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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] We have found a second, somewhat less common, issue that can cause the error described previously in “ HTTP Error 503 Accessing Company Web on SBS 2011 Standard ”. You may experience...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] If you wish to connect to your Exchange mailbox on SBS with a remote Outlook client, we recommend that you use Outlook Anywhere. However, if you choose to use POP3 or IMAP instead, then use this post to determine...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] Since the introduction of Exchange 2010 SP1, any spaces in the “Name” property of an accepted domain that is marked as default will invalidate that accepted domain for several methods of remote client access. The...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Gagan Mehra and Wayne Gordon McIntyre from Commercial Technical Support] There might be instances where an Exchange Administrator will need to export the contents of individual mailboxes to offline files (PST). With Exchange 2010 SP1 we have new set of PowerShell...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Moloy Tandon, Sabir Chandwale, and Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] Think of a scenario where there is a business requirement in your company to have a separate email domain for a set of users. These users can belong to a different business...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay from Commercial Technical Support] On SBS 2008/2011 when you reboot the server, you may notice that some of the Exchange services that are set to automatic start are not started. Some of the services that may not be started are: Microsoft Exchange...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby from Commercial Technical Support] Today we are going to discuss the first thing you should always check if you get an HTTP 500 error attempting to access OWA on an SBS 2011 server, after you have provided your credentials to the login form. In Exchange...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan and Justin Crosby from Commercial Technical Support] Some of you who have worked with SBS 2011 so far may have noticed a change in how archived email for security groups is handled; for details see our previous post . SharePoint document libraries...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Rituraj Choudhary, Manish Kapoor, and Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] Today we will be discussing e-mail archival for security groups in Windows SBS 2011 Standard. This feature was first introduced in SBS 2008 through the “Add...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby and Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] If you uncheck the IPv6 protocol from your network interface card on your Windows SBS 2011 server you may see the following issues after a reboot: Microsoft Exchange services fail to start...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] This is an issue that we see customers run into from time to time and usually causes a lot of confusion and worry as to what the cause is, not to mention that it’s quite painful to lose important data. There...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support and Chris Puckett from Product Quality ] This post is a compilation of our current content involving fixes for an issue that continues to cause a fair amount of grief for our customers, Outlook 2007/2010 prompts...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of JoAnn McKimpson from the SBS Marketing Team ] As a business owner, you are no doubt always looking for ways to give yourself a competitive advantage and make your business more efficient and customer responsive. As organizations of all sizes spend increasing amounts...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff and Wayne Gordon McIntyre from Commercial Technical Support and Chris Puckett from Product Quality ] SBS 2008 installs all of its features using a single volume (C:), there are tools available to move some of the data to other locations, but...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett] When you try to install Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) on a server that is running Windows Small Business Server 2008, the installation process does not start, and you receive the following error message: Error: You must update your Windows...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] An issue experienced by our customers from time to time is when Outlook 2007 generates a certificate name mismatch error while trying to connect to SBS 2008. This is almost always caused by a configuration error in either public or private DNS where...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill ] The SBS Add a Trusted Certificate wizard may fail to display a certificate that is correctly installed in the certificate store if the subject field of the certificate is missing. This happens because some third-party certificate authorities (CAs...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] In Exchange 2007, anti-spam processing is performed by a series of Transport Agents. All Exchange 2007 anti-spam Transport Agents, except for Attachment Filtering, are enabled during SBS Setup. Because Attachment Filtering is only available on the...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan and Edwin Joseph] SBS 2008 includes a brand new version of the POP3 connector. This post will introduce key elements in understanding how this version differs from previous versions and how to implement it properly. Like its predecessors, the POP3...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] We are seeing quite a few calls where public folders, Offline Address books, and Free/Busy information are not replicating to the new SBS 2008 server after following the “ Move Exchange Server public folders for Windows SBS 2008 migration ” steps...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby ] We have noticed a few cases where customers are getting incomplete Microsoft Exchange Outlook Web Access sites. You will see Red X in place of images and the over-all theme will look off. Here is a screen shot of the issue: This issue can...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Kim Oehmichen] We have recently seen a few cases where creating a new user with the Add a New User Account wizard from the SBS Console does not create the respective Exchange 2007 mailbox.  The wizard finished with the following warnings: In these cases the...

Repair steps for Exchange 2007 on SBS 2008 have been posted to the SBS TechCenter.  These steps cover reinstalling the Client Access, Hub Transport, and Mailbox Server roles for Exchange 2007.  You can view the documents here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd728006.aspx . ...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre and Justin Crosby ] Note: This article has you make changes to Active Directory. Before doing so be sure to make a complete backup . After a mail migration to a new domain/Exchange organization using Exmerge, you will lose the ability to reply...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre and Justin Crosby ] There are many reasons why a company may need or want to change their domain name, there could have been a company merger/split, the current domain name is too long or not to their liking, or simply the company’s name has changed...