[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS.  Size indeed matters not.] Tweaking Exchange a bit - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA
Mon, Nov 29 2010 21:54 bradley

Tweaking Exchange a bit

So you go into SBS 2008 and set it up so that WSUS will alert you and email regarding sync reports and what not and you get....

EVENT # 87639
EVENT LOG Application
EVENT TYPE Warning
OPCODE Info
SOURCE MSExchangeTransport
CATEGORY SmtpReceive
EVENT ID 1035
COMPUTERNAME  SERVER
DATE / TIME   11/29/2010 9:56:30 PM
MESSAGE Inbound authentication failed with error LogonDenied for Receive connector Default SERVER. The authentication mechanism is Ntlm. The source IP address of the client who tried to authenticate to Microsoft Exchange is [192.168.1.150].

And you get this:

Hmmm what's up with that?  Well it turns out the exact same instructions to get AuthAnvil to email out is the same info you need for WSUS.

Scorpion Software Blog: Allowing AuthAnvil to send email on SBS 2008:
http://blog.scorpionsoft.com/blog/2008/12/allowing-authan.html

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