Straight up question – no matter if you are on SBS 2008 or not, if you are not yet running Service Pack 2 on your Windows Server 2008 installation you should get moving and upgrade to it. Why? Because it fixes so many issues that affect other third party products and the stability of your server. Take the biggest example is the TDI Driver fix here. … [Read more...]
Exchange 2007 SP3 Deployment issues
This issue will only affect you if you have multiple Exchange 2007 servers in your network. Microsoft have the release notes for Exchange 2007 SP3 here. In that they highlight that you should upgrade any Internet facing Client Access server first – which I did for one of my clients. I then upgraded the other server in their main office to SP3… each of the … [Read more...]
Trend Micro WFBS 6.0 SP3 Available
Trend have quietly released Service Pack 3 for WFBS 6.0 this week. You can download it here WFBS 6.0 Service Pack 3 includes a number of enhancements as well as bug fixes over the previous Service Pack 2. Some of those enhancements are in the installation process, others are in the product itself. Ok- so how do I do the installation? Simple – firstly … [Read more...]
How to install Exchange 2007 SP3 on SBS 2008
I posted a while back about Exchange 2007 SP3 being released. This weekend I finally got the time to do the upgrade myself. It went through seamlessly. Here’s the procedure I used. Make sure you have a backup of your server and that you have tested that it can restore. Download the Exchange 2007 SP3 from Microsoft – here – you will want the 64bit … [Read more...]
Exchange 2007 SP3 on SBS 2008
Word is out that today Exchange 2007 SP3 was released. It’s “compatible” with SBS 2008, however you really need to read this KB before you install it so that you can ensure you don’t have problems. Basically if you have ForeFront Security for Exchange installed, you need to disable it for the duration of the service pack – the KB includes instructions on how to do this. … [Read more...]