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    - sbs 2000 to sbs 2003 hi i am about to upgrade to sbs 2003 on a new machine. This is because the current machine which has sbs 2000 on it is over 5 years old and the hard disk is beginning to fail. i would like some advice on how to go about doing this. I will have 2 network cards, ADSL router, exchange and ISA server. Is this article ok to follow? http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=151 is there anything i should look out for? is there an easier way to move currrent sbs 2000 settings for everything eg exchange to sbs 2003? Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176518
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    - lat range i am trying to follow the following document and i have a few questions regarding this http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=151 the bit where it says the following: f. Check to make sure the External NIC IP address is not included in the LAT range. SBS Console | Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 | Servers and Arrays | | Network Configuration | Local Address Table (LAT) the question i have is - if my internal network is set to 10.1.1.10 and my external network is set to 192.168.1.2 what should i put in the range in the lat to exclude the external nic? Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176517
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    - User name change stops user accessing server drives Hi sbs2000 with two more win2k servers in domain. I have changed only the login name of a user so she logs in with a different username but the account is the same as before. Now although she can login to her client pc but she can't access any of the drives on any of the servers. What could be the reason and how can I fix it? Could it be that active directory has not updated? Thanks Regards Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176511
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    - Anyone has experience with Veritas 8.6 Hi Guys: I'm running an SBS 2000 server with veritas small businness 8.6. I need to move the catalogs from C drive to another share drive. Does anyone has experience doing this or has had any problems moving the catalogs, How do I do this? Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Denise Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176507
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    - Lost Internet access after added in admin group I have a SBS 2000, the clients are XP running through a simple router and dsl line. I added a domain user to the admin group of a local PC and now the user can not get on the Internet(The page cannot be displayed). I removed the user from the admin group but they still can not get on. I rebuilt this machine three times and everytime I add a domain user to the local admin group I lose Internet access. All other network functions are fine. I am running DHCP and my setting do not change, and I can't access sites I know about using just IP addresses, so I don't think it is a DNS issue. If I logon to the machine as adminitrator I have Internet access. I am not sure if this is a SBS or what? Thanks for any input. Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176506
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    - Automatic Send/Receive Lost Hi I have two SBS 2000 systems that users have lost the ability to automatically send/receive e-mail from their Outlook 2003. They now have to manually press Send/Receive in Action/Tools. Outlook 2003 appears to be configured correctly. Got any ideas? Dr. Bob Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176503
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    - lat table - very slow access to the server hi i seem to be getting slow access to the sbs 2000 server from wndows xp clients. one of the configurations that the sbs 2000, two nics and a dynamic ip address, isa and a modem\router needs is to exclude the external nic from the lat range. See below. f. Check to make sure the External NIC IP address is not included in the LAT range. SBS Console | Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 | Servers and Arrays | | Network Configuration | Local Address Table (LAT) the question i have is - if my internal network is set to 10.1.1.10 and my external network is set to 192.168.1.2 what should i put in the range in the lat to exclude the external nic? also, i have followed the following doco see below http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=151 and my clients have very, very slow access to the server. What can be the problem? i have run an ipconfig from the workstatons and it comes up with ip address in the 10.1.1.x range, subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, gateway is the server ip address and dns is the server ip address and dhcp is the server ip address. The sbs firewall client is configured on each workstation. If i try to do an nslookup of the server from the client machine via machine name it comes up that it cannot find the dns server and the dns server is unknown. Then it returns the server name and ip address. The same thing happens if i try to run nslookup from the server. Clients are running wndows xp sp2. The windows xp sp2 firewall is turned off. I need help ASAP. The connection to the server was running ok, we went on holidays and came back to find very slow access to the server. It has gradually gotten slower and slower. any ideas? thanks Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176502
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    - Uncontrolled Unwanted email notifications Is there a setting to force Project Server 2003 to ask before send email notifications? everytime I change tasks or assignments it automatically send the messages. Sometimes I am not ready for this but the messages are sent after I save. Is there a way to temporarly dissallow this or to request that the server ask before send? where is the control point for these email notifications? I know there is one in Project Web acces Email notifications but this is general but is not the part that controls them. I think there was a check box somewhere that I could set to end or not the notification.... any help will be appreciated... Thanks David Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176498
