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    - account lockout policy issues... We have a Windows 2000 Small Business Server and a member Windows 2000 server we are running terminal services in admin mode on. For some reason, we are getting account lockout issues. There is no account lockout "domain security policy" configured on the SBS server nor is there an account lockout configured under "domain controller security policy". Also there also isn't an account lockout "local" policy configured on the Win2K Terminal Server. So, to the best of my knowledge, there isn't ANY account lockout policy configured anywhere, yet we are getting a lockout after 3 invalid atempts which is way too low of a value and is causing issues. We do have a Group Policy(GP) configured on the terminal server OU (organization unit) listed under "active directory users and groups" and a GP defined on the lighlevel domain (ourdomain.local) but NEITHER of these have account lockout configured! So, my question is, where the heck is the account lockout coming from? Could there be a registry setting that did not get changed? Thanks, Brad Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161468
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    - Terminal Services Burning Questions!! Hi all I am currently trying to implement TS and I have a couple of questions that I am unable to find the answers to! Question 1 All our clients are XP so I know we don't need any TS licences but do I still need to install a Licensing Server? Question 2 I want to run Office 2003 on the TS and have succesfully installed it and used it on a clients session. Do I need to purchase any additional licences for Office 2003? Question 3 Users are going to be remotely acccessing TS via a VPN. Is there anything I need to do in relation to that? thanks for any assitance you can provide Mark Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161467
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    - HELP UPDATE KB832880 wont install HI all I'm having real problem with the companyweb part of SBS W2k3 I've tried installing the update which claims to fix the problems with it but windows update cannot install kb832880 I've also run Windows SBS 2003 setup and uninstalled and installed "Intranet" again and again but this problem will not resolve. Why wouldn't it install from the SBS setupdisk in the first place?? Please help, I cannot get the helpdesk or vacation calender to work without this installed properly. TIA Rob Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161464
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    - HELP UPDATE KB832880 wont install HI all I'm having real problem with the companyweb part of SBS W2k3 I've tried installing the update which claims to fix the problems with it but windows update cannot install kb832880 I've also run Windows SBS 2003 setup and uninstalled and installed "Intranet" again and again but this problem will not resolve. Why wouldn't it install from the SBS setupdisk in the first place?? Please help, I cannot get the helpdesk or vacation calender to work without this installed properly. TIA Rob Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161462
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    - Upgrade from SBS2K to SBS 2003 I just upgraded from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003 and while the process seemed to go all right I now have a problem with RWW and companyweb. The installation was done with an uncorrected disk 3 for SharePoint on Saturday but today I got a corrected disk 3 and executed the procedures detailed in KB 829114. This KB has worked for me in a previous installation (but that was not an upgrade.) Now I am getting 4 errors in the event logs. Event Source: W3SVC-WP Event ID: 2214 Desc: The HTTP Filter DLL c:\intepub\sbsflt\sbsflt.dll failed to load. The data is the error. Data: 05 00 00 00 Event Source: W3SVC-WP Event ID: 2268 Desc: Could not load all ISAPI filters for site/service. Therefore startup aborted. Event Source: W3SVC-WP Event ID: 2214 Desc: The HTTP Filter DLL c:\intepub\sbsflt\shrptflt.dll failed to load. The data is the error. Data: 05 00 00 00 Event Source: W3SVC-WP Event ID: 2268 Desc: Could not load all ISAPI filters for site/service. Therefore startup aborted. I looked at the version numbers of both DLL and they are 5.2.2651.0.....does anyone have any ideas?? Terry Barr Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161450
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    - HELP! ICW fails and fails to make SMTP connector Hi We have changed broadband service provider. I reran ICW to make the changes to the DNS forwarders, but forgot to make any changes to the SMTP delivery address (which of course is different) for Exhcange. Now things are working OK (interent, internal email, external emails coming in) but cannot send emails to external recipients. Every time I run ICW after trying to apply the new SMTP delivery address I get an error and it fails. (I do have acces to ICW There is not smtp connector in Exchange. HELP Thanks Anon Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161447
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    - HELP! Need Expert in Seattle area I need the help of a Small Biz 2000 expert in the Seattle area. I have a failed server that is limping along (hard drive errors, OS file corruption) and unable to operate for any length of time without freezing. Help! Marc Gordon Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161439
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    - LAN to LAN VPN Hi there, I have a client with 2 offices. They have a SBS2K server at head office with 20 clients mainly running XP Pro. The SBS runs Exchange and ISA with 2 nics. The Branch office has a W2K server with about 5 clients on W2K Pro or XP Pro. The W2K server just has 1 nic. At each Site there is a Vigor ADSL Router with ISDN backup (not setup). I have enabled a IPSEC VPN between the two routers (I have also tried using PPTP which made a tunnel fine but did not solve the following problem). I can ping between a laptop plugged into the routers and I can ping from HQ to the server at the branch office but I cannot ping the server at HQ. I have adjusted some settings in ISA and can now ping the internal router address at HQ 192.168.1.1 but the server lies at 192.168.0.2 and cannot be seen. However I have bypassed the ISA server and changed the router address to 192.168.0.1 (then re-ran ICW) and physically linked it to the switch and thus same subnet. I then setup a static route in Routing and Remote Access from the HQ server to the router and network addresses at branch office and this pinged ok. However the internet access at HQ was then disabled and I don't know if that is the answer to the problem rather just it proves that somewhere in ISA Server the route is blocked. I have enabled IP Routing in ISA server for packet filtering but to no avail. I am really at a loss as how to talk through ISA server. I have setup the branch office network address 192.168.2.0 up in the LAT on ISA Server but still no good. Is it easier to bypass ISA in the end? Does ISA require another ISA Server at the branch office? Would it be simpler to network 2 ISA Server's? I can VPN in using a windows VPN client and RDP to the server using the server's external IP address on the internet. Does this all make sense? Any ideas? Many thanks Sam. Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161438
