Tech Ed 2006 Australia – SBS 2003 R2 – Wayne Small In 2006, at TechEd Australia, the SBS MVPs got the opportunity to present a day full of SBS session. This session is about SBS 2003 R2 and it’s patch management strategy that allows it to automatically look after the servers and workstations in the SBS network with minimal administrator intervention. Duration: 1 hour … [Read more...]
SBS 2003 Best Practice Analyser Updated!
Another news item for today is that the SBS 2003 Best Practice Analyser has been updated. This update takes into account a number of improvements and fixes for the rules. Find out more here http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2008/02/20/small-business-server-2003-best-practices-analyzer-updated.aspx … [Read more...]
SBS 2003 Best Practice Analyser has been launched
Yes- you heard it here first Microsoft today have launched their new analysis tool for SBS 2003 servers that will help understand some of the common configuration mistakes and advise on how to correct them. The tool is available here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3874527a-de19-49bb-800f-352f3b6f2922&DisplayLang=en To give you an idea of what it … [Read more...]
ISA on a DC no longer supported…
Unless it's ISA 2004 on an SBS 2003 Premium or SBS 2003 R2 Premium server. Microsoft has withdrawn support for ISA 2004 or ISA 2006 on a Domain Controller in certain scenarios. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/isa/2004/plan/unsupportedconfigs.mspx#Installation They have also further clarified that they do not support ISA 2006 to be installed on an SBS 2003 Premium or R2 … [Read more...]
How to downgrade to SQL 2000 with SBS 2003 R2 Premium Edition
Microsoft have finally after much community pressure documented the official downgrade path for those customers who have purchased SBS 2003 R2 Premium Edition and still need to run SQL 2000 due to application vendor compatibility issues. This is great news for us SBSers as it's been a thorn in the side of many line of business applications that still (even 2 years after SQL … [Read more...]