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    - Exchange System Attendant won't start This error cascades to Exchange POP3, MTA Stacks, Information Store and IMAP4 won't start. Needless to say, Exchange is down. System is a fresh install with no service packs. This is after a fresh install with SP1a with the same errors. SP1a install also had Exchange SP3 rollup and KB870540 and 813840. Event Source: NTFRSPerf Event Category: None Event ID: 13527 Date: 1/17/2006 Time: 7:42:09 PM User: N/A Computer: MPSTATION Description: The RPC binding failed in the Open function of the FileReplicaSet Object. The counter data for this object will not be available. The FileReplicaSet object contains the performance counters of the Replica sets whose files are being replicated by the File Replication Service. Event Type: Error Event Source: MSExchangeSA Event Category: General Event ID: 1005 Date: 1/17/2006 Time: 7:42:08 PM User: N/A Computer: MPSTATION Description: Unexpected error The RPC server is unavailable. Facility: Win32 ID no: c00706ba Microsoft Exchange System Attendant occurred. Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7001 Date: 1/18/2006 Time: 8:31:37 AM User: N/A Computer: MPSTATION Description: The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service depends on the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service which failed to start because of the following error: %%0 Event Type: Error Event Source: NETLOGON Event Category: None Event ID: 5775 Date: 1/18/2006 Time: 8:28:14 AM User: N/A Computer: MPSTATION Description: Deregistration of the DNS record '_ldap._tcp.gc._msdcs.malibupharmacy.com. 600 IN SRV 0 100 3268 mpstation.malibupharmacy.com.' failed with the following error: DNS bad key. Data: 0000: 39 23 00 00 9#.. These error didn't start immediately, it was about a day or so after the clean install. Any thoughts? Thanks. Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176496
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    - Outbound FTP access. Using SBS2003 premium and running ISA 2004. Outbound FTP access seems to being stopped. The user can connect all ok to the remote FTP site, with a user and password. But as soon as you try and upload you get a access denied error. Downloading is all ok. Have already unticked the FTP Read-Only access for the FTP filter but this hasn't made any difference, also rebooted server after this... Any Ideas?? Thanks Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176491
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    - SBS2003 SP1 install problem. Hi, The product is SBS 2003 Standard. So using the download version of the service pack. When coming to installing the last step 'SBS2003-KB885918-SP1-X86-ENU.EXE' The setup starts but after about 20 seconds, i get a message about the user needs to be part of the Domain Admin, Enterprise Admins or Schema Admins. Using the user Administrator which is a member of all of the above groups!!!! When selecting ok on the message it says that the install failed with a error, and to view the error log. When looking in the error log there are no errors listed, it displays certain parts of sbs like exchange etc. checking if there ok before the patch is applied, and everything says 'ok'. Anybody any ideas whats going on. Thanks. Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176490
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    - How to solve this issue 3 of our DCs log the following error in the event viewer, they report this error again and again. "The server {73E709EA-5D93-4B2E-BBB0-99B7938DA9E4} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp." When start Windows Installer service, it stop reporting the error, but after bout minutes, the Windows Installer service is stopped automatically, then it report the error again. Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176489
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    - Invitation - Kentucky SBS User Group Meeting (01/18/2006) You are cordially invited to the January 2006 meeting of the Kentucky Small Business Server User Group (KYSBSUG)! http://www.kysbsug.org Date: Wednesday January 18th 2006 Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Eastern (GMT -5) (doors open at 6:00) Location: University of Louisville Building: Shelby Campus - ITRC Building Conference Room: Multimedia Theater Address: 9001 Shelbyville Road City/State/Zip: Louisville, KY 40222 Contact: Tim Barrett timbarrett@rehabdesigns.com Register today FREE at the following URL: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=106310 Agenda: - SBS News & Updates - Amy Luby Presents Microsoft CRM 3.0 & SBS - We'll also talk to Nick Pieters with the Belgium SBS Group about SBS abroad - Wrap-up and give-aways - Followed by 'Geek Speak' at Chili's restaurant afterwards for those interested LIVEMEETING: If you cannot attend in person and would like to attend via Microsoft LiveMeeting, just register at the link above. We'll e-mail out the LiveMeeting info to folks who registered before the event starts. Seating is limited so register today! ITRC Parking: Make sure you come in the building and get a parking pass to display in your windshield before the meeting starts. IMPORTANT - This is a secure building, so please try to arrive no later than 6:30 PM Eastern to be sure you can get in the building. E-mail Tim Barrett at timbarrett@rehabdesigns.com or call (502) 817-3456 with any questions. Campus Map: http://www.theitrc.com/html/shelby_campus.html Expedia Map: http://tinyurl.com/2meg5 Directions to the U of L Shelby Campus - iTRC: (The Shelby Campus is in the EAST end of Louisville, one block West of Hurstbourne Lane) From the Airport: Take I-264 East (Watterson Expressway) out of the airport for approximately 6 miles. Once you pass the I-64 interchange, look for US 60 (Shelbyville Road) which is the St. Matthews/Middletown exit. Go East towards Middletown for approximately 1 mile through a commercial, and then residential, area. Shelby Campus will be on your left. From I-64: I-64 West into Louisville to the Jeffersontown/Middletown exit #15 which is Hurstbourne Lane (State Road 1727). At the end of the ramp, turn right towards Middletown. Stay on Hurstbourne to US 60 (Shelbyville Road) which is approximately 1 mile. Turn left onto US 60. Shelby Campus is on your right just past the first red light. From I-65: I-65 North into Louisville to I-264 East (Watterson Expressway). Go approximately 6 miles to US 60 (Shelbyville Road) at the St. Matthews/Middletown exit (which is just past the I-64 interchange). Go East towards Middletown for approximately 1 mile through a commercial, and then residential, area. Shelby Campus will be on your left. From I-71: I-71 South into Louisville to I-264 West (Watterson Expressway). Go approximately 2 miles to the US 60 (Shelbyville Road) at the St. Matthews/Middletown exit. Go East towards Middletown for approximately 1 mile through a commercial, and then residential, area. Shelby Campus will be on your left. -Tim Barrett, MCP [SBS] Microsoft Small Business Specialist Kentucky Small Business Server User Group (KYSBSUG) Website: http://www.kysbsug.org E-mail: timbarrett@rehabdesigns.com Blog: http://timothybarrett.blogspot.com Office: (502) 266-9061 x105 Fax: (502) 266-6251 Cell: (502) 817-3456 Protect your PC http://www.microsoft.com/protect Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176486
