Hello Experts;
I've got this situation with a pre-existing SBS2003 server that I don't know where to start with. The history of the server, as best I can tell is;
It was orignally setup really well from what I can tell, and all reports of the guy who put it in are that he was very particular and did a good job.
Since then the company was temporarily merged with another, and during that time this server was (as far as I can tell) added to that companies network, and probably a variety of configuration changes were made by that companies IT people.
They have since "de merged" and I need to put this server back into proper service, but I have run into trouble;
1) I can't add new computers to the SBS; When I try to it askes me to choose the organisational units, which is not something SBS normally asks me, and there are none showing to choose from. Just continuing to click next goes through other normal options and then it says I have to be a member of the local administrators or power users group to add computers. (I'm using the administrator account). The computer does show up in the computers list, but I can't use it to join a computer to the domain properly.
2) I can't add a user to the SBS; When I try it says "The required organizational units do not exist and are required by the wizard. Run Small Business Server Setup again, and reinstall the administration component". Okay, sounded like a good idea until we discovered that the "merged company" has lost all the disks etc for ALL the computers. I burned off a copy of SBS2003 I have here, but their server said it was not the same version and I couldn't upgrade to it, and that scared me out of trying anything else.
3) Some existing users do not (for reasons I cannot fathom) have exchange accounts setup, and I can't run the user permissions wizard to fix that for much the same reasons.
So thats my problem in a nutshell; Is there a way foward without the discs?
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