I delivered a new SBS 2003 to replace an old SBS 2003. We had some goofed up Active Directory stuff so the thought was we would just start from scratch but pick up the old Exchange database and place it on the new server. That worked fine but we had some issues with speed of backup. The lab backup and remount worked fine but it took many hours to copy the Exchange database. Anyway there was a bit of overlap that for some reason I did an Exmerge from old server to catch 2 days of email. I really do

I can’t backup.Something about media or it starts a backup and bombs along the way. I start with the basics. We currently use usb drives to back up for the most part. Can you see the usb drive from My Computer? Yes is good. No means you need to power down the usb drive, check the connections on the usb cable and power it back up. If it still does not appear try plugging it in to your laptop. Yes you see it. How much free space does it have? How many backups is the server supposed to save to

I can’t print. Tales of tcpip printing. I have recently had calls about I cannot print. The first was a peer to peer I cannot print. I visit and I cannot ping the printer based on the printer tcpip port properties. Is the printer plugged in to the network? Yes for one and no for another. What is the ip? How is the printer getting its ip? What is doing dhcp? So the first account had a router serving up ips starting at 1. They had about 10 workstations. Printer was hanging out at .5 with a static

I got a call that two workstations at check in were off the network. I suggested running Malwarebytes Antimalware. That has fixed a few machines at that account. Note that I just got this account. It has almost 100 devices at two locations, no domain, no centralized anti-virus console, no dhcp, four servers, a Sonicwall, A Cisco Pix, no network documentation. And they are about 1.5 hours from the house in good traffic. Wah. So the local guy ran the anti-malware program which came out clean. He changed

I got a call that Internet Explorer kept crashing when trying to click on a link. I suggested upgrading to Acrobat 9. That did not help. I did a site visit and got nowhere fast. I tried doing IE reset, deleting temp IE files and deleting temp files. No diff of course. To be less vague the insurance company had links to pdf files. I could save them and open them but when I would click on them in IE to view in IE it would crash IE. I gave up. A few weeks later another user at another account complains

I got a call that a person could not send email using Microsoft Mail in Vista. Charter Cable said just use our web interface. Not so easy for my customer. I used Log Me In free edition so I could see what they were doing. Yes indeed it was failing with useless messages. I tried turning off their Circuit City supplied Webroot firewall. No difference. I started a download of Wireshark. The download is taking forever. I tried to download on my workstation and the download was done in less than a minute

I have a SBS 2008 at home with a static ip. I have the server and a XP Pro domain member in my little network. To access domain servers or workstations you have to first install the SBS 2008 certificate. So I sent it in an email and installed the cert. I can access the workstation or the server in the domain from Vista boxes. I can access the computers from a Server 2003. I cannot access them from XP Pro boxes. I have tried 4 different XP boxes. 3 have IE7, one has IE8. One had SP2, the others had

I had a backup failure at an account. I noticed that WSUS managed to get installed on my USB backup drive when I did the last WSUS upgrade. 30 gigs of stuff in content. I clicked on just English and ran the celanup wizard. That did virtually nothing over a long, long time. Plan on a day or more on that wizard. I found this post http://forums.technet.microsoft.com/en-US/winserverwsus/thread/59b5c659-b09e-4d05-84dc-04202fa9f136/ where I ended up here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/bb466192

I had a user call saying their Out of Office was not working. A few years back I had another user at the same account report that same issue. I used mdbvu32 to dig out the crummy OOF and all was good when creating a new OOF. I think they refer to this as OOF but I do not get where the letters came from. OOO seems like what it should be. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/248709 or this article with pictures is how you dig stuff out. http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/tools

http://blogs.technet.com/kevin_beares/archive/2008/05/23/the-windows-small-business-server-2008-ww-community-survey-is-live.aspx T he SBS team is curious about what you think and what you want. Spend a few minutes giving them some feedback. Just as a point of reference the SBS MVPs and the MVPs friendly to SBS are considered the minority. What I mean is that a lot of my SBS friends run ISA and love/like it. They use SQL for line of business uses. We are constantly told that we are a minority. Maybe