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    - Demand-Dial Routing through VPN (PPTP) We have an existing SBS server connected to internet with ADSL Router (on a second NIC) and static address. I'm trying to setup a new server (Windows Server 2003 ) that will connect to the internet through a DSL router (ISDN router for the moment) with a static address. This new server will connect to the existing server with Demand-Dial Routing through VPN (PPTP). Using "Connecting a Remote Office to a Small Business Server 2000 Network" white paper I managed to connect the two servers but the connection fails when it's initiated by the remote office server with the following message: "An error occured during connection of the interface. No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time because there are already as many connections as the computer can accept ". When the connection is initiated by the SBS server it works fine. What could be the cause of this? The SBS server was recently upgraded (migration) from 2000 to 2003 premium but the white paper whould still apply... correct? Thank you, Nikos Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161437
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    - << I have a question?>> A fellow MVP who runs usergroups said that his community just doesn't find value in newsgroups. That you have to filter out a lot of gunk,etc. Just got me to thinking about the time a couple of years back that Jeff Middleton asked "How can we do better?" in the Newsgroups. We haven't done that in a long time... So.... without further ado....I'm asking "How can we [all] do better?" Suggestions? Recommendations? Things that can be done better? Recommendations to take back to Microsoft? Remember, that it's my belief that all of us out here that have the BTDT credentials are higher than any other credential holder, MVP tag line, you name it. [BTDT = been there, done that] -- http://www.sbslinks.com/really.htm Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161432
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    - <<< SBS News of the Week 7/11/2004>>> Kevin's song of the week news://msnews.microsoft.com/O3d95boZEHA.2944@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl --------------- This week is patch week - look our for Tuesday's Security bulletins ----------------- David Barnes posted to my blog this list of patch install steps... So what do you do to install SBS ? http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/07/10/9904.aspx#FeedBack ------------------ Exchange 843363 - List of bugs that are fixed in Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=843363 841995 - The Always-up-to-date Notifications feature may not work with mobile devices in Exchange Server 2003 SP1: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841995 867628 - Monitoring programs report that the Store.exe process consumes additional memory after you install Exchange Server 2003 SP1: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=867628 867626 - New error correcting code is included in Exchange Server 2003 SP1: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=867626 Small Business Server 840685 - An event ID 1000 error message is logged to the application event log when you restart Windows Small Business Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=840685 827601 - Cannot send external mail when your smart host server is different from the ISP server where your e-mail is stored in Windows Small Business Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827601 838429 - The "My Company's Internal Web Site" link on the default Web site Welcome page does not work when you connect to the site over the Internet in Windows SBS 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=838429 838431 - You receive an error message when you try to join your computer to a Windows Small Business Server 2003 domain: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=838431 842612 - You receive a "403 Forbidden" message when you try to connect to a Web site that is on Small Business Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842612 836413 - You receive an "unexpected error occurred" error message when you try to access resources on a Windows-based network from your Macintosh computer: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=836413 837365 - You cannot expand the public folders list in Exchange System Manager on a Windows Small Business Server 2003-based computer: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=837365 -------------------- SBS once again talked about at the WWPC -------------------- CRN | Ringing Up Partner Profits: http://www.crn.com/sections/coverstory/coverstory.jhtml?articleId=22104657 ------------------- Ballmers memo to the troops http://www.fortune.com/fortune/print/0,15935,661919,00.html -------------------- CRN | Microsoft Rethinks Customer Segmentation: http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=22104737 --------------------- Okay so how soon before a bobble head shows up on Ebay? MICROSOFT Tries To Buddy Up To ISVs Information Week - USA ... To entice its employees to participate in the program, Microsoft is handing out bobble-head dolls of senior VP Eric Rudder, the executive in charge of the ... <http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22104671> In other news - - - - - - - - - - Feds drag feet on cybersecurity, officials say Business and government representatives teamed up in March to recommend steps to reduce the nation's vulnerability to cyberattacks. But they say they have yet to receive a response from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and wonder what is causing the delay. "There has been a 'pregnant pause' waiting for a response," says Rick White, CEO of TechNet, a technology industry trade group and co-sponsor of a December 2003 summit to develop an action plan. http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,94391,00.html - - - - - - - - - - Security hole found in Mozilla browser update Developers at the open-source Mozilla Foundation have confirmed that the latest version of their Web browsers have a security flaw that could allows attackers to run existing programs on the Windows XP operating system. The flaw, known as the "shell" exploit, was publicized Wednesday on a security mailing list, along with a link to a fix for the problem. Updated versions of the affected software programs, which include the Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird browsers, have been released. http://news.com.com/Security+hole+found+in+Mozilla+browser/2100-1002_3-5262676.html - - - - - - - - - - Cybsecurity research underfunded, executives say The National Science Foundation can only fund a subset of the research proposals it receives on ways to better IT system security, an NSF official said at a House technology subcommittee hearing. ?There are good ideas in the cybersecurity area that we?re simply not able to fund,? Peter Freeman, assistant director of NSF?s computer and information science and engineering directorate, said at yesterday?s hearing. http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/26526-1.html - - - - - - - - - - Web app vulnerabilities on the rise Nine out of 10 web applications remain vulnerable to attack even after developers think they have been 'fixed', security experts have claimed. A study by security firm Imperva on the vulnerability of public and private web applications found that, despite periodic penetration testing and subsequent fixes, flaws reappeared over time. http://www.vnunet.com/news/1156498 - - - - - - - - - - Fujitsu technique hides data in images Fujitsu has developed a method of embedding data invisibly within printed pictures. The procedure, commonly known as steganography, will allow numerical information to be hidden within a color image and accessed via a camera. Steganograghy involves altering an image in a way that cannot be perceived by the human eye, but which can be detected electronically. Fujitsu's technique can apparently hide a 12-digit number in a 1-centimeter square. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5260241.html - - - - - - - - - - Investigating digital images What's real and what's phony? "Seeing is no longer believing. Actually, what you see is largely irrelevant," says Dartmouth Professor Hany Farid. He is referring to the digital images that appear everywhere: in newspapers, on Web sites, in advertising, and in business materials, for example. Farid and Dartmouth graduate student Alin Popescu have developed a mathematical technique to tell the difference between a "real" image and one that's been fiddled with. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2004/07/01.html - - - - - - - - - - Spam can hurt in more ways than one Small businesses that depend heavily on the Web and e-mail to market products are increasingly caught in a spam squeeze. Hackers and spammers hijack their PCs and then Internet providers wrongly shut down the victims' e-mail. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-07-07-spam_x.htm - - - - - - - - - - E-voting security: getting it right As we noted in our previous story - E-voting security: looking good on paper? - the much-celebrated voter verifiable paper trail is useless as a security measure for Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) election systems, and actually introduces far more problems than it solves. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/08/getting_e-voting_security_right/ Wash. state announces safeguards for electronic voting http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-07-08-wash-evote_x.htm - - - - - - - - - - Security spending rises, as do risks IT security spending across the world is rising, but so are virus and malicious code attacks. The findings from the Global Information Security Survey, conducted by vnunet.com's sister magazine Computing and its international sister publications, shows businesses are not following best practice security advice, but are increasing security budgets to cope with growing threats. http://www.vnunet.com/news/1156507 - - - - - - - - - - Service Pack Deux? Microsoft should make SP2 available to all users and backport the changes to older operating systems, or they risk putting profits ahead of security yet again. As some of you may have guessed by now, one of my side interests when I'm not sitting in front of a computer is the study of history. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/254 - - - - - - - - - - Scotland Yard and the case of the rent-a-zombies Vast networks of home computers are being rented out without their owners' knowledge to spammers, fraudsters and digital saboteurs, security experts said on Wednesday. The terminals have been infected by a computer virus, turning them into "zombies"-- slaves to the commands of a malicious and unseen controller. Connect them all up, and the result is a powerful network of zombie PCs that security experts call a "botnet." http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5260154.html - - - - - - - - - - Everyone saw this right? ISP's have the right to read your mail You've Got Mail (and Court Says Others Can Read It) When everything is working right, an e-mail message appears to zip instantaneously from the sender to the recipient's inbox. But in reality, most messages make several momentary stops as they are processed by various computers en route to their destination. Those short stops may make no difference to the users, but they make an enormous difference to the privacy that e-mail is accorded under federal law. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/06/technology/06net.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Great Britain: A new law on cybercrime is being elaborated The threats facing Britain's Internet-enabled companies and consumers are so great that new laws are needed to fight the problem, and fix the mistakes made by the government in its previous attempts to combat spam. That was the message from the Communications Management Association (CMA) on Monday, as it kicked off a debate into Broadband Britain at the Enterprise Networks show. http://www.crime-research.org/news/07.07.2004/474/ - - - - - - - - - - Old-school worm loves Windows applications The latest Lovgate worm variant can destroy access to hundreds of Windows applications as it spreads. The latest variant of the Lovgate worm scans PCs for executable files and then renames them, a tactic used by viruses from a much older generation, according to antivirus companies. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39159870,00.htm - - - - - - - - - - Password-stealing Trojan cut off at source A malicious program that tried to steal banking passwords has been stopped, says Symantec. An attempt to pinch user information from banking sites using a malicious pop-up program has been nipped in the bud, says Symantec. Last week, security experts uncovered a Trojan horse -- dubbed PWSteal.Refest by the security software maker -- which installs itself through a pop-up advertisement when users logged onto the Web sites of any one of nearly 50 targeted banks. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39159780,00.htm - - - - - - - - - - Lax data security seen at many Japanese companies A Japanese government report published yesterday says at least 40% of companies surveyed are taking no special measures to ensure the privacy and security of personal data stored on computers. Results of the survey were included in the government's annual White Paper on Information and Communications in Japan, which was published by the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications (MPHPT). It comes after several incidents in the last year in which personal information on customers, sometimes numbering into the millions of people, has beenleaked or stolen from Japanese companies. http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,94368,00.html - - - - - - - - - - 36 percent of software worldwide pirated, trade group says O&O Software, with only 28 employees, has built a $3 million-a-year business developing award- winning utilities for personal computers. How much bigger it might be without the plague of software piracy is impossible to say, but it's clear sales are being lost. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/9097724.htm Software piracy losses double http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5259395.html http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/07/07/software.piracy.reut/index.html http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Software-Piracy-Soars&story_id=25750 UK firms 'forget' to pay £1bn for software http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39159797,00.htm http://www.vnunet.com/news/1156500 Software pirates cost $9.7bn in Europe - BSA http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/07/bsa_software_piracy_study/ - - - - - - - - - - Two more from NIST Two new publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology provide technical help for government agencies and businesses that are required to protect information systems. One publication offers a starting point for organizations to understand basic information security principles. The other gives technical tips for setting up electronic authentication using guidelines issued by Office of Management and Budget officials. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0705/web-nist-07-07-04.asp - - - - - - - - - - PC: Hey, your mobile's being stolen! Researchers at Leeds University are developing technology that will allow Bluetooth devices to keep tabs on - and potentially protect - each other. Bluetooth, the short-range personal area networking technology, may have found a new application as a guard dog for notebooks and smartphones. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/emergingtech/0,39020357,39159785,00.htm - - - - - - - - - - Another day, another IE flaw... Yet another vulnerability has been unearthed in Microsoft's Internet Explorer - the company is working on a 'series of updates', it says. A computer science researcher has highlighted the shortcomings of Microsoft's latest patch for its Internet Explorer browser by identifying another way that online vandals could run malicious programs on a Web surfer's computer. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39159868,00.htm Microsoft, biometrics firm to tackle homeland security http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5259889.html - - - - - - - - - - Multi-Layer Intrusion Detection Systems A business critical system has been breached by attackers. Responding to the event, you grab your gear and head down to where the system is. En route a red faced executive seemingly about to explode brushes past you in a hurry, suddenly turning around upon realization that you are the specialist responding to the very incident which has him on the brink. Already knowing the words about to come out of his mouth, the man begins to spout, "We need this system back up immediately!! http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1788 - - - - - - - - - - Attention, Shoppers: You Can Now Speed Straight Through Checkout Lines! Radio-frequency chips are retail nirvana. They're the end of privacy. They're the mark of the beast. Inside the tag-and-track supermarket of the future. I'm in a supermarket called the Extra Future Store in Rheinberg, Germany, 40 kilometers north of Düsseldorf, jonesing for a bit of Philadelphia cream cheese. I feed my request into the touchscreen console on my shopping cart, and up pops a map showing the optimal path to the dairy section. I steer over and grab a box - regular in name but far smarter than the average cream cheese. The package carries a computer chip that talks to a 2-millimeter-thin pad lining the shelf under the box. When I pick up the cheese, sensors in the pad notify the store's database that the box has been removed. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/shoppers.html -- http://www.sbslinks.com/really.htm Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161431
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    - Back-up am endeavouring to complete a new back-up with no success. I am backing up to a 4mm DDS tape which was not formatted at insertion but was formatted by the Server on request. It has no media on it at the present time so this is like an initial back-up. I feel that I am following all the Instructions and have read all the information in "Help" about Back-ups but at the end I receive this message:- "There is no media with this selected type. Add Unused media or click cancel to select another type. It may take up to 60 Seconds for Removable Storage to recognise new media." Initially I was receiving a message which read "add 4mm DDS media to the free storage pool or to Media Pool "\Remote Storage|4 mm DDS" but I appear to have got over that problem. I am obviously missing some point!!! Peter. . Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161430
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    - Back-ups I am endeavouring to complete a new back-up with no success. I am backing up to a 4mm DDS tape which was not formatted at insertion but was formatted by the Server on request. It has no media on it at the present time so this is like an initial back-up. I feel that I am following all the Instructions and have read all the information in "Help" about Back-ups but at the end I receive this message:- "There is no media with this selected type. Add Unused media or click cancel to select another type. It may take up to 60 Seconds for Removable Storage to recognise new media." Initially I was receiving a message which read "add 4mm DDS media to the free storage pool or to Media Pool "\Remote Storage|4 mm DDS" but I appear to have got over that problem. I am obviously missing some point!!! Peter. Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161428
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    - Exchange mail server problem I am having a problem with exchange 2000 on sbs and i need some help. I set up sbs2k and it all seems to be working fine except for exchange. I host a mail server so i am not popping with exchange.The problem i am having is i can send mail but can't recieve on any of my addresses not even the postmaster can recieve external mail. Internal works fine. It is not ISA as i stopped the service and tested mail and still nothing, Any suggestions. Thanks Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161427
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    - Internet usage log Hi Is it possible to get individual logs of each user's internet usage? Thanks Regards Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161425
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    - Small Business I'm planning to open ecommerce business and hopefully grow. What operating systems + servers using .NET technology? thanks Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161422
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    - Moving SBS2000 to New Hardware Hi I would appreciate some assistance on the best way to moving an existing SBS 2000 server to new hardware. The client has approx 30 PCs, one SBS 2000 server and two Windows 2000 Servers If possible we do not want to change the domain name, ideally switch off old server, install and switch on new server with no changes to existing W2K servers or clients. SBS2000 server is mainly used for Exchange and as its a Pentium III 650 needs an upgrade! Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161409
