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Messaging Hygiene in SBS 2008
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] In Exchange 2007, anti-spam processing is performed by a series of Transport Agents. All Exchange 2007 anti-spam Transport Agents, except for Attachment Filtering, are enabled during SBS Setup. Because Read More...
Coming Soon: SBS 2008 with Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 included
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff] In the coming weeks you will notice that the SBS 2008 media will now include Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 . This change will help improve the reliability of the newly deployed SBS servers, Read More...
Remote Working; Why it’s Important for Keeping Your Business Running
How do you manage your small business through the currents of today? Between the current flu epidemic and the possibility of natural disasters occurring in your area; are you prepared for your workers to be out of the workplace, possibly for weeks? Windows Read More...
Remote Access: SMBs Will Continue to Get Enterprise-Caliber Capabilities with SBS and EBS
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Dave Berkowitz] We are nearing the point where Windows Server 2008 R2 is going to be unleashed on the world, providing a host of new capabilities that will help dial down costs and improve productivity. One of the Read More...
Remote Working Enabled by Windows Small Business Server 2008
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Becky Lymberis] Small business owners understand how challenging it can be to run a productive business where customers are satisfied and employees are enabled to deliver high quality service. Today’s business environment Read More...
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...
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 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 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...
Why Are Some of My Groups Not Displaying in the SBS Console? Post Has Been Updated
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett.] We have updated the Why Are Some of My Groups Not Displaying in the SBS Console? blog post to include a tool you can use to update Universal groups in the MyBusiness OU so that they appear in the Windows Read More...
Device Manager may seem to hang while uninstalling a NIC
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff] Under certain conditions, in Windows Server 2008 (including SBS 2008) when you try to uninstall a network interface card (NIC) from device manager, the process will appear to hang and the uninstall Read More...
Running Netsh on Windows 2008/Vista Causes Invalid Registry Entries to be Created
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of the Shawn Sullivan and Mark Stanfill] A known issue exists in Vista and Windows Server 2008 where use of the netsh command to change global TCP/IP settings will cause invalid values to be written into the registry Read More...
Unable to Manage DHCP When an Invalid Name Record Exists in your Hosts File
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] Under certain circumstances, you might be unable to manage DHCP and get a screen like the one shown below. Among a number of causes, this could be the result of having a record for the servers IP address Read More...
New hotfix available to address the SBS 2008 Fax routing to email issue (0x80040211)
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff and Chris Puckett] The following post has been updated, please review the new RESOLUTION section: http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2009/05/28/sbs-2008-fax-routing-to-email-fails-with-the-following-error-occurred-0x80040211.aspx Read More...
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