I recently installed SBS (not R2) and had it up and running. Everything was working fine, but the Remote Access Wizard would fail. After installing and running SBS Best Practices Analyzer, I realized that I had accidentally jumped straight to SP2 without the important steps in the middle. Not only that, but it was Server 2003 SP2 and not for SBS (there's a difference, right?)
I followed some instructions I found to uninstall the rogue SP2 and reinstall all the right patches in the right order. I installed SBS SP1, Exch SP1, a couple of patches, and finally Server 2003 SP1.
Now my company website doesn't work, hardly any of my Wizards work under the Internet and Email section of the Server manager.
Everything they are using is still working... ie: Exchange, authentication and shared files, but I would really like the Internet Wizard and the Remote Access Wizard to work again.
I've tried running the SBS Setup wizard again, choosing to "maintain" Server Tools so I can uninstall/reinstall Networking, but the Networking option is the only one grey (although I can choose to remove), and it fails when trying to remove. I get the following message:
An error occurred while copying files for the Networking component. See C:\Program Files\Microsoft Integration\Windows Small Business Server 2003\Logs\SBSMSI-B58E39B9-
12E2-4E9B-
A01B-9B896
C6A52A8.LO
G for the list of files that were not copied. You may want to run Setup again and reinstall the component.
In the log are these messages:
=== Verbose logging started: 3/19/2008 22:22:44 Build type: SHIP UNICODE 3.01.4000.4042 Calling process: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Integration\Windows Small Business Server 2003\setup.exe ===
MSI (c) (DC:FC) [22:22:44:171]: Resetting cached policy values
MSI (c) (DC:FC) [22:22:44:171]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0
MSI (c) (DC:FC) [22:22:44:171]: ******* RunEngine:
******* Product: {B58E39B9-12E2-4E9B-A01B-9
B896C6A52A
8}
******* Action:
******* CommandLine: **********
MSI (c) (DC:FC) [22:22:44:171]: Client-side and UI is none or basic: Running entire install on the server.
MSI (c) (DC:FC) [22:22:44:171]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (c) (DC:FC) [22:22:44:171]: Cloaking enabled.
MSI (c) (DC:FC) [22:22:44:171]: Attempting to enable all disabled priveleges before calling Install on Server
MSI (c) (DC:FC) [22:22:44:171]: Incrementing counter to disable shutdown. Counter after increment: 0
MSI (s) (6C:B4) [22:22:44:187]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (s) (6C:64) [22:22:44:187]: Resetting cached policy values
MSI (s) (6C:64) [22:22:44:187]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0
MSI (s) (6C:64) [22:22:44:187]: ******* RunEngine:
******* Product: {B58E39B9-12E2-4E9B-A01B-9
B896C6A52A
8}
******* Action:
******* CommandLine: **********
MSI (s) (6C:64) [22:22:44:187]: Machine policy value 'DisableUserInstalls' is 0
MSI (s) (6C:64) [22:22:44:187]: MainEngineThread is returning 1605
MSI (c) (DC:FC) [22:22:44:187]: Decrementing counter to disable shutdown. If counter >= 0, shutdown will be denied. Counter after decrement: -1
MSI (c) (DC:FC) [22:22:44:187]: MainEngineThread is returning 1605
=== Verbose logging stopped: 3/19/2008 22:22:44 ===
This isn't my first SBS install, but hands-down the most messed up. Do I Exmerge the mailboxes and start over?
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