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    - OT, Dedicated hosting hi, i think this should not be posted in this newsgroup, but i might get the answers i need.. so sorry about it :) my company is running a website that is on one of the many shared hosting companies on the net but now they are thinking of getting dedicated hosting my questions here, if they get dedicated hosting, what is the procedure to run a website that is secured from the bad boys outthere the items that will be running on this server is, IIS, MSSQL my narrow mind says renaming the administrator account, and long password, patched and uptodate IIS, MSSQL what else do they have to do? Thanks Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161406
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    - How to transfer/import client's Outlook *.pst file to SBS 2000 Exchange..... Hello all, My client is currently running Windows 2000 Professional workstations with Office 2000 Professional on a Windows NT 4.0 server. They each (6 in all) have a great deal of information in their Outlook folders as well as rules. Here's my question; is there an easy way to transfer each of their Outlook *.pst folders (including their rules) to the SBS 2000 server's Exchange? Can anyone provide me with some links that have worked for them? TIA John Vighetto Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161405
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    - Song of the Week - July 10, 2004 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0099_01C46665.7901FD00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Earlier this week I hads the need to go back and do some old DOS shell = programming -- now that's what I call real programming! ;-) I also had = to dig back into the archives to remember some old tweaks for Windows = 98. With all of that, my three sisters and I are coming together for a = family reunion, of sorts, this week. So, with looking back so much, I = knew the perfect song for the situation. So, boys and girls, get your hands a 'clappin and your toes a 'tappin as = we joing with Bob Seeger ... Old Time Rock 'n Roll (aka Old Time Software Code) Just take those old data files off the shelf=20 I'll sit and load them all by myself=20 Today's servers ain't got the same soul=20 I like that old time Software Code Don't try to take me to a Linux You'll never even let me try to finish=20 In ten minutes I'll be late for the door=20 I like that old time Software Code Still like that old time Software Code=20 That kind of coding that soothes the soul=20 I reminisce about the days of old=20 With that old time Software Code Won't go to learn how to us some Java scripts I'd rather hear some DOS or funky old bits There's only one sure way to get me to go=20 Start using old time Software Code Call me a relic, call me what you will=20 Say I'm old-fashioned, say I'm over the hill=20 Today's coding ain't got the same soul=20 I like that old time Software Code Still like old time Software Code That kind of coding just soothes the soul=20 I reminisce about the days of old=20 With that old time Software Code --=20 Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long" ------=_NextPart_000_0099_01C46665.7901FD00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff background=3D""> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Earlier this week I hads the need to go = back and do=20 some old DOS shell programming -- now that's what I call real = programming! ;-) I=20 also had to dig back into the archives to remember some old tweaks for = Windows=20 98. With all of that, my three sisters and I are coming together for a = family=20 reunion, of sorts, this week. So, with looking back so much, I knew the = perfect=20 song for the situation.<BR><BR>So, boys and girls, get your hands a = 'clappin and=20 your toes a 'tappin as we joing with Bob Seeger ...<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Old Time Rock 'n Roll</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>(aka Old Time Software = Code)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><BR>Just take those old data files off = the shelf=20 <BR>I'll sit and load them all by myself <BR>Today's = servers ain't got=20 the same soul <BR>I like that old time Software Code<BR><BR>Don't try to = take me=20 to a Linux<BR>You'll never even let me try to finish <BR>In ten minutes = I'll be=20 late for the door <BR>I like that old time Software Code<BR><BR>Still = like that=20 old time Software Code <BR>That kind of coding that soothes = the soul=20 <BR>I reminisce about the days of old <BR>With that old time Software=20 Code<BR><BR>Won't go to learn how to us some Java scripts<BR>I'd rather = hear=20 some DOS or funky old bits<BR>There's only one sure way to get me to go=20 <BR>Start using old time Software Code<BR><BR>Call me a relic, call = me what=20 you will <BR>Say I'm old-fashioned, say I'm over the hill <BR>Today's = coding=20 ain't got the same soul <BR>I like that old time Software = Code<BR><BR>Still like=20 old time Software Code<BR>That kind of coding just soothes the soul = <BR>I=20 reminisce about the days of old <BR>With that old time Software = Code<BR><BR>--=20 <BR>Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]<BR>"The days pass by so quickly now, the = nights=20 are seldom long"</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0099_01C46665.7901FD00-- Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161401
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    - Hi to all you folks As the subject says, firt I wanna to send greeting to all of the participiants of this group. We are the firm situated in Dubrovnik, Croatia which has recently purchased a Windows 2003 SMB Server Premium edition (Academic Release). We moved from our email pop account to excange and establish local domain. Could you people help me with this stuffs: 1) How can I register a SMB with MS to get a tech support.? 2) How can I install ISA firewall clients on the machines? 3) How can I encrease manage security log setting for each workstation in domain? 4) How can I manage synchronization setting (eg. some of our laptop workstations are for some reason going in offline mode?) MS software are well documented, and there are lot of stuff on groups, net but I want to hear what are the best practice to manage first two or three basics steps to configure SMB to work correctly (e.g. http://companyweb are not working-> says bad request) Also I must point that I (as possible administrator of SMB 2003) did not installed it, it has be done by the company who sold us a Fujitsu-Siemens server, and they have not finished all the work. Thanky you in advance.. Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161398
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    - SBS2003 wont start - recovery help please Hi everyone I have a system running Windows SBS2003.. its on a RAID5 array which had some failures and caused some system corruptions as a result. I have repaired the array but SBS2003 wont start. Basically it was saying that it is missing system32\config\system - so I went into the recovery console and copied the system.sav file to system.. unfortunately the system.sav file is from when it was first installed. There is no Emergency Repair Disk or Automated Recovery Disk available. There are tape backups of SYSTEM STATE available. I have confirmed the data is still okay on the array? Whats the best way to recover this system? Would putting in a temporary drive, doing a SBS2003 install on that temp drive, then restoring system state from tape, and then copying the necessary files back to the original sbs2003 installation fix this? Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161395
