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I have a feeling this could be related to another question I've raised on here (http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/SBS_Small_Business_Server/Q_27143519.html), however I'm listing it separately as it affects a...

Hi,
I have a client that has unexpectably got rid of all their blackberries and purchased iPhones. they have asked me to connect these iphones to their Exchange server. After hours of research and following procedues, i get the following error...

We just deployed a new SBS 2008 Std. server for one of our customers. 100% of the users work remotely (server in Chicago, users at offices around the country), and patches are managed through a third-party application.

How can WSUS be disabled...

This was a pretty easy thing to do in SBS 2003. How do you update the self-signed certificate in SBS 2008.

I have a 2008 server that is stuck on boot at the "Please wait for the group policy client" screen.  This is a file server and the main server is on SBS 2008.

Any ideas how I can get the server to boot completely.  The users are able to use...

Hi,

I've been having quite a bit of trouble with autodiscover. Environment is W2k8 R2 ent, Exchange 2010 migrated from SBS Exchange 2003. Some of my symptoms are:

I have to enter the server information manually in Outlook when a new user is...

Server: SBS 2003 R2
Email: Exchange 2003 SP2

Recently installed new microsoft fix: KB950159

Since installing the fix, and some other recent fixes I've been seeing the following errors in Event Log under Applications


Source: Server...

I get a 404 error when trying to go to the public facing URI for our server.(i.e. http://[domain name].com/).  This was the standard front page that gives access to Outlook (OWA), shared drives, and remote logins for the computers in the office....

How the heck do I map my shared network drives in SBS 2008? I have batch files that I have written in SBS 2003, but I do not see where we can use them in SBS 2008.

We've just setup SBS 2011 and already stuffed up Exchange 2011 when install our internal CRM which used IIS and other shared services.

Exchange is mostly working but OWA, company web and a few other little things have been broken. Now Im...

Event id 1511 is logged few times a day.

Summary:
Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on wwith a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.

User: domain\spwebapp

If I look in...

I am getting a large number of large tmp flies (about 170-190MB's each) on the C:\Windows\Temp Folder on an SBS 2003 Server.  Does anyone know why these are being created and how to control them?
Thanks.

My backups failed last night.
The error code given was 0x80042306
attatched are the results of vssadmin list writers.
I have re-registered VSS dlls, and they still show in a failed state.
I also have installed the latest hotfixes related to...

the dataservicecomponents log in C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\MonitoringServiceLogs is now more than 6GB and I can find a place to reduce its size

thanks in advance for your help

Gaetan

Hi,
I recently upgraded our SBS 2008 Server to SP2 and, soon afterwards, we've been having issues with Outlook repeatedly prompting for the Autodiscover credentials even after valid ones have been entered. After a while, it stopped and...

Hi Experts,

We want to install a hotfix on our SBS 2003 SP2 Server.
The requirement for the hotfix is SP3.

Our Server is configured the  to use Automatic Windows Updates, but there is no sign of SP3.

How can we upgrade from SP2 to SP3?...

Hi.
My client is running SBS 2011/Exchange 2010.  He is running on a Mac with Outlook 2011

The mac is able to RECEIVE email just fine from the exchange server.
However, the Mac CANNOT SEND any email.  Just sending a short 1 word email, with...

Hi Experts

Basic problem.  My external users can https://remote.domainname.com/.
They can view the RWA “Home” page and can see the computers they are allowed to use.   They have gone to public and down loaded and installed the certificates.  ...

The migration failed with the error below.  I know I can restore the source server and format the destination server and restart it but I would prefer not to do that.  Is there any way to fix this error and retry?

 

Hey guys,

I keep getting this error on my SBS03 box..

"An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably. The Registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system's image of the...

After migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 we are experiencing slowness on our server after using it for several hours.  A restart clears the problem for a while, but then it comes back.

From the task manager, I notice multiple instances of...

I am having a problem with a service in Microsoft Windows 2003.  The service is i8042prt.
Event ID 7026
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:

I get this on a HP Proliant ML150 G2 server.  
My research on old...

