Hi,

If there's anyone out there that can think back far enough, I have a friend that's still using SBS 2003.  At some point last week it disappeared off the network.  We did manage to get it back on the network by using an alternative onboard NIC, but since then multiple services refuse to fire up.  There are multiple error codes, all seem to point at dependancy issues.  Among many, the Workstation Service does not start, along with many of the Exchange Services.  Has anyone experienced something like this historically and resolved it?

This is going to be a fun one...

We have a client that has an HP ML350 G5 running RAID 5 and Server Essentials SBS 2011.  So, we got a call from them that there files on the server all no longer accessible.  When I went out there, I found out that there was 3 sticks of bad memory, but the system would still turn on.  We replaced the bad sticks and I could not get into Windows.  That's when I determined that the array was bad due to a failing hard drive in bay 1 (3 drives total).  We got in a replacement drive and I was able to boot to Directory Services Restore Mode.  The drive was rebuilt and is now part of the RAID.

Told you it would be fun.  Now for the part I'm stuck on.

Hardware is easy, but software is a pain.  I cannot get it to boot into Normal Mode because the Active Directory is broken somehow.  I need assistance on repairing it to get them up and going again.

If it helps, the reason they have a server is for backup purposes of their data.  They only connect to it as a file server, not as a user on the server (if that makes sense).  Though, they do from time to time access it remotely (Web Access).

I have a site that has SBS2011 (which has Exchange 2010).  Approx 2 weeks ago the server stopped being able to send any email addressed as Gmail, hotmail and outlook.com.

When I run ExRCA it seems that when the server does the MX lookup it succeeds, but then does something wierd for the SPF lookup.  It appears to look for its own spf record, and instaed persuses the spf for the Outlook.com reporting that "Sender ID validation failed".  Am I reading the Exrca results wrong?

=====================================
 Performing Outbound SMTP Test
  The outbound SMTP test failed.
 
 Additional Details
 
Elapsed Time: 33947 ms.  
 
 Test Steps
 Attempting reverse DNS lookup for IP address nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn.
   The Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer successfully resolved IP address nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn via reverse DNS lookup.
     Additional Details
  The Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer resolved IP address nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn to host mail.acme.org.au.
Elapsed Time: 11276 ms.  

Performing Real-Time Black Hole List (RBL) Test
  Your IP address wasn't found on any of the block lists selected.
 Additional Details
Elapsed Time: 22361 ms.  
 Test Steps
 
 Checking Block List "SpamHaus Block List (SBL)"
  The address isn't on the block list.
 Additional Details
IP address nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn wasn't found on RBL.
Elapsed Time: 33 ms.  

 Checking Block List "SpamHaus Exploits Block List (XBL)"
  The address isn't on the block list.
 Additional …

I have an sbs2011 network with 5 users and I thought it would be simple enough to backup users mailboxes to pst and migrate them to office 365. I understood that there may be an autodiscover issue but as there was enough posts online to overcome issue’s, I thought lets do it this weekend!
The problem is that logged in to the SBS network with a network profile, users automatically try to auto connect to the local exchange. I have tried a number of things to remove the autodiscover from the sbs server but nothing seems to work. The office 365 setup is working perfectly off site and onsite using a local profile.
http://kirb.it/enable-office-365-auto-discover-for-outlook-in-sbs-2011-exchange-environments/ 
Remove-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory –Identity “Insert identity value here”
Press y to remove
Also this command –
Remove-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory –Identity “SRV\Autodiscover (Default Web Site)”
New-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory -WebSiteName “Default Web Site”
Then I tried this ….
Go to IIS and stop the Autodiscover App pool. Then go to services and stop the Exchange active directory topology.
Then disable just disable it, the outlook clients will connect to 365 using autodiscover.

None of this has worked, I stopped and disabled all exchange services and rebooted the server and still no joy!
I would like to delete the remote.domain entry in the DNS forward lookup zone setting – no one uses Remote workplace, but you do get an AD warning before you try delete the…

I'm working on getting a client off their SBS2011 Server and they have only one server. To make it a little more challenging I'm replacing all the drives with SAS drives to optimize performance so this will be a complete reinstall. This has to be done over a weekend so I'm trying to decide the best way to approach this so there is very little downtime. My plan is below and I'd like to know if anyone sees any gotchas.