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    - Best way to give user access to files and directories We just installed a windows 2003 server that is a member of a windows 2000 domain. We are planning to move the user files and directories off the 2000 server and onto the 2003 because of space issues. Each user has a home directory and some are sharing folder inside that directory with other users. I noticed that when I can here that most if not all of the directories have group Everyone listed in the permissions and security which makes me think that all users can access all directories. My question is what is the best way to tighten up the accesss to the files to only allow each user access to their own directory and grant permission to some files within that to some other users. And at what level does Group Everyone need to be at, and what permission does that group need. Thanks Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176484
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    - cached mode (smtp) and pop account Inheritance Network MD = POP account users = pop account = Exchange as storage. MD wants exchange but wants to download his mail whilst at home via his pop account. Would this still work...... Just wondering if one uses cached mode in the office and once home they connect to their home lan network and receive mail via another pop account would the mail go the offline folder. The network is not fully exchange enabled Just wondering since i can't test this scenario but I'm sure it would work. April Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176480
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    - VPN Client No Internet Access trying to find HOW TO configure external XP pro client to use VPN and access the internet we have the VPN working and he can connect to SBS and access shares etc. (set up with static pool of addresses) ... when He is connected via VPN he cannot access the Internet (gets a DNS or page not found error) ... if we "uncheck" the "use default gateway.." checkbox on the advanced tab of the TCP/IP properties of the client's VPN network connection properties he gains internet access but loses the ability to access the SBS 'shares' and Exchange server ... (we have him login into his XP Pro box as a "local (this machine)" user ... when he has used this XP Pro machine inside our firewall and logs in to the network he can access the internet (i.e. no firewall restrictions on either this machine or this network user) is there a "cookbook" somewhere that shows how to set up an SBS 2000 server and an external (from the internet) client ... that allows the client to access the SBS Shares and Exchange (using Outlook 2002 client) and still have Internet access ??? thanks Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176477
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    - Unable to Stop/Start Services, Access Windows Update, Uninstall, e We intended on upgrading from SBS 2000 to 2003 and ran into a lot of trouble. First, we tried to free up some space on the hard disk and were unable to uninstall 2 different programs - it would just stop responding. Also, when we started the installation of 2003, it would hang up at the begininning where it was checking the setup requirements (specifically 18 of 42). Also, when we tried to stop and start any of the services - it would timeout. Does anyone have any idea what might be going on or have any suggestions for going forward? Apart from this, everything else seems to be running okay. Thanks for any help you can provide. Kerri Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176476
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    - Top three SPAM Filters for SBS 2003 Would someone be nice enough to give me the top three: 1. SMTP 2. POP3 PS I am running SP1 on my SBS 2003 system. I wonder if this "Microsoft Exchange Server: Exchange Intelligent Message Filter" is worth upgrading to SP2. I know I get the 75GB increase in space which I currently do not need. I imagine the IMF is only SMTP-based and I have a few clients that *must* use the POP3 connector to accomodate all the remote users (100s) that must have email accounts that cannot be created on the SBS Server. TIA, Frank Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176472
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    - Desktop icons vanish Only one laptop user out of a dozen or so is getting this issue, even though all of them move between offices. We have My Documents and the Desktop redirected to the user's home drive on the server. The home drives are replicated via DFS between the servers at 3 offices, as we have desktop users who travel themselves between these offices and need local access. This user is returning to his normal office and logging on OK. All his desktop icons appear. However, sometime during the morning (let's say 1-2 hours later) his desktop will vanish. I check the DFS and the icons will have disappeared across all the servers. I then have to restore from tape. The Desktop is part of his redirected My Documents, but nothing else in that folder disappears, and the Desktop folder remains, albeit empty. Any ideas why this would happen, and where that delay in them disappearing comes from? Cheers Rob Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176471
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    - HTTP Redirector: Send To Requested Web Server Hello, I am STILL puzzled by the HTTP Redirector. Does this effectively disable the cache for ALL clients? I have enabled this setting and it DOES resolve an authentication problem I had with a particular site. On page 531 of "ISA Server 2000: Building Firewall for Windows 2000" (Shinder), we get the following: "Use this option if you NEVER want SecureNAT and Firewall Clients to access the web proxy service for HTTP requests". Fair enough. My understanding of the isaserver.org article "Configuring Web Proxy Clients for Direct Access" is that this option merely "ALLOWS" clients to bypass the cache (rather than prevents them for accessing it): http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Configuring_Web_Proxy_Clients_for_Direct_Access.html All my workstations have the Firewall Client loaded. I "reset" the ISA Cache and expected it to remain empty. Files are starting to reapper. How can this be? Sincere apologies if this is a daft question, but the penny just has not dropped. TIA Stephen Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176468
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    - sbs nomas tool. Hi, I would like to know if some one could send me the sbs 2000 nomas tool. Not sure why but its not downloadable from the net. Thanks Kunal Ambasana Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176467
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    - opening ports in sbs 2000 to let external access to program SBS blocks ports on various programs and things like messenger. I tried to acc3ess a site in sbs and got page cannot be displayed, when i use normal or dialup, I can get to the link. the site is pozfusion.com and tried to DL demo. Also Have a client that wants to use an external link to a program that needs these ports opened for entrust ( encryption) 829, 709, 389 for appgate 22 and for http access port 80. Theo program is from service canada for checking EI clients for our social department. Need help is there anyway to turn it off Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176466
