July 2007 - Posts

Default SMTP Virtual Server instance would not start after System State Restore

Published Tue, Jul 31 2007 15:44 | steveb

The Default SMTP Virtual Server instance was failing to start after recovering from a System State Backup. Because this was a Domain Controller the server had to be started in Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) in order to do the ntbackup restore...

Filed under: Exchange

ExBPA and ExTRA

Published Tue, Jul 31 2007 13:06 | steveb

Prashant Joseph who works with Microsoft's Enterprise Messaging Support sent this to me at the resolution of a call Monday morning. Great stuff so passing it along. What I thought was cool is there is also a URL redirector for the ExBPA at www.exbpa...

Filed under: PSS, Exchange

PSS at lunch? Not the way to spend a Sunday evening in Seattle.

Published Mon, Jul 30 2007 2:30 | steveb

I'm beginning to feel like Handy Andy and his ATM experience I mentioned earlier today. After giving up on my own resources I called Microsoft Partner Business Critical Phone Support to get a resolution on a Kerberos error that has brought down AD...

Filed under: Microsoft PSS

Lost TS/RDP after running updates?

Published Mon, Jul 30 2007 1:40 | steveb

After experiencing Terminal Services intermittently hanging after applying Microsoft Updates I've come across one way that gets the server back up and responsive most of the time and a backup plan for when it still doesn't. First, to cover yourself...

Filed under: Windows Server 2003, Vista, SBS 2003, Terminal Services, Microsoft Updates

Blocked in IE7 from connecting to your desktop in Remote Web Workplace?

Published Mon, Jul 30 2007 1:13 | steveb

Virtual PC 2007 is not agreeing with the network adapters on my Vista Ultimate HP tc4400 so I'm on my wife's HP nc6320 running XP Pro while I'm doing a Swing Migration . While on here I went to connect to my desktop back at the office and...

Filed under: IE7, SBS 2003, SSL, Remote Web Workplace, RWW

Andy having one of those days

Published Sun, Jul 29 2007 18:05 | steveb

On my way Sunday evening to a client site thinking I had it rough. Then l read Handy Andy's post about his week. http://blog.sbs-rocks.com/?p=28

Exclude your ISA log files from AV scans

Published Thu, Jul 19 2007 15:05 | steveb

This isn't in the normal KB articles for antivirus scanning exclusions, so if you come across the following event ID, check out MS KB 887311. Event Type: Error Event Source: Microsoft ISA Server Control Event Category: None Event ID: 14079 http:/...

Filed under: SBS 2003, ISA

Microsoft releases the Malware Removal Starter Kit

Published Wed, Jul 18 2007 12:39 | steveb

This is from an email I received this week from Mark Clagett over at Microsoft. Running into an issue today where I sent it to an end user so figured I would post it here as well. Thanks Mark for sending out the notice! - Steve ________________________________________________________________________________________________________...

Filed under: Windows Server 2003, SBS, Vista, Malware, Microsoft, Spyware

Support for SBS 2003 without Service Packs ending soon!

Published Fri, Jul 6 2007 16:08 | steveb

Microsoft will officially end support for SBS 2003 RTM (also know as SBS 2003 SP0) on July 10, 2007. See the SBS Blog for the full story at http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2007/07/03/sbs-2003-sp-0-support-retirement.aspx . Steve

Filed under: SBS 2003