Hello
The service SQL Server ACtive Directory Helper (Auto Start Service) has stopped running, when I go into Services in the MMC and try to manually start it I get the following error:
"Windows could not start the SQL Server Active Directory...

I have just installed BES Express on a fresh SBS 2011 server.

Install went fine, and most services are up, but the two services:

Blackberry Administration Service - Application Server
and
Blackberry Administration Service - Native Code...

Hi. I'm getting an undelivarable error when trying to send e-mail to a specific domain:

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: test2
Sent: 9/27/2010 10:04 AM

The following recipient(s) could not...

I have got one of my customers' servers here as it has gone crazy. It is running SBS 2003. It is generating an enormous amount of SPAM messages and from reading through many questions here is sounds exactly like a dictionary attack. All except...

This is my first taste of SBS 2011 after many years working with the wonderful SBS 2003. So far not greatly impressed.

I'm setting up a new HP Proliant ML350 G6 server with SBS 2011. Booted from SmartStart 8.7 CD (only 8.6 was bundled with the...

Lately I have been getting inmy Server Performance Report two error  messages.
The Event ID are: 5723 & 5805.
The error messages are:
Critical Errors in System Log


Source Event ID Last Occurrence Total Occurrences
  NETLOGON 5723...

Every Friday our Exchange server seems to fail and a server restart is needed to get it working again. This week, it failed today instead of Friday and instead of just rebooting it we decided to look at why it was failing. It seems that the World...

At first we were having problems when going to '/owa/' that the page was displaying blank.  I found this page: http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000429.htm but it didn't really apply since this has been working for sometime (I did eventually...

I will be setting up a new SBS 2011 Standard server at a non-profit org in two weeks.  Currently there is a peer to peer network.  There are about 15 users onsite.  All these users will be set up to remote access their PC's from home or when...

I have a Windows 2011 SBS, Exchange 2010, I use the integrated pop3connector on the SBS, the problem if that sometimes some mails are not being downloaded by the pop3 connector, usually all the mails from “Mailer-Deamon” always are stuck on the...

Installed Blackbery Server Express 5 at a client running SBS 2003 with Exchange 2003 SP2. Chose to have it install SQL Express and followed all instructions in the Installation video on the Blackberry support site. Installation went fine with no...

i am trying to setup RPC over HTTP on a outlook 2007 environment.
i have installed the certificate under trusted certificate authority and under local computer specifically, and the import was successfull. the OS i have is windows vista...

I am trying to setup task scheduler in win 2008 x64 to send an email  when an event happens.

I have 2 servers:
server 1 is SBS 2003 FQDN SBS2003.XXXX.local

Server2 is win 2008 std x64. It is running application. has been up for 4 months...

I have a fresh installed SBS 2011 with folder redirection enabled.
All the clients have been connected with the Http://connect procedure, everything seems to work fine except the MyDocuments redirection. Note Desktop is correctly redirected (I...

Hello,
After a hiatus from IT, I have just got back in the game, and have run into a SBS 2011 install and cannot believe the idiocy of the new GPP system. Suffice it to say, I am completely flummoxed by the new supposedly wonderful GPP system...

I have no idea................:


Event Type:      Warning
Event Source:      ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
Event Category:      Web Event
Event ID:      1309
Date:            3/17/2008
Time:            2:53:15 PM
User:            N/A
Computer:      SIMON
Description:
Event code: 3001
Event...

I saw this in the event logs today:

Event Type:      Error
Event Source:      ESENT
Event Category:      Logging/Recovery
Event ID:      215
Date:            1/3/2007
Time:            1:18:12 PM
User:            N/A
Computer:      SERVER1
Description:
tcpsvcs (3676) The backup has been...

Installed Blackberry Enterprise Serve Express on SBS 2003. Cant login to Blackberry Administration Service, or the Blackberry Web Desktop. Explorer cannot display the page error.

I keep on getting these event critical errors in the Application event log Event ID 6398. I read up a bit on it and it can be ignored. It seems to happen when you install Sharepoint SP1. This is a brand new installtion of SBS 2011. This is pretty...