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    - server memory 99% full Hello helpful people, I have a 2000 SBS server for a network of 12 users. over the weekend, my email has dried up and I cant receive any. i have spoken to my ISP and he asked me to check out the server. i have done this and see that the memory is 99% full, which I guess isnt helping matters. Is there a way that I can go into the server and delete old/unused/irrelevant items to free up space? grateful for any assistance. Thanks Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176460
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    - Unable to re-boot remotely Hi, Windows 2000 SBS is unable to re-boot remotely either by Start|Shutdown|Restart or via the Management Console. Apparently there is a Blue Screen of Death on the Server. Unfortunately, I am 200Klms from the Site and am trying to Install all the latest Patches. I have to get someone in to Re-Start the Server. Has anyone any ideas? Regards David Hellewell Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176453
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    - DNZ issues. Hi Dear Hope you are doing fine. I have a problem was wondering if you can assist me. Here is the Scenario. I have two DMZ Web servers windows 2000 behind the firewall let's call them DMZ1 and DMZ2 I have two Application member servers inside of firewall let's call them Server1"Win2000" and Server2 "Win 2003". All the servers can ping to each other but when I want to ping by name from DMZ web servers to the member servers I can not. I can not access or map any folders from DMZ servers to the Member Servers. And that started lately. I don't know what to do. I have release or bypassed the rights in the firewall for accessing DMZ to the member servers. I have included all the server names in the "HOST" and "LMHOST" in all the 4 servers. Do you know what is wrong? I know DNS is the problem since I can ping to ip address but not name. What can I do to fix it, because people remotely with FTP or directly within the network try to access some apps from DMZ to the Member servers but they get access denied or network can not be found error? Thanks a lot. Eric evartan@yahoo.com Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176452
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    - SQL 2000 sp4 stops SBS2003 setup I am adding CRM3.0 to my SBS 2003 setup. CRM 3 requires SQL 2000 with sp4. Having installed sp4, I then needed to run SBS setup for another component. The setup failed when checking its components stating that SBS needed SQL sp3. It clearly isn't recognising sp4. Is there a fix for this? Setup aborted at this point and wouldn't let me continue. Does this mean I need to roll back the sp4 to sp3 in order to make changes to SBS setup? Admin Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176447
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    - SBS2003 and DSL Modems. First off, Thanks for reading this post. Iâ??m a bit new to what Iâ??m trying to do in this post, so if this sounds a bit simple to some, please pass anything you can along to me. I am trying to get SBS2003 to play well with a DSL Modem/Router. The Server has an inside and outside NIC card. We attempted to get a connection to the Internet two ways. #1, Connect the DSL Modem to the outside NIC, turn off the router functions, and let SBS2003 handle all of the connection information. User Name, Password and so on. The Modem dials out, but the IP address coming back from the modem is not the static number that we have. Tried several modems from the DSL provider, but the problem is between SBS2003 and the DSL Modem. Unfortunately the DSL provided will not allow â??Otherâ?? brands of modems so we are stuck. This modem will simply not pass on the Static IP address that is ours, and provides a phantom address, which renders this useless in this configuration. So seeing that this will not work, no matter what we try, we moved to connection #2. #2, Connect the DSL Modem to the network switch, turn ON the router functions, and let the Modem/Router handle all connection information, Username, Password and so on. Making sure the Server now knows the Internet Gateway is the router that is on the switch. This works fine, but we can not provide for most of the needed functions of SBS2003 from the outside world. The most we get is Internet to all of the machines. Remote Access, Remote Mail, Remote Desktop among other things simply will not work with this configuration. We know this. And connecting this configuration to the outside NIC also does not work since the Server and the Router functions fight with each other and the Static IP again is not passed to the server. But the odd thing, the STATIC IP address is showing in this configuration but will not pass off to the server no matter what we try with Configuration #1 or #2. This sent us in many directions, and our final thought was to try what we are trying now. I will give a bunch of fake IP numbers just to show what directions we are moving in right now. We have connected the DSL Modem to a Linksys Router BEFSR41. In the router, DHCP is turned off, and it is given an IP of 192.168.30.1 We have also programmed in the static IP address given by the Modem. The Linksys router is then connected to the server through its outside NIC with an IP address of 192.168.30.2 All pertinent Gateway, Subnet and DNS information is programmed into the Linksys Router as well. The outside NIC on the server is then given the IP of 192.168.30.2, Subnet of 255.255.255.0, Gateway of 192.168.30.1 (the Linksys Router) and the DNS of the router 192.168.30.1 And finally, the DMZ of the Linksys Router is turned on for the IP address of the Outside NIC of the server. (192.168.30.2) In theory, what we think should have happened was to basically get by the DSL Modem Problem by making the DSL Modem and the LinkSys Router one big Cable Modem that just hands over to the server a Static IP address (192.168.30.1) from the router, and make it think itâ??s the outside one and let the router deal with the DSL Modem problem on not handing off our Real static IP address. This works, for about 90% of what we need. We are able to connect to our serverâ??s remote sites, (http://remote.whatever.com/remote) and we are able to check mail, and most of the other functions of the remote area, but we are unable to connect to a remote desktop at all. When we choose this selection, it sends us the certificate to allow us to get into the remote area. Then it displays the lists of machines on the network. When we click on one of the machine to remotely work on that machine, it does nothing until it ultimately times out. I know this is a long shot, but has anyone else ever had problems with DSL like we have and connecting DSL with SBS2003, or have ever tried what we are trying. It seems for the most part we are on the right path since we have more and more things that we are able to do, but there is something missing that we canâ??t quite figure out that might be on the Server end or the Modem/Linksys end, and we are now stumped. We canâ??t figure out why SBS2003 will not work with DSL Cable Modems, and we have also found that there are many people who have the same problems when trying to let SBS2003 do the dialing, login and password functions of the DSL Modem. So we have tried other routes as I have said, with great results but can not get there 100%. Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on our problem. I know this is not something that everyone would or should try, but we are trying to keep things as secure as possibly and still have our remote access with this stubborn DSL Modem and Company. Thanks for all the help! Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176444
