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WSUS Language Settings Could Be Lost After Upgrading to WSUS 3.0 SP2 on Small Business Server 2008
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill, Justin Crosby, Damian Leibaschoff, and Charanjeet Singh] While upgrading to Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (WSUS 3.0 SP2) on Windows Small Business Server 2008, you will be present Read More...
How to Move WSUS Content and Database Files to a Different Volume
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rod White] When trying to free up space, customers frequently have questions about moving WSUS Content and Databases to different partitions. Our objective is to explain three things: How to move the WSUS Content Read More...
How to Manually Create the SBS 2008 and WSUS Group Policies Objects
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Ed Walters] Certain Group Policy Objects (GPOs) are created and configured by default during the installation of SBS 2008. This blog post will cover how to create these GPOs manually in the event that they are missing Read More...
IE 8 Releasing to WSUS
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of the SBS Team] On August 25 th , Internet Explorer (IE) 8 will be offered through WSUS as an Update Rollup. On default installations of SBS, this will not be automatically approved for installation. You will need to 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...
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...
SVCHOST May Spike the CPU
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff, Justin Crosby and Chris Puckett ] You may notice an issue where the Windows Update (WUAUSERV) service will be spiking one of the logical CPUs on servers running Exchange 2007 with automatic anti-spam 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...
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...
WinVerifyTrust update (KB 938759) will be mandatory for WSUS on SBS 2003
If you are running Update Services in SBS 2003 R2 or just WSUS on any versions of SBS 2003, the WinVerifyTrust update ( KB 938759 ) will be set to mandatory and installed on your WSUS server. See below for more information. From: http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2008/06/19/winverifytrust-update-will-be-mandatory-for-wsus.aspx 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...
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...
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...
WSUS 3.0 SP 1 Released to Download Center
WSUS 3.0 SP1 is now located at the Microsoft Download Center. To download and to obtain installation instructions, please visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F87B4C5E-4161-48AF-9FF8-A96993C688DF&displaylang=en 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...
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