Exchange 2010 is on an older SBS 2011 server we are in the process of decommissioning.  I have a new DC already in place that is the FSMO holder, and I had installed an Exchange 2016 server on another 2016 Windows standard server.  So it's part of the topology, has its fingers all through AD, but timing hasn't allowed us to do the actual mailbox migration yet, so all mailboxes are still on the old server.

This weekend someone hacked an account and got ransomware going in their environment.  Not that big of a deal, they have a Datto on site, so the file shares on the domain controllers we could restore easily.  The SQL, Exchange, and terminal servers were infected though.  Easily enough to recover, the hack happened after the backups on Saturday night.

The SQL and Exchange were hyper-v guests, the terminal an older physical server.  

SQL was easy, I exported the VHDX file, mounted it in place of the corrupted one, booted up and we're going just fine.  Terminal, since it's older, and is being replaced in about 8 months, I decided to P2V, and that's now running just fine as a virtual guest on their host server (Windows 2019 standard for the Hyper-V host).  

But even Datto is totally unable to get the Hyper-V exchange server to boot.  I've done a dozen different things at their direction, exporting as Gen2 (which it was originally), Gen1, BIOS, UEFI, creating a new temp gen2 Hyper-V guest and doing a bare metal restore to it, doing a new temp gen1 Hyper-V guest and …

Trying to install Avast Business AntiVirus on a Windows Small Business Server 2008 until I move the server to a new machine.

Avast said that the product should install on SBS 2008

When trying to install I get the following error:  " The procedure entry point K32EnumProcesses could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll "

How can I deal with this error and install the software?

Thanks.

I need malware protection for an older Windows Server:

The user has an older Windows Server:
Windows Server Standard FE, Service Pack 2  Copyright 2007

Is this a Small Business Server 2008?

What can I use for Virus, Malware, and Ransomware protection?

I have a license for Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection, but I can't locate a version of Malwarebytes that supports this system.

This server will be migrated soon.  I need to protect it for a while.
Thanks

Hello, so we have this (quite old) SBS 2011 Standard which has recently become abismally slow.

It's mainly a data server (we're not using Exchange) and sometimes when a client opens files on the server there are very heavy slowdowns, to the point where I had to reboot a client yesterday because it would hang on a small Access database.

I think I've found the culprit though. Disk activity is always very very high, and the processes behind this activity are related to SQL Server 99% of the time.

It looks like the main cause is the SBS Monitoring service, which relies on SQL Server to function.

So I think I nailed down the cause, but the question is: what to do about it? Is there a way to circumvent this? Thanks.

I am moving Folder Redirection policy to new location, and do not want to loose users data on policy removal.

I have client with SBS2011 and Folder redirection Policy pointing to:

\\sbs2011\RedirectedFolders\%username%

I am in process of migrating them to Server 2016 Standard (and DFS) and will have new Folder Redirection Policy pointing to:

\\domain.local\shares\users\%username%

I am afraid that when I turn off current "Small Business Server Folder Redirection Policy" and implement new "FOLDER REDIRECTION" policy users will loose their data.

Current "Small Business Server Folder Redirection Policy" is set to "Redirect the folder back to the local userprofile location when policy is removed"

Should I switch it to "Leave the folder in the new location when policy is removed" ?

(Please note that users files are already copied to the new location)

hi,
got a server 2011 SBS.
i am looking for the attribute tab in active directory user properties.

i have enabled advanced features from view option- still its could not find attribute tab. is this anything you guys know ??

On an domain with SBS 2011 standard, in the last couple days, users (there's only 5 of them) are not getting to server shares and printers.

In windows explorer, they can enter \\server and then they get prompted for their credentials.  They use the same credentials they have been for months / years.  They then see the shares.

It seems after their screen saver kicks in, then then have to repeat the process to get to the shares.  Same for reboots... they log into the domain at the login screen, then have to re-enter their credentials to get to the server shares.

The SBS box is the DNS and DHCP server. no other DHCP servers on the network. They have a watchguard firewall, but DHCP is turned off.

I try opening the certificate authority on the SBS box. It shows the window and tree structure on the left, but hangs at not responding when trying to expand the tree.

ShadowProtect jobs on the desktops are failing with

An untrusted certificate authority was detected While processing the smartcard certificate used for authentication

ShadowProtect writes to a drive on the server.

SBS 2011 - Can I delete the contents of c:\windows\softwaredistibution\download to free up some space on the 'C' drive?

If this is possible without any negative consequences, what is the best way?

I've ran Disk Cleanup etc. but need to free up some more space.

I look forward to hearing from you

Hi experts,

My problem du jour is that my SBS2011 STD server is no longer backing up successfully.  It has always been kind of flaky, with failures not being uncommon, but a restart or two has always remedied and it has 'worked' for us for many years.  I've now gone almost a month without a successful backup and am now getting very worried should I need to restore.  Murphy's Law being what it is, this would be the time we get hit with some kind of audit or ransomware, etc. and I'd be SOL.

I have two 2TB USB drives that I rotate, and backups fail regardless of which drive is active.

I'm seeing the following sequence of errors in the event viewer for each failed attempt.

Event 9782 MSExchangeIS twice, one for Mailbox database and one for Public Folder database.

Exchange VSS Writer (instance 93bfdbd7-3f2e-4b3a-ae98-b69ff0381a15:1) has completed the backup of database 'Mailbox Database' with errors. The backup did not complete successfully, and no log files were truncated for this database.

Exchange VSS Writer (instance 93bfdbd7-3f2e-4b3a-ae98-b69ff0381a15:1) has completed the backup of database 'Public Folder Database 0050806336' with errors. The backup did not complete successfully, and no log files were truncated for this database.

Event 2007 ESE

Information Store (16572) Shadow copy instance 1 aborted.

Followed by two info events

Event 9616  Exchange VSS Writer (instance 93bfdbd7-3f2e-4b3a-ae98-b69ff0381a15:1) has processed the backup completion…

when a user gets married and requests a username change SBS2011 Exchange 2010
two questions here
1. where is the appropriate place to change the user from firstlastnameA@abc.com to firstlastnameB@abc.com
2. The user wants old email to forward to new email account