Our BES server running with Exchange 2003 stopped sending emails last night.
The event log shows the following error:
The BlackBerry Controller service terminated with service-specific error 5003 (0x138B).

The BlackBerry Controller service...

I'm migrating SBS 2003 to SBS 2011.  After installing on the new server using the answer file, the Windows SBS Console will not open.  The error states "Windows SBS 2011 Standard Console has stopped working", with options to check online for a...

A client wants to get microsoft updates direct from Microsoft rather than have WSUS.  How do you point the desktops to microsoft update rather than WSUS?  I am thinkign it's in group policy but can't see where it's getting set to go to WSUS.
...

We have a Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition that had chronic  "Error 800: Unable to establish connection" errors every time we tried to establish a PPTP VPN connection.   This KB article seemed to describe the problem quite well and the...

Excel Files Show 'Locked For Editing' when hosted on SharePoint, accessed via a mapped network drive, and a crash happens. (Temp files?)

The issue is: We use SharePoint to hold 'all data', yet some users prefer mapped drive access.  'Net Use'...

Hi all,

I've been searching everywhere on how to get my Ricoh Aficio MP2000 unit to scan via SMB to my new SBS2008 shares.  the unit just says that it can't connect.  It worked fine on my previous sbs 2003, but moved the shared folder last...

EE:
We just setup this new HP box (see model# from subject line) and I couldn't find the video driver from HP website under driver and software link - Does any experts know where and how to get video driver of this HP Box for SBS2003 OS?
please...

I am trying to demote my SBS2003 server.  I have moved all services and data off to anbother server, and have a new functional DC/GC running.  When I run DCPROMO to demote the old server I get:

Before you can install or remove Active...

When I restart my SBS2003 server (with one NIC) I get an error that one service did not start.  The event log says there's a conflict with WF and Ipnat.sys.  At that point no clients can connect to the server.  I have to manually stop Ipnat, and...

Hi experts!

I've fighting the good fight and trying to successfully configure a fresh install of Microsoft's SBS 2008 to manage my Netopia 3000 DSL modem (and also allow RWW, OWA, etc.)

I found an support article on Motorola's web site, and...

Here's a bunch of errors SBS 2011 is giving (even though it seems to work normally). Could you spot any known quick fixes, and patterns in these problems? Often these seem very obscure, but if you've seen these errors, we can often pick them off...

I recently installed an HP Proliant Server running SBS 2003, it has two hard drives (one drive and a mirror)
Both are showing as healthy in "disk management" The system seems to run OK but we are plagued by the same message coming up over and...

I want to setup a Cisco ASA Firewall.
Which ports do I need to Open on the ASA Firewall to use all functions of my SBS 2008?

Our sales manager would like to be able to send Powerpoint presentations that are 14+ MB to external recipients.  We currently are using Microsoft Small Business Server 2003.
 
I changed her server user account properties - Exchange General,...

Good day to everyone here.  I have a problem with my Backups.  Everything was working fine but then IT had to take its place and now I am getting failed backups with Veritas 9.1.

This is what I have.  2 X Server 2003.  Server1 is my File...

Hi,

I have been troubleshooting this issue for some time now and have come a bit closer to resolution. The initial issue was also that free/busy info wasn't available but this has now been fixed. I have gone through 15+ hours and several steps...

I run a small business network of 12 users on a single SBS 2003\Exchange 2003 server.  We're in the process of bringing on 60-70 home based independant contractors who DO NOT need access to any files\applications\printers on our server but DO...

I'm running SBS 2003 with Exchange SP2

After configuring the Outlook client for RPC/HTTP I cannot logon, it used to work and something broke.

I ran testexchangeconnectivity.com test and this is what I'm getting

Testing RPC/HTTP...

After installing the latest updates (only security-patches - no major ServicePAcks), the Server 2011 wanted to restart. So we did. After starting the Server hangs at the message

"preparing to configure windows"... please do not shut down...

