As you can see on the official SBS blog, update rollup 2 for SBS 2008 has been released.
Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 Update Rollup 2 is now available on Microsoft Update and WSUS. This rollup package addresses the following issues in Windows Small Business Server 2008.
- Issue 1
- After you configure Windows Small Business Server 2008, you manually change the Favorites and Links setting for Internet Explorer in the default domain group policy by using the Group Policy Management console. When you run the Internet Address Management Wizard, the wizard exits unexpectedly.
- Issue 2
- You may receive the "HTTP ERROR 401.1" error when you visit the following Web site from Windows Small Business Server 2008: http://companyweb
- Issue 3
- In the Add a New User Account Wizard, the order of the Last Name field and the First Name field is reversed. This problem occurs in the following language versions of Windows Small Business Server 2008:
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Japanese
- Korean
- Issue 4
- In the Italian versions of Windows Small Business Server 2008, when you click Connect to a Computer in the Remote Web Workplace, you navigate to an invalid Web page.
- Issue 5
- The Windows SBS Console may stops responding if duplicate entries of Anti-Virus programs were reported in client WMI database.
- Issue 6
- The Windows SBS Console may report "unknown" for some firewall applications that are installed on client computers.
NOTE: This update also includes all updates from Update Rollup #1, and supersedes that update rollup.
…..for the MSDN people out there, you can now go and get Windows 7 (or shortly anyway). I have it already and it’s rock solid. I highly recommend trying this out!
http://blogs.msdn.com/msdnsubscriptions/archive/2009/04/25/windows-7-rc-on-track-for-release-to-subscribers-on-april-30th.aspx
Interested in Windows 7?, this is the site you should be looking at….
www.talkingaboutwindows.com
So, here is an interesting one, that took me to the highest levels of Sonicwall support. I should thank them as well, as Microsoft’s Xbox team blew this off as “not their problem” and refused to troubleshoot with us. Sonicwall however, I kept the pressure on, and they got me to a great guy who worked for nearly a month with me on this issue.
What issue?
Well, essentially, the Xbox would not connect to Sonicpoint wireless access points. It would look like it did, and it said connected on the Xbox screens, but no IP address would ever make it to the Xbox machine. On top of that, the WPA would still know that the wrong or right password was entered on the Xbox, but still no connection to the wireless. It was all very odd!
The solution….
This is a doozy.
Microsoft XBox does not recognise or accept 802.11 management frame if the country code in the information element is set to IE, or in fact some other countries! At the same time, some major countries in the same regulatory domain such as British, Germany or France can still work!
The workaround for the moment is to set the Access Point to another country (in my case the UK).
Anyone from Xbox listening?
Yep…. the Xbox team don’t like the Irish it seems. They need to fix this, and as of yet I have not found someone on the team that will accept a bug report. Maybe this blogpost will bring it to someone's attention ;)
Remember this post?
Well, recently we have had a couple of requests for “localised” examples of its use from potential clients. So we brought in the services of local designer Eoghan Reidy to come up with these for us!
Munster Rugby TLA250
Irish Rugby TLA250
Nice!