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Unable to Manage DHCP When an Invalid Name Record Exists in your Hosts File
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] Under certain circumstances, you might be unable to manage DHCP and get a screen like the one shown below. Among a number of causes, this could be the result of having a record for the servers IP address Read More...
SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration to a Different Domain Name
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre and Justin Crosby ] There are many reasons why a company may need or want to change their domain name, there could have been a company merger/split, the current domain name is too long or not to their Read More...
What Username and Password Do I Need to Use for Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) in SBS 2008?
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] The method in which the Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) password is set during an install of SBS 2008 is different than that of Windows Server 2008. Like most component installation in SBS 2008 Read More...
SBS 2008: Released to Manufacturing!
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 Read More...
SBS 2008 How-To Information on David Overton's blog
For some great SBS 2008 "how to" guidance, be sure to check out David Overton's blog . SBS 2008 Install process (in pictures) How to change spam settings on Exchange 2007 / SBS 2008 to enable some / all / more spam to be delivered to an account for analysis Read More...
Geeky question of the day. . . Why .local for the default Windows SBS 2008 domain name extension?
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Becky Ochs] We’re getting some great questions here at the SMB Summit. One of yesterday’s geeky questions of the day was, "Why are we are defaulting to use .local as the DNS extension for Windows Read More...
Migrating Windows Small Business Server 2003 to New Hardware Whitepaper Released
This document solution will help you: Install Windows SBS 2003 on a new computer Join the new computer to the existing Microsoft® Active Directory® directory services domain Migrate Windows SBS 2003 settings and data from the old computer to the new computer Read More...
Debunking Myths About Additional Domain Controllers In SBS Domains
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Jim Martin] Can you have additional domain controllers (Replica DCs) in an SBS domain? The are several myths about SBS (see “The Top Ten (Plus One) Myths About Windows Small Business Server 2003” or the webcast “Debunking Read More...
Restoring the SBS GPOs from a Different Server
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] As promised here is the 2nd part of our restoring SBS group policies post. This post will cover moving the SBS 2003 policies from a working server to a server that is missing the SBS policies. Backup Read More...
How to Backup and Restore Your SBS and Default Group Policies
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] In SBS 2003 we have the 2 default policies just like any Windows 2003 server which are the default domain, and default domain controller policy. Additionally by default SBS 2003 has an additional 7 Read More...
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