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I have  a Driod 3 that has been working with my SBS 2008 (Exchange 2007) for several weeks. This morning I had to reboot the server to install MS office updates. Now my Droid will not sync. When the Droid trys to sync it gets "accout error" if I...

Hi Experts,

I recently have completed a server migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011.
I have found that there is a memory leak with a process w3wp.exe. The process starts at start-up and gradually uses more RAM until it uses 99%.

Look...

I am seeing entries in the Application Event Log of a Small Business Server 2003 SP2 that shows it is caused by zfsoreg.exe
Google returns no clues about this error or what the application is that is faulting.
I have run a rootkit scan which...

Hi,

i have the same error now the second time with same server-product:

Its pre-installed SBS 2011 with new Hardware. The Servers run fine. After configuring network and Server-Name, installing all updates, i started the sbssetup.exe to...

Hi Guys,

Can you please give me some ideas on how to fix this problem?

In our company we have SBS 2008 server. I configured Outlook AnyWhere and ended up with a lot of frustrated branch users. They constantly experience disconnections from...

Experts,

I've just finished setting up a new SBS 2011 server for a client and following the steps for the migration from SBS 2003.  All was going well and successful.  all the sudden any time I open a browser to to the internet internally I am...

I have a client that wants the forced policy removed from the exchange server that applies to smart phones.
anyone know a quick link to the instructions?  at the moment I don't want to read a big document explaining how to understand the whole...

I am on Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 5 and want to upgrade to 6 on my test server.

The process I followed was:
1. Turned off the AV services.
2. Changed the perms on  RelNotes.htm
3. Ran the Rollup.

After the first Next prompt and a few...

I have dployed SBS 2011 Standard for a customer. But they now do not want to bring their mail in house. And would like to use their existing POP service with the ISP, and their Outlook to remained configured as is.

With SBS 2011 when you open...

can't figure out how to allow more than one session by sbsadmin user.  i would like to have multiple sessions...for whatever reason, sbsadmin bumps off sbsadmin.  

where can i change this setting?

i have already tried a bunch of settings so...

We have recently installed a new Windows SBS 2011 Server and have configured all the Exchange Mail Boxes in conjunction with the users setup. The mail is collected from my POP3/SMTP mail hosting company using the POP3 Connector.

I no longer...

i've been trying to reinstall the Windows Internal Database on an SBS2008 without success and am hoping someone can help.

the companyweb on this server suddenly stopped working as well as WSUS. started off by uninstalling WSUS and was hoping...

Hi experts,

I am still confused about backing up SQL. I am not necessarily looking for the best way, but what is the proper way.

The best place to start would be to list what I think would be the instance of my program. The application is...

We're trying to use the "Backup Once" Wizard in Windows Server Backup.

Here are the options we select:
- Bare Metal, System State, C:, and E: (our data volume)
- Storage Type: Local drive -- formatted with NTFS, plenty of space for multiple...

What's the sane way of finding which service pack and rollup of Exchange 2007 I am running?
And why doesn't it appear in the Help box!

Apparently I am on 08.03.0213.000 which doesn't cross match Microsoft's byzantine lookup chart at...

I just swapped out an SBS2003 for an SBS2011.  So far everything is smooth except for setting up their Ricoh scan to email.

Do I have to enable something on Exchange 2010 to allow access from the scanner?

I have updated the server and smtp...

Hello All -

Yesterday, I performed a migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011.  This included AD, DNS, Exchange, and a few other things.

There was a small hiccup during the migration process where it went to desktop and showed a help file for...

Hello,

I am working on a new SBS2011 server and noticed intermittent connectivity to the gateway, while the connectivity to local workstations is un-interrupted. The Server is a new Dell T100 II server. The router is a Cisco 2000 router. All...

I have a Windows Small Business Server 2011 that when I run the fax configuration wizard, it errors out after clicking next on the incoming and outgoing fax modem selection. Attached is the faxcw.log file. I can configure all routing rules...

Please bear with me as I was recently supporting a SBS server already setup. What I do know is that company is using mail.contoso.com certificate from GoDaddy that is used for seemingly all of there certificates against the server....

