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Microsoft CSS earned their award!

Published Thu, Apr 16 2009 22:12 | steveb

You all deserved the award! We were honored to present it to you! Check out the Official SBS Blog for a picture of the Outstanding Community Supporter Award the SBS MVPs presented to them on behalf of the Small Business Server community. They earned it...

Filed under: SBS 2003, SBS 2008, Microsoft CSS, Awards

Does Doyenz have their head in the clouds you ask?

Published Fri, Feb 27 2009 8:05 | steveb

"Suspended high among the pastel clouds of Bespin, held aloft by huge repulsorlifts built into its curved frame, is a floating metropolis of sophisticated beauty and political freedom. Cloud City exists not only as a mining colony, extracting valuable...

Filed under: PSSBS, SBS 2003, MSP, Kaseya, Doyenz, SaaS

Do not install IPv6 on your SBS 2003 box

Published Sat, Feb 21 2009 6:24 | steveb

I owe the .NET team an apology for blaming them as the original cause of the problems described in this post. The pro and con of blog posting is that we can fire off a post and later find out there was a different cause for the effect we were hit with...

Filed under: SBS 2003, SBS 2008, IPv6, .NET, Teredo

Secure IMAP in SBS 2003 with ISA 2004

Published Wed, Jan 21 2009 16:56 | steveb

Eriq Neale wrote this post in September, 2007. Given that I referenced it yet again today while configuring a customer's SBS 2003 R2 Premium with ISA 2004 to get IMAPS running for an employee's Mac at their house so they could use Apple Mail and...

Filed under: SBS 2003, ISA, IMAPS, Apple Mail

Caching in on your SBS 2003 Software Assurance benefits to get SBS 2008

Published Fri, Jan 16 2009 0:51 | steveb

Last Thursday at our monthly Puget Sound Small Business Server User Group ( www.pssbs.org ) we had the question come up from one of our members who is trying to figure out where his SA benefits are in the Software Assurance world of eOpen. He was only...

Filed under: SBS 2003, SBS 2008, Eric Ligman, Software Assurance

5W/50 Webcast covering migrations to SBS 2008

Published Fri, Jan 9 2009 12:35 | steveb

Jeff Middleton, Founder of SBSmigration.com 5W/50 Webcast! LEARN MORE: Join Jeff for the Microsoft webcast! Live today, or the recording after the event. Presented by Jeff Middleton Migration Concepts with SBS 2008 Microsoft Partners 5W/50 Series January...

Filed under: SBS 2003, SBS 2008, 5W/50 Series, Migration

SCE issue with upgrades from SBS to EBS

Published Thu, Oct 9 2008 11:51 | steveb

SBS Group Policy is set to have clients check WSUS once an hour. SCE/WSUS on EBS defaults to once a day, so you'll need to remove the SBS WSUS Group Policy from your migration in order to keep the database size more manageable.

Filed under: SBS 2003, EBS

The Windows Small Business Server 2008 World Wide Community Survey is Live!

Published Wed, May 28 2008 23:13 | steveb

Kevin Beares, the Community Lead for Microsoft's Windows Server Solutions Group (WSSG) asked a few of us to pass this along. If you haven't taken the 2008 SBS community survey yet, click on over to Kevin's Blog and get crackin! Below is the...

Filed under: PSSBS, SBS, SBS Community Survey, SBS 2003

Can't open or save an attachment in Outlook 2003?

Published Fri, Aug 24 2007 20:54 | steveb

Client of mine uses the Fax Server in Small Business Server 2003 and has all faxes come into a "fax" user account. One of the users today was telling me how she was unable to open any of the FAX.TIF attachments anymore and has had other co-workers...

Filed under: SBS 2003, Outlook

Run update from console session! - MS07-049: Vulnerability in Virtual PC and Virtual Server that could allow privilege elevation

Published Mon, Aug 20 2007 11:06 | steveb

If you prefer to run Microsoft Updates from a TS session, then make sure you run MS07-049 from a console session per the KB 937986 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937986 ). Taken from the KB: When the update 937986 is applied on a remote machine by...

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

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

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

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