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    - VPN from Draytek Vigor 2900 - remote client can't ping local LAN Hi all, Hopefully we're missing something simple and someone can point us in the right direction. Central Office: SBS2000 - set-up as noted below: Cable Modem Broadband Router - passthrough for PPTP VPN enabled [int - 192.168.42.10] External NIC on SBS [192.168.42.2] ISA 2000 Internal NIC on SBS [172.16.0.1] LAN [172.16.0.x] Remote Office: ADSL Broadband Router - Draytek Vigor 2900Gi [int - 192.168.45.150] PC - fixed IP - 192.168.45.160 As those who are familiar with the Vigor range will know, the Draytek kit can initiate a VPN call [it can also act as a VPN Server if required]. We can initiate a full-time VPN connection from the Vigor to our SBS box across the Internet no problem but the remote PC cannot ping anything on the LAN IP range. This is kinda critical from a testing perspective as the crux of this is to eventually implement an IP hardphone within the Remote office, connecting to the VoIP-enabled telephone system on the LAN at the Central office. We're sure this has to be a fairly basic routing issue and that we should be able to add a route somehow to 'force' the VPN traffic back to the remote LAN. Problem is we can't for the life of us work out what to do! Anyone got any pointers? Cheers, David Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161382
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    - Remote Desktop Does anyone know of a good remote desktop client than can do the following: What we are looking for is something where someone on out WAN can goto a webpage, and request a chat. From there they can tell us what their problem is, and then if needed, we can take control of there system from the inthernet through Port 80. If anyone can point me in the rigth direction on this, I would appreciate it! Keith MMS IT Department ksylvester@funddrive.com Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161376
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    - Site Bandwidth Managemnt Hello All, We have an SBS2k that has four satellites connected via VPN as well as RAS users. The satellite offices are connected via router to our SBS VPN with each site using a different class C private subnet. My question, are there settings on SBS that I need to adjust so that the system can determine that if a traffic has to go to a satellite site subnet, that it will adjust accordingly? I've read about replication on AD and Exchange and using sites to control traffic, but since we're using SBS, we don't have multiple servers. I'm just trying to figure out if we need to make adjustments to the SBS to make it process traffic more efficiently. Second part of my question is: should the subnets from the satellite offices be included in the LAT of ISA? Thank you all for your comments. Reggie Dones Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161374
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    - account lockout issues... I have a couple of question regarding the account lockout policy. 1) I had originally set a local policy on our Win2K terminal server such that 3 invalid logon attempts would cause an account lockout. Later on, I had applied a domain wide policy (on our SBS 2000 server) that set it to 5 invalid attempts. I assumed the domain policy would override any local policy but it doesn't seem to. If a user logs on 3 times with an incorrect password, it will still lock them out! Also becuase we have been having problems with users being locked out, I decided to completely eliminate the lock out. So , I disabled account lockouts in both the domain policy on the SBS 200 server and the local policy on the win2K terminal server. I am still getting accounts locking out after 3 invalid attempts. What gives? Can anyone help me? 2) Also, maybe I need a lesson on what can cause a lockout... We have a user who brings in his home laptop to copy drawings off our server so he can work from home. I configured his laptop so that he has the same drive mappings he has on his work machine. Two drive mappings point to shares on our win2K server that is part of our domain. The other mapping points to a share that is on an older NT 4 server - which is NOT part of the domain. When he logs onto his laptop, he is logging on locally - not as part of the domain. (It's winxp home edition). When I set up his shares, I configured the appropriate domain\username and password so it would connect. For the NT 4 share which is part of a workgroup (not in our domain) I configured his username and password excluding the domain. The problem is, as soon as he logs on and double clicks one of his mapped drives, it asks for his password and when he enters that, it says it has locked him out!!! Why would the account be locking out when I have specified the domain/username and passwords to use for the drive mappings? There is only two drive mappings that use his domain username/password. If the lockout was set to 3 invalid attempts, why is it locking out when there are only two mappings ??? I am obviously missing something here... Thanks Brad Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161370
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    - VPN client dials in and the office network neighbourhood goes blank Hi, We have an SBS2000 server setup, running file, print, exchange, ISA and VPN. We have 1 user who works half his time from home and uses VPN to log into the office network for email download from exchange and file browsing hte network. This works files for the client and office users, except for one small problem. When the user VPN's in to the office, the network neighbourhood here does not show any local computers. They are still accessible just not visible. Can anyone help point me in hte right direction. The SBS2000 box does DHCP. All clients are XPPro or 2k. Network using TCP/IP only. One other thing, the remote user's laptop is not on the domain.. His username and password are the same on the domain + laptop so his login works fine. Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161362
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    - Peachtree on workstation in SBS Network Does anyone know which ports have to be opened on ISA in SBS server to allow Peachtree to successfully download updates? Tony R Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161354
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    - Badwidth Monitoring Hello, I know this is not exactly an SBS question, but since I run SBS2k on my server I thought I'd ask it here: I want to monitor my WAN connection for uptime & throughput. We have a cable modem & I suspect the line is fishy but everytime the cableman comes, he finds no problems. Anyone have any ideas as to how I can generate hourly bandwidth availability reports? Thanks, Shaq Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161351
