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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Roderick White, David Copeland and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] The Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard Migration Preparation Tool is included in the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard installation media. This tool is...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of John Bay from Commercial Technical Support] Patching SharePoint is a two-step process. The updated binaries are first installed and then psconfig must be run to update the SharePoint databases. SBS 2008 uses Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and updates automatically...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay from Commercial Technical Support] One of the problem areas in Small Business Server 2008 is the amount of disk space consumed by the WSUS IIS Log; files for reference see: Recovering Disk Space on the C: Drive in Small Business Server 2008 . To help ease...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Douglas Boyd and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] In the past few months we started seeing the recurrence of an old issue that was previously documented in: 832880: You cannot successfully install the intranet component or connect...

[ 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 Chris Puckett.] We have updated the Why Are Some of My Groups Not Displaying in the SBS Console? blog post to include a tool you can use to update Universal groups in the MyBusiness OU so that they appear in the Windows SBS Console. This update cannot update groups...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of the SBS Support Team ] After installing Sharepoint 3.0 SP2 (KB 953338), when you browse http://companyweb or open Sharepoint 3.0 Central Administration, you receive the following error "Cannot connect to the configuration database". After you install...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre, Justin Crosby, and Damian Leibaschoff] We have discovered an issue where connections to Outlook Anywhere are extremely slow or fail completely. Another behavior is that when you try to connect to HTTPS://REMOTE.CONTOSO.COM it just sits in a waiting...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett] During the installation of SBS 2008, when you select the option “Go online and get the most recent installation updates (recommended)” you may not receive the most recent installation updates. Security updates and critical updates from...

[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 Damian Leibaschoff] On August 12 th , Microsoft will release several security updates < http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-aug.mspx >. Some of them will require a reboot of your SBS server, if that is the case, you need to be aware of the...

This is just a quick note to remind anyone who had previously used the SP2 Blocker Toolkit to block the deployment of Service Pack 2 for Windows Small Business Server 2003 (KB940276) that on Tuesday, August 12 th 2008 Automatic Updates will ignore the registry key and begin offering Service Pack 2 for...

Two new KB articles have been released that discuss the issue we first spoke about in our blog post entitled Some Services May Fail to Start or May Not Work Properly After Installing MS08-037 (951746 and 951748) .  Please read these KB articles if you would like to know more about this issue: http...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff and Justin Crosby] SharePoint users who upgraded from SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (WMSDE) to any other edition of SQL Server 2000 (for example, SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition) may be incorrectly offered a WMSDE update for 948110. This problem...

We have received reports of customers loosing Internet connectivity after installing MS08-037 (951748 and 951746).  This issue can occur on both the server and the clients.  This issue may occur when customers are running ZoneAlarm or Check Point Endpoint Security (previously named Check Point...

We have received a few reports of hotfix 948110 causing issues with SharePoint (Companyweb) on SBS 2003. At this time please hold off on installing this patch on your SBS 2003 server. Installing this hotfix may prevent the SharePoint WMSDE instance from starting. We are currently investigating the issue...

If you are running Update Services in SBS 2003 R2 or just WSUS on any versions of SBS 2003, the WinVerifyTrust update ( KB 938759 ) will be set to mandatory and installed on your WSUS server. See below for more information. From: http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2008/06/19/winverifytrust-update...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay] Back in February, we blogged about the release of WSUS 3.0 SP1 to the download center ( http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2008/02/08/wsus-3-0-sp-1-released-to-download-center.aspx ). WSUS 3.0 Service Pack 1 has recently released to Windows Update. Because...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] In order for RPC over Http to work you must have a Trusted CA Root Certificate installed and configured. In a situation where you are using a self-signed cert you will need to install the certificate into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy off Chris Puckett] If you use the fax functionality in SBS 2003 or Windows Server 2003 to fax documents or attachments, there is an issue where a document or attachment may end up being sent to the wrong destination.  A hotfix is available for this issue. ...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of  Justin Crosby and Chris Puckett] If you are considering updating your Windows Vista machines to Service Pack 1 please review this KB article that explains reasons you may not see the update available for download on Windows Update and/or Automatic Updates:...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett] The differences between the 948496 update and the 936594 update are: 948496 disables TCPChimney in the registry and 936594 does not touch this setting. 948496 is a Critical update and 936594 is an Optional update. Both updates disable the RSS and TCPA...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby] The software license terms for Windows SBS enforce a limitation that permits the presence of only one Windows SBS server in the domain. However, there is a grace period where you can have a second SBS server in “join domain” type migration...