x64 Vista Beta 2 and SBS

Published 8 June 6 6:16 AM | Charlie Russel

You can’t join an x64 Vista computer to your SBS Premium network using connectcomputer, and you can’t even do it manually if you’re running the default ISA configuration. The solution is:

  1. Open the ISA Management GUI
  2. Scroll down to Configuration->Add-ins
  3. Highlight “RPC Filter” in the Application Filters tab, and click Disable in the action pane.
  4. Click the Apply button, and agree to stop and restart the service.
  5. You can now join the x64 client to the SBS network manually.

This has been reported to MS and will be solved before Vista ships. But until it is, you’ll have problems. I have successfully run with the RPC filter re-enabled after the computer was on the domain, but did experience intermittent problems I couldn’t identify. Since I turned the filter back off, I haven’t seen as many problems.

Charlie Russel
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server R2 Administrator’s Companion

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Comments

# Frank Williamson said on June 13, 2006 12:05 PM:

I have tried with x86 version, now I can't login because it is asking for the _sbs_netsetup password.

No information can be found on the SBS server regarding this

# Frank Williamson said on June 18, 2006 3:00 PM:

I now have x64 connected to my domain with the connectcomputer wizard.

But it does involve editing the registry.

So, many thanks to jerry's coherent babbling fo the info

And here is the the link. Follow instructions to the letter (even when it says 32bit Dword)

Log on as the administrator, then open IE

http://servername/connectcomputer

# Frank Williamson said on June 18, 2006 3:01 PM:

Forgot the link

http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/jerry/archive/2006/06/08/3007.aspx