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Many of our small business clients are still running older hardware with Windows Server 2003 or SBS 2003. Since the hardware is pretty much end of life, these clients are looking at both hardware and software upgrades. As part of this process, we are introducing the option of virtualization for many of them. Often even small businesses have multiple servers and virtualizing them on a single host makes a lot of sense for hardware costs. Everyone likes the idea of high availability for virtual machines running on Hyper-V, but the price is always a concern.We recently researched this for a client and I thought I'd pass along high level estimates of the costs involved. 2 x Dell PowerEdge 510, dual processor, 48 GB RAM, quad port nic, 2 small mirrored drives, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise @ $6000 1 x Dell MD3200i (iSCSI) SAN with 8 x 600 GB 15K drives @ $15000 1 x 24-port 1Gbps switch for SAN network @ $400 When taxes are added in the total cost is about $30,000. In this configuration ...

This week I ran into an issue where a client was unable to edit the document template being used by a SharePoint 2010 document library. In the Advanced Settings of the document library, the user would click Edit Template (see figure below), but the document would open as read only and could not be saved back up to the site. The user was logged on to SharePoint as a user with administrative privileges for the SharePoint server, but logged on to Windows as a different user account. This was the cause of the problem. When the user opened the document template, Word started and retrieved the template, but Word was using the credentials from Windows which did not have administrative privileges on the SharePoint server. The fix was to have user log on to Windows using the same account as used for administration on the SharePoint server.