Blog of the EMEA SBS Team
A New beginning and an end…
Hello Readers, With mixed feelings we are announcing the end of postings on this blog. The blog will...
Date: 03/17/2009
Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS) - Security Server Installation fails on Forefront Threat Management Gateway.
[This post comes to us courtesy Vikramjit Singh.] Issue You have installed the first server of...
Date: 02/09/2009
SBS2008 Migration: Source Tool may fail to ADPREP on Source Server (SBS 2003).
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Girish Rajan and Ketan Upgade.] During migration, one of the most...
Date: 01/29/2009
SBS2008- “Cannot Configure Backup Schedule” error when you run Configure Server Backup wizard on Small Business Server 2008.
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Vikramjit Singh.] We have seen a couple of issues with SBS 2008...
Date: 01/26/2009
SBS 2008: CTIW fails to complete successfully.
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Moloy Tandon.] Recently we have seen few cases where the Connect...
Date: 01/16/2009
SBS 2008: Some key changes in Terminal Services
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Moloy Tandon] In this post I would highlight some key changes in...
Date: 01/16/2009
You receive a Vbscript error while connecting to the client/server computer using RWW in SBS 2008.
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Bhushan Gokhale.] In SBS 2003, we receive the request from remote...
Date: 01/10/2009
Intermittent Outlook Anywhere Connectivity issue in SBS 2008.
The Official SBS Blog: Slow Connectivity for Outlook Anywhere and Sites that use the SBS Web...
Date: 12/10/2008
Migrating Companyweb Website (WSS 2.0) from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 (WSS 3.0).
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Bhushan Gokhale] With the recent release of SBS 2008, most of the...
Date: 12/09/2008
Troubleshooting Common VPN issues.
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Lavinder Kumar] In this Blog some of the common VPN issues and...
Date: 12/05/2008
Demonstration of E-Mail Receipt and E-Mail Archival by a SharePoint Library.
[This post comes to us courtesy Rituraj Choudhary] Windows SharePoint Services version 3 supports...
Date: 11/03/2008
Using Hyper-V with Windows Small Business Server 2008.
The SBS UA team is pleased to announce that the following document is now available in the Windows...
Date: 10/30/2008
SBS 2008: Deploying hotfixes and drivers via WSUS 3.0
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Girish Rajan] On your WSUS Console, if you click on...
Date: 10/28/2008
SBS 2003 and Intelligent Mail Filtering (IMF).
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Milind Bhavsar] IMF helps...
Date: 10/27/2008
Backup Methods for WSS 3.0 in SBS 2008
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Ketan Upgade] Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is a...
Date: 10/01/2008
How to add Disclaimer to your emails in SBS 2008, Exchange 2007.
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Girish Rajan.] Disclaimers are typically used to provide legal...
Date: 09/29/2008
What does the Configure (Smart Host) Internet Mail wizard do?
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Moloy Tandon.] SBS 2008 offers a wizard to configure Exchange to...
Date: 09/26/2008
What does the Change User Role wizard do?
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Moloy Tandon.] After you have migrated to SBS 2008 from SBS 2003...
Date: 09/09/2008
How to change/reset the status of Migration Tasks while migrating SBS 2003 to SBS 2008.
[Today's post comes to us courtesy Anshul Srivastava] You are migrating to SBS 2008 from SBS 2003 by...
Date: 09/05/2008
Preparing SBS 2003 for migration (to SBS 2008).
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Girish Rajan.] With SBS 2008 RTM’ d and only months left for...
Date: 09/04/2008
SBS 2008 RTMs
On behalf of the SBS team, I am extremely pleased to announce that Windows Small Business Server...
Date: 08/22/2008
Default settings of ‘Default Website’, Virtual Directories under Default Website and Companyweb on a SBS 2003 Server
[Today's Post comes to us courtesy Anshul Srivastava] We get a good number of calls related to...
