December 9, 2011It seems like every month I get a call about someone not being able to send or receive an email due to size limits. If you know where all the limits are in the Exchange Management Console (and if you’re aware of the 30% bloating that happens with email attachments) you can usually resolve that [...]
Posted in Exchange, Exchange, HowTo, Mailbag, PowerShell, SBS 2008, SBS 2011 
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August 23, 2011More info and updates for your network admin pleasure. SBS 2003 KB #303650 – SBS 2003 – Intranet site is identified as an Internet site when you use an FQDN or an IP address http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303650/ SBS 2008 KB #2589338 – SBS 2008 – Error message when you attempt to change the software update settings http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2589338/ [...]
Posted in KB Articles, SBS 2003, SBS 2008, SBS 2011, WHS, WHS 2011 998 Comments »
June 23, 2011Each month when we do test restores of client servers, we pick a few files to demonstrate and verify that the files are valid. And typically the files we choose are JPGs because you can ‘see’ that there is content in them, not just some hollow Word or Excel doc that ‘looks’ OK. Using JPGs [...]
Posted in Backup, HowTo, SBS 2008, SBS 2011 788 Comments »
August 30, 2010Some people like to turn off Outlook Web Access (OWA) for certain employees for security reasons. Of course, you can individually double-click users in the console to see if OWA is enabled… …or via the Exchange Management Console… …but there is no speedy way in the SBS 2008 console to get a master list of [...]
Posted in Exchange, PowerShell, SBS 2008 1,401 Comments »
August 23, 2010Here’s another batch of new/updated SBS KB articles SBS 2008 Recent KBs: KB #2097035 – SBS 2008 – Installation on Hyper-v Server fails with an Error "The User Role Cannot be found. Select a different User Role" http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;2097035 KB #2291678 – SBS 2008 – Windows SBS Console may crash because of incorrect Environment Variables http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;2291678 [...]
Posted in Hyper-V, KB Articles, Migration, SBS 2003, SBS 2008 1,284 Comments »
August 17, 2010KYSBSUG August 2010 Meeting #78 – SBS 2008 Disaster Recovery Using Hyper-V Presenters: Tim Barrett & Kevin Royalty Date: Wednesday August 18, 2010 Time: 6:30-8:30 PM Eastern Venue: Money Concepts Address: 323 Townepark Circle, Louisville, KY 40243 Map: Click here Registration URL: Click here to register today! Description: Your customer calls and says, "Our server [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery, Hyper-V, SBS 2008, Virtualization 1,022 Comments »
August 3, 2010Here’s the latest info on new SBS KB articles. SBS 2008 Recent KBs: KB #2275538 – SBS 2008 – Migrating Exchange Data from SBS 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;2275538 KB #2275779 – SBS 2008 – Migration Source Server Retirement and Environment Health Check http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;2275779 KB #2275550 – SBS 2008 – Migrating Folder Redirected Shares from SBS 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;2275550 [...]
Posted in KB Articles, Migration, SBS 2003, SBS 2008 842 Comments »
April 7, 2010Do you miss the handy “Mailboxes” view from SBS 2003 that showed you how big the mailboxes are in Exchange 2003? Unfortunately, the Exchange 2007 Management Console in SBS 2008 doesn’t come with that nice handy feature baked into the console. But you can still get that information using (gasp) PowerShell. It’s as easy as [...]
Posted in Exchange, PowerShell, SBS 2008 922 Comments »
April 6, 2010This is one webcast you definitely don’t want to miss! Title: “Third Thursday Webinar: Hyper-V 101” Presenter: Wayne Small [SBS-MVP] Date: Thursday 04/15/2010 Time: 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight (GMT –4) Host: Third Tier Link to attend: Click here for Live Meeting Description: Wayne Small from Sydney Australia, Third Tier consultant and owner of SBSFAQ.com has [...]
Posted in Hyper-V, SBS 2008, Server 2008, Virtualization, Webcast 257 Comments »
December 31, 2009Microsoft has (finally) released the wrapper / installation tool for the Exchange 2007 SP2 install on SBS 2008 (and there was much rejoicing!) Previously, if you tried to install SP2 for Exchange on SBS 2008 you had to start messing with the registry per KB 973862. Thankfully, that’s no longer necessary with the installation tool. [...]
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