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Where can I get the Small Business Server Best Practice Analyser from?

May 18, 2011 by Wayne Small 6 Comments

Microsoft has for some time produced a Best Practice Analyser (Analyzer for the Americans) This BPA allows you to review your SBS installation and will highlight any of the common misconfiguration issues that the Microsoft SBS Product Support Team has identified over time.  The BPA will download the latest updates for it each time it is run and therefore will always … [Read more...]

How to migrate to SBS 2011 from SBS 2003

January 14, 2011 by Wayne Small 1 Comment

Microsoft have released their white paper on how to migrate to SBS 2011 from SBS 2003.  This white paper walks you through all the steps needed to take you from SBS 2003 or SBS 2003 R2 over to SBS 2011 Standard edition.  This basically involves installing the new SBS 2011 server in a side by side situation with the existing server, and migrating data over to it using … [Read more...]

How to migrate from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011

December 24, 2010 by Wayne Small 10 Comments

Microsoft have today released information on TechNet for migration to SBS 2011 Standard Edition from SBS 2003.  This is the first and most likely method that many of our clients will be needing to follow to move over to the new platform given many are still on SBS 2003.  This document available here . I’ll be posting more on my migration from SBS 2008 to SBS 2011 … [Read more...]

How can I resolve the error “Client Setup cannot migrate private user settings” on SBS 2003?

April 16, 2010 by Wayne Small 2 Comments

I had this error on a client site today when deploying a Windows XP machine that had been in operation for many years into an SBS 2003 R2 network. I tried to action the suggested fix from the error message, but this did not resolve the issue.  I then dug deeper into it by using the SBS Client Setup Log file and as you can see below found it was related to some files on … [Read more...]

How to configure a Thomson TG782T to work with SBS 2003 and SBS 2008

April 15, 2010 by Wayne Small 9 Comments

Doing some work for a charity organisation today, and had to configure their Telstra supplied Thomson TG782T router to work with SBS 2003 R2.  Found it rather confusing though as the routers definition of firewall settings refers to outbound settings only – not inbound settings.  Anyway – in order to make it work, I wanted to port forward ports 25, 80, 443, 444, 1723 … [Read more...]

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