Date: 08/12/2008
Unable to browse HTTP website's from SBS and client machines.
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Milind Bhavsar and Karan Rustagi.] We have been seeing some...
Date: 07/25/2008
How to troubleshoot Fax Setup issues on SBS 2003.
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Moloy Tandon.] There are times when the Fax service may not...
Date: 07/24/2008
What do you want to see at the UK SBS 2008 Launch?
Just in case you missed this; What do you want to see at the UK SBS 2008 Launch? Here is your chance...
Date: 07/16/2008
Couple of new issues with SBS 2003.
If you have been seeing any of the two issues below with your SBS 2003, then please follow the link...
Date: 07/16/2008
Launch dates confirmed for SBS 2008 and EBS 2008.
November 12 2008 has been announced as the launch day for Essential Server Solutions (EBS and SBS)....
Date: 07/08/2008
Troubleshooting High Memory Usage by a MSDE Instance.
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Anshul Srivastava] You are running a Small Business Server 2003...
Date: 07/04/2008
Understanding Online Maintenance, Offline Defrag and their interrelationship with the Deleted Items Retention Period
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Nandan Sheth.] By default, an SBS 2003 install limits the...
Date: 06/24/2008
Where is my 25 digit Client Access License (CAL) code?
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Girish Rajan.] Very often you may find yourself in situations...
Date: 06/18/2008
How to use the Recovery Storage Group to restore a Single Mailbox.
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Karan Rustagi.] Exchange 2003 supports Recovery storage groups to...
Date: 06/03/2008
Troubleshooting Multiple Errors on WSUS: 13042, 13051 and 12032.
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Date: 06/02/2008
Technical Library: Windows Small Business Server 2008
The technical library for SBS 2008 is now live, and available for viewing here. The content...
Date: 05/22/2008
SBS 2008 could be cheaper than SBS 2003 R2.
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Karan Rustagi.] Microsoft recently announced the Public...
Date: 05/15/2008
You are unable to manage WSUS from Server Management Console in SBS 2003 after installing Exchange 2007.
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Bhushan Gokhale.] Consider the following scenario; You...
Date: 05/09/2008
Latest VSS Hot fix 949391, replaces 940349 and 939989
If you are experiencing the following symptoms; • You have a computer that is running Windows...
Date: 05/08/2008
Some recent KBs of Interest
Windows Server 2008/ Vista KB 951181 Description of how hotfixes and updates are managed after you...
Date: 05/06/2008
Demystifying Maximum Usage of CALs in SBS 2003
[Today's post comes to us courtesy Rituraj Choudhary] Time and again we are asked this question:...
Date: 05/05/2008
Troubleshooting VSS and Backup
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Rituraj C.] Some of the most interesting issues that we come...
Date: 04/23/2008
Basic WMI Troubleshooting
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Ketan Upgade.] WMI Overview: Windows Management...
Date: 04/17/2008
Some updates released in the past couple of months.
You may be unable to apply more updates at a certain point on a Windows Small Business Server...
Date: 04/02/2008
Updates for Small Business Server 2003 Fail to Install
[Today's post comes to us courtesy Nandan Sheth] I came across a couple issues a while back where we...
Date: 03/30/2008
How to troubleshoot the stop error 0x0000007B?
[Today's post comes to us courtesy Moloy Tandon.] A blue screen of death (BSOD) is one of the...
Date: 03/29/2008
Backup and Restore of the Companyweb Website aka Windows SharePoint Services 2.0
[Today's post comes to us courtesy Bhushan Gokhale] Very often, we need to backup or restore the...
Date: 03/28/2008
Troubleshooting Active Directory Replication
[Today's post comes to us courtesy Lavinder Kumar.] Though uncommon, there are times when we see an...
Date: 03/28/2008
Offline Folder Synchronization Fails
[Today's post comes to us courtesy Vikramjit Singh and Aditya Kapoor.] We have come across a couple...
Date: 03/21/2008