Hi,

I want to change the GPO settings on sbs 2011 to achieve the following when users log onto clients

1 - user has to prss ctrl alt del
2 - message appears on screen (are they authorised to use system, etc) that must be accepted by user...

I got the following error on SBS 2011, for an existing domain, which has previously been set up with the domain name provider:

Domain provider authentication error      domain.local      6/22/2011 1:48:18 PM      1
   
The Dynamic DNS client did not...

I have a small network with a Microsoft Small Business server 2008 standard (not Hyper-V)
I only have 6 PC's two running Windows XP Pro 32bit.
All running Office 2010.

My problem is that on all the pc's Outlook kinda disconnects from...

Hi all,

I have a client with SBS2003 fully patched with Exchange SP3, we have a mixture of iPhone 3s and 4s, when setting up for Exchange all verify the account but get error Cannot Get Mail, The connection to the server failed.

I have...

We have a Small Business Server 2011 implementation with 8 PCs.  All of our users could not get on sites like fedex.com or ups.com.  Most other sites were fine, but when we browse to UPS or Fedex, it redirects to an obviously spoofed Google page...

I had to recover a Dell Poweredge server recently that started life with 2 x 150GB SATA drives in a mirrored configuration. One drive failed after a few weeks and the 'Dell' engineer replaced it with a 250GB drive.

Anyway, the system became...

I have a client who uses Office for MAC 2011, this morning it was suddently impossible to start Outlook, I made a copy of main Identity, and then tried to run the Database utility to rebuild the database, but I was also unable to start the...

Hi,

I'm was trying to upgrade Exchange 2010 from SBS 2011 Standard to Exchange 2010 SP1 but the upgrade didn't complete due to the below error message:


Hub Transport Role
Failed

Error:
The following error was generated when...

For a week now, when I try to use my Remote Desktop on my Windows 7 Pro SP1 computer to connect to any computer, I get the following error "An authentication error has occurred. The requested security package does not exist. Remote...

Hi Everyone,

I have a Draytek 2820 in use as my gateway at my Office, it is configured to be the DHCP server in my main network, and all is working fine. I want to setup a test network on a second Vlan where I will be testing an SBS2011 server...

I have been dealing with a performance issue on our SBS2011 server since I inherited it 6 weeks ago.  Users are reporting and I have verified that when accessing a file on the server, say a pdf (30K), the file takes over 30 secs to open.  I have...

I have a sbs 2011 server.  I have auditing turned on for login and off.  I can see everything in the security log.  I can't find a way to filter by specific user.  Any help would be great.

Hi all,

We have a vexing problem with SBS 2011 Remote Web Workplace whereby:

http://remote.exampledomain.com/remote

Does not work externally or on the local network, but does work on the server itself.

All the necessary ports are open...

I have installed a server sbs 2011 (close match of server 2008 R2 core)
Have four physical HDD ( two * RAID 1 )built using inbuilt RAID card on ufi enabled IBM x3400 M3 server

First RAID set is meant for OS & must be independent to data disk...

I am running SBS 2011 Standard on a 100 GB disk with all programs and data on another 1 TB array.
However since I have 32GB of RAM I keep on getting "low disk Space" messages (I have 20GB free on the drive).
The current pagefile is 32GB with...

We have a SBS 2011 box that was migrated from SBS 2003.  The SBS 2003 box has been demoted and removed from the network, however there are lingering problems with Active Directory.  In the Application log under File Replication Service I see this...

Hi,

We recently moved a client's Exchange off a Standard SBS 2003 Server to a Hosted Exchange 2010 Server. We did by exporting all mailboxes to PST files, re-creating the accounts in Exchange 2010 (there was only 15) and then re-imported the...

Hi all,

Am running through setting up BES Express 5.0.3 on a newly install SB2011 server.

All the pre-checks went well, but it failed to install SQL Express 2005.

Looking through various help topics, it suggested using the install SQL...