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    - Quick Explanation? I'm considering Small Business Server 200X for our office. Back in the day, when NT 4.0 was the thing to run, there were two types of licensing - per server and per seat. How does microsoft currently license their server technology? I have an office with 7 people, potentially 11 more VPN'ing in to join the network. I don't know if concurrent connections, etc... affect the terms. OBD Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176442
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    - Stopping Exchange and SQL before backup I need to delete and re-create an array on my SBS 2k server which contains the system volume, as well as SQL and part of Exchange (not MDBDATA). I intend to do a core OS install, followed by full restore from tape (Backup Exec 8.5 for SBS). If I stop Exchange and SQl services before I run a backup, could I restore Exchange and SQl from full file copies of their directories when I'm doing the primary OS restore from tape? Exchange and SQL would not even exist yet on any drives as part of the core OS install. It doesn't seem as though log files would be an issue that way (they are not even on the array being re-created). Perhaps I'd have to change the Exchange or SQL startup types. I'm not in disaster recovery mode and have some leeway. I could use the Backup Exec agents for Exchange and SQL (and do have backups), but I would like to minimize the efforts required. Thanks for any help, -- Joseph B. Welna Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176441
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    - Failed Drive Running SBS 2000 on a Compaq Proliant. We had the boot drive fail, it was being mirrored. The boot drive is not bootable and returns an error message of imminent failure. The mirrored drive seems to be ok, but how do I break the mirror and make it the active boot drive when I cannot boot to the OS? Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176429
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    - Ghost SBS2k system partition ? One of the SBS2k disaster recovery whitepapers mentions ghosting the SBS2k system partition as a means of backup. Is this a supported option? If so, what's a suitable application and version to do that? I need to change the raid array that contains the system volume from raid 0 to raid 1, and will have to recreate the array to do so. I would like to avoid an OS reinstall and restore from backup, if at all possible. Thanks, Joe Welna Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176419
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    - messages get stuck in the Hi, I am using Windows SBS 2000 and intermittently, messages get stuck in the Exchange SmallBusiness SMTP connector queue. Though recipients to whom messages are sent seem to be random, the problem occurs most often when sending to aol recipients and seem to occur whenever sent to one specific aol recipient. The messages show a status of retry, with no other information listed in the status field. Any assistance or direction with this matter is greatly appreciated. Thanks and regards, Dwaine Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176416
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    - Virus Hi we are using a broadband service , while i m putting netstat -n in my command prompt i mgetting lot of foreign ip in the range of 127.0.0.7:X(local ip with some port).. thus it indicated any trojan intrusion in my ssystem or whehter i have to upgrade any service pack for this... Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176415
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    - Replace SBS 2000 with Windows Server 2003 We have a SBS 2000 domain controller and want to replace it with a new Windows 2003 Server. Can we upgrade our 50 SBS2k licenses to our new server or do we need to buy new 2003 licenses? Also, would we be able to configure our new 2003 server in our existing 2000 domain to get all the Active Directory settings, Exchange mailboxes, etc. and then demote our SBS to a member server? We want to continue using it just as a file server. Many thanks Dan Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176414
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    - Replace SBS 2000 with Windows Server 2003 We have a SBS 2000 domain controller and want to replace it with a new Windows 2003 Server. Can we upgrade our 50 SBS2k licenses to our new server or do we need to buy new 2003 licenses? Also, would we be able to configure our new 2003 server in our existing 2000 domain to get all the Active Directory settings, Exchange mailboxes, etc. and then demote our SBS to a member server? We want to continue using it just as a file server. Many thanks Dan Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176413
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    - Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-003 Is it safe to assume that this doesn't affect office 2000 SP1. Thanks April Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176407
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    - upgrade question I'm close to migrating from a SBS2000 domain to a full Windows 2003. I have had Exchange 2003 and SQL 2000 running on different boxes for awhile now. I use a Cisco PIX as my firewall. I don't want to go to SBS2003. After moving some final data/components off of the SBS2000 machine/domain controller - and a few other tasks - I need to retire the SBS2000 machine. My plan is the following and I have a few questions that I'd appreciate any help with: 1) Remove an existing Windows 2000 DC from the network - as a "DC in the closet" fallback option 2) Install a Windows 2003 machine and promote it to a DC in the SBS 2000 domain. Also setup DNS on this machine and make it a GC. 3) Shutdown the SBS2000 machine and use ntdsutil to seize all FSMO roles to the Windows 2003 DC. Q: Would this be the recommended method for getting rid of the SBS2000 machine? Q: Should I dcpromo it then shut it down (if it even can be dcpromo'd) or just shut it down and remove it from the network? 4) Use ntdsutil to clean up metadata that refers to the former SBS2000 machine. Remove references to the old server from DNS. Q: What would be the best method for doing the DNS cleanup? * After the above steps I hope to have the same domain but with the SBS2000 box removed and the domain now running as a full Windows 2003 domain. Q: Will the above steps effectively get me to a full Windows 2003 domain? Thanks Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176403