So I don't think it's a PICNIC (problem in chair, not in computer).  I got 1 of our multi function machines to save to a folder on the server using \\server\scanner share and my domain login credentials.  That works fine on the newer C4500.
...

I'm getting this error message every 30 seconds on a brand new SBS 2011 machine.

MS SBS 2011 Release docs http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg491249.aspx says...

"The error ‘Session "WBCommandletInBuiltTracing" failed to start with...

I have been receiving the following errors:

Event Type:      Error
Event Source:      DhcpServer
Event Category:      None
Event ID:      1010
Date:            1/3/2007
Time:            1:18:12 PM
User:            N/A
Computer:SERVER1
Description:
The DHCP service encountered the...

Hello experts,
This issue is on a MS Small Business Server 2011. Backup fails to complete no matter what changes are made to the backup configuration. Formatting the backup location, changing the type of back up from incremental to full,...

Hi Experts,

  I have a SBS 2008 server which takes very long time to boot. After booting it Exchange server does not work and some other services don't work.

I never touched IPv6 and when I booted the server in safe mode and had a look and...

Hello Experts

I have an office with 5 computers, all on XP all with Office 2007.
The server is a SBS 2003 box with all updates & service packs.

The way this office works is a bit weird.  
With outlook they have internal email accounts...

I just setup a customer's SBS server and have the MX record pointing at the WAN IP.  When I do a MX check via MX Toolbox, I get a warning on slow transaction time.  The server does not yet have any workstations connected to it, so the issue...

I have a newly setup Microsoft 2011 SBS Std server which correctly sends/receives  email to local and remote addresses. The problem is that a Ricoh Aficio 3235C copier fails on sending email to any of the network local users. The scanner scans...

Windows SBS 2003 SP2
Exchange problem
Problem started with not being able to send mail to addresses outside our system. Internal mail works fine.
Getting the following entry's in Application event.

Event Type:      Error
Event Source:...

I now have 2 SBS 2003 servers which INTERMITTENTLY cannot be contacted after booting.  The cause is this error:
Event ID 4292. The IPSec driver has entered Block mode. IPSec will discard all inbound and outbound TCP/IP network traffic that is...

We need to increase the maximum message size in our SBS 2008 system.   Right now we're at the default 10200 KB level.  We'd like to increase that to 42000 KB.  Currently we use the POP3 connector to receive incoming mail, and send out via our...

Many have apparently experienced this error, but I find no credible cause/solution?  This started occurring for me the other day after creating a Group Policy.  I didn't do anything unusual and now anytime I go into the Group Policy management...

Hi all,

For the past 2 weeks i have notice our new server with SBS 2011 slow right down. I had a good look at what was running in the background and found these problems....

High memory usage coming from:

Store.exe & Dns.exe

also with...

Hi Everyone,
I have a client who has a new SBS 2003 server to set up.  That part im fine with.  Problem is they run Sage Line 50 Financial controller on their old sever and want it transfered to the new one.  now Ive had a bit of experiance with...

Hi

I've installed ver 5.0.3. Blackberry Server Express (BESx) on SBS2011/Exchange2010. It appeared to fully install with all services starting.

However, both Blackberry Admin Service (BAS) & the Web Console aren't loading. As regards BES...

Hello,

I have newly installed SBS 2011.
all email communication works fine with exception of relaying email from LAN devices.

I have a HP MFP printer/scanner that I want to relay SMTP through mys SBS 2011 server.
(I also want to forward...

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Small Business Server R2

How do I change the W32Time, NTP and/or Windows Time (are these all the same?) time providers used by SBS 2003?

I occasionally see the following error:
...

My new SBS 2011 Server ( Zippy New Dell PE 410) as a file server is slower that the one it replaced. (Dell SC440 SBS 2003) Users are complaining about simple file serving functions being slow. The primary type of activity is Access 2000 (JET)...

I am receiving lots of errors in the system log like the error below for different computers.  I have checked and 'COM+ Remote Administration (DCOM-In)' and 'COM+ Remote Administration (DCOM-In)' are both enabled for the domain in the Windows...