I have an SBS2003 server that is the only domain controller. I recently installed a Server 2008 R2 server and ran DCpromo. All went well with no errors, but when I look in C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol\allsaintsaustin.local

all I see is:...

I am not sure whats happened, but all of a sudden all our outlook clients (mix of 2007 and 2010 on exchange 2007, sbs 2008) have started asking for a password constantly. the 2007 clients wont even accept it once its in, whereas the 2010 clients...

We had a major drive failure on our SBS 2003 Dell server.   Server was powered down normally.  Next morning, server failed to boot.  Local tech says the RAID card failed and that the 2 mirrored drives have no data.  Unfortunately, the backup...

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I need to convert an aging SBS 2003 serverto a VM on preferabily a ESXi 5.0 (free) host. I found some good articles on doing this to Hyper V running under 2008 R2.
...

Hi all,

After running WSUS 3.0 SP2 on an SBS 2011 Standard Server for a few months, we've changed the WSUS config to "Do not store update files locally..." as we have a small network and not a massive amount of disk space on our Server.

I...

Hi there,
need a step by step on how to configure an zywall usg-20 firewall to allow access for OWA.  Had an old watchguard soho before, but having trouble translating the rules I had there for the zywall, as in finding what they call it and...

is there a way for notifications to be setup from backup exec so that 1 person gets all job completes, errors, fails etc, and the other gets only job failed?

We have an SBS 2011 Server with SharePoint 2010. Fully patched and all is working fine except we have a small issue with opening PDF documents from the Document libraries in IE9.

All user access the Intranets from a Windows R2 Terminal Server...

I am installing SBS2011. I selected migration mode because I am migrating from Server 2003 to SBS. For some reason Exchange did not install at all. Now when I try to do the exchange install I get errors from the "Mailbox Role" section.

Can...

I have a new customer that has Windows Server 2003 R2 installed on a WAN connected via VPN between 2 offices.  Their network is unstable and we were asked to rush an install/upgrade on their servers.  They wanted to move their mail in house and I...

Hi,

I got a new domain based on a SBS2011. I want to let the SBS synchronise time with an external source, like europe.pool.ntp.org. Then I want the rest of the servers sync time with the SBS.

There are many websites with information about...

When i am in the office the laptop logons on as expected. When at home it takes ages to logon. I have shared network printers and mapped drives which i assume it is looking for. On XP you could turn this off in folder options but i cant seem to...

Hi experts,

I must prepare an offer for my client with the following configuration:
- 6-core SERVER, with RAID 10 SAS disks...DONE
- ESXi 5.0 platform for new SBS...DONE
- SBS 2011 with 50 CALS... DONE
- Local backup on NAS storage...DONE...

Hi all,

I have a major issue here that we're struggling with at the moment so all and any help would be massively appreciated.

basically we have a new HP ML350 G6 server with SBS 2011 (sp1) installed which has started over the last few days...

Hi,
  I purchased paid version of VMWare VCenter from VMWare.
  I originally installed it on Windows 2008 Server (which was a virtual machine within the same VMWare server) and added the license code to use it. All worked fine.
  Then I...

I have a SBS 2011 at a customer scheduled to reboot once a week using Level Platforms.

After the reboot today user can't connect to exchange with their outlook clients anymore. The password screen pops up and when entering the password the...

The normal Nod32 uninstall not working properly, I need to uninstall Nod32 from my sbs2011 server using Eset's uninstaller (http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/SOLN2289) . But this uninstaller requires me to boot in safe mode in order to do it. If I select...

Our SBS 2011 backup was running fine.

Now we get this error almost immediatly upon launching the backup...

A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed.
Unknown error (0x800423f0)

I suspect that a MS update has broken the backup, but I...

Hello,

We've recently added a few Windows 7 64-bit workstations in a Windows 2003 SBS environment.

There are odd issues when trying to use the Fax feature that is part of the SBS 2003 suite.
I was able to use the findings from other posts...

I am trying to migrate from SBS 2008 to SBS 2011 but the Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer 2 will not detect the local SBS 2998 server. I have run the program as administrator but Start Scan and View latest report are greyed out. I have...

