EBS Prep and Planning Tools REALLY need a bypass switch for Greenfield deployments.
Published Mon, Apr 20 2009 15:36 | steveb
With all due respect to the Essential Business Server team and the awesome job they have done with EBS, I would really like a bypass switch on the Planning and Preparation Wizard for fresh installs. Thank you Nicholas for your Blog post on how to get...
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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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Trend Micro Best Practices
Published Thu, Mar 26 2009 14:30 | steveb
Below is a link on how to configure Trend Micro products for best protection against malware threats that I received from Trend today and thought I would pass along: http://esupport.trendmicro.com/pages/How-to-configure-Trend-Micro-products-for-best-protection...
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Response Point SP2 Demo this month at PSSBS' meeting in Bellevue
Published Thu, Mar 5 2009 17:51 | steveb
Rex Backman, Senior Business and Channel Development Manager at Microsoft Research, and long time friend and member of the Puget Sound Small Business Server group, Mike Iem, will be doing a presentation and demo this month on Response Point SP2 , Microsoft's...
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Calyptix, IP blocks, and SMTP servers
Published Fri, Feb 27 2009 16:07 | steveb
Calyptix Access Enforcer firewalls are great. I'm writing this post from behind our AE1000 right now. I'm a big fan of theirs and intend to deploy many more at our customer sites as we refresh their existing firewalls and servers. That said, there...
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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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Have a Calyptix and Microsoft Updates are failing?
Published Sun, Feb 22 2009 22:09 | steveb
Setting up a new Windows 2008 x64 Server and loading updates on a customer's Vista notebook. Having updates fail on the server with an 802002b error stating "Windows Update encountered an unknown error" on the 2008 box. I have also been...
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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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EBS Console freezing or needing to restart SBS 2008 once a week or so? Look here for your answer.
Published Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:58 | steveb
Thanks to Chris Puckett and his team for working on this to get a resolution. We have seen this primarily with Trend Micro (our primary anti-virus product) but it is happening with any product using TDI, so if you are getting similar behavior from your...
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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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A newly created recipient may not receive e-mail messages for up to 4 hours
Published Wed, Jan 7 2009 13:42 | steveb
Thanks to Susan Bradley for bringing my attention to this Microsoft KB. It looks like in Essential Business Server 2008 if you create a new recipient and attempt to send them mail, it can take up to four hours for the Exchange Edge Server to synch up...
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Looking for the requirements to order and a Microsoft Action Pack subscription? Eric has the answers for you.
Published Mon, Dec 22 2008 14:22 | steveb
Over the years I've seen Microsoft Action Pack subscriptions show up in what I would consider to be fringe qualifiers of the Action Pack's target audience. Usually by way of a well-meaning acquaintance who tells the business owner or someone on...
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December 18th, 2008 PSSBS Meeting Cancelled due to the winter wonderland weather we are having in the Puget Sound this week.
Published Thu, Dec 18 2008 13:51 | steveb
Puget Sound Small Business Server User Group (PSSBS) TONIGHT’S MEETING (December 18, 2008) IS CANCELLED DUE TO THE EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE PUGET SOUND REGION. Saw this this morning on the KOMO News Website. Ryan Goeden is the person who...
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Microsoft's Digital Locker is going away
Published Wed, Dec 10 2008 19:58 | steveb
If you have used Microsoft's Digital Locker for anything (like Vista Anytime Upgrades) you better head on over to the locker room and get your things because this school is a closin' (they must have took a page from the Seattle Public Schools'...
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TechNet's EBS 2008 Technical FAQ Page
Published Tue, Dec 9 2008 12:07 | steveb
Check out the Essential Business Server 2008 FAQ page at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ebs/dd183189.aspx for your questions about TMG (like do you need to install it in EBS) and the like.
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How to get IMAPS configured on your EBS network (as in BlackBerry Storm)
Published Thu, Dec 4 2008 3:54 | steveb
Okay, I got a phone call that the owner's son at a customer site has picked up a BlackBerry Storm and is traveling across the country tomorrow and needs it configured. How do you do it? Like this: All you need to do to get IMAPS (TCP Port 993) to...
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ieSpell - An awesome spell checker for your Webmail or Blog Posts.
Published Fri, Nov 7 2008 10:01 | steveb
If you haven't thought of getting a spell checker for IE, give ieSpell some consideration. Especially on a notebook or Tablet PC where you'll be hitting Web based email from it; or writing your Blog posts from it as I am right now. Make sure you...
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Try this on an iPhone!
Published Sun, Oct 19 2008 21:42 | steveb
Susan has moved from SBS and Mini Coopers over to hacking the registry on her sister's Windows Mobile 3 Smartphone. Thanks for the howto and for the reference to Resco Explorer!
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