[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff and Justin Crosby from Commercial Technical Support] One of the most requested features for the SBS Monitoring component of Windows SBS 2008 and Windows SBS 2011 Standard is the ability to control and filter unwanted errors from the event logs...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy David Fabritius from Windows Server Marketing] Last year we introduced the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-On, which offers a more flexible solution to our customers’ needs for running line-of-business (LOB) applications and other workloads. Today we...

[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 Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] In SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 standard, we have a service called the Windows SBS Manager that is responsible for a number of tasks around monitoring, alert reporting and maintenance. This service relies on a SQL database...

[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 Rod White and Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] A while ago we wrote a blogpost regarding an issue where fax routing to email can fail on Windows Server 2008, upon which SBS 2008 is built. A KB article/hotfix was released shortly afterwards for the...

[Todays post comes to us courtesy of Wayne Gordon McIntyre, Gagan Mehra, and Sabir Chandwale from Commercial Technical Support] Content Updated on 5/20/2011 to include steps for SBS 2011 Standard Every so often we come across a support case where a customer has a need for a 32 bit web application to...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] If you have ever been in the situation where you had to recover an Active Directory object that was accidentally deleted within a multiple Domain Controller environment, then you are probably somewhat familiar...

[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 John Bay from Commercial Technical Support and Chris Puckett from Product Quality] Windows Small Business Server 2008 (Windows SBS) Update Rollup 5 is now available. This rollup package includes all the fixes from the previous update rollups and addresses the following...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] The Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool allows you to collect and send information about your computer to Microsoft Support as part of a support request (more info on MSDT ). When opening a new...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Robert Paige from the Windows Server Partner Ecosystem Team] We wanted to resurface a continuing support issue with deployments that we first commented on back in December of 2009 , and again in a March post on the Microsoft Enterprise Networking Team Blog...

[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 Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] Since the early beta versions of SBS 2008, we have accumulated almost 3+ years of experience supporting the product. By now, we have a number of setup issues that we consider "common", this post will try to...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] The requirements to install SQL 2008 Standard Edition for Small Business are documented on this post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2009/03/23/requirements-for-installing-sql-2008-standard...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] There is a common misunderstanding as to what a proper backup and restore procedure should be for SBS 2008 running as a virtual machine. We see many customers who are taking “snapshots” in their...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support and Chris Puckett from Product Quality ] We wanted to give everyone an update on the current situation with update 983444 and Small Business Server 2008 and to try to help anyone that...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shobhit Garg and Justin Crosby from Commercial Technical Support ] Today’s post will cover the basics of performing a bare metal restore on Small Business Server 2008. As you will see, a bare metal restore allows you to recover your Operating System...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of JoAnn McKimpson from the SBS Marketing Team ] Do you and your employees have trouble keeping track of files? How great would it be if you could have a company calendar so that everyone would know when the next company meeting is? How much time could you...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Kunal Ghotge, Gagan Mehra, David Copeland, Justin Crosby, and Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support ] In this post, we will discuss options to backup and restore your SharePoint (Companyweb) site. A good backup and restore strategy is essential for maintaining...

[ 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 JoAnn McKimpson from the SBS Marketing Team ] Is your business online? In today’s business environment, a business without a Web site may be virtually invisible to potential customers. Businesses with Web sites must also pay close attention to keep up with the latest...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett from Product Quality] Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 Update Rollup 4 is now available on Microsoft Update and WSUS. This rollup package addresses the following issues in Windows Small Business Server 2008. Issue 1 You may be unable...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay from Commercial Technical Support and Chris Puckett from Product Quality] When you reboot an SBS 2008 server, you may experience some of the following symptoms: The SBS server will be unable to browse to the Internet. Users will not be able to connect remotely...