Just installed SBSB 2011 and want to confgure exchange but I am getting the following error when trying to click on Microsoft Exchange On_Premises in the EMS:

Initialization Failed

The following error occurred while searching for the...

I have been trying to install SP2 for Server 2003 for the last week.  Every time, it crashes out with the 'failed to install catalog files' error.  Then 'Windows Server 2003 has been partially updated and may not work properly.' before it...

Hi all,

Exchange 2007 fully patched on a SBS2008 box fully patched.
Using Trend WFBS 7.0 fully patched.

Problem is is every day or so (2/3 days if lucky) either the First Storgae Group dismounts or the Transport service gets stopped.

Im...

Hi,

I installed besx 5.0.3 on a sbs2008 machine.
After the install and reboot i get following errors in the eventviewer. I cannot activate a device on our server.
Eventviewer errors below:

EventID: 20460

[SRP] Connection failed

...

Dear All

I am currently gettly these error messages in my Aplication section on the event log and was wondering if anyone else has had these and if so is there a solution.

I have created a screen shot of the error which is the attchaed...

I cant figure this out and am stuck!!

About a couple of weeks ago I found out of nowhere that I keep getting event id 333 error
Event Type:      Error
Event Source:Application Popup
Event Category:None
Event ID:333
Date:1/24/2008...

A client's server starting rebooting by itself. When it come back up and you log on, the reason reported is...
Reason Code: 0x805000f
Bug ID:
Bugcheck String: 0x000000cb (0x8091f634, 0x80833bdf, 0x898a5ba8, 0x00000001)
Comment: 0x000000cb...

I have a customer who has to re-authorize Trusted Sites on a daily basis.  She is running Windows 7 32 bit in an environment of otherwise all XP Sp3 machines.  All machines are running IE 8 and trusted sites are controlled through a Windows...

Sage Line 50 is currently pointing to a share on another computer and works fine. We have just installed sbs2003 and have copied the accdata folder to the server so that all PC's can share it from there. However I can't get the PC's to look there...

Hi guys.  I have a production ML350 server that is rebooting 2-3 times a day with HP's ASR feature.  I don't know what's causing it, but here's what I do know:

The system ASR rebooted twice when it was brand new, before it was installed.  It...

Strange problem with a SBS 2011 Std install that has been working for awhile.

External access to RWW and OWA fails with "Page not available"

Checked firewall - nothing has changed there (80, 443 and 987 are open) and other open ports are...

Hello,

I am having Event ID 1058 in my log appearring many times...

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Event Type:      Error
Event Source:      Userenv
Event Category:      None
Event ID:      1058
Date:            18/4/2008...

Dear expert

Our server got problem in DFS system:
We got 2 server, server A and B should sync each other with DFS but it doesnt. The server A doesnt sync with server B but the server B sunc with server A perfectly.

Any idea what problem...

I have a client who wants to be able to receive messages up to 20MB in size.  They are running Exchange 2010 on an SBS 2011 box.  I have checked every setting I can find to alter the incoming mail size limits, but the server still rejects...

I have an "SBSMonitoring" SQL database which is over 4GB in size but is causing problems...

Here are some of the message which im getting in the events logs.

Log Name:      Application
Source:        MSSQL$SBSMONITORING
Date:         ...

Hello,

We have an SBS 2008 network where only Windows 7 and Vista clients get an error like the one in the attached image.

This has been happening ever since we migrated to SBS 2008 from 2003.

The following EE articles have been tried:...

I am attempting to migrate a SBS 2003 server to Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010.

I'm using the experts exchange article here:
...

I have had ongoing issues installing SP2 on a 2003 Small Business Server. On the first attempt, setup got stuck on "Running Processes after Install". I had no choice but to end the installation and roll back. After I reviewed the errors, I tried...

I am trying to copy a large amount of files into a user's share folder and I am getting a message that there is not enough disk space available on the drive. This is ridiculous, as I am copying about 40Gig to a folder on a RAID array C drive that...