[Today's post comes to us courtesy of David Copeland from Commercial Technical Support] There are 46 new rules in this release of the WSSG BPA. Currently the total number of checks per SKU breaks down as (total of 153 total rules (this includes one for showing the model version and one for showing the...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of David Copeland from Commercial Technical Support] The September update for the WSSG BPA has now been released, adding 59 new rules. Currently the total number of checks per SKU breaks down as (total of 107 total rules) Small Business Server 2011 Standard Edition...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of David Copeland from Commercial Technical Support] Earlier this month we published a post introducing the new Windows Server Solutions BPA , which is currently available for download.  Below is a list of the checks, broken down by each product supported, that...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of David Copeland from Commercial Technical Support] The Windows Server Solutions Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) examines a server that is running: Windows® Small Business Server 2011 Standard Edition Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Windows...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of David Copeland from Commercial Technical Support] The configuration file for the SBS 2003 BPA has been updated with new rules. Some of the new checks include: Check for IP restrictions set on the SMTP virtual server Updated check for the OS DST update...

The configuration file for the SBS 2003 BPA has been updated with new rules. Some of the new checks include: Checks for occurrences of the Windows SBS Server Status report timing out Checks for Mailbox Manager policies enabled on recipient policies Check for non default value of the otherWellKnownObjects...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of David Copeland] The configuration file for the SBS 2003 BPA has been updated with new rules and a couple of fixes. Some of the new checks include: Checks to see if the  Microsoft Active Directory connector is installed. If so, warns that it will need to be removed...

The Windows Small Business Server 2008 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) examines a server that is running Windows® Small Business Server 2008 (Windows SBS 2008) and presents a list of information and errors that administrators should review. It collects information about server configuration from many...

On behalf of the SBS team, I am extremely pleased to announce that Windows Small Business Server 2008 software has been finalized! Today both SBS Standard and Premium are being released to manufacturing, which means we begin the process of finalizing international versions, creating media, building packaging...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of David Copeland] The SBS 2003 Best Practices Analyzer configuration file has been updated with new rules. There are approximately 100 new rules and many pre-existing rules have been improved based on your feedback. If you have the BPA set to automatically check for...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby] Today's post will answer some of the common questions we have seen regarding the BPA. Q: Can the BPA be run from a client? A: No Q: Will this tool make changes to my server? A: No, this tool is read-only Q: How often will the definitions get updated...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby] Please make sure that you have applied the DST patches to your SBS server before Sunday October 28, 2007. This Sunday is the date than an unpatched machine will "fall back" one hour. A patched machine will "fall back" on November 4, 2007. By fall...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby] Today’s blog post is going to cover running the Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer. The first step in using the BPA is to download and install it. The download is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...

1) You get a warning Windows Server Update Services 2.0 installed This server is running Windows Server Update Services 2.0. You should upgrade Windows Server Update Services 2.0 to Windows Server Update Services 3.0. For information about upgrading Windows Server Update Services 2.0 to Windows Server...

The Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer examines a server that is running Windows Small Business Server 2003 (Windows SBS) and presents a list of information and errors that administrators should review. The Windows SBS Best Practices Analyzer examines the server and...