Microsoft last week released the latest Update Rollup for Exchange 2007 SP3. This is Rollup 4 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) and contains a host of fixes that have been released since SP3 for Exchange 2007 was released. Microsoft made the announcement here. The complete list of fixes for the patch is available here. Microsoft also advised … [Read more...]
SBS 2011 Standard Migration White Papers
I’ve done a few posts already on migrating to SBS 2011 Standard. I figured I would create this post as a permanent placeholder for all migration whitepapers on how to get to SBS 2011 Standard Edition. Below is the list of whitepapers you need to get to SBS 2011 from the previous versions of SBS. SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 Standard Migration White Paper SBS 2008 to SBS 2011 … [Read more...]
Where can I get the Small Business Server Best Practice Analyser from?
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...]
Does SBS 2008 or SBS 2011 support Network Teaming?
This is a question that often crops up in a few circles. The idea behind network teaming is the ability to take multiple physical cards and to “bind” them together to make them appear as a single network card to the operating system. Typically you would do this for redundancy and “performance” reasons on your network. HP and Dell and others do this via the … [Read more...]
How can I display my users and their mailbox sizes on SBS 2008?
In SBS 2003 or Exchange 2003 you could do this easily via the Exchange management console. However on SBS 2008 or Exchange 2007, you can’t see that same information there. To be able to display your users mailbox sizes you need to use some powershell scripts to do that. Logon to the SBS 2008 server as your administrator account. Open the Exchange Management … [Read more...]