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SBS 2008 Update Rollup 3 (KB 969121) Installation Failure
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett] When you attempt to install SBS 2008 UR 3 (969121) it may fail with error code 6BA "Windows Update encountered an unknown error". The C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log file for this update reports error Read More...
How to Change the CompanyWeb Timeout in SBS 2008
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett] The CompanyWeb site in SBS 2008 is configured with a 30 minute idle timeout in the default master page. This timeout is unique to CompanyWeb in SBS 2008 and affects connections to CompanyWeb from the Read More...
Files in Companyweb are Opening Read-Only After SBS 2008 UR2
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of the Rod White, Chris Puckett, Damian Leibaschoff, and Justin Crosby ] We have discovered an issue with SBS 2008 UR2, that will cause documents opened from http://companyweb to be in read-only mode in your browser Read More...
SBS 2008 Update Rollup 2 (KB 960911) Installation Failure
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of the SBS Support Team ] When you attempt to install SBS 2008 UR 2 ( 960911 ) it may fail with error code 6BA "Windows Update encountered and unknown error". The C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log file for this update reports Read More...
Event 2436 for SharePoint Services 3 Search
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Eric Sun] You may experience SharePoint Search issue when browsing http://companyweb on SBS 2008 server and specifically, you are seeing below 2436 errors in your Application event log every several minutes. Log Name:      Read More...
Companyweb Inaccessible After Sharepoint 3.0 Service Pack 2
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of the SBS Support Team ] After installing Sharepoint 3.0 SP2 (KB 953338), when you browse http://companyweb or open Sharepoint 3.0 Central Administration, you receive the following error "Cannot connect to the configuration 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 Update Rollup 2 Released (KB960911)
Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 Update Rollup 2 is now available on Microsoft Update and WSUS. This rollup package addresses the following issues in Windows Small Business Server 2008. Issue 1 After you configure Windows Small Business Server Read More...
Authentication Issues Accessing Companyweb from the Server Itself after 963027 or Windows 2008 SP 2
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Ketan Thakkar, Manish Kapoor, Chris Puckett, and Justin Crosby ] You may experience authentication issues browsing http://companyweb on SBS 2003 and SBS 2008 servers after installing the cumulative security update Read More...
How to Send Email from the Internet to Sharepoint on SBS 2008
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] We have been receiving a number of inquiries from customers regarding the ability to send email from the Internet to a SharePoint document library running on SBS 2008. The steps on how to set this Read More...
How to Use Outlook to Send Email to a SharePoint Document Library on SBS 2008
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] This post discusses the steps necessary to allow Outlook to send email to the SharePoint 3.0 Document Library (Companyweb). All mail enabled Sharepoint 3.0 document libraries in SBS 2008 are configured 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...
Known post installation event errors in SBS 2008 (and how to resolve them)
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Lora McCambridge and Damian Leibaschoff] SBS 2008 has been released to manufacturing (RTM), and if you haven't installed yet, you most likely will soon. As with previous versions of SBS, the complex interactions with Read More...
IE 8 Beta 2 and SBS
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay] Beta 2 for IE version 8 will be released soon. You can read about the IE8 Beta release at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/06/03/ie8-beta-2-coming-in-august.aspx If you decide to test IE8, please keep 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...
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