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How to Migrate Companyweb to a SQL 2008 R2 Standard Instance on SBS 2011 - Part 3: Migrating the Content Database

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] This post is an extension of Part Two of this series, where we are discussing how to migrate Companyweb with a larger content database to a SQL 2008 R2 Standard...
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How to Migrate Companyweb to a SQL 2008 R2 Standard Instance on SBS 2011 - Part 2: Premium Second Server

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] In Part One of this series we discussed how to upgrade the preinstalled instance of Sharepoint on the SBS 2011 server to SQL 2008 R2 Standard in order to migrate a...
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How to Migrate Companyweb to a SQL 2008 R2 Standard Instance on SBS 2011 - Part 1

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] For those of you who are operating with a WSS 3.0 site that has a content database approaching or larger than 10GB, you will have to take database size limits into...
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Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 and Interaction with Small Business Server 2011 Essentials

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Sean Daniel ] With yesterday’s RTM of Windows Multipoint Server 2011, I want to show how it can help your Small Business with thin clients, old clients, seasonal employees and even reducing the number of machines...
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Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 has RTM’d

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Dean Paron and Sandrine Skinner] Hi- This is Dean Paron, Product Unit Manager for Windows MultiPoint Server and Sandrine Skinner, Director of Marketing for Windows MultiPoint Server . We are so pleased to announce...
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Small Business Server 2011 Slow to Boot and Several Services Fail to Start

Posted over 2 years ago

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[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...
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Why is there an Upgrade option when running the SBS 2011 Standard Setup?

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] During the operating system portion of the Small Business Server 2011 Standard installation, you will reach a screen that asks what type of installation do...
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Introducing the Small Business Server 2011 Backup Wizard

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] SBS 2011, just like SBS 2008, includes a backup wizard that is integrated into the SBS console for the purpose of allowing administrators to quickly create a robust...
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You May Get an Error "Verify that the Source Server Name is Correct" While Trying to Install SBS into an Existing Domain

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rod White and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] When migrating to Small Business Server 2011 standard you may receive the following error message. Cannot find the Source Server Verify that...
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Announcement: SBS 2011 Essentials Release Candidate Now Available

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Michael Leworthy from Windows Server Marketing] Today we are pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials . Ideal as a first server for small businesses...
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Have Small Business Server 2011 Standard with Volume Licensing, and want to download the media?

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Michael Leworthy from Windows Server Marketing] Due to the size of the SBS 2011 Standard media (6.5Gb), downloading is not available on the VLSC (Volume Licensing Service Center), and is supported via media order...
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SBS 2008 Update Rollup 5 Released (KB2458094)

Posted over 2 years ago

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[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...
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Providing an Answer File in SBS 2011

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby from Commercial Technical Support ] In SBS 2011, administrators must provide an answer file (SBSAnswerFile.xml) to perform a migration mode install. Administrators can also use answer files to accelerate...
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Introducing the SBS 2011 Answer File Generator

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby from Commercial Technical Support ] Windows Small Business Server 2011 supports installing using an answer file. You can use an answer file to automate both clean and migration mode installs. To perform...
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Introducing the SBS 2011 Migration Preparation Tool

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby from Commercial Technical Support ] One of the major changes for SBS 2011 from SBS 2008 is the inclusion of the Migration Preparation Tool. This tool is designed to prepare your source server and...
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SBS 2011 Standard Now Available for “Try and Buy”

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Michael Leworthy from Windows Server Marketing] We are happy to announce that today , a few weeks after Windows Small Businesses Server 2011 Standard was released to manufacturing, you can download an evaluation copy...
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Working Remotely Becomes a Necessity Following New Zealand Earthquake

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Michael Leworthy from Windows Server Marketing] Our team is often humbled when we hear how customers are benefiting with the use of our software. The story from the Cystic Fibrosis Association of New Zealand is a...
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Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 is almost here! See it in action.

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Dean Paron a Product Unit Manager in Windows Multipoint Server] Hey, this is Dean Paron, product unit manager, back to give you more information about Windows MultiPoint Server 2011. Over the past few months, we’ve...
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New and Enhanced Features in Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Posted over 2 years ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Michael Leworthy from Windows Server Marketing] With the release of SBS 2011 Standard, and it now being fully available to purchase and deploy, I am getting a lot of questions about what is new other than the obvious...
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Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard Releases to Manufacturing

Posted over 3 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Curtis Lee, Director, Server and Cloud Marketing ] “Microsoft provides that forward thinking that I use in my company every day with our client design solutions. ” --Stan Bovetz, President of Frost Engineering Service...
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Microsoft and HP present a Windows Small Business Server 2011 webcast on December 9th

Posted over 3 years ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Michael Leworthy from Windows Server Marketing] As we move closer to the launch of the Windows Small Business Server 2011 family, Hewlett Packard and Microsoft want to provide you an opportunity to hear more...
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The SBS 2008 Migration Preparation Tool (Source Tool) keeps reporting that the server is in Journal Wrap error

Posted over 3 years ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support ] As you might already know, the Migration Preparation Tool (Source Tool) was updated when SBS 2008 with Service Pack 2 was released. If your SBS 2008 media includes...
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Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials - Update

Posted over 3 years ago

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When we first started designing Windows SBS 2011 Essentials (formally SBS Code Name “Aurora”), one of our initial focuses was to provide effortless support for multiple internal and external hard drives. Drive Extender provided the ability...
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Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials

Posted over 3 years ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Michael Leworthy from Windows Server Marketing] Building on the Windows Small Business Server 2011 announcements and adding to that exciting momentum - today on the Storage Server blog , Microsoft announced a new...
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Case in the corner series: The crashing Add User Wizard

Posted over 3 years ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support ] The symptoms for this case were that after a few seconds of launching the Add User Wizard, the wizard would crash, without any user input. When we face a user...