Small Business Server

HW for SBS 2008 - advice?
Mike, I'm a Dell guy but HP also makes a good product so it come down to support and warranty options. Here is one I ordered for a legal firm with 5 users where SQL and Exchange are both are linked to a business app. You can skip the redundant NIC's as they are no longer supported in SBS2008. 223-4505 1 Qua... 26 Nov 2009 02:07

CTIW Fails When Looking for Router
I have the same scenario outlined at http://blogs.technet.com/asksbs/archive/2009/01/16/sbs-2008-ctiw-fails-to-complete-successfully.aspx I am doing a migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008, and I am trying to get past an error in the Connect to the Internet wizard. The wizard does not detect my router (which, I unde... 25 Nov 2009 02:44

blocking email
Hello Dave, Thanks for your post and Larry's input. Does the blocking reprot mail issue just occur? Has the report ever worked before? To troubleshoot this issue, at this point, I would like to provide some suggestions: 1. Please open SBS console and locate to "Monitoring and Reporting". Click the "Change... 2 Dec 2009 00:00

SBS 2008 Backup-Fails with Creation of the shared protection point
Hi - am maintaining a SBS 2008 Premium server for a local firm. Recently (for over a week now) when I check the backup component of console at start of day I see the following message - "Creation of the shared protection point timed out. Unknown error (0x81000101)" and the backup has failed. I have done a ... 22 Nov 2009 17:12

Network problems upgrading Vista to Win 7 on SBS2003
Hi Having run the upgrade on a Vista box to Win7, I now have unusual network problems. It looks like a Firewall issue as I can see the server and shares in Explorer, but Outlook will not connect to Exchange and the web browser will not connect even to the local SBS server. The Win 7 firewall is turned off and... 20 Nov 2009 11:13

Detailed Network Report - Forefront Security Updates Alert
On my SBS 2008 box, the Detailed Network Report is giving me an alert that "Forefront Security for Exchange Server Engine Updates (Event ID 70007)", "None of the engines enabled for updates have been updated in the last week." We had the Forefront trial installed and, when the trial expired, I thought that I... 16 Nov 2009 19:11

Detailed Network Report Update Error
Our SBS 2008 Detailed Network Report keeps telling me that a Server 2008 SQL server is missing an update. I log onto the SQL server and run Windows Update both against the WSUS updates and directly against the MS updates and it tells me that there are no updates needed, critical, important, or trivial. What ... 20 Nov 2009 11:13

SMTP
I am using SBS2003 SP2. Up until recently, SMTP was working perfectly to send out email. Lately, it just stopped. The first thing I checked was the services and it was just sitting there with the start command. When I clicked on start, I got the following Services message: Could not start the Simple Mail Transfer... 17 Nov 2009 17:29

Can someone walk me through?
Can someone walk me through in setting up Exchange 2k7 to forward our email to our email provider. Please advise and thanks. ... 16 Nov 2009 18:04

SBS03 System Up Time alert, no logs
Good morning, I'm receiving a critical alert that I am unable to figure out. SBS2003 SP1. In the daily error report, I see this entry: Issue Last Occurrence Total Occurrences System Up Time 11/14/2009 8:31 AM 1,384 The server restarted. If this event was not planned, check the Server P... 14 Nov 2009 11:09