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Why Are Some of My Groups Not Displaying in the SBS Console? Post Has Been Updated
[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 Windows Read More...
SBS 2008 Console May Take Too Long to Display Alerts and Security Statuses, Display Not Available, or Crash
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff and Justin Crosby] Under certain conditions, the Windows SBS Console may show one or several of the following symptoms: The Other Alerts in the Home tab will show as “ Not Available ” The Console.Log Read More...
Editing One of the Default User Role Templates May Produce an Unexpected Warning in SBS 2008
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff and Doug Boyd] When you edit or make a change to one of the following User Roles in the SBS Console: " Network Administrator " or " Standard User with administration links " you get the following Read More...
SBS 2008: Introduction to Remote Web Workplace
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan and Moloy Tandon] Just as it was in SBS 2003, Remote Web Workplace (RWW) is an integral component in the SBS feature set for 2008. Its purpose is to provide a secure centralized web portal for employees Read More...
Update Services in SBS 2008
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] SBS 2008 includes the Update Services component to provide the administrator with a simple interface for managing software updates from the SBS Console. Those who are familiar with Update Services Read More...
No Exchange Mailbox Created for New Users in SBS 2008
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Kim Oehmichen] We have recently seen a few cases where creating a new user with the Add a New User Account wizard from the SBS Console does not create the respective Exchange 2007 mailbox.  The wizard finished Read More...
Error "Administrator Does Not Have Exchange Administrator Rights" When Creating or Deleting User in SBS 2008 Console
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rod White ] When an Administrator attempts to create or delete a user within the SBS 2008 Console they may get an error and a  "View Warning Details" link. Reviewing the details show two warnings: Administrator Read More...
SBS console crashes when duplicate entries from AV products are written into Security Center
We have seen some cases where the SBS Console crashes over and over every time you open it. It has been isolated to some orphaned WMI entries on client computers for Antivirus or Antispyware products. How to identify you are experiencing this: 1. Open Read More...
SBS 2008: IAMW (Internet Address Management Wizard) Screencast
Peter Gallagher and Damian Leibaschoff have created a Screencast covering the SBS 2008 IAMW. You can view it here: More Information: Introducing the Internet Address Management Wizard: Part 1 of 3 - http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2008/10/15/introducing-the-internet-address-management-wizard-part-1-of-3.aspx Read More...
Why is My Computer Status Not Showing Online in the SBS Console?
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] You may have noticed that some of your computer accounts are not showing “online” in the SBS Console. The purpose of this post is to shed some light on why you may see this and how this Read More...
How To Enable Verbose Logging For Most SBS 2008 Wizards and Console
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby and Damian Leibaschoff] In some scenarios you may want to increase the logging level for the SBS console and wizards.  This post will detail how to change the logging mode. In order to change the Read More...
SBS 2008 to SBS 2008 Migration Fails When "Windows SBS User Policy" Edited
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby and Chris Puckett] Windows Small Business Server 2008 creates a group policy called "Windows SBS User Policy", one of the tasks of this group policy is to add a few shortcuts (OWA, RWW, and Read More...
Introduction to the Fix My Network Wizard (FNCW)
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] In SBS 2003, the CEICW was available to administrators for configuring their firewall, Internet connection, self-signed certificate, and email settings from a single wizard. Re-running the CEICW was Read More...
Error 0xC004C009 When Activating SBS 2008
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rod White and Justin Crosby] When you attempt to activate your SBS2008 server you receive the following error: "A problem occurred when Windows tried to activate. Error Code 0xC004C009" If you select "More Read More...
Introducing Server Storage Management in SBS 2008
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] A common support call with SBS 2003 was customers running out of space on their O/S partition and they needed to move data to a separate drive/partition in order to free up space. There were many components Read More...
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