Windows Small Business Server 2008 is the Microsoft operating system in the `SBS` line based on Windows Server 2008. It went RTM August 21st, 2008 and officially launched November 12th, 2008. Like the rest of the `SBS` line, it includes a number of Microsoft products bundled with it, the tradeoff ...
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SBS 2008 Backup Drive Full - Error Code '2147942512'
We are using Windows Backup on SBS 2008 SP2 and backing up to 1TB external hard drives. Recently after switching drives our backup started failing because the backup drive is full and auto-delete ...
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Multiple exchange servers
Just looking for the best way to do this.
I have a SBS 2008 server, and have remote users in another state that only use email from our server. Their files and just chucked wherever they can and ...
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Exchange Server 2007 Send and Receive Connectors
I have gotten awesome advice from users on here for getting Exchange on Windows SBS 2008 set up. I think this is the final piece and I'm ready for roll-out!
I need to set up Exchange so that it ...
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Can I change the language of internal website in SBS 2008?
I like to manage my servers in English but my client is Polish. Is there a way to keep the main language of the server in English but get "Company Web"/OWA/Remote Access website and other publically ...
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Exchange 2007 Email Error 451 4.7.0 Timeout waiting for client input
Our SBS 2008 server with Exchange 2007 started rejecting some (most) emails starting about 3 or 4 days ago. The return failure message looks something like this:
The error that the other server ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit Screen Frozen and Remote Desktop Freezes but Server Continues Working
I've asked this question a couple of times but I don't seem to be getting any real answers.
We have a SBS (Windows Server 2008 Rc) server and suddenly the screen has started freezing. Even when we ...
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Swapping out a RAID 1 mirror with larger drives on SBS 2008. Is it possible?
My organisation has setup a SBS Server 2008 2 years ago (Dell T300). This was a small setup with 2x160 GB disks in a RAID 1 mirror. We are running short on disk space. I would like to extend the ...
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Do these files look like virus remnants?
We've been having Backup Exec issues related to a corrupt file within SYSVOL on an SBS 2008 server. An anti-virus scan removed a file (the same one BE was failing on) from within the scripts folder as ...
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SBS 08 Backup fail
I'm trying to backup my SBS 08 (only C:) with Windows Server Backup.
It fails a few minutes after it started:
Backup started at '08/12/2009 1:27:23 PM' failed as Volume Shadow copy operation failed ...
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Should I be worried about Code 39 for these drivers on a virtual server?
We currently run an SBS2008 DC/Exchange/AD on hardware that is getting dated. Before it falls all the way over we are trying to get it virtualized, as we do have a shiny new (and under utilized) ...
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SBS 2008 DNS issues in BPA
I'm gettng constant Critical Issue events in the Small Business Server Best Practices Analyser & resulting SBS Console reports that begin "The DNS client is not configured to point only to the ...
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SBS 2008 Initial 5 CALs [duplicate]
I recently took over IT for a company and I am auditing the number of CALs my company owns. I have ten 5-packs of CAL sheets. I know that SBS 2008 comes with 5 CALs. Was one of those CAL sheets ...
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HP MicroServer - HP logo light Orange [closed]
I just bought one of these HP MicroServer as everyone seems to think they are great for a home lab, I installed SBS 2011 on to the box with no problems.
Suddenly today when I have turned it on the HP ...
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How do I limit Standard Users to 1 RDP session while leaving admin on 2 or more
I know how to change it at about 3 different locations(Limit administrator RDP session to single instance instead of default 2 simultaneous?), but I want to differentiate between admin and standard ...
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No IP address on Windows SBS 2008
We have a strange problem in our Windows SBS 2008 and it just came over a night.
The problem is that Windows says that we are not connected to any IP4 or IP6 network but it recognises that the network ...
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How to do System Restore on SBS 2008? [closed]
How can you do a System Restore on Small Business Server 2008?
