SBS 2003 and beyond:

March, 2009


March 30, 2009  12:52 PM

Publishing SBS 2008 with ISA Server 2004 or ISA 2006 Part 4



Posted by: Roger Crawford
ISA 2004, ISA 2006, SBS 2008

I know I keep promising to finish this series and I will get to it here it has just been a little crazy around here. March and Feb is a big month for birthdays around the house and this last weekend was finally the last one for a while. It was my wife's youngest sons 7 Bday and of course it turned...

March 30, 2009  3:48 AM

Windows 2008 R2



Posted by: Roger Crawford
HyperV, Micosoft Windows Server 2008, Micosoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Have you checked out Server 2008 R2 Beta yet? I downloaded it today and have been working on getting it installed. There are 2 things that I am interested in with this build and that is the new features for HyperV and the new features available for the Terminal Services or as MS now calls it Remote...


March 30, 2009  2:07 AM

Server 2008 HyperV, HP BL 480c and failover with a MSA 2012i



Posted by: Roger Crawford
Failover, HyperV, iSCSI, MSA 2012i, Windows 2008 Server

I know I have been talking about the project I have going on at one customer site. We got a HP c7000 and in this we have 2 BL 480c Blades with dual QC CPU's 48 Gig RAM, 4 NICs and 4 146--HDs and we also have...


March 26, 2009  11:03 PM

Restoring a 2003 Server that had Mirrored Dynamic Disks



Posted by: Roger Crawford
Dynamic Disks, HyperV, Restore 2003 Server, Shadow Protect IT, Windows Server 2003

I had a customer call that had a server that they rebooted and it never came back. Ever been there before? I know we all have many times and here lately it has been because of older hardware and the motherboard just giving up the Ghost. Well i got on-site and yip it was dead and now what to do. As...


March 22, 2009  6:36 PM

SBS 2003 Server to new hardware



Posted by: Roger Crawford
SBS 2008, SBS2003

Friday night I and another one of our techs moved a Server running SBS 2003 to new hardware. it use to be we would do some kind of swing method to do this but on this one I thought why not lets try the Shadow Protect method on this one that I have been using for Physical to Virtual...


March 22, 2009  12:18 AM

IE 8 and RWW



Posted by: Roger Crawford
IE 8, SBS2003, SBS2008

Ok I thought why not today and updated my Vista Laptop to IE 8 install went pretty well but the big thing to me what will it do you my connections to SBS 2003 and SBS 2008 RWW pages. Not much I got the warning about the TS Active X and went and checked add ons and it was enabled there. So I went...


March 16, 2009  11:27 AM

Failed 2003 DC and Restore Problems



Posted by: Roger Crawford
Active Directory Restore, USN Rollback, Windows 2003 DC Restore, Windows 2003 Server

Well we had a DC die on us Friday in our office and this was also the FSMO Master of the domain plus it had the Enterprise CA on it. The DC was brought up Virtually on our BDR Device but in the...


March 16, 2009  2:36 AM

Network Admin



Posted by: Roger Crawford
Network Admin

You hear the words Network Admin and sometimes that brings visions of being locked down and limited on what you can do on the PC you work on or places you can go on the web. There is a reason things are locked down or you are limted on where you can go. But there is also the side of the Network...


March 16, 2009  2:33 AM

2003 Server and Enterprise CA Restore



Posted by: Roger Crawford
Enterprise CA, Windows Server 2003

Well as stated in the previous post we had a 2003 DC that was the FSMO Master and also the Enterprise CA for the domain die on us. When we had the Virtual DC running I did a back of the CA to...


March 8, 2009  12:04 AM

SBS 2003 and SBS 2008



Posted by: Roger Crawford
SBS, SBS 2003, SBS 2008

I know this blog is suppose to be all about SBS 2003 and SBS 2008 but sometimes there is not a lot of things happening at the moment and I am off on other missions. One thing nice about the SBS 2003 and SBS 2008 Servers I have out there is they just plain run with no problems bad for me but good...