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    - Company folder in SBS2003 Have they removed the Company Shared folder in the 2003 version of SBS??? If so WHY??? I installed SBS2003 on a test server and noticed no Company Shared Folder. Have I done something wrong??? I can't find it anywhere! - Bobby Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161348
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    - Using Ghost Hi all I have succumbed to the fact that my C drive is going to run out of space sooner or later and I need to move it to a new drive. My current setup is 3 x 36gb scsi disks 1st disk 8gb C drive system files and 28gb D drive program files and exchange logs 2nd disk 33.91gb user data 3rd disk 33.91gb exchange info store I want to move the 1st disk to a new 36gb disk so I can expand the C drive to 20gb? so I need to ghost the C drive and move it. I would also like to keep the D drive on the 1st disk with the remaining space so I would probably need to ghost that too. How would I do this? Would I have to stop any services while I ghost the original drive? Do I then swap the disks and image the new disk? So many questions from a nervous IT bod! Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks Mark Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161347
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    - Terminal Services Manager Hi I am using terminal services to connect clients remotely. When they disconnect it still shows the processes that they are using. When they log in again it allows them to connect but creates a different connection. Therefore on the screen in the terminal services manager appears a user name saying connected and the same username saying disconnected (from the previous log out). So I have to right click on the user name saying disconnected and click 'Reset'. Then the processes and their name disappears. Do I always have to reset their last log out? Sean Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161345
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    - SBS 2003 setup stops responding Hy my setup procedure allways spots to respond during setup from first CD on 34% of "Installing Devices". Mouse is frozzen, HDD activity is high. Server is Asus cp1700-s5. What could be problem? Thx Igor Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161342
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    - SBS 2003 and Mac OS9.2 We have been asked to set up a new network using SBS2003 with 9 PC's and 1 Apple Mac running OS9.2. We know absolutely sod all about Macs! Can anyone give us some detailed info on how to connect and configure the Mac or point us somewhere where we can get that kind of information. Many thanks Peter Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161336
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    - Outbound Mail Hi everyone, I just installed a 2003 small business server - including running the internet & email wizard - but I cannot send mail for some reason. I've tried using both DNS and a smarthost to route mail. I've tried my comcast email server (my ISP) and the mail server where I have email accounts because they host a website for me. Nothing seems to get mail out. Initially, I found files in the BadMail folder. I deleted those and tinkered with the SMTP connector some more. I'm not getting anything in the BadMail folder, but mail apparently is going nowhere. I see the message quickly leave the Outbox and I don't get any undeliverable messages. Where is the mail going? Where can I look for it? Any help would be appreciatied. Frank Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161329
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    - Default Group Memberships A new staff member at one of our sites has just rang me to enquire whether she really should be able to open anyone's mailbox! Apparently all she has to do in Outlook (2002) is go to Open/Other users folder, put in the name, and voila! she can see their mailbox! Now why should this be? No-one has given permission to anyone else, so I'm assuming wrong/modified Group relationships. So just what are the default group memberships for ordinary and power users? TIA Norm Hughes Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161325
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    - VPN problem Hello Guys i have SBS 2000 when i try to dial into the server with a VPN connection it gives me the error 721 ( from xp computer saying the remote computer is not responding) but i can use remote desktop to get into the server any one got any ideas how to trouble shoot??? thanks Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161322
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    - SBS 2000 Exchange upgradable to exchange 2003 ? Is it possible to upgrade the exchange component of SBS 2000 to Exchange 2003 ? I do not want to upgrade to SBS 03 due to user limits,has anyone tried this and/or know if it is even possible. Eventually All of the components (ISA, SQL, Exchange) will be upgraded. Kevin D. Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161312
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    - New SBS2003 premium install problem First of all, I realise this isn't the correct group for 2003 queries. So far, my ISP hasn't added the new one to the list. I am setting up a new IBM Dual CPU server. It's running on a RAID5 configuration with 2.5GB RAM. I have got past the windows setup bit, and it's allowed me to log on to windows and started the next phase of the install. When the next phase starts, its asks me for the telephone, address details etc. I click next and after about 5 minutes it fails with the following message: An error occurred while installing Internet Information Services Anyone got any ideas, this is a major disaster for me as I am trying to install this at the weekend :o( Thanks in advance Robbie Niblock Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161301
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    - Partition Magic Hi Will Partition magic let me resize my C drive on the server? I want to extend it as it is only 8 gb any thoughts?? thanks Mark Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161292
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    - Security question on DNS zone transfers In DNS settings for Forwarders, should zone transfers be allowed "to any server" or be limted to named servers only? If the latter, which other servers should be listed? Situation: SBS2000, two NICs, and using a dynamic DNS service (DNS2GO) to host Exchange e-mail and (gulp) web site. Any assistance much appreciated. Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161289
