December 2009 - Posts

Microsoft Exchange Team Veteran Scott Roberts will be at the PSSBS meeting tonight in Redmond!

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 17:42 | steveb

Scott Roberts has 12+ years at Microsoft under his belt and is currently the Test Lead for the Exchange CXP [Sustained Engineering] team here in Redmond. For over 5 years, he has been on the Exchange CXP team and before that he was the tester for DSAccess...

Filed under: PSSBS, Exchange

BPOS Sync Tool does not migrate passwords

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 17:32 | steveb

Had this question come up today, so thought I'd drop a quick post on it. The Directory Synchronization tool used with Microsoft's Online Services does a one-way sync from your Active Directory up to the BPOS servers, and does not migrate passwords...

Filed under: SBS 2003, SBS 2008, EBS 2008, BPOS

Critical Update Available for ShadowProtect 3.x Customers

Published Tue, Dec 15 2009 12:18 | steveb

Recevied the following email today and wanted to help get the word out. Get your StorageCraft ShadowProtect updated as soon as you can so you don't get burned by this! Critical Update Available for ShadowProtect 3.x Customers Valued Partners: StorageCraft...

Filed under: StorageCraft, ShadowProtect

How to Manually Install Certificates in SBS 2008

Published Mon, Dec 14 2009 11:10 | steveb

New post by SBS superhero, Mark Stanfill, on how to correct for missing subject fields and how to manually install SSL certificates in Small Business Server 2008. Thanks Mark!

Filed under: SBS 2008, SSL Certificates

"Failed to create Edge Subscription" error in your SBS to EBS migration?

Published Wed, Dec 9 2009 13:09 | steveb

Great blog post by Steve Knutson on his "Failed to create Edge Subscription" error in his Essential Business Server 2008 migration from Small Business Server 2003. We've seen this error in EBS installed into virtualized environments, but...

Filed under: EBS 2008

Windows Server and Windows Azure are now the Server & Cloud Division

Published Wed, Dec 9 2009 12:53 | steveb

Microsoft's Windows Server and Windows Azure teams are now one, the Server & Cloud Division .

Filed under: Windows Server, WIndows Azure

Microsoft Joins Push for Better Computer Science Education in U.S.

Published Tue, Dec 8 2009 10:40 | steveb

Microsoft Joins Push for Better Computer Science Education in U.S. - Thanks to each of the organizations involved (Microsoft, Association for Computing Machinery, Google Inc., Intel Corporation, the Computer Science Teachers Association, National Center...

Trouble with "Set up your Internet Address" wizard in SBS 2008?

Published Wed, Dec 2 2009 16:19 | steveb

Ran into this earlier today. If you happen to be messing with your SSL Certificates and get your " Set up your Internet Address " wizard into a state that it fails, run the Fix My Network Wizard (FNCW) and you should be good to go. In my case...

Filed under: SBS 2008