I am in the process of deploying a new server, running Server 2016 Standard, to replace our SBS 2011.  Exchange is long gone, in favor of Office 365, so I'm down to applications, data and some AD infrastructure, most significantly DNS, DHCP and CA.  I have promoted to new machine to a DC and moved the FSMO roles to it, which means I now have 2 DC's (at least until my SBS melts down from the licensing issue).  Last weekend, I attempted to shut down the SBS as a name server, so DNS would only run on the new server.  I configured the zones to be identical on the new box to the old, reconfigured the new machine to point to itself as the name server and disabled DNS on the old one. My clients are configured to "Obtain DNS server address automatically."  After disabling the service on the old server, the clients were unable to find a DNS server, unless I configured them with the IP address of the new server.  I did not switch DHCP to the new server yet.  I have a few questions.  Must DHCP be running on the same server as DNS, in order for clients to find the DNS server?  Is there any real relationship between the two? Based on the process I describe, does it appear I missed any obvious steps?  The grace period on my SBS license is rapidly disappearing.  Thanks in advance!

I'm cleaning up the Group Policy on a system i'm taking over and its a Server 2012 R2 domain that has been migrated from SBS 2003.  The Small Business Server is gone and there is no trace of any SBS object left in AD and Exchange is completely gone as they have migrated to Office365.

My question is is it safe to remove the old "Small Business Server" policy's from GPMC.msc?  Attached is a screen shot of the console, i would like to disable and then delete them in a couple days.  It appears they all have the default settings and where never modified.

Thanks

-Eric
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I have an issue with a Dell PowerEdge 2900 server running SBS 2008 where Dell OpenManage application fails to open (see below).

Any ideas how i can troubleshoot as i am receiving monitoring info via 3rd party application using SNMP however it would be good to access the GUI via OpenManage

We have migrated our (relatively plain vanilla) setup from SBS2011 to a new "full" AD, ie two standalone 2016 servers (Exchange, SQL and file servers) to which we have moved all the AD roles.
Overall everything seems to work as expected.
However we still have the legacy "myBusiness" structure in our AD (I don't really mind) and, much to my surprise, I have recently joined a new 2019 (test) server to my domain and by default, it ended up in SBSComputers.

• What setting did I miss (ie. I still have something that refers to the SBS setup) ?
• Is it safe to move my regular users from SBSUsers to Domain/Users ?

Ready to replace a SBS server looking at 2 options.

1. Windows 2019 Server Standard, RAID5, 1VM (PDC), 2VM (Exchange)
2. Windows 2019 Server Standard, ISCSI NAS device (Synologyw/RAID5). email in the cloud (365).

Security always a concern, speed/performance, redundancy, remote accessibility, approximately 25-30 users. Users are mainly using MS Office, Adobe, Remote access a big part as they continue to expand and work from home.

Feedback on which platform is better (in your professional opinions) is much appreciated. Looking more for the pros and cons of each.

hi,

I've a problem applying a new SHA2 Cert (from 123-Reg) to Exchange 2010

I created the request via the Certificate MMC as a custom request because this SBS 2011 server is SHA1 by default.   Right clicked the Certs and installed both the Intermediate and the actual cert for the host mail.zyx.com.

When I looked in the EMC I didn't have the option to complete the Cert request, so I looked in IIS, the option was there and it completed as expected.

When I opened EMC to assign the Cert to the services SMTP etc, the Certificate page didn't load and generated error object get exchange certificates not found.  upon running Get-ExchangeCertificate from powershell the same error is displayed.

I could assign the new cert to the default web site via ISS, which took care of OWA etc but still not the SMTP services etc

I found that if I remove the new cert from IIS - the EMC worked again and the old certs are shown as normal..

hope that's enough info, any help or ideas would be appreciated?  

Thanks TC

We are trying to move Exchange 2010 to from the SBS 2011 server to a newly installed Exchange 2010 on a 2008 r2 server.  The 2008 r2 server has Exchange 2010 sp3 installed on the same domain and is not going to be a Domain controller.
How do we move the database and mailbox without eliminating the 2011 SBS domain controller without conflicts for now.  Eventually we will eliminate the 2011 SBS but need to insure Exchange is migrated to the new machine and is working correctly before decommissioning the SBS 2011.  We have internal conflicts on how this should be done

I have some problems with a SBS 2011 server. It is running about several years now, but the customer changed his internet provider and also the router.
Then suddenly, exchange wasn't working anymore.

I can into the exchange management, no problems, but when I try to run the wizard connect to the internet, it fails. email not configured, run this wizard again to solve this.
I ran BPA and there was an empy windows with no information, but it didn't also give me an error.
Then I ran emtshooter, that program gave me no errors.

I also looked into the ctiw.log but there's so much information I don't know where to look, i did found out this error.
[7584] 181223.122940.5329: CoreNet: RebindConnectorsTask task failed
[10192] 181223.122940.5369: CoreNet: Exception caught in network detection/configuration with a specific router IP: Task: MessagingTasks.TaskRebindSMTPConnectors failed: Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.TaskManagement.Admin.TaskExecutionException.

You are my final stop before reinstalling the server, so hopefully you can help me out.
CTIW.log

We are upgrading our SBS 2011 to Server 2016, we are migrating both domain and exchange server. After going through some articles on web we have planned to do migration to 2 servers one for domain and dhcp and second for MS Exchange 2016. Our questions are

1. which server should we migrate over first.
2. when we migrate exchange do we require to do reconnections on the all desktops or the outlook would pick it up itself, we have outlook 2010 - 16

Hi all,

I want to make sure that only one person is able to logon on to the Remote Web Access of Windows 2012 Essentials. However, when I delist a user from the group in AD it is not working.
Can you help me with this?

Best regards,

I am doing a migration from Exchange Server running on a SBS 2011 server to Office 365. With Outlook 2013 you can edit the account and see what server it is connecting to. With 2016 you can't. So how can I tell what server a Outlook 2016 client is connecting to?

Hi, I had a Client's Virtual Server (VMWare/ESXI server) infected with .adobe (Dharma) ransomware. I haven't been able to restore it from a Windows Image Backup. I do have a backup of all the data/partitions as vhd files from a manual backup. I haven't been able to get Windows Server Backup to see this location though.

The good thing is I still have the old physical server that the current virtual server image was taken from earlier this year. It still boots up and seems to work ok. The plan is to attach the VHD's via Disk Management and manually copy/restore the data. I will have to update Active directory with the new users that were added since earlier this year.

I have a question regarding Active Directory and Exchange.

1. If I create the user profiles again in active directory, will the users be able to see their mailboxes when I mount the backed up Exchange database?

Server OS: Windows Small Business Server 2011 r2
Exchange: Exchange 2010

Note: I know this is a messy situation. Ideally I would have liked to just create a new virtual server and restore the data but in this circumstance it hasn't been possible.

Thanks in advance

Ben

I have an SBS 2011 standard  server. The AD seems to be broken. I can't add PCs to the domain. I can add them via the AD Users and Computers but they don't "attach". We can access the server by logging into the PC with the domain credentials but they ask for them again when we go to the share. Exchange is not functioning. The self-assigned certificate was not working and I did the repair on that but I'm not sure it worked.  DNS is not being used on the server as we have customers use our wireless and we don't want them to have access to our internal network.

What other information would you like to help me with issues?