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11:00 pm on January 24, 2012
SBS 2011 Essentials is a bit different from all other Microsoft servers in the past. Traditional network design calls for the Domain Controllers to have a FIXED IP address within your network. Well in SBS 2011 Essentials, Microsoft understood that most clients could not figure out how to disable the DHCP on their routers and therefore they redesigned SBS 2011 Essentials to work with...
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11:00 pm on January 18, 2012
SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 Standard both have some very cool features in them. One of them is the reporting functions that provide the ability for the server to send you daily reports on it’s status. Part of those reports includes a listing of all critical errors in the servers event logs. Now on face value this is pretty good because you get to see what’s up with your server.&...
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11:00 pm on January 13, 2012
There is often the need to be able to patch a Windows system without an internet connection. Many reasons such as available download bandwidth and speed mean that we want to be able to patch a computer pretty quickly. Recently I had this scenario to handle in my own test lab. I found a cool utility called WSUS Offline Generator to enable me to download and install patches for ...
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11:00 pm on January 3, 2012
I’ve been playing with the QNAP TS410 recently – it’s part of my production and test LANs here at SBSFaq. After having played with it a bit in my test LAN, I decided that I was ready for using it in production as well. Only problem was I forgot my admin password ![]()
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11:00 pm on December 12, 2011
Recently while troubleshooting a system for a client, I ran across the situation where the StorageCraft VSS Snapshot provider disappeared.
When you ran the vssadmin list providers command, you only got the list below.
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11:00 pm on December 9, 2011
I’ve had to do this a few times now for applications that require anonymous relay in order to send email. Whenever I do this I limit the scope of the anonymous relay to the application server in question. Below I’ve given the PowerShell commands that can be used on SBS 2011 Standard or Exchange 2010 to correctly create an anonymous relay for any traffic coming from the applicati...
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11:00 pm on December 7, 2011
I was searching for some Administrative Templates for use with Group Policy and found this great list that someone has put together over at Microsoft.
They have the following Administrative Templates for the following Windows OS’s.
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Vista
They also have Admini...
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11:00 pm on November 28, 2011
Recently I had some confusion with a client over what tape should be inserted into which tape drive and their capacity. The colour of the tape however is what was easily determined and helped resolve the issue quickly. I figured I’d post this for others in case they need it. This table is accurate for HP LTO tapes – but other vendors use different colours.
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11:00 pm on November 24, 2011
One of the things you should do before migration is to ensure that you set your DSRM password to something that you know. The quickest way to do this is to use NTDSUtil to synchronise it with the current SBS 2008 or SBS 2011 Network Administrators password.
To do this is easy – use the following procedure.
- Open up a CMD prompt window
- Run NTDSUTIL.EXE<...
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11:00 am on November 18, 2011
Working on site this week with a client who has a 512kb link back to their headoffice. I deployed a new server which had WSUS configured to replicate content and approvals from a central server in headoffice. The problem was however that it tried to download 23GB of updates from the server during working hours and the bandwidth to headoffice became very limited. Now I know WSU...
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