July 2008 - Posts
At WPC we announced November 12 th 2008 as the official launch date for Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008. Activities that day will signal general availability of both products in most markets and via
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Two new KB articles have been released that discuss the issue we first spoke about in our blog post entitled Some Services May Fail to Start or May Not Work Properly After Installing MS08-037 (951746 and 951748) . Please read these KB articles if
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy Justin Crosby and Peter Gallagher] Peter Gallagher, Charles VanHuesen (of Microsoft’s TS2 team and founding members of DFW-SBS), Eriq Neale (resident SBS MVP and owner of EON Consulting, author of SBS 2003 SP1
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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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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff and Justin Crosby] SharePoint users who upgraded from SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (WMSDE) to any other edition of SQL Server 2000 (for example, SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition) may be incorrectly
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We have received reports of customers loosing Internet connectivity after installing MS08-037 (951748 and 951746). This issue can occur on both the server and the clients. This issue may occur when customers are running ZoneAlarm or Check
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Check out the Migration demo and interview of Chris Almida. Chris is a program manager for Microsoft and owns the migration solution for SBS 2008. SBS 2008 Migration demo and interview For more information about migration, read the SBS 2008
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We have received a few reports of hotfix 948110 causing issues with SharePoint (Companyweb) on SBS 2003. At this time please hold off on installing this patch on your SBS 2003 server. Installing this hotfix may prevent the SharePoint WMSDE instance from
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Aaron Booker and the folks at www.varvid.com caught up with me today for a quick interview -- they're putting together a great string of videos that capture the spirit of the WPC: Video: WPC Video 15 - Dean Paron And thanks again to all the partners that
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Microsoft response to Q&A in comment section ( Link to original post ) Community Question: Are we to assume this excludes business down? Does this mean that "Server Down" support calls will no longer be free? Microsoft Response: This business change
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Lots of SBS 2008 (and EBS 2008) activities here at the MSFT Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston. In addition to many keynotes, sessions and demonstrations, we're announcing that November 12 is the launch day for both Essential Server Solutions, that
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On August 1, 2008 the Small Business Server support business at Microsoft will implement a call-back model for all Professional SBS support incidents in the United States. Below is a description of how to contact Microsoft customer service. Why are we
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