I had a great call yesterday. Great meaning I was able to empower a customer to debug a memory dump so he could potentially resolve a STOP error in the future more quickly. Everyone wins in that scenario: end customer is back up and running quickly, consultant...

The customer was getting the above error when clicking on Public Folders in Exchange System Manager. He was also getting the following error when running the Add Distribution Group wizard and selecting to create an "archive public folder": ----...

Scenario: SBS2003 4 devices - all sync fine 2 Cingular 2125 SmartPhones 2 Cingular 8125 PocketPC Phones Install Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 2 Cingular 2125 SmartPhones still sync 2 Cingular 8125 PocketPC Phones error with 0x80830003...

With the popularity of the Windows Mobile 5.0 devices with the MSFP, more and more people are wanting to play with Remote Wipe using the MobileAdmin utility. Remember to follow these steps (specifically uncheck Require SSL for the ExAdmin virtual...

Today was a weird one... Nothing changed on the server but the following services were stopped and could not be started: Simple Mail Transport Protocol SMTP FTP Publishing Service Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 Microsoft Exchange POP3 ...

As a follow-up to this post , here are the steps to download and install the “stand alone” device emulator and Windows Mobile 5.0 w/Mobile Security and Feature Pack (MSFP) images. Once the following steps are completed, you will have a PocketPC image...

This is not a fun error to greet you after you enter your administrator username/password at the SBS2003 console! The popup is: The local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively. Note this error is completely different...

Well, this is a new one. Pull out ERR and look up 85010001 ! The configuration was SBS2003 Premium with ISA2004 installed and a Treo 700 with ActiveSync 4.1 on 2 separate Windows XP Pro laptops. It was an "upgrade" from ISA2000 to ISA2004. The Treo 700...

Well, I have procrastinated long enough on wrapping up the migration story. Here it is... ---------------------------------------- I planned this process as much as I could , most went as planned, some oversights. Note that prior to my steps below...

Well, sort of. Companyweb still has to be restored. Man, what a job. I ran into some serious "issues", mostly related to virtual server. I actually did the migration TWICE. Once on Saturday, different servername , took me about 8 hours. Then once...

You take your SBS Premium box, web publish the /MobileAdmin virtual directory, hit the MobileAdmin website with Pocket IE from your Windows Mobile 5.0 device that has the MSFP installed (hey, I am testing one) and remote wipe your own device. <grin>...

When running the Small Business Server Configure Email and Internet Connection Wizard, you might see the following error: The IP address of your local network adapter does not exist in the Local Address Table (LAT) for ISA Server. You will need to...

Interesting call today. The customer was reporting that his Exchange Server queues were full of "bogus" email and that he was an open relay. He also stated he had followed http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;324958 to make sure he...

So you are a consultant selling/supporting SBS2003. Wouldn't it be cool to demo a PocketPC/SmartPhone/PocketPC Phone Edition without having to shell out $200-$500 for a device? Well, you can! You can install a PocketPC/SmartPhone/PocketPC emulator on...

My name is Peter Gallagher and I am a Support Engineer on the Small Business Server support team here at Microsoft. I work at the Las Colinas campus in North Texas (very close to DFW airport). I am new to the blogging world and thought it would be both...

After 8 years in Product Support at Microsoft (CSS, formerly PSS), I decided to make a career change. I am now part of the Microsoft Across America (MSAM) team as a TS2 Presenter. The time spent in CSS has been invaluable. I am thankful for the relationships...

Here we go! The goal is to "migrate" from SBS2003 on Box A to a clean install of SBS2003 on Box A without losing Active Directory/Companyweb data/Exchange data and minimal downtime. Here is my current layout: 1. SBS2003 Premium - 2 nics, static IP...

The way that "relay" can present itself can be very interesting. The customer reported that he was an "open relay" and followed http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;324958 to "clean it up". After about a month, the problem came back...

Ok, simple stuff here. The call was: 1. SBS2003 with a single NIC (192.168.16.2) 2. Clients on the same network (192.168.16.x) 3. Clients on a different subnet (192.168.15.x) 4. The server cannot ping ONE client on the 16.x network and cannot...

That's what I thought the sound was! Upon further review, the hard drive was making that horrible noise. Server is dead, completely dead! Drive imploded on itself. Well, off to another "migration". Thank goodness for my replica domain controller. Seized...

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Interesting call this week. It was really quick fix. Really quick for 2 reasons: I know the default behavior of a "clean" install of SBS. I ran into the same issue here at my machine at Microsoft (not SBS, actually on the Microsoft corporate...

This call gets the "weird case of the week" award. One user cannot sync their Calendar items on their device. They have a Treo 700W. Emails sync fine, Contacts sync fine, only the Calendar fails. It would get to 100 of 109 and then fail with the following...

Happy Monday to everyone! One of today's issues was trying to migrate public folders from one SBS server to another (separate domains). The problem was that the public folders on the original server had custom permissions set and those permissions...