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SBS Migrations: Troubleshooting Moving Public Folder Replicas
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] We are seeing quite a few calls where public folders, Offline Address books, and Free/Busy information are not replicating to the new SBS 2008 server after following the “ Move Exchange Server public Read More...
SBS 2003 to 2008 Migration Best Practices Post Has Been Updated
We have updated the SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration Best Practices blog post with a few new recommendations.  Please review the following post before attempting an SBS 2003 to 2008 migration: SBS 2008 Migrations from SBS 2003 – Keys to Succes Read More...
Cannot Reply To Old Emails Or Modify Old Calendar Items After PST Mail Migration
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre and Justin Crosby ] Note: This article has you make changes to Active Directory. Before doing so be sure to make a complete backup . After a mail migration to a new domain/Exchange organization using 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...
SBS 2008 Migrations from SBS 2003 – Keys to Success
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett, Damian Liebaschoff, Mark Stanfill, Justin Crosby, John Bay, David Copeland, Wayne McIntyre, and Shawn Sullivan] The purpose of this post is to help you complete your SBS 2003 migrations to SBS 2008 Read More...
SBS 2008 – How to Export and Import Mailboxes To and From PST
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] As many are already aware, exmerge is no longer supported in Exchange 2007, this has been replaced with the Power Shell cmdlets import-mailbox and export-mailbox introduced in Exchange 2007 SP1 that Read More...
Introducing the Windows SBS 2008 Answer File
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rod White and Justin Crosby] Windows Small Business Server 2008 supports installation using an answer file. The answer file provides the following functionality: Automates the SBS 2008 installation process for both Read More...
SBS 2008 Migrations Fail When The Migration Preparation Tool Has Not Been Run
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of John Bay and Shawn Sullivan] We have recently received a number of support calls where migrations to SBS 2008 are failing, particularly with Exchange setup, because customers are not running the Migration Preparation 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 Migration Demo and Interview
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 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...
TechNet Edge Video: SBS 2008 setup
SBS 2008 program manager Becky Ochs appears in a TechNet Edge video, providing an in-depth overview of setup of an OEM box. Have a look. Joel Sider Read More...
Small Business Server 2003 Migration Update 943494 Released
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby] The software license terms for Windows SBS enforce a limitation that permits the presence of only one Windows SBS server in the domain. However, there is a grace period where you can have a second SBS Read More...
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