This is something we’ve been doing more of late, migrating customers from SBS 2003, SBS 2008 or even SBS 2011 over to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials or more interestingly, the full version of Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard with the Essentials Experience role added in. When we do this, the email side of things means that clients email needs to be migrated to either … [Read more...]
Exchange 2013 SP3 UR6 – Problems installing?
Building a new server today for a client, and as part of patching we manually installed Exchange 2013 Service Pack 3, and then of course the latest update rollup – which happens to be UR6. UR6 came out in May this year, so it’s not all that new. The Exchange 2013 SP3 went on without a problem – right click, run as Administrator and it was away. It took maybe 30 minutes or … [Read more...]
Update Rollup 4 available for SBS 2011 Standard
Microsoft have recently released the latest update for SBS 2011 Standard. You can find the details here. What is interesting is that this includes a fix for SSL certificate requests to prevent the internal domain name eg mycompany.local from being included in the SSL certificate request that you would send to your SSL Certificate Provider. They have had to make … [Read more...]
How to delete the Datservicecomponents.log file in SBS 2008 and SBS 2011
I’ve seen this on a couple of sites now, but the dataservicecomponent.log file grows quite large on SBS 2008 and SBS 2011. Ensure that the SBS console is closed first of all Stop the Windows SBS service via the Services MMC Navigate to the C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\MonitoringServiceLogs folder Delete the dataservicecomponents.log file … [Read more...]
Error 404.2 when running Connect Computer on SBS 2008 / 2011 with Trend WFBS 8.0
This issue has been reported recently in a few of my fellow MVP’s blogs. The issue is that after installing Trend Micro WFBS 8.0 onto SBS 2008 or SBS 2011 server, when you try to connect computers to the SBS server using the http://connect wizard, the Welcome Page displays, as below, but as soon as you select the “Start Connect Computer Program”, button, you get a 404 – … [Read more...]