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http://www.sbslinks.com/r21.htm That is a screen by screen view of a SBS 2003 sp1 box with IE 7 installed prior to the installation of R2. As you can see the install "appears" to fail, but really it doesn't. All that happens is that the R2 install can...
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From the partner newsgroup I spotted this on how to tell if R2 is installed... Basically speaking, we have a registry key which indicates if the SBS Server 2003 R2 is successfully installed: SBS related Registry Keys: * HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer...
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So you have a SBS 2003 sp1 box and you just got your Action pack.... how do you update it? Do you a. Merely stick in the dvd and it will automagically update or b. Drill down to the R2 parts and run the individual cdroms? The answer is b. These disks...
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http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2006/11/08/So-you-have-CDroms-and-want-a-DVD_3F00_.aspx Does everyone realise that the base of SBS 2003 r2 is SBS 2003 sp1 standard? SBS 2003 R2 ...the "R2" parts on are the disks at the end...they are...
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SBS 2003 R2 Internal-Use Software in October Action Pack Look in your October Microsoft Action Pack for your internal-use software. Also, find out how you can get a free for-resale copy of Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (SBS 2003 R2)--a US$599...
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So the other night I installed SQL 2005 workgroup on my R2 box and I had copied the cdroms up to the server and installed from there. When I did that, at the end of 'cdrom 1' I got this error. But see it wasn't really an error, it was expecting...
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When you install R2, make sure you read the install instructions -- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=29CB973D-41D8-4A5E-9312-90982A0FC164&displaylang=en After you install ISA 2004 you'll need to install ISA 2004 sp2 for...
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This update corrects an issue that results in an error message when you use the Microsoft Connector for POP3 Mailboxes Snap-in with Microsoft Management Console (MMC) version 3.0. http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=921096 If you have SBS and WSUS installed...
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When upgrading from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 workgroup there's a couple of things you should read up ahead of time... the first being the "official" upgrade guide . the second is the "Susan" version of the document that just covers...
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When you install the R2 disk over remote desktop the only caveat is that you need to be logged in as the built in administrator account (aka the "500" account) It WILL work over a RDP session though and will install. In general everything BUT...
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Hi susan Please advice us on the best possible solution for this scenario. Currently we have only one office in B__. We are running SBS 2003 on our network. We use windows authentication extensively and also exchange for email. Right now we are not using...
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Couple of interesting things in the R2 documentation ... 15 gig recommended partition size "If you are a Microsoft Premier Contract holder, please contact your TAM or ADC" ( for a SBS box? Like I've ever seen a SBS customer have a TAM? ) I was surprised...
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