Posts Tagged ‘SBS 2011’
Error 404.2 when running Connect Computer on SBS 2008 / 2011 with Trend WFBS 8.0
Sunday, May 19th, 2013
This issue has been reported recently in a few of my fellow MVP’s blogs. The issue is that after installing Trend Micro WFBS 8.0 onto SBS 2008 or SBS 2011 server, when you try to connect computers to the SBS server using the http://connect wizard, the Welcome Page displays, as below, but as soon as you select the “Start Connect Computer Program”, button, you get a 404 – File or directory not found error as you can see in the screens below.
Trend have investigate and found that their installation program incorrectly changes one of the IIS settings. They have documented the solution here
In essence however, you can fix it with the commands below (taken from the Trend KB article with my own modifications)
Fix the access policy permission of SBS Client Deployment Applications using command prompt:
- Click Start > All Programs > Accessories.
- Right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.
- Run the following commands:
CD inetsrv
appcmd.exe set config "SBS Client Deployment Applications" /section:handlers /accessPolicy:None
appcmd.exe set config "SBS Client Deployment Applications" /section:handlers /accessPolicy:Read,Script
I have tried this on my own SBS server and it works fine.
Tags: Installation Failure, SBS 2008, SBS 2011, TrendMicro, WFBS 8.0
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Win a free copy of the SBS2011 70-169 Certification Guide
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
SBS 2011 maybe oh so yesterday and all, but the reality is, you can still sell, install and support the product for a while yet. With that in mind, getting your certification on the 70-169 exam is also very relevant indeed. Let’s make it easier for you to do that by having a giveaway competition.
Everyone loves free stuff, so here’s your chance to get a free copy of the PacktPub SBS 2011 Configuring Certification Guide (70-169). Check out the review I’ve done of the guide here firstly to make sure this is something you WANT to win. I’ve been given two copies of the eBook to give away, so I figure I’ll make it a very simple competition. Simply submit your entry via the comments on this blog post and I’ll judge the winner. Entries will close on 1 week from today (Wednesday 14th August, with winner to be announced shortly thereafter here on the site.
To win is simple give me one good reason why this book deserves to be in your eBook collection. Best two entries win. You’ll need to leave your real name and email address (which only I can see) so I can let you know if you’ve won or not.
Once I’ve decided the winners, I’ll send the details to Packt Publishing and they will organise to get a copy of the eBook to you! Good luck!
Tags: SBS 2011, SBS 2011 Standard
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Where is all my disk space going?
Friday, June 29th, 2012
I’m sure you’ve had clients servers disks fill up on a regular basis right? Here’s a cool tool that is free that you can use to quickly figure out where it’s all gone. TreeSize Free from JAM Software is a free tool, you can download it here but I’ve also paid for the Professional Version for my own systems.
As an example – here’s an example of a servers hard drive that filled up on one client today.
I then ran my disk cleanup script which you can download from here and did a refresh on the tool above and suddenly my disk is not so full anymore 
Tags: SBS 2008, SBS 2011, Software I use, Tools, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2
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How to troubleshoot Client Connector Install issues on SBS 2011 Essentials
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
I was helping one of our techs out when he was deploying SBS 2011 Essentials for a client this week. He had a couple of computers that crashed with errors when the Client Connector Installation was going through. I commenced to dig into the log files and also put together a blog post when I hit a problem I didn’t know about. I turned to Google and low and behold, I found this excellent article from fellow MVP Rob Pearman on Troubleshooting Client Connecter Installation problems. Not being one to reinvent the wheel unless I can do it better, I figured I’d help get some awareness of the things he’s done. So if you are having issues with Client Connector Installation Failures on SBS 2011 Essentials, then check out Robs post above.
Tags: SBS 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials, Windows Home Server 2011 Premium, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials
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How can I allow more than 5 users to VPN into my SBS 2008 or SBS 2011 Standard server?
Monday, April 16th, 2012
By default when the VPN configuration for SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 Standard allows only 5 users to VPN at once. This is often not enough for the larger network environments. The question that comes is “How can I increase VPN to allow more than 5 users”. Fortunately it’s pretty simple.
First up, start with configuring VPN via the SBS console. To do that, go to the Network Tab and select the Connectivity sub tab. Then run the “Configure a Virtual Private Network” wizard from the task pane on the right.
Select “Allow users to connect to the server by using a VPN” and the VPN wizard will run.
It will configure the Routing and Remote Access services to provide the VPN functionality and if your router has uPnP allowed, it will also configure port 1723 to pass through the router to the SBS server itself.
Now that you’ve configured the VPN, you may feel free to test it from outside your network so that you know it works right now.
In order to increase the number of available ports for your remote access / VPN users, you need to open the Routing and Remote Access console. It’s under the Administrative Tools menu on the Start > Program menu
If you select the Ports node from the menu above, you will see it display that it’s already allocated the 5 ports that is the default for the SBS VPN wizard as you can see below.
Right select on the Ports node and then select Properties. You should get the screen below showing you the number of ports defined for the various protocols.
Select the WAN Miniport (PPTP) entry and then select the Configure button at the bottom.
You can then change the number of ports to the maximum number of VPN users you will expect. In the screen below, I’ve changed it to 20
Select OK on this screen and then OK again to take you back to the main Routing and Remote Access console. You should see the number of ports has increased as the screen below shows.
