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Windows 7 Cannot Access Shadow Copies in SBS 2003
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay, Richard Pulliam and Damian Leibaschoff] When you connect to a share hosted on SBS 2003 from a Windows 7 client joined to the domain and you select “ Restore previous versions ” or the “ Previous Versions Read More...
Why Small Businesses Use Windows Small Business Server
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Becky Lymberis] We’re often talking with small business owners about their business - to understand not only their needs and usage of technology, but also what’s important to them as business owners. Not surprisingly Read More...
SBS Migrations: Troubleshooting Moving Public Folder Replicas
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] We are seeing quite a few calls where public folders, Offline Address books, and Free/Busy information are not replicating to the new SBS 2008 server after following the “ Move Exchange Server public Read More...
SBS 2003 to 2008 Migration Best Practices Post Has Been Updated
We have updated the SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration Best Practices blog post with a few new recommendations.  Please review the following post before attempting an SBS 2003 to 2008 migration: SBS 2008 Migrations from SBS 2003 – Keys to Succes Read More...
Cannot Reply To Old Emails Or Modify Old Calendar Items After PST Mail Migration
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre and Justin Crosby ] Note: This article has you make changes to Active Directory. Before doing so be sure to make a complete backup . After a mail migration to a new domain/Exchange organization using Read More...
Installing Windows 7 in a SBS 2003 Environment
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of J ustin Crosby ] If you want to use http://servername/connectcomputer to join a Windows 7 machine to your SBS 2003 domain you must first install hotfix KB 926505 .  Most SBS 2003 installations should already 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...
MS09-012 and ISA Server Standard Edition 14109 Failures
If you cannot start ISA on SBS after installing MS09-012 and receive "Event ID 14109: (The ISA Server Standard Edition cannot run. Either the server is using more than 4 processors....)." please see the following post on the ISABlog: http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/04/18/ms09-012-and-isa-server-standard-edition-14109-failures.asp 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...
Upcoming 5W/50 Webseminars
Check out these upcoming web seminars: Title Date 5W/50 Series - How can the Microsoft Office Client & Microsoft Unified Communications impact your business? 3/13/2009 5W/50 Series - Migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 on the same server using Microsoft Read More...
SBS 2008 Migrations from SBS 2003 – Keys to Success
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett, Damian Liebaschoff, Mark Stanfill, Justin Crosby, John Bay, David Copeland, Wayne McIntyre, and Shawn Sullivan] The purpose of this post is to help you complete your SBS 2003 migrations to SBS 2008 Read More...
SBS Makes an Appearance on CBS's The Early Show
SBS was recently featured on CBS's The Early Show on Janurary 3rd in a segment on going green.  You can read about it here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/03/earlyshow/contributors/dannyseo/main4696579.shtml You can also watch the clip here Read More...
Introducing the Windows SBS 2008 Answer File
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rod White and Justin Crosby] Windows Small Business Server 2008 supports installation using an answer file. The answer file provides the following functionality: Automates the SBS 2008 installation process for both Read More...
SBS 2003 BPA Updated
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of David Copeland] The configuration file for the SBS 2003 BPA has been updated with new rules and a couple of fixes. Some of the new checks include: Checks to see if the  Microsoft Active Directory connector is 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...
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