SBS 2003 and beyond:

Microsoft Windows


January 31, 2009  11:29 PM

Exchange 2003 Server SP 2 Install Error



Posted by: Roger Crawford
Exchange 2003, Exhange 2003 SP2, Microsoft Windows, SBS 2003

One of our techs had a Exchange 2003 SP2 server that the OWA quit working and I suggested that he do  a Exchange 2003 reinstall. That usually clears up any of these quirky...

January 29, 2009  2:00 AM

SBS 2008 and Intermittent Outlook Anywhere Problems



Posted by: Roger Crawford
Microsoft Windows, SBS 2008

We had a tech working on a migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 and everything was going good for him with his first migration. His customer relies heavily on Outlook Anywhere for the...


January 27, 2009  1:30 PM

SBS 2003 with ISA 2004 Internal Client VPN Problems



Posted by: Roger Crawford
ISA 2004, Microsoft Windows, SBS, SBS 2003, VPN Clients, Windows Server 2003

I had a customer who has a SBS 2003 SP1 Server with ISA 2004 who uses a VPN off their client machines to a site that they submit claims too using the ATT Global Dialer. Well I got the sheet from them on Ports and IP's that needed to be allowed to do there certain parts and got them all added but...


January 12, 2009  2:07 AM

SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration Part 5



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

I was real pleased with the way this migration worked. The key to a sucessful migration is that your source server is healthy AD wise which makes it very important to use the SBS 2003 BPA on the source server until the reports are clean and your event logs are clean. Also to use the Exchange 2007...


January 11, 2009  3:50 PM

SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration Part 4



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

Houston we have a problem here…….. When testing the RWW connect to computer it would work once and then the rest of the time the login box would keep prompting for a login. Ok what is going on...


January 11, 2009  3:39 PM

SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration Part 3



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

So I got up a little earlier than normal and checked the scheduled jobs I had running and seen that the files had been copied and that the email had been moved. This is tough stuff here. I went...


January 11, 2009  3:25 PM

SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration Part 2



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

As you know on my last post I was starting the SBS2003 to SBS2008 migration for my wife’s business. They have about 20 users in the office and I needed to make this as transparent as possible as...


January 5, 2009  1:38 PM

SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration



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

Today I start migrating my wifes SBS 2003 Server to her new SBS 2008 server. What I am doing is keeping a log of every step time wise, one for the techs in our office so there is a baseline of time that it takes for sure on a migration. Two this SBS 2003 server has all the parts on it from ISA to...


December 31, 2008  9:42 AM

Server 2003 and WRMS setup



Posted by: Roger Crawford
Microsoft Windows, SBS

I have been working on another venture and that was sitting up RMS or Server 2003 Windows Rights Management Services for a customer and you know there is not a lot of content out there that that makes a lot of sense. This works in a SBS 2003 domain also it is just not plain server 2003 Standard...


December 31, 2008  8:34 AM

SBS 2003 and migrating to Exchange 2007 Part 5



Posted by: Roger Crawford
Exchange, Microsoft Windows, SBS

Well it was back at the migration this week and I worked on moving the Public Folders and everything related to this and had no real issues. I am to the point of removing the Exchange 2003 from the SBS 2003 Server and so far I would have to say this has went very well. Other than the Palm OS phones...