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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...
WSUS 2.0 and 3.0 Errors On Small Business Server
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby, Damian Leibaschoff, David Copeland, Mark Stanfill, Chris Puckett, and John Bay] We have discovered a new issue today with WSUS on SBS. You may receive the following error accessing Update Services from Read More...
New Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 Update
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff] An update is available to enable automatic approval of definition updates and to fix two problems in the Update Services component of Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 This update provides Read More...
How to Backup and Restore Your SBS and Default Group Policies
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] In SBS 2003 we have the 2 default policies just like any Windows 2003 server which are the default domain, and default domain controller policy. Additionally by default SBS 2003 has an additional 7 Read More...
SP2 May Fail to Install If a Large Number of Updates Are Installed
[Today's tip comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] We're currently tracking an issue where Windows Server 2003 SP2 may fail to install for some Automatic Update clients. There is a limitation in the database that Automatic Updates uses to track hotfix Read More...
SBS 2003 R2 WSUS "Low" Update Setting Issue
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby and Cloud Xu] We are investigating an issue with the SBS 2003 R2 Update Services Configuration Wizard. Within the wizard you have the option to set the update level for both your clients and servers. Read More...
New SBS 2003 Updates released through Microsoft Update and WSUS
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Duncan Chalmers and Damian Leibaschoff] Today the SBS SE team released two important updates on MU/WU/WSUS for SBS 2003: 1) “Critical Update for Windows Small Business Server 2003: Vista and Outlook 2007 compatibility Read More...
Windows Server 2003 SP2 Will Hit Automatic Updates Next Week
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] Windows Server 2003 SP2 will be released to Automatic Updates (AU) next Tuesday (6/12/2007) (Click here for the Windows Server team announcement). If you are running WSUS, you will need to manually Read More...
Trouble Installing SharePoint 3.0 after WSUS 3.0.
[Today's tip comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett] One frequent question often asked of SBS 2003 server installations concerns the order of installing the components, upgrades, and updates that have released over the years. For the most part, the best Read More...
WSUS 3.0 on SBS White Paper Released
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett] WSUS 3.0 has released. You can download it here . For information on installing WSUS 3.0 on your SBS 2003 SP1 or R2 server, check out the Installing WSUS 3.0 on SBS 2003 whitepaper. The issue blogged Read More...
Error when trying to approve Windows 2003 SP2 within Update Services
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff] When you try to approve the Windows 2003 Service Pack update package from the Update Services->Waiting For Review node in the Small Business Server Management console, you may see the following Read More...
Can I Install Windows Server 2003 SP2 on SBS 2003?
[Today's tip comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] Yes . All component service packs are fully tested against SBS and, in general, can be safely applied to SBS as long as there are no other issues described in the release notes. Windows Server 2003 SP2 Read More...
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