Teaming NICs

SBS does indeed break (and does not support) multiple NICs or NIC teaming. It is, however, my opinion that on a network small enough that SBS can actually be used, you'll not get much benefit from NIC teaming in the first place. In this case, I telieve the benefits of the wizards outweigh the drawbacks and I recommend disabling the second NIC and allowing the wizards to do their thing as intended.

I was afraid of that.  The combination totally trashed my fresh install and I had to do it over again since I couldn't undo the damage.  Thanks

try doing the install with one nic or both disabled as then you can try the nic manufacturers wizard instead of sbs's

I did that with HP's teaming software and it was a bost. Thanks

so you got it working yes?

I disabled one of the NICs.  Thanks

yes so did you get both working in sbs after it was installed by using the hp teaming software ?

Microsoft says they do NOT support more than one NIC in SBS.  They told me to disable the second NIC.
Thanks

well to me sbs premium comes with a license for server for multi nics thats why its not in sbs as microsoft cant be bothered to do it properly imho thats why they did put a license for server  

Thanks for the advise. After putting in 60 hours the last 4 days on building two server's I think I'll leave well enough alone.

For your information, since you write that you will install a fresh OS, but leave it open on which you want to install: Linux supports teaming of NICs by the kernel, thus is independent of any software or drivers. It even supports a bunch of different modes. In the Linux world "teaming" is called "bonding".

See http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt#434 for the different modes.