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  • New Microsoft Forums

    In case you missed it, the old Microsoft newsgroups are being replaced by the new Microsoft Web Forums . For Small Business Server (SBS), we have a single Small Business Server forum that will be used for SBS2003 and SBS2008 issues. So come on over and check it out!
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Wed, Jun 16 2010
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  • Why Small Businesses use Windows SBS?

    Microsoft's Small Business Server (SBS) has been a mainstay of my business for 8 years, and it is what I propose and install for my clients. If you are interested in using SBS for your small business, be sure to read the following blog post entitled: Why Small Businesses Use Windows Small Business...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Thu, Sep 10 2009
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  • WHS & SBS: Approved for Backups

    For more than a year I have been promoting the use of Windows Home Server as a local backup solution in a Small Business Server (SBS2003/SBS2008) environment (per these two blogs: blog1 , blog2 ). I already have WHS installed at most of my SBS customer sites. It now seems as if Microsoft is now willing...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Sat, Aug 22 2009
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  • SBS without Exchange?

    I hear it all the time ... my customer wants an SBS server, but they don't want to use Exchange. I don't know about you, but the only reason I can think of why either the customer or the IT consultant would suggest not using Exchange is because they've never used it themselves, and therefore...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Wed, Aug 19 2009
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  • SMB Nation 2009 - Alumni Early Bird

    Are you planning to go to SMB Nation in Las Vegas this year? If so, and you've attended a past SMB Nation conference, the special "Alumni" registration fee of $499 ends on July 31, 2009. That's a 50% discount off the regular $999 registration fee. Conference dates are Oct 2-4, 2009...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Thu, Jul 30 2009
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  • WHS Business Opportunities

    If you are a Microsoft Partner, there will be a 5W/50 webinar entitled “Business Opportunities with Windows Home Server – Updated with PowerPack 2 Content” today at noon (EDT) given by Grey Lancaster and Kevin Royalty. If you think WHS is only for homes, then you're still thinking...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Fri, Jun 5 2009
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  • IT Pro Tiki Tour - Tampa/Lakeland

    Blain Barton, Microsoft's Southeast IT Pro Evangelist, will be bringing his Spring Tiki Tour to the Tampa area on June 4th, 2009 (6p-9p) at the Polk Community College in Lakeland. Topics include: Moving to the Modern OS Roadmap, Windows Security, and Windows 7. I will be doing the Windows 7 presentation...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Thu, May 28 2009
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  • Introduction to Windows Server 2008 Foundation

    I previously blogged on April 1st about the new entry level Windows Server that Microsoft just released -- Windows Server 2008 Foundation (WSF). Microsoft has now published a new paper called Introduction to Windows Server 2008 Foundation . WSF is NOT intended to be a "baby" version of SBS...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Fri, Apr 3 2009
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  • New Entry Level Windows 2008 Server

    Microsoft announced today (April 1, 2009) a new entry level version of Windows 2008 Server - called Foundations. And this ain't no April Fool's joke. It will support a maximum of 15 users. Read more in their press release .
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Wed, Apr 1 2009
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  • SBS, WHS and Backup Software

    One of my mottos has always been: "You cannot have enough backup!". So, I am always investigating and testing backup software. When Microsoft first releasd Windows Home Server (WHS), I knew that this was a product I would be testing. Well, tonight, it saved my bacon! My own SBS 2003 server...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Fri, Mar 20 2009
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  • SBS 2008 List of Installation Errors

    Microsoft has published a list of errors that you may encounter when installing SBS2008. They also include suggested resolution(s) and follow-up tasks for each error. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc546065.aspx
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Mon, Mar 2 2009
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  • Adding additional email addresses in SBS 2008

    Those who have worked with SBS 2000 and SBS 2003 will find that many things are not where you expect them to be in SBS 2008! For example, let's say you want Sally to receive all email addressed to sales@yourdomain.com (in addition to receiving email as sally@yourdomain.com ). In prior versions of...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Wed, Feb 25 2009
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  • Connect Windows 7 to SBS 2008

    The SBS offical blog site has an excellent post on how to modify SBS 2008 so that a Windows 7 (Beta) workstation can be joined via http://connect . I have just a couple of observations and suggestions on my part: If you are joining a laptop, be sure to disable your wireless port(s) and join the server...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Wed, Feb 25 2009
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  • WHS Restore CD and Realtek NIC

    I've been testing out the Windows 7 beta on one of my laptops this week. And following my own best practices, I made sure I installed the WHS connector on it and made several backups during my testing. So, yesterday I tried (unsuccessfully) to join the Win7 laptop to a SBS2008 domain. (Yes, I'm...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Tue, Feb 24 2009
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  • SBS2008 and POP3/IMAP4 Clients

    Enabling SBS 2008 to allow remote users to use their email clients (Outlook, Outlook Express, etc.) or phones to pull down email from the SBS2008 server via POP3 or IMAP4 is just slightly more involved than on SBS 2003. For all the step-by-step details and screen shots, visit the Official SBS Blog site...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Mon, Feb 16 2009
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  • DCOM 10016 Event Error

    After installing SBS 2008, you may begin to see DCOM 10016 event errors being reported in your SBS Monitoring reports as soon as users begin to use Sharepoint/Companyweb. This error is also identified if you run the SBS 2008 Best Practices Analyzer . There have been several posts on how to fix this error...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Sun, Feb 15 2009
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  • Calyptix and SBS

    I've been install Calyptix AccessEnforcer units recently in several SBS shops, both SBS 2003 and SBS 2008. The AE is a fully featured network security appliance, and comes in various models to fit different size organizations. What I like about Calyptix is its single price --- no extra costs for...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Tue, Feb 3 2009
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  • Backup fails after bare-metal restore (SBS 2008)

    I had a situation today where I had to reformat & reconfigure the raid drives for an SBS 2008 server. That part went fine, and doing a bare-metal restore of the server from the scheduled SBS 2008 daily USB backup went flawlessly. After we brought the server back online, I attempted to do a new full...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Tue, Jan 27 2009
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  • SBS20008 Migration Documents

    For those of you who may have missed it ... new documentation for migrating to SBS 2008 is now available for viewing or download. This covers both SBS 2003 to SBS 2008, and SBS 2008 to SBS2008 scenarios. Online Technet versions: Migrate SBS2003 to SBS2008 Migrate SBS2008 to SBS2008 All SBS2008 Technet...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Sat, Dec 20 2008
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  • SBS 2008 and Sharepoint Log file

    If using SBS 2008, one of the things you want to do is to install and run the SBS 2008 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) on a regular basis. At my first SBS 2008 installation, BPA recenlty reported that my Sharepoint log file was larger than 1gb in size. Strange, I thought, since this customer had not even...
    Posted to KWSupport by kwsupport on Wed, Dec 10 2008
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