Existing Server SBS2011 with Hyper V: SBS2011 is the DC for internaldomain.local

I plan on  building a new DC with a new domain name on Hyper-V and using our public domain name (newinternal.contoso.com) in Hyper-V on the current SBS 2011 Server, building out the users (only 15-20), connecting a few PCs to the new domain on the LAN to test. Export the VM to an external drive

Beginning afterhours/weekend copy all the data on the data drive to an external drive. Install the new SAS Drives, RAID 1 for OS, RAID 5 for DATA drives, Install Server 2012r2 with Hyper-V, then importing the New DC into Hyper-V, copy provision vhd data drive and copy all data off the external drive.

I am trying to upgrade Exchange 2007 from SP1 to SP3, I followed the Microsoft documentation (disbaling antivirus etc) and I always run into the same error when it reaches the "Hub Transport Roles". I get a popup with "ExsetupUI.exe has stopped working" with following details.

Description:
  Stopped working

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:      CLR20r3
  Problem Signature 01:      exsetupui.exe
  Problem Signature 02:      8.3.83.0
  Problem Signature 03:      4be1ee5d
  Problem Signature 04:      System.Management.Automation
  Problem Signature 05:      1.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 06:      4acfac13
  Problem Signature 07:      2dca
  Problem Signature 08:      23
  Problem Signature 09:      FatalError
  OS Version:      6.0.6002.2.2.0.305.9
  Locale ID:      3081

Emails are still working, its just the POP and IMAP services arent, everything else seems fine. When I try re-run the update it continues on @ the Hub Transport Role part of the update, then fails soon after.

I have tried everything I can think of.
Antivirus Disabled... then completely uninstalled
.Net Reinstalled number of times
Running elavated
Downloaded the installer again from microsoft
Tried SP2, got the same error at the same point
Even loaded a backup image to a different server and tried a bunch of riskier things, but still always getting that error.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Trying to piece things together on the phone system and emails.

There was a test message sent from the phone system to some users email addresses.  I'd like to find that email in the 'exchange logs'. to see what they are sending.  We have a distribution list for emergency@.... and supposedly the phone people say that when someone leaves a voicemail in the emergency mailbox, they email to that emergency address only.

Want to double check that. And also learn about the exchange log.

Is there a search front end of emails or just huge text docs about emails that have come in / sent on an sbs 2011 exchange server?

thanks!

I have a MAC server (latest version) running on a macOS Sierra 10.12.6 in a VMWare ESXi 5.5 environment on a HP DL380 G7 server.
Server has 4GB of memory, there are 5 users connected to it.

My users are complaining about slow speeds when opening files and when saving files (like exporting to PDF from adobe Indesign).

Before this, the files were on a SBS 2011 server and opening files went faster. We switched to a MAC server because we had constant issues saving files, they were always in use.

Looking for best migration tool to migrate 25 mailboxes to Office 365 from Exchange 2007/2010. Also looking for tool or steps to move SBS Servers to Windows Server 2016

Can this be done?  I am having issues with what appears to be the Schema.  The issue with the Server 2003 is that it appears to have a corrupt system file causing it to not be able to run windows update, and launching the update process over and over.

This is for a small client that has 4-5 users on the domain, and the server is just DNS/DCHP, and a file server.  Nothing else.  It used to be the mail server as well but we got them moved to Office 365.

I have tried to complete the Windows Essentials configuration but it fails each time.

I read that I may have to upgrade to 2008/2012 then to 2016 - but we don't have the license or the server to do that.  

There is no website tied to the current domain  (which is .local) or email.  Any thoughts?

I have a Microsoft Server 2016 Standard with Essentials installed. I have the VPN access enabled through the Setup Anywhere Access wizard. But when I try to connect via Windows 10 VPN connection I keep getting the following error: "The remote connection was denied because the user name and password combination you provided is not recognized, or the selected authentication protocol is not permitted on the remote access server.