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Installing a Self-Signed Certificate as a Trusted Root CA in Windows Vista

Posted over 5 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[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...
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Recovering Disk Space on the C: Drive in Small Business Server 2008

Posted over 3 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[ 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...
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How Do I Distribute the SBS 2008 Self-Signed SSL Certificate to My Users?

Posted over 5 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan and Rituraj Choudhary] Today’s post discusses the certificate distribution package on SBS 2008. The SBS 2008 self-signed SSL certificate that is installed in IIS 7 is a leaf certificate; meaning...
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How to Move WSUS Content and Database Files to a Different Volume

Posted over 4 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rod White] When trying to free up space, customers frequently have questions about moving WSUS Content and Databases to different partitions. Our objective is to explain three things: How to move the WSUS Content...
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Some Services May Fail to Start or May Not Work Properly After Installing MS08-037 (951746 and 951748)

Posted over 5 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay, Damian Leibaschoff, Justin Crosby and Chris Puckett] Some customers have reported seeing random problems with services after installing MS08-037. In one case, Exchange Always Up To Date notifications...
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You Must Manually Run PSCONFIG after Installing SharePoint 2010 Patches

Posted over 2 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[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...
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How Do I Change Message Size Limits in SBS 2008/2011 Standard?

Posted over 5 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] Content Updated on 9/26/2011 Size limits for email messages are controlled in a variety of places in Exchange. Settings are placed globally at the transport level, on each individual send or receive...
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Introducing SBS 2008 Backup

Posted over 5 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby and Damian Leibaschoff] Backup Theory SBS 2008 leverages Windows 2008 backup technology. SBS also includes a wizard to configure scheduled backups. It also provides a centralized location to monitor...
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SBS 2008: Released to Manufacturing!

Posted over 5 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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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...
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Issues After Disabling IPv6 on Your NIC on SBS 2008

Posted over 5 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby, Ed Walters, and Doug Boyd] If you uncheck the IPv6 protocol from your network interface card on your Windows SBS 2008 server you may see the following issues after a reboot: Microsoft Exchange...
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SBS 2008: Introducing the POP3 Connector

Posted over 4 years ago

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[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...
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Inside the Remote Web Workplace - Part I

Posted over 7 years ago

by Mark Stanfill
- 22 Comments
In this first part of a two-part series, Justin Crosby gives an overview of the SBS 2003 Remote Web Workplace (RWW). This article explores the functionality and basic workings of RWW, and is appropriate for both end users and new SBS admins. Part II will...
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How to Configure Trusted SMTP Relay in Exchange on SBS 2008

Posted over 5 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] Today we will discuss the steps necessary to allow trusted internal servers and external authenticated users to relay email through your SBS 2008 server. You would do this for scenarios in which...
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SBS 2008: Introduction to Remote Web Workplace

Posted over 4 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan and Moloy Tandon] Just as it was in SBS 2003, Remote Web Workplace (RWW) is an integral component in the SBS feature set for 2008. Its purpose is to provide a secure centralized web portal for employees...
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Potential issues after installing SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1

Posted over 2 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Fang Xie, Guang Hu and Ning Kuang from Sustained Engineering and Christopher Puckett, John Bay and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was...
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Introduction to SBS 2011 Standard Remote Web Access (RWA)

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Moloy Tandon and Richard Pulliam from Commercial Technical Support] Remote Web Workplace (RWW) has been a key feature for the SBS line of products since SBS 2003. It provides a central web location for remote...
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Common Networking Issues After Applying Windows Server 2003 SP2 on SBS

Posted over 6 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] Overview We have seen an increasing number of support calls from customers experiencing a variety of networking-related issues after installing Windows Server 2003 SP2 . We have previously covered...
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Receiving Certificate Errors When Connecting to Clients/Servers with TS Gateway or Remote Web Workplace on SBS 2008

Posted over 5 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan and Justin Crosby] Remote Desktop Disconnected You may receive the following errors when attempting to access a client machine through the Remote Web Workplace (RWW) or the TS Gateway: [To connect to...
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Help and Support service missing after installing Windows 2003 Service Pack 2

Posted over 6 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby] We have noticed that on some SBS 2003 installs the “ Help and Support ” service will disappear after installing Windows 2003 Service Pack 2. You may see the following error when opening " Help and...
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How to Send E-mails with Exchange Using a Different “From” Address

Posted over 6 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff] DISCLAIMER: There are many different ways to implement this solution, this is just one of them. A very common request we get is people wanting to be able to send outbound Internet e-mails from...
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How to Configure SBS 2008 to Host POP3/IMAP4

Posted over 5 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] Today’s post will discuss the steps necessary to allow your SBS 2008 server to host POP3 and IMAP4 services for external clients. This process consists of four parts: Enabling the POP3/ IMAP4...
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SBS 2008 Migrations from SBS 2003 – Keys to Success

Posted over 4 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett, Damian Liebaschoff, Mark Stanfill, Justin Crosby, John Bay, David Copeland, Wayne McIntyre, and Shawn Sullivan] The purpose of this post is to help you complete your SBS 2003 migrations to SBS 2008...
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Event 2436 for SharePoint Services 3 Search

Posted over 4 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Eric Sun] You may experience SharePoint Search issue when browsing http://companyweb on SBS 2008 server and specifically, you are seeing below 2436 errors in your Application event log every several minutes. Log Name...
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How to Add 32-bit Print Drivers to SBS 2008

Posted over 4 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay] If you try to connect to a printer that is shared on an SBS 2008 server from a client computer running a 32 bit version of Windows, you may see the following warning message: This error will appear if the...
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Installing Windows 7 in a SBS 2003 Environment

Posted over 4 years ago

by SBS Bloggers
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of J ustin Crosby ] If you want to use http://servername/connectcomputer to join a Windows 7 machine to your SBS 2003 domain you must first install hotfix KB 926505 . Most SBS 2003 installations should already...