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Outlook 2007 Credential Prompts in Small Business Server 2008

Posted over 3 years ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support, Chris Puckett from Product Quality, and Alex Shao from the Product Team] You may receive multiple prompts for authentication from Outlook clients connected to...
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Exchange 2007 Activation Tool is available for Small Business Server 2008

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] During the initial SBS integrated setup, Exchange is installed and activated for you through an automated task. If Exchange ever needs to be repaired using the...
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Business Backup with SBS and Windows 7

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mike Toot from the SBS Marketing Team] Business computers are key pieces of equipment. They hold customer records, general ledgers, business contracts, half-finished sales proposals, tax records – the list is...
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Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Installation Tool for SBS 2008 released

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ 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...
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Troubleshooting Certificate Mismatch Warnings in Outlook 2007 Clients on Small Business Server 2008

Posted over 3 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] An issue experienced by our customers from time to time is when Outlook 2007 generates a certificate name mismatch error while trying to connect to SBS 2008. This is almost always caused by a configuration...
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Follow the Small Business Server blog on Twitter

Posted over 4 years ago

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Special thanks to Susan Bradley for creating a new feed on Twitter for the blog. You can now follow http://twitter.com/SBSblog and receive tweets any time the blog is updated.
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How to Manually Install Certificates in SBS 2008

Posted over 4 years ago

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[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill ] The SBS Add a Trusted Certificate wizard may fail to display a certificate that is correctly installed in the certificate store if the subject field of the certificate is missing. This happens because...
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SBS 2008 Hands-On Labs are available from Microsoft Connect

Posted over 4 years ago

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Please visit Sean Daniel’s blog at the following link for information on what labs are available and how to get started: http://sbs.seandaniel.com/2009/11/windows-sbs-2008-hands-on-labs.html
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Messaging Hygiene in SBS 2008

Posted over 4 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] In Exchange 2007, anti-spam processing is performed by a series of Transport Agents. All Exchange 2007 anti-spam Transport Agents, except for Attachment Filtering, are enabled during SBS Setup. Because...
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Considerations when Managing the SBS 2008 Fax Queue from Windows XP

Posted over 4 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Roderick White and Shawn Sullivan] By design, user accounts that do not belong to the Windows SBS Fax Administrators group are not able to manage the SBS 2008 Fax queue from the Windows XP Fax Console. This...
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Windows 7 Cannot Access Shadow Copies in SBS 2003

Posted over 4 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay, Richard Pulliam and Damian Leibaschoff] When you connect to a share hosted on SBS 2003 from a Windows 7 client joined to the domain and you select “ Restore previous versions ” or the “ Previous Versions...
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Coming Soon: SBS 2008 with Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 included

Posted over 4 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff] In the coming weeks you will notice that the SBS 2008 media will now include Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 . This change will help improve the reliability of the newly deployed SBS servers...
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Remote Working; Why it’s Important for Keeping Your Business Running

Posted over 4 years ago

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How do you manage your small business through the currents of today? Between the current flu epidemic and the possibility of natural disasters occurring in your area; are you prepared for your workers to be out of the workplace, possibly for weeks? Windows...
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Remote Access: SMBs Will Continue to Get Enterprise-Caliber Capabilities with SBS and EBS

Posted over 4 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Dave Berkowitz] We are nearing the point where Windows Server 2008 R2 is going to be unleashed on the world, providing a host of new capabilities that will help dial down costs and improve productivity. ...
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Remote Working Enabled by Windows Small Business Server 2008

Posted over 4 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Becky Lymberis] Small business owners understand how challenging it can be to run a productive business where customers are satisfied and employees are enabled to deliver high quality service. Today’s business...
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WSUS Language Settings Could Be Lost After Upgrading to WSUS 3.0 SP2 on Small Business Server 2008

Posted over 4 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill, Justin Crosby, Damian Leibaschoff, and Charanjeet Singh] While upgrading to Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (WSUS 3.0 SP2) on Windows Small Business Server 2008, you will be present...
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How to Move WSUS Content and Database Files to a Different Volume

Posted over 4 years ago

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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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Why Small Businesses Use Windows Small Business Server

Posted over 4 years ago

by Ariom
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Becky Lymberis] We’re often talking with small business owners about their business - to understand not only their needs and usage of technology, but also what’s important to them as business owners. Not surprisingly...
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SBS 2008 Update Rollup 3 (KB 969121) Installation Failure

Posted over 4 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett] When you attempt to install SBS 2008 UR 3 (969121) it may fail with error code 6BA "Windows Update encountered an unknown error". The C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log file for this update reports...
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How to Manually Create the SBS 2008 and WSUS Group Policies Objects

Posted over 4 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Ed Walters] Please click HERE for the steps to manually create the SBS 2011 Standard and WSUS Group Policies Objects. Update Services Policies: Update Services Client Computers Policy Update Services...
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Why Are Some of My Groups Not Displaying in the SBS Console? Post Has Been Updated

Posted over 4 years ago

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[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...
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Device Manager may seem to hang while uninstalling a NIC

Posted over 4 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff] Under certain conditions, in Windows Server 2008 (including SBS 2008) when you try to uninstall a network interface card (NIC) from device manager, the process will appear to hang and the uninstall...
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Running Netsh on Windows 2008/Vista Causes Invalid Registry Entries to be Created

Posted over 4 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of the Shawn Sullivan and Mark Stanfill] A known issue exists in Vista and Windows Server 2008 where use of the netsh command to change global TCP/IP settings will cause invalid values to be written into the registry...
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Working on an Application Compatibility Issue? Let us Help!

Posted over 4 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of the SBS Team] Last Monday Microsoft launched a new pilot program in our Advisory Services space. Advisory Services is a consultative support option that provides support beyond standard break-fix issues. ...
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How to Install Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 on Windows Small Business Server 2008

Posted over 4 years ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] Microsoft Exchange Sp2 has been released, however there are additional steps required to get it to install onto an SBS server. Please review the following KB article for steps on installing Exchange...