THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"

One step I forgot to point out was to remove those users that no longer are SBS 2008 users

To help secure your network, it is recommended that you delete the STS Worker, SBSBackup, IUSR_SBS, and IWAM_SBS user accounts and any other user account or group that is not used.

Also a few things of reminder regarding SharePoint found on this PowerPoint

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/7/3/673B71D0-6D4F-4591-9940-D33DF9135487/WSV205_SBS_Tips_and_Tricks_Mornay_Durant.pptx

SharePoint – Enabling Search

* SharePoint 3.0 in SBS 2008 does not require SQL server for full text search

* But full text search must be enabled manually

* Download and install Office 2007 iFilter  [follow that blog post from Chad] (and Adobe iFilter while you are at it)

* Reset IIS (iisreset)

* Stop SharePoint search index process (stsadm –o spsearch –action fullcrawlstop )

* Restart indexing of sites (stsadm –o spsearch –action fullcrawlstart )

SBS 2008 CALS

* CALS are not activated in SBS 2008

* There is no “Installed CALS” view as there was in SBS 2003

* CALS are therefore paper based (DSP) or eOpen (VLM)

OWA file access

* New OWA feature

* Browse files in shared folders using OWA

* Read only functionality

* Launch OWA

* Click Documents link

* Only supply share UNC

Chris has the info here on how to do this

SBSMonitoring Cleanup

* An agent is supposed to clean out records older than 90 days from the SBS Monitoring database

* Sometimes it doesn’t

* The result is a very slow SBS Console, especially when it comes to Reports, and

* Very long Disk Queue Lengths on the C: drive resulting in loss of performance

* Verify with Performance monitor, see Physical Disk Queue Length reach and maintain high levels

SBSMonitoring Cleanup

* Launch SQL Server Management Studio Express as Administrator

* Connect to <SERVER>\SBSMonitoring

* Expand Databases->SBSMonitoring->Programmability->Stored Procedures

* Right click dbo.CleanupDatabase and select Execute Stored Procedure