Windows Small Business Server 2011 is the Microsoft operating system in the SBS line based on Windows Server 2008 R2. It will be the last in the SBS line and went RTM December 13th, 2010 and was first officially released March 9th, 2011. Like the rest of the SBS line, it includes a number of ...
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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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Can I connect an SBS 2011 user account/mailbox to an external mail server (hotmail)
We have an old Hotmail account that has become a general mailbox which is checked by several key users. We also have own own domain and DNS/MX set accordingly for Exchange. I have setup a pop ...
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Windows small business server 2011 licensing /network topography [duplicate]
The current network topography includes the main office, hereto known as H1, the branch office (B1), and a cloud server (c1).
In total, there are approximately 35-40 workstations. Fortunately, all ...
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Convert RAID 5 to RAID 10 without data loss
I have a Windows SBS 2011 server on a Dell R610 with RAID 5 configuration [3 disk].
Is there a way to convert it to RAID 10[4 or 6 disk] without losing anything or needing to re-install the whole OS ...
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Can't locate SBS 2011 Certification Authority Web interface
Certification Authority Installed
Certification Authority Web Enrollment Installed
Certification Enrollment Web Services Not Installed
Certification Enrollment policy web service Not Installed
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SBS 2011 - User Roles appearing as if they're users?
On SBS 2011 Standard, we haven't done any customizations of organizational groups, all that is left default. However, when I'm looking at the Active Directory Users and Computers, under MyBusiness ...
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Windows server losing connectivity
A Windows Server 2008 R2 (SBS 2011 really) with Service Pack 1 started to expose a network connectivity problem all of a sudden which seems rather hard to debug:
Occasionally (always during business ...
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SBS 2011 Essentials : Remote connection accepted on remote access IP only
I've got an SBS 2011 Essentials server which runs fine. However, after I configured VPN on it - something rather strange happened.
The server's IP is 192.168.16.2, and it is set up to hand out IP ...
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PPTP VPN connections stops working after period of time
I have a client with an SBS 2011 server which is acting as a PPTP VPN server that is having difficulty maintaining working VPN connections to their server for remote workers.
Client machines are able ...
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How can I restrict a AD account to only specific Computers?
We recently had SBS 2011 installed, an "upgrade" from our Server 2008. I'm stuck trying to figure out how I restrict a user account to have login access to only specific computers. The "old way" I ...
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Outlook 2013 only works in safe mode against SBS 2011
I've replaced a client computer running Outlook 2007 with a new computer running Outlook 2013 against SBS 2011.
Outlook 2013 opens correctly but when the user is switching from the inbox to any other ...
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Emails not sending from outlook / OWA - Not even hitting the mail queue in exchange
We are having an issue this morning where we can receive external emails but cannot send internal or external ones from Outlook or OWA. If I use:
Send-MailMessage –From <sender@domain.com> –To ...
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SBS 2011 WSUS Updates Failing on Windows 8 client with error 800B0001
We recently set up an SBS 2011 Standard SP1 domain and manage all optional updates from this server. Critical/Security updates are configured to automatically install without approval. WSUS is ...
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Exchange 2010 (SBS 2011) not working with Win 8 & Outlook 2013
I'm unable to determine what is causing a Lenovo Tablet 2 equipped with Win 8 Pro / Office 2013 not to be able to connect to our exchange server 2010 SP2 RU4.
The weird part is that it only happens ...
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How to add a public directory in FTP under SBS 2011?
I have a server with SBS 2011 installed. I have FPT working with security so that a login is required. I have added a directory under the FTP directory called "public" which I want to make accessible ...
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Can I use SBS / SharePoint to allow specific customers to login and track progress?
I'm new to SharePoint and am building a collaborative internal website for issue tracking (one of the many SharePoint sites on this SBS machine). The site is already accessible from the outside of our ...
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Error when trying to forward message from OWA
I have Small Business Server 2011 installed on my server and when I log in to OWA and try to forward a message, I get the following error:
An unexpected error occurred and your request couldn't be ...
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SBS 2011 Group Policy and Terminal Servers
I'm trying to configure group policy for the terminal servers, and the users that will logon to it.
I created a OU in active directory called TERMINAL-SERVERS, then i moved Terminalsrv1 and ...
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Inbound Site-2-Site VPN to Windows SBS 2011 (IPsec IKEv2)
I have the following constellation:
Branch office of a company with a hardware VPN box that can do site-2-site VPN using IPsec (actually it's a Securepoint 10 box), connected directly via DSL
Main ...
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sbs 2011 my docs redirection not working
I'm in the process of migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 and am having trouble with My Documents redirection GPO. When I do a gpresult it indicates that the GP is processing successfully. If I go ...
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Exchange database corruptions - Regular occurance
Every 3 to 6 months we start losing connection to exchange from outlook (i.e Outlook has lost connection to exchange -> Outlook has restored connection to exchange). After this happens the mailbox ...
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SBS 2011 - Domain Computers Being Kicked into Working Offline Randomly and Frequently
Here is our current setup:
2 locations connected to each other via site to site vpn which is handled by a Zyxel USG50 on each end. Each location has 2 subnets in use. Each location has special ...
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Can I install SBS 2011 Standard onto an existing 2008R2 server?
I have an existing Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard dedicated server at a server farm, all set up. Monitoring tools, public and private NIC's, out-of-band management tools, the whole shebang; it's ...
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SBS 2011 keeps adding a static DNS entry for an old IP address
At one point, on our SBS 2011 server, I had 2 IP addresses assigned to the primary NIC. This resulted in Windows adding a static entry for both IPs to the DNS when the DNS server started. This of ...
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Is it necessary to back up the System Volume Information folder?
