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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...
You Cannot Install the Hyper-V Role on the SBS 2008 Primary Server
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Martina Grom, Technet Team Blog Austria] When you install the Hyper-V Role on your SBS 2008 Primary Server the DHCP Service will no longer be able to assign IP addresses to your client machines. The reason for this Read More...
BITS, IAS, VSS and RRAS May Stop Responding on SBS 2008 With a Particular NIC Driver
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby and Damian Leibaschoff ] We are investigating an issue with certain Intel PRO / 1000 EB with I/O Acceleration network card drivers on Windows Server 2008 that can cause the BITS service to become unresponsive 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...
The Network Policy Server Service (IAS) Fails to Start or be Installed
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff and Wayne McIntyre] We have seen some cases where the Network Policy Server service fails to start, when this happens, functionality provided by TS Gateway (used in RWW) or Routing and Remote Access Read More...
You May Lose Network Connectivity on SBS 2008 When Using a Driver Which Utilizes TDI
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre, Damian Leibaschoff, Chris Puckett, and Justin Crosby] We have been seeing cases where the users are losing network connectivity with their SBS 2008 server after a few days to a few weeks. Rebooting Read More...
Sean Daniel: How to Install a GoDaddy Certificate on SBS 2008
Sean Daniel has posted an excellent article on how to install GoDaddy certs on SBS 2008.  You can read all about it here: http://sbs.seandaniel.com/2009/02/installing-godaddy-standard-ssl.html . 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...
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...
Why You Should Run DHCP On Your SBS 2008
Sean Daniel (member of the SBS product team) has written an excellent blog post on why you should run DHCP on SBS 2008. You can read all about it here: http://sbs.seandaniel.com/2008/10/do-i-absolutely-have-to-run-dhcp-on-sbs.html . Read More...
Issues After Disabling IPv6 on Your NIC on SBS 2008
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby, Ed Walters, and Doug Boyd] If you uncheck the IPv6 protocol from your network interface card on your Windows SBS 2008 server you may see the following issues after a reboot: Microsoft Exchange services Read More...
Fix My Network Wizard on SBS 2008
Check out this great post about SBS 2008's Fix My Network Wizard on Sean Daniel's blog: http://sbs.seandaniel.com/2008/10/fix-my-network-wizard-in-sbs-2008.html Read More...
Introducing the Internet Address Management Wizard: Part 3 of 3
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Ed Walters, Shawn Sullivan, and Justin Crosby] Today we finish with part 3 of our 3 part series on the IAMW. Part 1 can be found here and part 2 here . What Changes Does the IAMW Make? External DNS If you choose“I Read More...
Introducing the Internet Address Management Wizard: Part 2 of 3
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Ed Walters and Justin Crosby] Today we continue with part 2 of our 3 part series on the IAMW.  Part 1 can be found here . Scenario 2 - I have a domain name I currently own and would like to use Select the “Set Read More...
Introducing the Internet Address Management Wizard: Part 1 of 3
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Ed Walters and Justin Crosby] Welcome to part 1 of our 3 part series on the Internet Address Management Wizard (IAMW). Part 1 will cover using the wizard to purchase a new Internet domain name Part 2 will cover using Read More...
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