Hi,

My client is running SBS  2011 which i'v installed late last year....for some reason, its Microsoft Exchange Transport service keeps stopped after few minutes which happened few days ago (see attached file)

Without that service is...

While running the connect to the internet wizard, it finds my server, finds my router IPs, no problem, but it ends with the message:

Windows SBS did not properly configure your email. To correct this, re-run the wizard.

I've done this...

Can a user access OWA for a SBS2003 network from a MacBook Air?  If it will not work out of the box, is there a workaround, other than dual booting the offsite OS?

Thanks.

I have a windows 2008 server (not R2)
I have a folder c:\windows\winsxs

i) Can I move the location of this folder or stop it from growing?
I am running low on C: drive space.
thanks

I am doing a SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 migration. So far, everything has gone well (migration prep, AD replication, etc.). However, now I am trying to move the legacy mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 on the SBS 2011 box and I receive the...

I'm having a problem trying to configure a RAID 5 array with a rocketraid 640 controller. Where I am getting confused is I have the controller set to be bootable, and I configured the RAID 5 Array from the card Bios. It all looks good , and shows...

Hello experts,

I have sbs 2011/exchange 2010 running on a single box. There is a local ssl certificate installed and when I try to access webmail via https://webmail.mydomain.com/exchange I get the following error.

First i get the...

Should circular logging be turned on in Exchange 2010 on a SBS 2011 box?

I know it was on by default when we first installed the server.

Now it is off - maybe a MS update turned it off - it was on and we did not change it.

We have had...

Hello,
I have just installed an SBS 2011 Premium server and I purchased another ten premium cals so that we can all use the Remote Desktop Services. All I received through the post was a piece of paper with a tracking id on it. I have spoken to...

When I connect to our VPN server managed by our SBS2011 server, the IP address I get is in the range of 169.254.128.x. Our lan IP range is 192.168.0.x. Shouldn't the VPN ip address I get be in the same range as the local lan ? Access to to shares...

My client is being asked by mobile supplier to switch from current BES-tariff to BIS-tariff with all handsets running from the existing BESexpress server.

it's been suggested that using the blackberry app "Enterprise Activation" from...

I accidentally pulled the plug on this array device this morning when I was reconnecting some other devices to a UPS. I turned it back on and received error messages that the logical drives have failed. I ran the array diagnostic utility and this...

Hi,

I really hope some one can help me with this.

First, I have Airprint working on a SBS 2003 domain with no problems at all. I however have no luck in getting it to work on my home network which is a SBS 2008 Domain.

When I go to print...

I'm working on a SBS 2011 Essentials server.  It has lost everything in the dashboard basically.  Instead of displaying Users, it says "This list contains no items".  Same with the computers list.  We do have UR1 installed.  Help.

Hello,  

I've got a client with a windows server running SBS 2008.  We setup exchange for them and everything was working great.  I have remote access only, and was able to use OWA to test send/receive on all accounts.  another tech was onsite...

Hi.
Have a HP ML 350G6 with a P410i Raid controller and 3 x 146 GB hotswap SAS drives.
One is defect.

Have swap theese drives many times  (have many customers with this server type)
Some times hot-swapped while server is running and checked...

We are in the process of installing Server 2008 R2 core for the physical hyper V role holder for an SBS 2011 Server and SQL server
The core install was fine and was no trouble using sconfig and a few other tools for setup of the Hyper-V role....

I'm looking for a Way of installing System Restore feature on Server 2008 R2 test machine in my lab environment.

A while back I heard that there were some users who had posted some instructions on how to do this on the Mega Upload website....

I am in the middle of a migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011.  The migration is going fine and I have had no errors or problems thus far.  I have already migrated user mailboxes to the new server and all users except one is receiving external...

Just finished migrating an SBS 2003 to SBS 2011.  When remote users access Remote Desktop through RWA they get the following error:
Your computer can't connect to the remote computer because the remote desktop gateway server address requested...

Hi i was wondering if someone could help me please, i have a backup job scheduled that fails every night, the error message says.