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    - cannot log into computer, exchange down, dns issues Hi, We are experiencing some major problems with our sbs2k server: After typing in the domain admin user/pass at the login prompt, the prompt disappears leaving a light blue screen. The computer stays at this screen and will remain unresponsive until the power is switched off manually. Before turning it off, we are able to access the shared folders on it (although slow), terminal server sessions open, but remain black (dead) and backup jobs will run, although they will not fully complete. Exchange is down. After the server is turned back on, it runs normally again, until the issue recurs, which is usually the following morning. While the computer is running, I have been examining the event logs and I have discovered the following: at seemingly random times, we get three instances of DNS error event id 4004, and 5 minutes later, followed by recurring instances of DNS error event id 4000, every 5 minutes. The three instances of event 4004 relate to "enumeration of zone ..", "enumeration of zone 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa", "enumeration of zone <ourdomain>.local". Event Type: Error Event Source: DNS Event Category: None Event ID: 4004 Date: 11/01/2006 Time: 7:20:52 AM User: N/A Computer: JSRSBS01 Description: The DNS server was unable to complete directory service enumeration of zone .. This DNS server is configured to use information obtained from Active Directory for this zone and is unable to load the zone without it. Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly and repeat enumeration of the zone. The event data contains the error. Data: 0000: 2a 23 00 00 *#.. Event Type: Error Event Source: DNS Event Category: None Event ID: 4000 Date: 11/01/2006 Time: 7:27:47 AM User: N/A Computer: JSRSBS01 Description: The DNS server was unable to open Active Directory. This DNS server is configured to obtain and use information from the directory for this zone and is unable to load the zone without it. Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly and reload the zone. The event data is the error code. Data: 0000: 3a 00 00 00 :... Also, in our FRS log, we get the following: Event Type: Warning Event Source: NtFrs Event Category: None Event ID: 13562 Date: 11/01/2006 Time: 7:21:35 AM User: N/A Computer: JSRSBS01 Description: Following is the summary of warnings and errors encountered by File Replication Service while polling the Domain Controller jsrsbs01.jsr.local for FRS replica set configuration information. Could not find computer object for this computer. Will try again at next polling cycle. In our Directory service, we receive NTDS General warning event 1655 and error event 1126: Event Type: Warning Event Source: NTDS General Event Category: Global Catalog Event ID: 1655 Date: 11/01/2006 Time: 10:46:47 AM User: Everyone Computer: JSRSBS01 Description: The attempt to communicate with global catalog \\jsrsbs01.jsr.local failed with the following status: The RPC server is unavailable. The operation in progress might be unable to continue. The directory service will use the locator to try find an available global catalog server for the next operation that requires one. The record data is the status code. Data: 0000: ba 06 00 00 º... Event Type: Error Event Source: NTDS General Event Category: Global Catalog Event ID: 1126 Date: 11/01/2006 Time: 10:46:47 AM User: Everyone Computer: JSRSBS01 Description: Unable to establish connection with global catalog. Also, we are receiving 3 W3SVC warnings whenever we boot the server: Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC Event Category: None Event ID: 101 Date: 11/01/2006 Time: 11:11:40 AM User: N/A Computer: JSRSBS01 Description: The server was unable to add the virtual root '/public' for the directory 'M:\jsr.com.au\Public Folders' due to the following error: The system cannot find the path specified. The data is the error code. For additional information specific to this message please visit the Microsoft Online Support site located at: http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp. Data: 0000: 03 00 00 00 .... Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC Event Category: None Event ID: 101 Date: 11/01/2006 Time: 11:11:40 AM User: N/A Computer: JSRSBS01 Description: The server was unable to add the virtual root '/Exchange' for the directory 'M:\jsr.com.au\MBX' due to the following error: The system cannot find the path specified. The data is the error code. For additional information specific to this message please visit the Microsoft Online Support site located at: http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp. Data: 0000: 03 00 00 00 .... Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC Event Category: None Event ID: 101 Date: 11/01/2006 Time: 11:11:40 AM User: N/A Computer: JSRSBS01 Description: The server was unable to add the virtual root '/Exadmin' for the directory '\\.\BackOfficeStorage' due to the following error: The system cannot find the path specified. The data is the error code. For additional information specific to this message please visit the Microsoft Online Support site located at: http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp. Data: 0000: 03 00 00 00 .... The following is the output from IPCONFIG /ALL of our sbs2k server: Windows 2000 IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : jsrsbs01 Primary DNS Suffix . . . . . . . : jsr.local Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : jsr.local Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection Gb: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Server Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-04-23-B9-AF-15 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2 We are also running a file and application server which is running windows advanced server 2k. We are receiving the following errors whenever we are experiencing problems with the sbs2k server: A netBT error event 4319: Event Type: Error Event Source: NetBT Event Category: None Event ID: 4319 Date: 11/01/2006 Time: 11:03:03 AM User: N/A Computer: JSRFS01 Description: A duplicate name has been detected on the TCP network. The IP address of the machine that sent the message is in the data. Use nbtstat -n in a command window to see which name is in the Conflict state. Data: 0000: 00 00 04 00 01 00 54 00 ......T. 0008: 00 00 00 00 df 10 00 c0 ....ß..À 0010: 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0028: 02 00 a8 c0 ..