Windows Essential Business Server Decomission
I have a client that is running Windows Essential Business Server 2008. I have no experience with this product and very little with Small Business Server but I would like to migrate them off of the...
View ArticleI forgot to delete the old folder redirection GPO off of SBS 2003 during a...
HelloI did a SBS 2003 migration to SBS2011. The migration went well. But now folder redirection is not working. I forgot to delete the old folder redirection GPO off of SBS 2003 during the migration....
View Article"Unexpected error" when trying to create a mailbox using add new user wizard...
Hi!When I'm trying to create a new user with the add new user wizard in the sbs 2011 standard console, it stops at the mailbox stage with an unexpected error.Screenshot:...
View Article2008 won't boot from secondary mirror plex
The server has an odd history which explains the current odd setup, so don't get hung up on that part.Config: SBS2008, all drives connected to a hardware RAID controller. Two drives are configured as a...
View ArticleAn internal transport certificate will expire soon - thumbprint ****, hour...
Good evening,To be forwarned, I haven't set this SBS up, I'm just managing it. Sadly there are a lot of strange things going on on this server, but I just have to deal with it for the time beeing....
View ArticleUninstall Active Directory
I bought Windows Server 2012 Essentials thinking it would be easy to setup. I did not know it was going to install active directory by default. I am replacing an older server with a new one and it...
View ArticleDCPromo fails also on my Migration from 2003 to 2011
My Migration stops also at dcpromo, Code 53, Server renamed needs to be rebootet.I found my problem is at my 2003DNS: it doesn´t resolve ´sbs2003´on LAN with tracert, ´sbs2003.mydomain.local´ will...
View ArticleSmall Business Server 2011 network components stop working
This is really starting to piss me off. Deployed a new SBS2011 server using ESXi 5.1 and the system is quick, the OS itself is stable, but it absolutely refuses to work correctly when it comes to the...
View ArticleSBS 2011 Essentials - reboot of server causes connector software on client...
Fairly new to SBS...we migrated from Server 2003 (changed hardware so no upgrade, just a complete replacement). It is primarily a file server, with some shared folders and it runs a couple of...
View ArticleWant: Local Exchange and Automated Client Backups
Man it's hard to find some information sometimes. Please help....I want (1) local Exchange, (2) client backups (like in WHS).For a local Exchange server, I think I'm limited to either SBS 2011...
View ArticleSBS 2011 how to easily map server folder to drives for user computers
Hi I need to map server folders to users so that folders show as different drives. I know a way to manage this by startup script but I somehow has this idea that it should be easier in SBS 2011 by...
View ArticleSBS 2008 to 2011 Migration - "Connect to the internet" error
Hi Im about to finish the migration Connect to the Internet wizard – get the error to remote server {destserver} failed with the following error message : The WinRM client cannot process the request....
View ArticleHelp, I've messed up Folder redirection
SBS 2011 Standard, I tried to enable folder redirection. Out of 5 win7pro and 3 XPpro computers, only 2 win7 and 1 XP computer/user were sucessful. In trying to get the other computers/users working,...
View ArticleCant create migration batch for exchange 2007 (SBS 2008) to Office 365
I am trying to migrate my mail from SBS 2008 with Exchange 2007 to Office 365 E1I have followed all the of the migration steps from...
View ArticleSharepoint 3.0 not working on SBS 2008
For the last five weeks sharepoint has been down, when anyone trys to access http://companyweb/ all that is shown is a message saying "Cannot connect to the configuration database".IIS seems to be...
View ArticleSharepoint upgrade will not run. The conguration tool fails with the error:...
Hi all, I have run into an issue trying to upgrade SBS2003 to SBS2011. It is to do with the Sharepoint upgrade. My client relies on exchange and sharepoint so deletion or loss of the existing...
View ArticleSBS 2011 - Unexpected Error Occurred when Adding a New User Account in Console
When I add a new user account in the SBS 2011 console - a yellow exclamation mark appears next to 'setting up an email account for...' When I click on View Error Details it says Unexpected Error...
View ArticleSBS2011- Exchange2010 - Iphone, Ipad syncronization problem - HELP !
Hello,I have a mysterious problem... One of our users uses 3 mobile devices (Iphone, Ipad and MacBook) to read her emails from home.After I create the accounts on the devices it works for a few days...
View ArticleProblems with RRAS NAT not allowing HTTP traffic through to IIS
Hi, I had to re-install our server recently and dont really have any experience with these things.So what we have on the server is DNS, DHCP , RRAS and IIS. We host our company website and some test...
View Article"Online - Unable to query the information for this computer" on one XP...
On our SBS2008 network, one of our XP clients (mine!) suffered a corrupted profile a couple of weeks back. Since then I have been working with the new profile that was generated automatically by the...
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