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 â...
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If you have tried to stop some of the Trend Micro Services before and found that the stop option is greyed out like below, you might be concerned that things are not right with your server. In fact – they are very right indeed. I normally recommend stopping all Antivirus Services before installing major updates like service packs for Windows or Exchange Server and so on.
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When you install SBS 2008, the default Domain Administrator account called Administrator is actually disabled. People ask what is the password for this account. Quite simple really – when you installed SBS 2008, it forces you to create a Network Administrator account and give that account a password. It takes that password and stamps it on THE Administrator account as well a...
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SBS 2008 is designed from the ground up as a secure environment. So much so that Microsoft designed it so that the Administrator account (often called the –500 account) is actually disabled during the setup of SBS 2008. Instead, during SBS 2008 setup, Microsoft ask you to give a name to create a brand new Network Administrator account. They do this so that each installation ...
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When doing a migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008, there comes a point where you need to remove the old Group Policy Objects from the domain. This is a one way process so I recommend you do an export of the GPO before you remove it – that way if you (like me) make a mistake and remove the wrong GPO, it’s actually simple to re-import it again without the need to do a Directory Services ...
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Recently my Win7 x64 desktop machine started to fail it’s backups to the Windows Home Server I have. I attempted to do manual backups but it just hung at 0% complete as per the screen shot below.
SBS 2008 has an awful lot running on it. It’s not surprise therefore when you find that it takes quite some time to shutdown the server. I’ve seen my own server take 15 to 20 minutes to do a shutdown. The secret to understand is what goes on during the shutdown process. The shutdown process is the reverse of the startup process. What I mean by this is that in t...
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By default SBS 2008 sets the default website to be http://companyweb using group policy. We are often asked to change this to something else if the client is not using the inbuilt Companyweb.
To change the default website for all users in SBS 2008, use the following procedure.
Many people are not aware of the fact you can disable or remove features of Remote Web Workplace such as the Internal Website or the Change Password option. To do this is very simple and does not need any registry edits at all.
Using this procedure you can remove any of the following features from the Remote Web Workplace
To disable features use the followin...
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Saving me the hard work of figuring this one out is Chris Knight. He did some digging and figured out how to install a wildcard certificate into SBS 2008 using the SBS 2008 wizards. His blog post is here for your viewing. Good one Chris – thank you for sharing
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