¨À (which shows the message is coming from 192.168.0.2 which is our sbs2k server) and a Browser error event 8019: Event Type: Error Event Source: BROWSER Event Category: None Event ID: 8019 Date: 11/01/2006 Time: 10:39:23 AM User: N/A Computer: JSRFS01 Description: The browser was unable to promote itself to master browser. The browser will continue to attempt to promote itself to the master browser, but will no longer log any events in the event log in Event Viewer. Data: 0000: 34 00 00 00 4... When the SBS2k machine is 'restarted' and the problems go away, so too do the netbt and browser error on the file server. Below is the output of IPCONFIG /ALL for the file server: Windows 2000 IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : jsrfs01 Primary DNS Suffix . . . . . . . : jsr.local Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : jsr.local Ethernet adapter JSR Local Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-76-A0-0B-12 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.3 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2 We have searched far and wide for a solution to this issue, but everything we have found relates to smaller pieces of the puzzle and does not resolve anything. We have verified and re-verified our DNS settings, and tried every solution we could find. We even performed an authoritative restore on AD on the sbs2k server and a non-authoritative restore on the file server. Any help would be very much appreciated! many thanks in advance! kind regards, Victor Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176398
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    - Exchange Update - KB894689, fails Hi, SBS 2000, up to date bar the Subj KB (Exchange 2000 SP whatever (3 I think)). I installed via Microsoft Update initially. The Exchange update failed w' the following message: store.exe EntryPoint Not Found The procedure entry point FSetCallTracingCallbacks could not be located in the dynamic link library EXOSAL.DLL I used stopped IIS Admin and then removed the KB via Add/Remove Programs. Rebooted. Downloaded the update manually. Stopped IIS Admin and Exchange System Attendant. Re-applied the update. No error message this time until I rebooted, whereupon I got the same error. I have removed the update now - and all is well - bar I don't have the Exchange critical update installed - which is of some concern. This is all on my testbed machine. I feel hesitant now to update client server machines with this update. Can anyone help? -- Duncan Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176397
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    - sbs 2000 support life cycle Hi, my company currently is running sbs 2000. We're puchasing 2 new servers are currently exploring the possibility of upgrading to sbs 2003, but also looking at the possibility of just doing a hardware upgrade. Anyone has any ideas of how long MS intends to support sbs 2000? nigel Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176387
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    - Applying MS update KB905015 reduces upload speed to I-net by 50% Hello Everyone, Everytime I install KB905015 cumulative security update for MS internet explorer service pack 1 i lose half of my upload bandwidth. Does anyone know of a hotfix for this? Many Thanks, RP Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176381
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    - Internet Mail Lost Hi, Sorry I first sent this message to the Exchange User Group with no response. Please help. I had to restore Active Directory on my client's SBS 2000 server. Now all Internet mail being sent or received is being lost. There are no errors messages in the event log or in users e-mail boxes. I have reviewed all the connectors and they appear to be okay. POP3 accounts look okay and appear to be pointing to the right user. What am I missing? Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176380
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    - SBS/Exchange 2000 managing multiple domains Using the SBS 2000 pop3 collector with Exchange 2000. Have a default policy which states: (mailnickname=*) SMTP @domain3.co.uk (responsible for all) SMTP @domain3.local (responsible for all) SMTP @domain2.co.uk (responsible for all) SMTP @domain2.local (responsible for all) SMTP @domain1.co.uk (type=checked, primary, (responsible for all)) SMTP @domain1.local (type=checked, (responsible for all)) X400 c=GB;a= ;p=DOMAIN1;o=Exchange; The pop3 collector collects mail for all the .co.uk addresses no problem. Certain users have domain1.co.uk some have domain2.co.uk others domain3.co.uk and a few have multiples. It seems like pg.co.uk and pl.co.uk are simply being lost. The pop3 collector collects but the mail does not appear in the mailbox. i.e. i get mail to my domain1.co.uk but not domain2.co.uk or domain3.co.uk It did all use to work when the SBS server's IP was allowed to relay. However this caused Exchange to resend (well try to resend) incoming mail to other external recipients like the pop3 catch all bug. I'm certainly going to be glad when I can ditch this pop3 collector but its a couple of months away :S I've tried re-adding the domains above, and even checked the type box which I believe is unessecary. Also if sending a mail from internal to a valid address at domain2.co.uk or domain3.co.uk the exchange server delivers it. If sent to an invalid address at those domains the exchange server pushes it out to our host's smtp server which then bounces back an ndr (as there is no such pop3 box). Solutions? Help!! :( Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176373
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    - Questions about upgrade from SBS 2000 to full 2003 domain I'm close to migrating from a SBS2000 domain to a full Windows 2003. I have had Exchange 2003 and SQL 2000 running on different boxes for awhile now. I use a Cisco PIX as my firewall. I don't want to go to SBS2003. After some final data off of the SBS2000 machine/domain controller - and a few other tasks - I need to retire the SBS2000 machine. My plan is the following and I have a few questions that I'd appreciate any help with: 1) Remove an existing Windows 2000 DC from the network - as a "DC in the closet" fallback option 2) Install a Windows 2003 machine and promote it to a DC in the SBS 2000 domain. Also setup DNS on this machine and make it a GC. 3) Shutdown the SBS2000 machine and use ntdsutil to seize all FSMO roles to the Windows 2003 DC. Q: Would this be the recommended method for getting rid of the SBS2000 machine? Q: Should I dcpromo it then shut it down (if it even can be dcpromo'd) or just shut it down and remove it from the network? 4) Use ntdsutil to clean up metadata that refers to the former SBS2000 machine. Remove references to the old server from DNS. Q: What would be the best method for doing the DNS cleanup? * After the above steps I hope to have the same domain but with the SBS2000 box removed and the domain now running as a full Windows 2003 domain. Q: Will the above steps effectively get me to a full Windows 2003 domain? Thanks Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176371
