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WSUS 3.0 SP1 Installation Behavior
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay] Back in February, we blogged about the release of WSUS 3.0 SP1 to the download center ( http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2008/02/08/wsus-3-0-sp-1-released-to-download-center.aspx ). WSUS 3.0 Service Read More...
SBS Best Practice: Backup and Restore of IIS Configuration
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby] Today we will be sharing an IIS best practice.  Before you make any changes to IIS we recommend that backup your current configuration.  By changes to IIS I mean activities such as: making Read More...
How to Use Microsoft Exchange Custom Weighting to Block More UCE
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rod White] Lately, SBS customers have been reporting receiving a large amount unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) within Outlook referencing e-cards, greeting card, and postcard from family, friends and mates. Today's Read More...
Where is Outlook Mail Setup in Control Panel?
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby and Rod White] We recently received a call where a user needed to create a new MAPI (Outlook) profile. They called because they did not see the Mail shortcut in their Control Panel. It turned out that Read More...
Fax May Send the Wrong Attachment
[Today's post comes to us courtesy off Chris Puckett] If you use the fax functionality in SBS 2003 or Windows Server 2003 to fax documents or attachments, there is an issue where a document or attachment may end up being sent to the wrong destination.  Read More...
Vista Service Pack 1 Considerations
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of  Justin Crosby and Chris Puckett] If you are considering updating your Windows Vista machines to Service Pack 1 please review this KB article that explains reasons you may not see the update available for download Read More...
Issue Using RWW to Access the Console Session
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay] We wanted to make everyone aware of a minor issue we recently discovered during the testing of Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008. The remote web workplace has the ability to connect to the server Read More...
Installation Options for SQL 2005 Workgroup Edition in SBS 2003 R2 Premium
As more and more people are installing SQL 2005 WE, we wanted to refresh and clarify a few points and concerns. These are most likely addressed here and there, scattered around the Internet, so hopefully we can provide a quick way of getting to all of Read More...
KB 948496 and KB 936594
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett] The differences between the 948496 update and the 936594 update are: 948496 disables TCPChimney in the registry and 936594 does not touch this setting. 948496 is a Critical update and 936594 is an Optional Read More...
Reclaiming Disk Space Lost to IIS Logs on SBS 2003
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby] Today we are going to discuss an SBS "house cleaning" tip. If you have been running SBS 2003 for awhile you may be using a lot of disk space to store old IIS logs. This is especially true if your clients 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...
SBS Clients Lose Access to Shares and/or Cannot Get DHCP Addresses
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Mike Lieser] Recently we have been seeing two different issues on SBS servers that can be caused by the 3 rd party product Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 .  Please note that these issues can also be caused Read More...
Error When Trying To Approve Silverlight 1.0 Within Update Services
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett] When you try to approve the Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 (KB946609) feature pack from the Update Services->Waiting For Review node in the Small Business Server Management console, you may see the following Read More...
The CEICW Certificate Generator Will Be Out Of The Office On February 29, 2008
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of James Frederickson and Justin Crosby] Running the CEICW on SBS 2003 on February 29, 2008 and choosing to create a certificate may fail on Secure Web Site Configuration as seen below: Text of error: An error occurred Read More...
Exchange 2007 in an SBS 2003 Environment
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of James Frederickson] So you are considering implementing Exchange 2007 into an SBS 2003 environment. This post will cover the pros and cons, it will also give a high level overview on the installation of Exchange 2007 Read More...
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