Is this function available in SBS 2008? If not, what is the equivalent function to use?
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First login to Domain Account outside network
I recently sent a new laptop to our branch outside the Country.
I set it up and tested it with a LOCAL "ROOT_ADMIN" account (a standard for our company). I set him up as a local administrator from ...
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Windows 8 Pro hangs at Applying Computer Setting for 10 mins on Domain
I have a few Windows 8 clients connected to my SBS 2008 Server. When i reboot the windows 8 machine while connected to the network it takes over 10 mins and sits at "Applying Computer Settings". If i ...
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EventID 1058 Code 5, Sysvol is subdir of Sysvol - how to fix?
I have been trying to resolve this error, like many others:
The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file ...
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SBS 2008 Folder Share permissions mess
I came across this question asked a couple of years ago about setting permissions via a script and was hoping that there might be a similar script that would work for me with the issue I am having.
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FTP Connection issue [closed]
I am trying to access a FTP server with Anonymous Access, this worked until recently and now will not allow Anonymous to login, although it prompts for a username and password so the service is still ...
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Possible causes of high download activity on network [closed]
We had an issue where we noticed approximately 170GB of data downloaded as http traffic over a one week period on our network. After locking down many services and running a hub as an in between ...
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Unable to restore from Shadow Copy due to long filename
We have shadow copy enabled on our Windows SBS 2008 server. Attempting to restore a file from shadow copy gave the following error-
The source file name(s) are larger than is supported by the file ...
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Windows Server Backup, drive is doing full backup instead of incremental
We currently have a windows small business server 2008, that is being backed up using the default SBS tools (windows server backup). Things seem to work properly, but the backups are taking a very ...
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How do i create a user who only has access to exchange email?
We have 2 new external contractors who are contacting customers on our behalf and we want them to be able to send mails only. They have outlook and we have outlook web access configured. However, I ...
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Which SBS 2008 files are worth backing up with the highest level of redundancy?
I've just had a bad experience with SBS2008 backup which failed to backup and restore the Active Directory (the NTDIS.dit file wasn't restored). Given the importance of this file, I now regret not ...
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SBS 2008 Redirection visibility issues - want to move off SBS 2008
I inherited an SBS2008 server which had a corrupt or otherwise lost userid which was used to setup redirects, etc.
I was able to break in by enabling the Administrator ID and resetting the password.
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Mail Forwarding on SBS2003
We recently our mail service to Gmail which has been great. The only application I haven't been able to cut over from our old mail service is our phone server which isn't able to send mail to an SSL ...
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How to cause workstations on network to install msi package?
I have remote access to a Windows Small Business Server 2008 machine. There are about 5 workstations connected to this network.
How can I make every workstation install an .msi package without ...
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Are the Exchange 2007 hub transport rule predicates any-style or all-style
I really could not think of a better way to express the Any|All distinction I am trying to make there. If you can, please go right ahead.
I am trying to make a rule for an exchange hub transport ...
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SQL Server 2012 Multiple Instance Priority
I'm in the process of upgrading our small SQL databases to SQL Server 2012. We have at least 3 instances, (1) Critical work databases, (2) low-importance System Maintenance databases, (3) WSUS.
Can I ...
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Windows SBS 2008 to Windows Server 2012 migration
I am in the process of upgrading my Windows SBS 2008 server running Exchange, Active Directory and as a File server to Windows Server 2012 essentials. Now I know that Windows Server 2012 essentials ...
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Create Windows SBS 2008 User Account without Email
Just today I've been handed an SBS 2008 server to do some maintenance on. I've never used SBS 2008 before today, so this is a real noob question:
Is it possible to create a user account without ...
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Centreon/Nagios Reporting HTTPS Warning on SBS
Our Centreon server reports warnings when checking https, particularly on Small Business 2008 and 2011 servers:
Default settings on SBS, generally using remote. prefix for RWW
Is there anything we ...