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    - SBS 2000 Trashed For some reason, my SBS 2000 server is in bad shape. I cannot do an upgrade to SP4 I cant do an Windows update from the web. I am going to put SBS2003 on a new box, but my question is: what would happen if I installed Windows 2000 Server over the SBS 2000, just so I could do a migration. I have a legit copy of Windows 2000 server so that would not be an issue. What happens to the other elements in SBS like Exchang, IIS and SQL. Any assitance would be appreciated. I inherited this mess from the former IT guy. Thanks.... Bob J Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176367
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    - SBS 2000 Trashed What would happen if I install Windows 2000 Server over my SBS 2000 Server? Would everything still function (Exchange, SQL, IIS) Would my data and programs be ok. My SBS2000 won't let me put SP4 on and I can't get updates from Web. Any help will be appreciated.... Bob Joyce Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176366
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    - SUS oddity after WMF patch Anyone else noticed that SUS 1.x suddenly seemed to 'un-approve' (i.e. display as unticked) lots of previously 'approved' patches? Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176363
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    - Server Crash Help! I have a client who's SBS 2000 server lost 2 drives in their array. Server was configured with only the "C: drive" and 3 disks in a Raid 5. Question is this: They do not have the media onsite any longer, but they do have SBS 2003. Is it possible to go ahead and install the updated version of the SBS software and still recover and restore the Exchange Information Store to the newer version of the software? Gut feeling tells me no, but I thought it doesn't hurt to see if anyone has ever done this. Please help!! Dale young Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176361
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    - KB887624 & KB909544 I need to install these two updates, more particularly the first since its in the URGENT list on windows update, but every time I try to install they fail. So I tried downloading from the download site and installing myself (not through WSUS) and no luck, anyone else had this problem, or is there a way to clear the cash of downloads and let it download again. Becasue it seems as though its already been downloaded on the server since the attempt to download takes no more than a second then it says FAILED. Please help. THanks in advance. Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176356
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    - POP3 mailbox not accepting updated passwords I have a user whose computer crashed and they've now been updated from W2K Pro to XP Pro. (That in itself was a nightmare but we'll leave that for another day). The user name has also been changed from firstnamesurname to firstname for this particular user. The user is able to logon to the network on the XP machine with firstname/password without problem. When the user tries to poll his mailbox, it is rejected as bad user/password. I've telnetted to the pop3 server and tried to logon using his name and password and receive the same result. I'm stuck as to what to do. The user has mails arriving as we speak and cannot access them. I was under the understanding that changing the password (reset password on user in Acive Directory) also changed the pop3 logon passwords. If it does (or is supposed to) it isn't happening. I'm using SBS2000 with Exchange 2000. All service packs etc. have been applied. I'd appreciate some help asap! Mike Tag: Disaster recovery exercise Tag: 176348

hi all

I'm have trouble with rebuilding my SBS2K offline on a new machine
(named SONE) (with different hardware).

A clean SBS2K has been installed on SONE, Exchange SP3 and SBS2K SP1 has
also been installed. Then I try restored the system state from the
backup. Everythings look fine till this point.

I restarted the server, and while starting Windwos, a blue screen came
up.... said somthing like "INASSESSBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"...

So I thought that was because of the different hardware so I tried to
repair the windows using the SBS2K Disk 1. However, the blue screen is
not going away after the repair... same error message says
"INASSESSBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"...

The existing SBS2K is running on a RAID5 SCSI HDDs, and SONE only got 2
IDE HDDs... would this be the cause of the problem? How can i fix it?

I'm planing to rebuild SONE (again!), so I'd appreciate if anyone can
show me the right direction. All I want is to rebuild SONE offline and
replace the current one when it's ready.

thanks in advance.
shawn

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Re: Disaster recovery exercise by Karan

Karan
Wed Feb 22 06:18:55 CST 2006

Hello,

The kind of scenario you have got is not recommended in any case and blue
screen is always promised. Restoring the system state backup is supported
only on same hardware, if there is a difference between the hardware then
blue screen is expected. running the repair on domain controllers is not
recommended and especially if it is a SBS. the other option you have got is
to promote SONE as an ADC to existing SBS and then proceed further.

Incase if you need any help then you may contact me at
karanrustagi@hotmail.com you might try me on IM with same ID.
"shawn" <shawn@1.com> wrote in message
news:43d11e51$0$2701$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
> hi all
>
> I'm have trouble with rebuilding my SBS2K offline on a new machine (named
> SONE) (with different hardware).
>
> A clean SBS2K has been installed on SONE, Exchange SP3 and SBS2K SP1 has
> also been installed. Then I try restored the system state from the backup.
> Everythings look fine till this point.
>
> I restarted the server, and while starting Windwos, a blue screen came
> up.... said somthing like "INASSESSBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"...
>
> So I thought that was because of the different hardware so I tried to
> repair the windows using the SBS2K Disk 1. However, the blue screen is not
> going away after the repair... same error message says
> "INASSESSBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"...
>
> The existing SBS2K is running on a RAID5 SCSI HDDs, and SONE only got 2
> IDE HDDs... would this be the cause of the problem? How can i fix it?
>
> I'm planing to rebuild SONE (again!), so I'd appreciate if anyone can show
> me the right direction. All I want is to rebuild SONE offline and replace
> the current one when it's ready.
>
> thanks in advance.
> shawn

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