THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA

I've been working on the wordpress site of the blog site - http://blogs.msmvps.com/smbmvptour/ example there.. and one of the issues we have had is that it wasn't always putting in a trailing slash so that the prior page link wasn't doing what it was supposed to do.

I think I finally (I hope) figured it out with a urlrewrite

<rule name="Add / if needed" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^[^\.]*[^/]$" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://{HTTP_HOST}{URL}/" />
</rule>

http://forums.iis.net/p/1179079/1985909.aspx

So when you go to http://blogs.msmvps.com/smbmvptour it should automatically put in a / at the end. 

I hope.

I find this funny...

The things slowing my browsing down are MS stuff... and what's that office doc cache thing anyway?

SBS 2008 KBs:

SBS 2008: Images are not displayed after you login to RWW:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2570565/en-us?sd=rss&spid=1167
SBS 2008: Unable to create SMTP Send Connector in Exchange Server 2007:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2551701/en-us?sd=rss&spid=1167
Unable to install Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Exchange 2007:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2560483/en-us?sd=rss&spid=1167

SBS 2011 Standard KBs:

SBS2011: The Update Services group policy settings are not accessible:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2572373/en-us?sd=rss&spid=1167
Clipboard redirection does not work from within Remote Web Access in SBS 2011:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2566257/en-us?sd=rss&spid=1167

SBS 2011 Essential KBs:

Reinstalling Certificate Authority Role on SBS 2011 Essentials:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2581361/en-us?sd=rss&spid=1167

NOTICE: Temporarily removing Lync connectivity with Windows Live Messenger in Office 365 for professionals and small businesses - Office 365 Technical Blog - Office 365 - Microsoft Office 365 Community:
http://community.office365.com/en-us/b/office_365_technical_blog/archive/2011/07/14/notice-temporarily-removing-lync-connectivity-with-windows-live-messenger-in-office-365-for-professionals-and-small-businesses.aspx

Russ Grover hit this in testing Office 365.  He used his real domain in Live Messenger/BPOS.  In BPOS all was well as the two systems were not both built on LiveID  Then in Office 365, it moved to being built on the back of LiveID.

LiveID in one system doesn't like the LiveID in the Messenger at the same time.

Ergo the temp 'fix' - or rather removal that they are doing to make this work while they obviously figure out a long term solution.

I know what's wrong... but not quite how to fix it.  In our sister blog site on wordpress (http://blogs.msmvps.com)  it needs a urlrewrite rule that will append a url to have a trailing slash.. but not append when the url points to a location that ends in a file name.

I need this because as long as the web site url has a trailing slash it will not double up on the 'page 2' links and be blogname/blogname/page2.  If it does have the trailing slash it work as it's supposed to and put blogname/page 2

So far my automatic build of a trailing slash rule is not quite working...

Trailing slash adds slash to file names too : The Official Microsoft IIS Site:
http://forums.iis.net/t/1168682.aspx

Definitely you understand better when things blow up or don't quite work as they are supposed to and you have to dig around and figure out how it's supposed to work.

On the other side of the blog server is our wordpress blogs over on http://blogs.msmvps.com.  And I was trying to get a link to prior page working.  It does not like me.  No matter what I do I tweak it, think it's working, go to another browser and it's not working. 

So I'll make sure all the plug ins are upgraded... well I stuck one in and all you know what broke loose as it demanded that I access the admin page via SSL and I didn't have a wild card cert up there.  $179 later and http://www.sslshopper.com/article-ssl-host-headers-in-iis-7.html a little command line and I got the host headers/wild card cert working as it should, found the errant plug in that freaked out... and still can't figure out why the Previous posts link doubles up on the blog name and thus won't work like it should.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/older-and-newer-entries-links-url-is-wrong

It's exactly that issue but I don't have those lines in my index.php.  If I take it down to where it shows one single post per page, it works.  But that's not optimal for sure.

I'm off to bed for the evening.

Yea cloud.  I'll fight you tomorrow.

AH HA.  I couldn't find in the GUI of the Office File validation add in whether or not it could be uninstalled.  Some people said they couldn't uninstall it as it wasn't listed in there via KB number.

And therein lies the issue... it's NOT listed by KB number but rather by the title "Microsoft Office File Validation Add-In".

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/partnerofficeexcel/thread/ec80cbe2-fd07-467d-aa1c-2a9f3163033c/

"From your description, I understand that you want to know how to remove the KB 2501584. If there has been any misunderstanding, please let me know.

Based on the test, I installed the KB 2501584 on the machine. I notice the name is “Microsoft Office File Validation Add-In”.

Therefore, you can go to the Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs and search for "Microsoft Office File Validation Add-In". Then, please select it and remove it."

http://twitter.com/#!/mslearningcurve/statuses/90530820292476929 

7/18 Web Seminar: SBS 2011 Power Start Workshop - Migration to SBS 2011

Sign up here:  http://bit.ly/jjGKfK

For those of you that have the www.smbmvptour.com come to your town you'll see a SBS Essentials add in that provides additional protection for remote access in sensitive industries.

http://blog.scorpionsoft.com/blog/2011/06/introducing-rwwguard-2011.html

Recently there was an announcement regarding RWAGuard for the 2011 products.

If you've been paying attention there's been three recent blog posts about the Microsoft migration method and things to keep in mind while performing it.

One thing I'll still like to recommend STRONGLY is that you practice.  Preferably not on a paying customer on their deployed SBS 2003 box.  You want to physical to virtual  a SBS 2003 (the crustier the better) and then practice the migration on THAT.

