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Companyweb and SharePoint Central Admin not accessible after installing KB983444 or KB2345304

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ 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...
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How to Perform a Bare Metal Restore on Small Business Server 2008

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ 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...
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Help Protect Your Data by Using BitLocker in Windows Small Business Server 2008 and in Windows 7 Ultimate

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of JoAnn McKimpson from the SBS Marketing Team ] Are you concerned about the security of your company's data? If your employees use laptops, they can easily be lost or stolen. USB sticks are easy to lose or to leave...
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Case in the Corner Series: Spiking CPU

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] This was an interesting situation that developed during April of 2009; this is what happened behind the scenes. Around April 20 (as early as April...
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Increase Process Efficiency and Team Productivity: Windows SBS 2008 with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ 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...
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The Case in the Corner Series: Introduction

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Wayne Gordon McIntyre and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] Hi, welcome to this new series of posts where we are going to share some behind the scenes insight on some support cases we...
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How to Backup and Restore Companyweb in Small Business Server 2008

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ 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...
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Multiply Your Power with Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Mobile

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ 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....
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Attract More Customers: Build a Professional Web site with Microsoft Office Live Small Business, Included in Windows SBS 2008

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ 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...
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Blog platform migration coming up!

Posted over 3 years ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support ] During the next few weeks our blog will be migrated to a new platform, during that time comments will be turned off. Furthermore, new posts will be limited. The...
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SBS 2008 Update Rollup 4 Released (KB979454)

Posted over 3 years ago

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[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...
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You May Lose the Default Gateway on SBS 2008 Every Time You Reboot

Posted over 3 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] When you reboot an SBS 2008 server, you may experience some of the following symptoms: The SBS server will be unable to browse to...
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Windows SBS 2003 Update Services Gives Error: The Element Already Exists in the Collection

Posted over 3 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff and Justin Crosby from Commercial Technical Support and Chris Puckett from Product Quality] UPDATE 4/19/2010 The Exchange 2000 security update, 976703, contained an identifier in the metadata that...
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Manage Your Domain with Windows SBS 2008 and Windows 7 Professional

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of JoAnn McKimpson from the SBS Marketing Team ] Easily and Securely Add Computers to Your Domain Network by Using Domain Join These days, we're all focused on how to do more with less. In this blog, we've covered quite...
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Find Items Faster with Windows Search and Libraries

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of JoAnn McKimpson from the SBS Marketing Team ] Search your own PC and the servers, PCs, and devices connected to your network to find items regardless of where they're stored. You've probably run into a situation...
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Financing Windows SBS Upgrades and Purchases

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of JoAnn McKimpson from the SBS Marketing Team ] The recent economic downturn has made business owners think carefully about the best way to allocate resources. However, as history has shown, times of economic uncertainty...
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Source Server Does Not Meet Minimum Requirements for Migration

Posted over 3 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett from Product Quality and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] When installing SBS 2008 in migration mode, you are prompted to Run the Migration Preparation Tool on the Source Server...
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Work Smarter with Offline Files and Shadow Copy

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of JoAnn McKimpson from the SBS Marketing Team ] Have you ever needed to access important files stored in a shared folder on your network but couldn't because the network connection was unavailable? Then you can understand...
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A Tip for Preventing Certain SharePoint Connectivity Failure in SBS 2008

Posted over 3 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett from Product Quality and Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] There is a pre-emptive update that you can install to decrease you chances of running into the issue described in “ Companyweb...
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Rejoining Small Business Server 2008 into a Preserved Domain after a Disaster

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Wayne Gordon McIntyre from Commercial Technical Support ] You may find yourself in a scenario where your SBS 2008 server has died and you have no backups available, however you do have a second non-SBS domain controller...
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Help Secure your Business Information using Encrypting File System

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of JoAnn McKimpson from the SBS Marketing Team ] Every day, your users work with information that is valuable to your business. However, this same information—including your customer databases, product price lists,...
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New IT Trends Bring Change to Mid-Market Product Line

Posted over 3 years ago

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Today Microsoft announced that effective June 30, 2010, Microsoft will discontinue future development of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) , the infrastructure solution we designed specifically for midsize businesses. This blog post is to specifically...
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Recovering Disk Space on the C: Drive in Small Business Server 2008

Posted over 3 years ago

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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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Returning Small Business Server 2008 to a Supported Network Topology

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of James Frederickson and Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] We have seen an increase of instances where customers are experiencing various networking problems because they have altered the networking...
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Installation of the Intranet Component May Fail in Small Business Server 2003

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ 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...