On a Windows Small Business Server 2011, I have redirected the shadow copies for all volumes to a single, dedicated volume. This volume contains no other data; the only folder is System Volume ...
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DNS error with sbs2003 migration to 2011
I have been getting that message Your Local server is not in the name server records and it is not going away. I have followed the suggestions from this. Other suggestions are also same as his anyway. ...
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sbs 2011 permissions to create files but not folders
I'm trying to modify the permissions of a group so that they can have full control over files (read/write/delete... everything) but to be unable to create/modify any folders.
I've set 2 permissions ...
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SBS 2011 Essentials and too many new Mac users
We currently have about 15 users on a Windows SBS 2011 Essentials Server. I've just been informed that we plan to bring aboard about 15 more users that will be using Macs. We'll be using a Mac ...
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Exchange over HTTP
I have recently setup a brand new install of SBS 2011 and it is working well. Exchange is running as advertised and all users are happy.
Now, there are 2 users who would like to work outside of the ...
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SBS 2003 to 2011 Migration: Public Folder Migration
Been banging my head into this wall for a while now, but still can't seem to get past it. Currently I'm trying to complete a migration from SBS 2003 to 2011. I've been following along the Microsoft ...
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SBS2011 SharePoint 2010 - Word/Excel prompting for password
I am accessing the built in SharePoint 2010 on SBS2011 via Microsoft Office Excel and Word (opening a file from WebDAV http file mapped drive in Explorer).
When saving a file, I get prompted from ...
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SBS 2011: unable to access remote.mydomain.com/myapp after moving from internal to external network
I have a secure site setup at remote.mydomain.com, and a webapp at remote.mydomain.com/myapp
Both internal and external clients can access these sites no problem.
However, when a laptop user that can ...
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Can't connect to computer via SBS2011 RWA
I've got an SBS 2011 Essentials server. Users a able to log on to Remote Web Access using their username and password.
However, the trouble starts when a users attempts to log on remotely to his/her ...
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My client's solution of a Windows SBS 2011 VM on an Ubuntu host and VirtualBox is pinning the host CPU
Here's my situation, I've got a client hosting two servers (one VM), with the host providing VMware Zimbra, the other Windows Small Business Server 2011. Unfortunately, the person before me had ...
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file servers through a VPN connection
I have been scratching my head on this one for weeks, I have now decided to ask the question.
We have an SBS domain with 2 hypervisors, one runs 3 File Server, one run the SBS server itself. We also ...
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Prevent users from creating / copying / moving anything except .exe
We have a program that compiles executables into a folder into c:\bin. Ideally I would like to share this folder so users can access the exe's within but stop them creating any other files in there. ...
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Migrating SBS 2003 to 2011, and hangs when migrating Public Folders
I've been following the migration guide at http://www.it-book.co.uk/1651/migration-from-sbs-2003-to-sbs-2011-3.
The option "Migrate Exchange mailbox and settings" links me to ...
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Unable to save or create documents on SBS2011 with a new workstation
a few months ago our office swapped from an old Win XP peer to peer network to SBS 2011 essentials because one piece of software that we needed needed it. The SBS 2011 was installed & the 7 ...
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How to remove “Migration Failed” message from SBS 2011
I have successfully completed the migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011. The migration process stopped halfway done.
I found out that I had a corrupted info.xml
Following the instructions here seemed ...
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Removing Exchange 2010 and SBS2011 gracefully after migration to Server 2008 Std R2
We have recently completed a server replacement for a customer. They had SBS2011 using Exchange 2010. They now have Server 2008 Std R2 and Google Apps email. We have migrated the DHCP, DNS, Filserver ...
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Exchange 2010: Find Move Request Log after move request completes
EDIT: significantly changed my question here to streamline it a bit. I've gone ahead and used 100 as my corrupted item count and ran it from the Exchange Shell.
So the trail of tears continues with ...
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Automatic Reply Out of Hours
Is there a way i can use a rule or "timer" of some sort to turn on out of office, or enable an auto reply for 1 mailbox (Sales mailbox) within a time period.
Reason:
We deal with all timezones, we ...
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TS 2008 - Remote session - Black screen on logon
2 out of 8 sites have reported not been able to connect to the network this morning, everybody excluding head office use terminal services, i have 2 2008 servers in a pool/farm. My network Cisco and ...
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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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Our FPD 2.6 application can't open files with long file names on SBS 2011
Our FoxPro for DOS 2.6 (FPD) application apparently is not able to see filenames longer than 8 characters when run on Windows XP Pro or Win 7 (32-bit) stations over Small Business Server 2011 running ...
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SBS 2011 Essentials loses RWA certificate on reboot
I have "inherited" an SBS 2011 server that is in production. It is up to date on Microsoft Update supplied updates and hotfixes.
RWA is running and working on the server with a public certificate and ...
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SBS2003 to SBS2011 Migration - Installation Error
Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 to 2011 Migration.
I followed the Migration Guide from Microsoft and the source server had no errors when running the various tests prior to the migration.
I ...
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SBS2011 Detailed Network Report
I have configured an SBS2011 Server to e-mail me a weekly 'Detailed Network Report' (saw it while configuring a daily e-mailed Back Up report).
Within the Report there is lots of info regarding all ...
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Permissions won't cascade more than 1 level
Running Windows Small Business Server 2011
I have a file structure with a lot of sub folders (sometimes 5-6 levels deep). I have created access groups to grant access to my users, and also deny ...
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Outlook 2010 automatically filling in the wrong username and not remembering passwords
I have a SBS2011 server with an internal domain name: mydomain.local.
The external address is different: myexdomain.com.
When connected over the VPN, if a user opens Outlook, it will prompt for a ...