First Part: SBS 2011 Standard Migrations – Keys to Success <http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/07/01/sbs-2011-standard-migrations-keys-to-success.aspx>

Second Part: SBS 2011 Standard Migrations – Keys to Success – Part 2: The Setup Phase <http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/07/08/sbs-2011-standard-migrations-keys-to-success-part-2-the-setup-phase.aspx>


SBS 2011 Standard Migration – Keys to Success – Part 3: Post Setup and Common Failures - The Official SBS Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/07/11/sbs-2011-standard-migration-keys-to-success-part-3-post-setup-and-common-failures.aspx

How to move domain to Microsoft online - from one.com - Office 365 for small business administration - Office 365 - Microsoft Office 365 Community:
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/146/t/7342.aspx

QUESTION:

Hi, I am trying to move my domain fully over to Microsoftonline.com, but my provider One.com says that Microsoft has to do this. I am trying to change the primary and secondary dns servers to microsoft (as described in the "register" part of the domain wizard), but the wizard says that my provider has to do this (One.com), but thay say they can not do this, I have to cancel my services by them....

Can anyone tell me how to go about this. I have moved my e-mail, by changing the mx record, but want to convert fully to Office 365.

ANSWER:

There are still a few other options available to you, if you can't change your name servers to point to Office 365, however, the best option is to work together with your DNS service provider to try to get your DNS setup as described in the following article:

onlinehelp.microsoft.com/.../gg549203.aspx

(You can send this article to your DNS registrar to help explain how you want your DNS services setup.)

If your DNS service provider confirms that you absolutely can't change your name servers to point to Office 365, you could work to transfer your DNS registrar to one of the DNS registrars from the following article which are known to work with Office 365:

onlinehelp.microsoft.com/.../gg584174.aspx

If you are unable to change to a different DNS registrar that is compatible with Office 365 you can follow the instructions from the following article to NOT fully re-delegate your domain to Office 365, but this option is not recommended or supported by Office 365 since your DNS servers will not be associated Office 365:

community.office365.com/.../477.aspx

You can also see the following articles for additional information about using your domain with Office 365:

community.office365.com/.../host-your-website-with-another-provider.aspx (Change A and CNAME DNS records to and external website)

www.microsoft.com/.../63ecc8c0-de29-43a2-9bb3-a379634a217f (Small Businesses Domain Add)

(Small Businesses Domain Add Video)

Demos of various plug ins for SBS Essentials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx_N2L6U-kk

At the dinner table tonight with geek friends talking about the retail experience of technology buying these days and we were discussing how many times we've happened across someone in the store who was an expert....but it wasn't any employee of the store.

How many times have you been 'sold' by someone in the aisle and not the salesman?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2501584.mspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2501584

Known issues with Office File Validation

• Files that were created in Microsoft Excel 2.0, Microsoft Excel 3.0, or Microsoft Excel 4.0 will fail validation when you use Office File Validation in Office 2003.
• Solver.xla will fail validation when you use Office File Validation in Office 2003.
• When you paste lots of charts or points of data into an Office 2003 document, the paste function may take a long time to complete while Office File Validation tries to validate the new data.
• Opening files from a network share that have many charts or points of data will take longer to open in Office 2003.

Microsoft is aware of the issues and is currently investigating them.

If you installed KB2501584 you may be experiencing slowdowns in your network in opening up the file.  Remove the update or deploy the registry entries to allow the files if you are impacted.

For those impacted by PDF attachments not working in Mac environments, this is now fixed with Update rollup 4 of Exchange 2007 sp3

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26692

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/07/07/released-update-rollup-4-for-exchange-server-2007-sp3.aspx

Potential issues after installing SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1 - The Official SBS Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/07/06/potential-issues-after-installing-sharepoint-foundation-2010-sp1.aspx

Let's be clear.. this isn't "potential" issues, this is Issues you will have after installing SharePoint Sp1.

You NEED to run psconfig on any deployment of SharePoint 2010 sp1.  Period.

Had an interesting VSS problem on a Server 2008 tonight - not R2 mind you.

From the Application log:   Backup started at '7/7/2011 2:01:23 AM' failed as Volume Shadow copy operation failed for backup volumes with following error code '2155348129'. Please rerun backup once issue is resolved.

From the Windows Backup sub log:  Backup started at '{58118b80-d6d9-4e5a-84d4-a3e24864ee32}' failed as Volume Shadow copy operation failed for backup volumes with following error code '2155348129'.

The backups started to fail but with not a lot of hints as to what was wrong.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2009/09/16/diagnosing-failures-in-windows-server-backup-part-1-vss-spp-errors.aspx

That says look at the event logs. That didn't point me in the right direction.  It was the plain old vssadmin list writers that pointed me in the right place.  And it was this blog that made me realize that the temp, turned off, differencing drives XP vhd I had temp stuck on the HyperV box that was causing the problem:  http://www.gilkirkpatrick.com/Blog/post/2008/08/17/Volume-Shadow-Copy-Service-operation-failed2c-error-0x800423f0.aspx 

I deleted the unneeded HyperV vhd in the HyperV manager, restarted the backup and volia... off it went.

No I don't drive like this.

Nor sled like that either.  I'm just sayin'

I'm trying new forms of feedback tonight.

On June 29, Microsoft changed the Microsoft Download site.  In doing so not only did they break all third party RSS feeds that used to monitor and keep track of content released to that site, they broke the site completely.  No longer does it provide an accurate listing of all items released by Microsoft.

Here let me give you an example:

Computer Information Agency:
http://supportweb.ciaops.net.au/blog/archive/2011/07/05/installing-sharepoint-2010-service-pack-1-on-sbs-2011.aspx
Computer Information Agency:
http://supportweb.ciaops.net.au/blog/archive/2011/07/02/sharepoint-2010-service-pack-1-installation-walk-through.aspx