Small Business Server

Remote desktop ActiveX control will not download
We have a number of machines using RWW which work fine. Problem is one particular laptop on which the RDP ActiveX control seems to have disappeared and will not download again! User gets message that ActiveX is not downloaded but no security bar is present to allow them to click on 'Install ActiveX control'. ... 11 May 2010 11:11

Changing email address in SBS2008
How do I change my administrator email address to some address other than my existing domain on SBS2008, for the following reasons : This administrator email account is is used only to send SBS2008 reports to me on a different domain. These SBS2008 reports fail to reach me. The email setup with the ISP are POP ... 4 May 2010 14:35

Detailed Network Report
Good day, group. I've searched for an answer on the web and don't seem to have an answer. We recently migrated from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 and now I've got these pretty reports giving me the overall health of my server and network. I do really like the Detailed Network Report and am using that as my daily report... 4 May 2010 17:59

Generic Volume Shadow Copy Driver Problem
In the last couple of days whenever a SBS backup is started using Shadow backup or a shadow backup is scheduled it fails as it is unable to load the driver. The found new hardware wizard runs and it states that the driver is unsigned and you should not install it. Of course as I am not present to click "Continue"... 10 May 2010 04:27

Updating SBS 2003 SP1
Carl Gross wrote: I would like to install the Windows Server SP2 update, but BPA tells me I have to remove 135 updates to do so. How do I know which ones I need to take off? You should be posting in the SBS newsgroup. What BPA are you talking about? You shouldn't need to remove anything. ... 11 May 2010 19:03

small business server licensing
I am trying to parse the legalese of the server licensing to determine how many we are using and how to use them more efficiently and if we need more. My understanding when I read the licensing agreement is that a license is taken for every concurrent connection to the server. When I read this I imagine that ... 3 May 2010 22:03

Server 2003 SBS dies randomly
I have a client with Server 2003 SBS on a Dell PowerEdge SC440. Every once in a while, the server "stops." This seems to happen randomly. I will describe the latest occasion in detail - previous occurrences exhibit a similar chain of events. Other background details: service pack 2 is installed; this is the o... 4 May 2010 23:33

Mac OS X Tiger connect problem with SBS 2008?
Google for a MS file "Connecting Mac OS X 10.3 and Higher Clients to a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Network". It has ALL the answers. Works for SBS 2008 as well. -- shassi1 ... 3 May 2010 10:57

Synch issue - big problem!
Hi all I have a user that is setup to synch his laptop with our SBS server. He has been happily doing this for a few years. Last week he said that he has been having problems synching for the last 3 months!!!! So now I have a situation where I need to re inialise the cache - but this will remove the ost files ... 3 May 2010 12:04

Can't start information store
Hi, I can not start information store on SBS 2008 after restart. There's this event in Event log: A transient failure has occurred. The problem may resolve itself in awhile. The service will retry in 56 seconds. Diagnostic information: Cannot open mailbox /o=MONI/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF2... 3 May 2010 05:31