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SBS 2008 Woes

Hi All,

Hoping someone can help.
Small network 5 users tops.
HP Proliant ML AMD Opteron Quad Core 1354 2.2GHz, 4GB Ram, 64Bit Windows SBS2008 Premium.
At all times CPU Usage sits at around 50% - 80%, physical Ram sits at around 90% 105 processes running. Store.exe using most Ram at 308MB w3wp.exe using 201MB and so on.
I have stopped the AV and restricted the SQL and Exchange RAM but its out of control, the user interface is so sluggish its barely usable!

Secondary issue, cannot access https://localhost/certsrv to create an exchange cert as all users are getting security prompts regarding the name on the cert. I get 404 error path could not be found, IIS points to c:\windows\system32\certsrv\en-us\default.aspx but error path points to c:\program files\windows small business server\bin\webapp\certsrv which doesnt exist.

Please can someone help!

Thanks
Sparky

tmoore1962

IF you have SBS you should be able to create the cert by running the Remote Web workplace wizard. Follow onscreen instructions to create and distribute the cert.

sparky1977

ASKER

thats fine but the internal and external domains are different, internal is domain.local, external is domain.co.uk i need to add both and the wizard does not let me do so.

sparky1977

ASKER

I would just like to add that i dont want a 3rd party cert, i need to create a cert with remote.domain.local, autodiscover.domain.local, server.domain.local, remote.domain.co.uk, autodiscover.domain.co.uk and mail.domain.co.uk but i cant find a way to do this.
Normally for exchange you just create your request and off you go with certsrv but that does not appear to be the case in SBS2008.

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sparky1977

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Hi, i understand your thoughts, however a small company such as theirs cannot justify the cost of a 3rd party CA just to make the messages go away, there are only two people who use the RWW and OWA anyway. What i dont get is that this was so simple in 2003 yet such a pain in 2008. Its not multiple certs i need, its a cert with all permutations of the servers names, hence the internal errors in Outlook with Cert warnings, if i change the setup again to reflect the internal name it goes away but RWW breaks and vice versa.

evilsi

Hi,

This is quite common,

Firstly the ceretificate created when using the wizard should be the outside FQDN of the server (exp: remote.mydomain.com). This will mean the outside cert will work properly for outlook anywhere once you have installed the root certificate on the client machines (unless they are domain pc's in which case its done automatically)
Then you may get the cert mismatch error when using outlook 2007 internally. If you do see this article. http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2010/01/05/troubleshooting-certificate-mismatch-warnings-in-outlook-2007-clients-on-small-business-server-2008.aspx

When you have completed this you can then start to add specific certificates for RWW etc.. Do this through http://servername/certsrv

That should be it. Hope this helps.

Si.

sparky1977

ASKER

Hi all,

Adding Ram did the trick on the performance issue.
The cert issue was solved here...

http://www.shudnow.net/2007/08/10/outlook-2007-certificate-error/

Thanks for all your help!!

sparky1977

ASKER

Solution was partially correct wrt the performance but not the cert, i found the cert solution elsewhere.