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Cannot add Windows 7 client to SBS 2008
I have just installed SBS 2008 R2 Standard on VMware Workstation 9 along with Windows 7 Pro N. Both are activated and running fine. I have followed the steps to configure SBS 2008 and am now at the ...
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SBS 2008 - Blank desktop while installing
I'm trying to install SBS 2008 Standard Ed on a VMware Workstation 8. The installation runs fine up until some point where the desktop becomes completely blank. The server is still running and ...
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Trouble setting up incoming VPN in Microsoft SBS 2008 through a Cisco ASA 5505 appliance
I have replaced an aging firewall (custom setup using Linux) with a Cisco ASA 5505 appliance for our network. It's a very simple setup with around 10 workstations and a single Small Business Server ...
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Moving mails from SBS 2008 to SBS 2011
we are going to upgrade server from SBS 2008 to a new hardware server with SBS 2011.
Due to non-experience in Server Migration (eg, answer file), we have decided to choose Clean Install. We have 12 ...
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Can't seem to setup RICOH to scan to SBS 2008 shared folder
Banging my head against any hard surface trying to figure out why I cannot connect the RICOH copier to a shared folder on my SBS 2008.
Here's the particulars:
New SBS 2008 Server
New Network ...
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SBS 2008 SP2 Backup - Volume Shadow Copy Operation Failed
Server Setup
Exchange 2007 Version: 08.03.0192.001 (Rollup 4)
Windows Small Business Server 2008 SP2 (Rollup 5)
Exchange set up on D: drive (449 GB / 698 GB Free)
80 GB / 148 GB Free on OS drive.
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Uninstallation of WSUS form SBS 2008 [closed]
I am not much experienced system admin, but i came across the client who was having SBS 2008. The server was running out of HDD space. So to recover some, I removed its WSUS role (twas not ...
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Server 2008 R2Crashes
We're running a setup as follows using Hyper-V:
Windows Server 2008 R2 (Hyper-V Host)
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|-- SBS 2008 (DC)
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Recently we've experienced multiple crashes that ...
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How can you view the size of a backup in SBS 2008
How do you view the size of a backup in SBS2008? The logs give separate numbers for each drive and adding them up gives a number that seems too big.
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QB Database Server Manager Assigning Incorrect EngineName and ServerPort
We recently upgraded to QB 2012 Premier (US) from QB 2011 Pro on our SBS 2008 box. We are trying to get the database server manager working properly on our server. Currently the Database Server ...
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Upgrade SBS 2008 to SBS 2011
I am migrating from SBS 2008 to SBS 2011 but the Microsoft documentation does not yet exist.
Has anyone done this yet?
What are the recommended steps/procedures?
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Installing WSUS 3 SP2 on SBS 2008 - failed install
Im trying to install WSUS SP2 on my SBS 2008 box and it just seems to hang at the "please wait whilst the setup wizard installs...." I left it there for 1 hour and nothing. WHen I canceled the install ...
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SBS 2008 Move data wizard crashing when moving Redirected Folders [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SBS 2008 Move Data Wizard crashing. Moving Redirected User Data
Trying to migrate data from C: to D: via the SBS console is failing.
The wizard starts running but drops ...
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SBS 2008 Move Data Wizard crashing. Moving Redirected User Data
We're trying to move Users' Redirected Documents data from C: to D: using the wizard in the SBS console. It keeps crashing though as soon you hit next for the fist time in the wizard.
This server has ...
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ShareWebDb_log.ldf is 97GB - How to reduce?
We run an SBS 2008 server with WSS. On the drive I have set aside for WSS, I'm fast running out of space due to the ShareWebDb_log.ldf file:
I've tried doing to do what I've read online - change ...
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SBS2008 : can't have a mailbox accessible from outside?
We have a SBS2008 server with 9 users using the embeeded Exchange. The MX record points to this server. This works fine.
We want 2 remote users to also have a mailbox on this server. The consultant ...
