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Small Business Server 2008

Hoser — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:02:04 +0000

Does anyone know if there will be an R2 version of Small Business Server 2008?

Most of our customers fall into the SMB category, with the emphasis on Small. Our organization pretty much functions as the complete IT department for these companies. Because of cost and features, they are all running one version or another of Microsoft Small Business Server and almost all are currently running on SBS 2003 R2. RWW has been a godsend for solving server and desktop problems and offers reduced costs to the customer and better time utilization for our staff. Definitely a win-win situation for all of us. We plan to be doing upgrades to the SBS 2008 platform for most of them over the next few months. But we do not want our customers to get stuck with the non-R2 product if an R2 version release is imminent.

In our office networks in both offices, we are running instances of SBS 2003 R2, SBS 2008 and the full version of Server 2008 R2, both in stand-alone modes and as virtual servers on a single Hyper-V R2 platform. The 2008 products are most impressive but as of yet, there is no R2 version of the SBS 2008 product (at least as far as we know) and therefore some of the features provided in the full Server 2008 R2 product are missing in the SBS 2008 platform. I have been unable to determine if there ever will be an R2 version of SBS 2008 and if so, when. MS has been less than forthcoming with this information, so I’m hoping that someone such as you guys might have better information sources than those of us who are merely selling and supporting those products. Any information that you could provide us would be most appreciated.

Jim Sheehy

President United Channel, Inc; Sequel Data Systems, Inc

Reno, NV; Anaheim, CA

jsheehy@unitedchannel.com

Forgotten Password

Compucure — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:47:46 +0000

I have one client PC on an SBS 2003 network. I need to gain access to the local machine outside of the network to check on the User Rights. Problem is – we have lost the password for accessing the Administrator on the local PC – is there a way in which I can reset the password without compromising the PC on the SBS 2003 network?

Local Policy Problems

Compucure — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:19:53 +0000

I am running a SBS 2003 with 15 client computers. For some months now I have been unable to logon to client workstations through RDP or RWW – whereas I can logon to the Server wit both RDP & RWW.

When trying to logon to a client workstation I get the message that “The Local Policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively” – I get the same message when I try to RDP with a client workstation within SBS 2003.

I have tried everything I know – Port Forwarding, User Rights Assignment, Group Memberships… there is something missing – I have been driving myself crazy trying to fix this!!

Any help, greatly appreciated.

Unable to store emails with attachments into public folders

Jmanda — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:54:57 +0000

We are running Small Business Server 2003 SP2 on VMWare. We are using the exchange function of SBS and when we go to move an email from someone’s mail box to a public folder if fails with an unknown error.

Allocated Memory Alert

AndreaF — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:28:45 +0000

Our clients newly installed SBS 2003 R2 is sending out Allocated Memory Alerts. My co-worker says this is common for SBS installations, something to do with SQL Server. He figures we should maybe shut down the SQL service, as it is not in use at this company. I have certainly seen this crop up on new installations, but have never seen the “fix” – and am wondering if it is just a matter of adding or modifying a threshold? I would like to correct this myself if possible, just could use some input from the experts (since we have lost our server guru).
Many thanks for any advice.

SBS 2003 R2 installation error message

ITKE — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:42:34 +0000

Have a new client with SBS 2003 R2 w/Exchange 2003 SP2

R2 has not been installed yet.
When you select “install SBS 2003 R2”
from the CD media, it pops up the following error;

“Setup has encountered an error and cannot continue.”

Have gone through Event logs and SBS logs, but cannot find anything that
seems related.

Anyone have a fix?

Remote RSOP gives RPC server unavailable

NetSupport — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:21:39 +0000

Windows Small Business Server 2003. When I run Rsop from the Server against any client pc(all XP SP3) I get RPC Server Unavailable. Firewall is disabled, exceptions are allowed, all releated services are started. If I run rsop from a client machine against another client machine it works fine. Totally baffled!! I have 2 customers with this exact same problem.

Non delivery report status code 5.1.8

AndreaF — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:42:59 +0000

We have recently deployed an SBS 2003 server with SP2 with the assistance of our local “server guru”. Exchange is not configured for the company use at the moment, but should be sending reports out every morning. Currently, two out of three persons on the delivery list are unable to recieve reports – the system shows a MSD Exchange Transport error as above. The “server guru” says the problem must be at the receiving end, as he is able to get these daily reports – but that doesn’t help us correct the situation to enable our own notifications. Any thoughts or suggestions very welcome….this is beyond what we do in-house at the moment.

Is it possible to restrict a user to one specific workstation

Acarboni — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:36:30 +0000

I’d like to prevent one user from logging on to other people’s computers. The oS os SBS 2003R2

I have installed Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 R2 but am unable to send and receive emails.

ITKE — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:20:58 +0000

I use googleapps standard edition to send and receive my business emails. Domain (abc.com) is hosted by ixwebhosting and MX records point to 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.

I have installed Small business Server 2003 R2 but am unable to send and receive emails.

Is it possible for exchange POP3 connector to send and receive emails from gmail (googleapps)? If so, why i am unable to send/receive emails?