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iPhone DST bug causing alarms to fail across Europe (updated) -- Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/01/iphone-dst-bug-causing-alarms-to-fail-across-europe/ Seeing this reminds me that this is the window where building servers is more ickier than...
In looking at my SBS 2008 I realized that the c:drive was getting full WAY too fast. In looking at the c: drive (keeping in mind you need to run the treesize free program with "Runas Administrator" in order to properly see the drive size used...
I've done this twice now and it annoys me every time I do it. I set up a server in a SBS 2008 domain. I join it to the domain. It initially goes into the SBScomputers OU that has a prebuilt group policy to allow for remote desktop and firewall exclusions...
This hit me today. One of my old migrated distribution group lists wouldn't work and when I went to edit them I got a 'Validation Error This field cannot be empty' when I tried to edit the members of the distributions groups. Found the solution...
If you have clients that remote from a large screen Vista or Win7 to a large screen Vista or Win7 bookmark these two KBs: Remote Web Workplace connect to client computer feature may display black bars: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2011825/en-us Remote...
I kept getting this in the event logs... OALGen encountered an error while generating the changes.oab file for version 2 and 3 differential downloads of address list '\Global Address List'. The offline address list has not been updated so clients...
So I noticed that in the event viewer there was a specific backup log that was deep under the sub folders. And in there I found that it was warning me that I was getting low on backup space. So I went into the event viewer and build a task that emails...
One of the final things to put back on my SBS 2008 is a piece of software that puts custom disclaimers depending on the content of the email. Personally I think email disclaimers are non binding and ridiculous, but unfortunately I have to follow the industry...
So officially demoted my SBS 2003 box tonight (sniff sniff, it served me well for five years) and once again, the first time I ran the dcpromo the netlogon service wouldn't shut down. I just went into the service, shut it off and then the server dcpromo'd...
... because you find out the dumb things you forgot... like.... The fact that the Live Communication server still had it's nic card pointed to .x rather than .y for it's DNS resolution even though .y is the new server. So when I turned off .x...
When you have phones syncing to SBS 2003 and you move to SBS 2008, and you move the Godaddy cert from the one server to the other and thus do not need to deploy any new SSL certs.... the iPhones typically just need a powering off and powering back on...
Another monitoring tweak that I did tonight was to get the SBS 2008 to send more direct/specific alerts regarding backup. I'm a control freak. What can I say, so I want to know when the backup has run and to make sure it's completed successfully...
I'm tweaking auditing and alerting again. I like... okay no I LOVE it when I get an alert when someone fails to log into the server. Why? Because I want to know who's banging on my ports. But at the same time I don't want to be so overloaded...
So if some of your workstations are not showing up properly in the SBS 2008 Computers console, here's what I did to fix all of my truant ones. Event ID 10016 Source DCOM: http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=10016&eventno=4718&source...
Windows Small Business Server 2008 from SBS 2003 R2 | Loz's ALITs Blog: http://www.alits.co.uk/WP/?p=158 For the migration scenario from Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 to Windows Small Business Server 2008, a manual migration will be required...
EVENT # 15343 EVENT LOG System EVENT TYPE Error OPCODE Info SOURCE Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM EVENT ID 10009 COMPUTERNAME SERVER DATE / TIME 11/28/2009 8:36:23 PM MESSAGE DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer ANOTHERSERVER.DOMAIN.lan...
When you set up ANY computer, be it a workstation, server, whatever, you want to flip from Windows Update to Microsoft Update. In Windows 2008/Vista/Windows 7 there's a tiny little section you need to click on to get it to flip. Which then brings...
When you add a member server to your SBS 2008 you will notice that it adds itself as a workstation. You have to go into active directory users and computers, find the MyBusiness OU, then go to the SBSComputers OU and move the Server that's listed...
One of the key "this will nail you EVERY migration you attempt" is the Journal Wrap. And I've seen a lot of folks in the SBS world with a journal wrap error. Fortunately it's an easy fix. You literally read the KB article that it points...
One of the things I added to David Overton's robocopy script to copy and move permissions from one server to the other is this extra flag: /DCOPY:T What it does is copy over and leave intact the date time stamps on the copied over folders. So that...
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