Backup unsuccessful

A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed.
unknown error (0x800423f0)


The event...

SBS2008 network. The SBS box is in charge on the LAN, running DHCP & DNS.

The network is 10.0.100.x
Subnet 255.255.255.0

PC1 has dynamic IP 10.0.100.11
PC2 has dynamic IP 10.0.100.15

All PCs and servers on the network resolve PC1 & PC2...

For some reason on our SBS 2011 server I cannot log in to the server, when I'm physically at the computer, with my domain username anymore.

I tried a few accounts and it won't let them either.

But if I log in remotely via my laptop or...

Hello Everyone -

We're currently performing a clean SBS 2011 install.

We're about to input over 30 user accounts and their mail accounts and would like to know if it's possible to perform a bulk import of users into the system while still...

My sbs backup has been failing the last few days with the above error code.

below is a copy of the event logs, any ideas?

EventData

  BackupTemplateID {7AF9B42D-FFAD-40E0-AF79-9A285E6DAEEC}
  HRESULT 2155348256
  BackupState 12
 ...

What is default password for Windows SBS 2011 SQL

Hello
I'm thinking about virtualizing a small office server I administer. Here are the reasons I want to do it

1. The OS is in terrible condition and needs to be completely rebuilt (not my fault). I'd like to make the OS (SBS 2008) as a VM...

Hello,

I could use some advice on optimizing (or completely changing) an existing Citrix-infrastructure.

The company’s infrastructure consists of 4 sites. The main site (where the servers are located) is connected to the internet with both...

We have just switched our fax service from a standard fax machine to an online fax service that forwards inbound faxes to a public folder on our SBS 2008 server, and all users access via Outlook 2010.
The office manager would like to flag or...

I have a client with a Windows SBS 2008 server that is providing access to the office computers, for those who have a computer in the office, and to the Windows 2008 Terminal Server, for those who do not have a computer in the office.

Some...

I have SBS 2011 Standard and SBS 2011 Premium Add On running on a second server. Our sharepoint databases on on the second server running under SQL 2008 R2 since they were too large for SBS 2011 Standard. Exchange 2010 is setup and running for...

This is the first time I am setting up a multi domain UCC SSL with SBS 2011
At which point of process do I need to specify the 5 names?

I intend on using the following names:

mail.externaldomain.com (or remote.externaldomain.com or...

Hello and thank you for your time.

We are currently using a FortiGate 50B at our high school.

The last IT provider got us to switch from a SonicWALL PRO 2040.

We were told that the FortiGate is better than the SonicWALL and we should...

I swap two hard drives in a USB dock. The dock appears as removable hardware but the drives apear as regular hard drives, not removable media in My Computer and Device Manager. Windows SBS 2003 assigns the same drive letter to both drives....

Windows 2008
 
Is it possible to write a logon script that will add a shared networked printer and will automatically accept any prompts to install printer device drivers? (please view attached image).
 
I have been read through a lot of...

I'm trying to find the utility shown in the attached image: Server Management. I can't seem to locate it. I've looked all over the start menu. SBS 2007.

Thanks

Hi,

I had to change the ADSL router/firewall today.  When client PC (Win 7 Pro) booted up and users logged on, Win 7 asked, "Select a location for the 'Network' network" and offered the usual options:

- Home network
- Work network
-...

Hi Guys,

I've been trying to configure Sonicwall TZ210 to talk to the LDAP part of the SBS2011. I've followed all the online instructions but I can't get past

"Credentials Not Valid at LDAP Server"
80090308: Ldap Err:DSID-0C0903A9 -...

Hello, we have a new single sbs2011 server, which we added an ssl certifficate to, which enabled us to log on remotely for OWA. This was working fine.

We have installed several updates to the server since the original comissioning,

However,...

Hi
Am running Hyper-V 2008 R2 with all Windows updates on Dell T610 with Dual broadcom NICs.
Guests
SBS 2011 with 32 GB RAM
2008 R2 (from premium licence) with RDS Role
I've activated the RDS User cals on the RDS Server and can RDP into the...