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    - Replacing an old employees rights with a new employee username... We have a situation where our executive secretary has left the company and is being replaced by a new person within a week. Sse has access to many folders within the domain etc.. and some are pretty specific (as opposed to simply group access rights). We have a win2000 SBS server where her profile exists in our domain. We also have an NT 4.0 server (not in the domain). She has a profile on this machine as well with a lot of "file specific" rights to stuff on that particular server. Is there any easy way to convert all of her security rights over to the new user or do you basically have to go through everything and try to find all the instances where she is on the security list and replace herusername with the new username? There must be a better way... Thanks, Brad Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161286
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    - Exchange back up ? Hi We are running sbs2003 - we are backing up with the software 'Tapeware'. We do a full backup ! Somebody mentioned that you may want to stop exchange to do a full backup? Does Exchange back up OK with out stopping it ? Has anybody had to do an Exchange restore, full or partial from a back up tape? Would be interested in procedure which has been tried and tested. Tony Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161269
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    - VPN help HI, We are a small company and use a dial in to collect email - however we would like to use VPN through our broadband router ! Question: How do we get to our SBS through our Router using VPN ie. if the router IP is X.X.X.X and the SBS is Y.Y.Y.Y What address would you use in IE ? http:// ...??? to gain access to SBS. I know we have to configure our router to allow VPN etc. Thanks for any help Tony Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161268
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    - OWA Settings Is it possible to change the timeout for OWA on a SBS2003 server, it's just after 15 minutes approximatly it disconnects the user if they have not touched it. Also can the font be change to be viewed larger in the inbox like you can on normal outlook. TIA Roger. Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161264
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    - Emails bouncing for some clients Setup: SBS2000 using Exchange2000 and Outlook 2000. Service Pk1 installed, Exchange service Pk3 installed. Standard out of the box setup. Email uses SMTP to go and POP3 to come. 6 users on the system. Using Smarthost. Problem: Two users cannot receive emails from certain outside people....one happens to be the wife of one guy. I can send them all emails from my site which is a totally different domain. My emails to them arrive where they should in their Outlook Inboxes. However two cannot receive emails from two(that I know of) specific places. These emails are being bounced with the message to the postmaster saying "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Unable to deliver message to the following recipients, because the message was forwarded more than the maximum allowed times. This could indicate a mail loop." Why can I send them an email and someone else cannot? Help???!!! Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161260
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    - W2KSBS - Exchange Server Can anyone tell me if there is a way for administrator to view a clients inbox for instance from the server? One of our clients exchange server went down hard and Inow have back up but there are a couple of the users not receiving internal or external email now while the rest of the staff +20 are sending and receiving. According to the report I got the users affected by not receiving email can in fact send email. Any help or thoughts would greatly be appreciated. Regards Bill Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161249
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    - Application problem Hello guys, i installed office 2003 on my server then i uninstalled it and installed access 97. When i try to open up access 97 it gives me the follwoing msg Microsoft Access cant start because there is no license for it on this machine. Then i installed office 2003 leaving the access 97 installation but it still gives me the same msg when i trys to open up access 97. Any one knows whats going on ??? Thanks guys Las Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161246
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    - SB 2000 OWA Problem Whenever I log up using OWA, I see a default page saying that "you do not currently have a default document set for your users". Can anyone tell me what do I do wrong in setting up the OWA. Thanks in advance for your help. Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161245
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    - Re-Post - Thoughts, Anyone??????? All, About year and half back, I brought a "white box" server from TigerDirect.com - Visioneer. A day passed the hardware warranty, one of the cpu's died. After some arguing with the saleperson and vision's tech support, they sent me a new cpu, and heatsink. During the install, the motherboard died. After I changed out all that, I had the server back up but then one of the stick of RAM wouldn't work with the new motherboard. Needless to say, I am buying a new server for my office. For my client's, I have only using DELL. PowerEdge 700's to be exact (had no problems and Dell's server support been great so far). What I would like to know from you all, is what approach would you take to replace one server with a completely new one. My thought is that I would rebuilt it with the same name, setup as the old server, shutdown the old server, replace with new server and do a restore of the new server from backup (I back up to an external usb pot harddrive). Old server config: Dual P3 1Ghz processors, two 80 gb hdd's in a software raid 1 mirror (Fastrack promise controller embedded), 1ghz RAM PC-133. New Server: Dell PowerEdge 700, P4 2.8 - 3.2 Processor, two scsi 73.4 HDD's, Raid 1 mirror - Hardware controller - PERC ???, 1 ghz RAM DDR400 Since the two server's hardware congfiguration is so different, I am not comfortable with the restore from backup. But If I did a restore, would I most like just have to install disk one do a repair of the install to add scsi driver, etc..... How would you guys go about this? Thanks in advance for your comment/suggestions/observations Larry Tag: SBS 2000 Maintenance Tag: 161244

Does anyone have a list of suggested tasks for routine
monthly maintenance in a SBS 2000 environment?

Appreciate any advice.

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Re: SBS 2000 Maintenance by Kevin

Kevin
Mon Jul 12 20:40:23 CDT 2004

I believe Harry Brelsford's book on SBS2000 lists ideas for daily / weekly /
monthly maintenance.

also, here are some 'best practices' ideas from Microsoft:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/b/a/fba7f737-bdd3-4570-8873-43cab9c6e1db/SBS_BP.htm
and info on securing your SBS2003 server:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/f/1/1f15a874-f696-4992-b5ad-b1e7b258de1c/SecuringSBSnetwork.doc

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Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"

"rob" <rob@atlantec.us> wrote in message
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> Does anyone have a list of suggested tasks for routine
> monthly maintenance in a SBS 2000 environment?
>
> Appreciate any advice.
>

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