Voila – you’ve done it – nothing more to do except sit back and enjoy the 20 users remotely accessing your network now.
Oh – one final word, if you even run the SBS VPN wizard again to disable and then enable VPN, it will reset the ports back to 5.
Tags: Remote Access, SBS 2008, SBS 2011, SBS 2011 Standard, VPN
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Why does my server appear under Client Computers on SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 Standard?
Friday, April 13th, 2012
This is one I’ve heard a lot before and it’s easy to solve.
When you add Desktop or Notebook computers to SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 via the http://connect wizard, they get added in and put by default into the Client Computers OU inside Active Directory. The SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 Standard console displays any computers in that OU under the Client Computers section on the console itself. The screenshot below show you how this looks.
When you add servers to the SBS 2008 or SBS 2011 Standard network, there is no wizard to follow. As such you add them to the domain in the normal manner.
SBS is configured by default to add any new computer to the domain in the SBSComputers OU as you can see below.
The solution is therefore quite simple. Once you add your Server to the SBS 2008 or SBS 2011 Standard domain, you need to move them into the SBSServers OU using Active Directory Users and Computers. Run ADUC from the Administrative tools group. Select the computers you wish to move and drag them into the SBSServers OU as you can see I’m doing below. You will get a warning also as below – select Yes to continue.
Once they are moved it will look like this.
If you refresh the SBS console then it will all appear like it should as you can see below.
Tags: Active Directory, SBS 2008, SBS 2011, SBS 2011 Standard
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Exchange Management Troubleshooter Tool
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
I was working on a client site recently and could not figure out why their OWA was not working on one of their Exchange 2010 servers. Furthermore I found that the Exchange Management Shell (powershell for Exchange) would not work as it could not connect to the Exchange server itself. During my investigation, I found a cool utility that allowed me to look at the Default Website on the server in question and diagnose why the EMS would not work. In the end, the issue I had was a simple one – the HP PowerManager software had taken over port 80 on the server as the clients tech did not configure it correctly to use an alternate port number. But I figured it worthwhile to post about the Exchange Management Troubleshooter tool anyway in case it helps others. You can download the tool here
Tags: Exchange 2010, Exchange Server, SBS 2011, SBS 2011 Standard
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How can I install Exchange 2010 SP2 onto SBS 2011 Standard
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Microsoft a few months back now, released Exchange 2010 SP2 and it can of course be applied to SBS 2011 Standard servers. You first need to obtain the download here and save it to your server.
Make sure you have logged onto your server using your Network Administrator or Domain Admin account first.
I always do a quick backup of the server before I continue – that way I can be sure that I’ve got a server to return to if the upgrade fails for whatever reason.
Run the download and extract it to the location that you want to run it from and then run the Setup.exe file.
Select Install Microsoft Exchange Server Upgrade
This launches the Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 installation process.
Accept the license agreement and Next ton continue.
If does a number of system checks including disk space. Lucky for me as I didn’t realise that my disk space was so low on this server and it gave me a chance to clean it up a bit.
Once I cleared up my disk space, i was able to proceed with the upgrade.
The entire process (aside from cleaning up disk space) took 23 minutes to do and was the most painless process I’ve done in a long time.
My system did not need a reboot, but as a matter of principle, I performed one. Once the server was back up again, I then tested Exchange, OWA, ActiveSync to ensure all was working before re-enabling my backups.
I hope your upgrade process is as simple as mine was.
Tags: Exchange 2010, Exchange Server, SBS 2011, SBS 2011 Standard
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Why do my client computers appear offline or backups fail in SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials?
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
I’ve been getting quite a few reports back from people that after installing the latest Update Rollup 2 (UR2) on SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, that the client computers have appeared offline and the backups have failed. I blogged about the release of UR2 earlier this month here. One of the things that I observed during the installation of the update on the server was the way in which it will force upgrade the client agent on the machines. It shows a small bubble popup indicating that the client machine needs to be rebooted as you can see below.
What happens under the covers, is that once the client agent has been upgrade, it can’t communicate with the server UNTIL after a reboot – therefore causing the client machine to appear offline in the console and causing backup to fail. The solution is simple. Reboot all your client computers after the agent has upgrade and then everything works fine. Your clients will appear online and backups will succeed once more.
Tags: Backup, SBS 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials
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WSUS not working on SBS2011
Friday, February 24th, 2012
I was investigating a fault today for a client – their new SBS 2011 server had stopped working with WSUS. As my investigation went on I found that this issue would also affect the SBS Client Connect as well as other web based applications on this server.
The SBS console was reporting “An error occured while retrieving updates information.” as the screen below shows.
I did some digging and found that the WSUS console was broken too.
The event logs showed the error below.
Source: IIS-W3SVC-WP
Event ID: 2274
ISAPI Filter ‘C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\\aspnet_filter.dll’ could not be loaded due to a configuration problem. The current configuration only supports loading images built for a AMD64 processor architecture. The data field contains the error number. To learn more about this issue, including how to troubleshooting this kind of processor architecture mismatch error, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=29349.
Look closely and you will notice above that there’s a double \\ in the path name.
Once I’ve modified it to remove the double \\ and done an IISRESEt – it’s all working just fine. The picture below shows the problem line AFTER I’ve modified it.
Tags: SBS 2011, SBS 2011 Standard
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