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Migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008? Update your SBS08 help file first!
Published Sun, Nov 15 2009 22:31 | steveb
Thank you Steve Holland for getting the word out on this. Doing a Microsoft migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008? Download the latest (as of this blog post) migration help file to your SBS08 box BEFORE you start.
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SBS Tech Writer Steve Holland is now on Twitter
Published Sun, Nov 15 2009 22:11 | steveb
If you work with Small Business Server, make sure you follow Steve Holland's Twitter feed . I've known Steve since 2003 when he attended our first PSSBS meeting in Seattle. Also check out his team blog on MSDN . He may have moved to southern California...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:/...
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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
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