website. For example, if you plan to use remote.contoso.com as your URL, do not use contoso.com as your DNS name for your internal network. Contoso.lan or Contoso.local is recommended. Or, while I haven?t tested this with SBS 2011 Essentials, I think you can choose internal.contoso.com if you absolutely must. Just don?t make them the same.
