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    - Is SBS 2000 right for me? I am new to SBS 2000 and Exchange as an admin. I have used them for years, but never set them up. I am suggesting a recommendation that SBS be installed at my brother's law office. Here's the scenario: In the office there are 10 PCs running peer-to-peer. There is a file server installed. There are 2 partners in the office and each has a secretary. Each partner uses a laptop and a pda. The secretary syncs the pda with her local copy of Outlook. But each partner cannot use his laptop to see current Outlook appointments because they are on the secretary's system. My idea is to install SBS 2000 and create a domain. Each secretary could maintain the corresponding partner's calendar by opening it in Outlook. When the partner wants the PDA synced up the secretary can open the appropriate calendar (and any other folders) and sync it. The partner would also be able to see his own calendar in Outlook. Does this sound reasonable? Another option is to forego SBS and Exhange and have the secretary sync her Outlook to the pda, then have the partner sync the pda to his copy of Outlook. Still another option is to sync each copy of Outlook using Vaita's OSASync. I think they will get much better mileage out of SBS and Exchange. Thanks - Jim Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145607
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    - VPN into another Domain outside local domain SBS GODS.. we have sbs 2003 and are tring to connect to a clients office with sbs 2000. when i was connected at our location whit a computer with xp pro and a router and cable modem i was able to VPN into there office (sbs 2000) and see the server and the remote cpus but now i have put in a sbs 2003 and i can connect to there network but when i try to run the remote desktop i cant see any remote desktops or server....i able to ping them but cant see them or connect to them. also at there office they want to connect to one of there clients from there office sbs 2000 they can VPN into there clients office but they have the same problem they cant see any computers or the server. ANY help on this subject would be GREAT.. MARK Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145606
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    - Message delivered twice on SBS200/Exchange 200 server Hi I am encoutering a problem where messages are being delivered to the local domain twice. The message is successfully saved to the local store by the smtp store driver but then is resubmitted to advanced queuing to be delivered all over again. I have performed integrity checks on the information stores and they check out ok. Help please.. SBS2000, Exchange 2000 SP3 Terry@ehis.net.nz Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145604
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    - <<< Small Business Server news of the week December 7th 2003 >>>>> Kevin's song of the week news://msnews.microsoft.com:119/u6Rs0h7uDHA.2492@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl ---------------------------------- Bryce Milton is seeking SBS testers for our SBS date issue news://msnews.microsoft.com:119/Oihe35EvDHA.2464@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl --------------------------------- This past week was Security webcast week.... if you missed them, all the webcasts have been recorded and posted on the web. Go to www. microsoft.com/security for more details -------------------------------- This Tuesday is the second Tuesday of the month and that means it's Security Day! Look for potential hotfixes to come out on that day. Sign up for security bulletins to be informed of these patches Go to www.microsoft.com/security for more details ------------------------------- SHAREPOINT ISSUE Just remember our Sharepoint issue .... set your system date clock back before 11/24/2003 and install your Small Business Server 2003. More details including picture how-tos are at www.sbslinks.com click on the "Sharepoint link" at the top. ------------------------------- So today I'm on the road coming home from a weekend trip to Los Angeles to visit with friends and celebrate their son's "Black belt" in TaeKwanDo. And being the geek that I am, I've got the laptop, the cell phone, the digital camera for the trip. For a friend of the family, we are building them a new computer with Windows XP [yeah ... the Home version but they only need the computer for Home] and one of the major things we did was to enable the firewall on that dial up connection. Start, control panel, network connections, network card properties, click on the advanced tab and enable the firewall. When you visit friends and family this Christmas season, do your Holiday geek duty and just check out their computers, ensuring that they are patched, have an up to date antivirus. In fact, burn in XP sp1 and all security patches on a cdrom and help them keep their systems up to date. Yes, that's really geeky I know.... but all of us can help each other be a little more secure. If you want to know just HOW geeky I am.... I'm connecting to the web using my GPRS Nokia 6220 cell phone to send this email. I know... pretty geeky that as long as my battery holds out and I can get a GPRS connection, I can get online just about anywhere! :-) --------------------------- Spanish police arrest Raleka worm suspect Spanish police have arrested a 23-year-old man in Madrid, who is suspected of being the author of the W32/Raleka worm which infected more than 120,000 computers in August. The Raleka worm operated in a similar way to the Blaster worm, exploiting the Windows RPC Service vulnerability in versions of Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP operating systems. Infected machines could then be used to mount further remote attacks. http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=126855 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/34226.html - - - - - - - - - - Police arrest ID thief in Wells Fargo case Police have arrested a California man for stealing computers containing the personal information of thousands of Wells Fargo customers. Edward Jonathan Krastof, 38, of Concord in California, has confessed to stealing a computer containing the sensitive information after breaking into the offices of a financial analyst hired by Wells Fargo, Reuters reports. Krastof also stole another computer and laptop during the same burglary. hhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/34234.html http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-5112193.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/27/MNGUO3BN101.DTL http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/27/wellsfargo.theft.ap/index.html http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1542609 http://www.timesheraldonline.com/articles/2003/11/27/news/news05.txt http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/27/wellsfargo.theft.ap/index.html - - - - - - - - - - Pay attention -- that guy could be a laptop thief A man walked into an Atlanta office, made chitchat with two workers and sat down for lunch with them. Nobody noticed when he left with four stolen laptops. In another incident, police officers stopped a pregnant woman as she left an Atlanta-area workplace and found a laptop strapped to her belly. In yet another case, a thief walked into San Francisco-based Aligo Inc. during business hours, hid until everyone left and then took about a dozen devices worth at least $7,000, including laptops and personal digital assistants. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7369019.htm http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/150472_laptoptheft01.html http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-5/1070260519214470.xml - - - - - - - - - - Fraudulent e-commerce site proves hard to close A convincing e-commerce site is still up six weeks after the discovery that it is fraudulently using fake security certificates and the details of another, legitimate, Web site. A Web site that purportedly offers cheap mobile phones is still online more than six weeks after efforts began to close it down for what is believed to be fraudulent activity. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39118208,00.htm - - - - - - - - - - Sobig.F lingers as cure backfires One of the IT sector's biggest threats in 2003 is still out there. The blame lies partly with PCs that don't know the time, but also with action that was taken to minimise damage done by the worm. Sobig.F is still rampaging around the Internet, two months after the virus was supposed to have terminated itself. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39118188,00.htm http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5112207.html - - - - - - - - - - Debian attacker may have used new exploit An as-yet-unknown security hole allowed the recent hack attack on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system project. An as-yet-unknown security exploit in Linux may have been responsible for a recent compromise of Debian.org's servers, according to a system administrator with the Debian operating system project. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39118183,00.htm - - - - - - - - - - Microsoft decries overseas Longhorn rustling Malaysia's brazen software pirates are hawking the next version of Microsoft Windows operating system years before it is supposed to be on sale. Underscoring the scale of U.S. companies' copyright problems in Asia, CDs containing software that Microsoft has code-named Longhorn are on sale for 6 ringgit ($1.58) in southern Malaysia. Microsoft's current version of Windows, XP, sells for more than $100 in the United States. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5112229.html http://money.cnn.com/2003/12/01/technology/microsoft_piracy.reut/index.htm http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-12-01-longhorn-pirated_x.htm http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,87707,00.html Microsoft investigates IE holes http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39118197,00.htm http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/01/explorer.holes.reut/index.html http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61416,00.html - - - - - - - - - - Single bug or virus attack could cost your business £66,000 The cost to businesses of a single bug or virus attack can be as much as £66,000, research has revealed. The estimate, contained in a report from analyst firm Datamonitor, comes as users face threats from the latest flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer and the "Mary" e-mail bug which tempts users with porn.Users are still waiting for a patch from Microsoft to prevent Explorer from downloading damaging code from hacked websites. This code, in turn, allows users? desktops to be hacked remotely. http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=126908 Swen fends off Mimail to top viral charts http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/34261.html Sysbug-A Virus On the Prowl http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113680,00.asp - - - - - - - - - - Viruses may jeopardize power supplies, official FINNISH MAGAZINE Helsingin Sanomat said that large corporations have received official notices from the government to keep a close eye on their networks. In particular, the Finnish government seems concerned about comms and electricity distributors suffering from viruses and worms. The paper said that a virus forced the Nordea Bank in Finland to shut down some of its branches. The government is worried not about viruses and worms affecting the distribution of electricity, but delays in carrying out repairs if necessary. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12916 Top viruses for November http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=50938 Top 10 viruses and hoaxes reported to Sophos in November 2003 http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2003/0312010750.asp - - - - - - - - - - Symantec fixes product activation glitch Security software maker Symantec has fixed a problem in the company's product activation technology that was causing its Norton family of security applications to fail. The problem, as previously reported by CNET News.com, affected a small percentage of the more than 1.2 million users of the company's Norton Antivirus 2004, Norton Internet Security 2004, Norton Antispam 2004 and Norton SystemWorks 2004. http://news.com.com/2100-7355-5112771.html - - - - - - - - - - Study: Firewall sales to spread The market for firewall software and devices will jump 25 percent in the next two years to nearly $2.5 billion in worldwide sales, predicts research firm Meta Group in its latest report. http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5112857.html http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22788.html Tips on locking down your WLAN http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,87705,00.html Mirage protects the LAN http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,87730,00.html - - - - - - - - - - Internet Attackers on Phishing Expeditions As I said in my 2004 Outlook column, our e-mail accounts are now filled with some recent advances in the field of "phishing." If you haven't been paying attention, the term refers to a particular type of Internet scam in which a user is tricked into giving up personal information, like bank account information. http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3048,a=113465,00.asp - - - - - - - - - - Heavy squalls of blended worms to hit next year Net users can expect a growth in attacks of Unix systems next year, not to mention more Blaster-style worms capable of infecting computers without using email. The growing trend of virus writers and spammers apparently working together (evidenced by worms like Sobig and Mimail) can also be expected to continue into 2004, according to security firm Sophos, which predict little let up in mass-mailing viruses next year. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/34326.html - - - - - - - - - - Expert: One-third of spam is homemade One-third of all spam circulating the Web is relayed through PCs that have been compromised by Remote Access Trojans (RATs), according to corporate spam and antivirus company, Sophos. Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant for Sophos, said on Wednesday that the increasing use of broadband Internet connections and a general lack of security awareness have resulted in around one in three spam e-mails being redirected through the computers of unsuspecting users. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5113043.html http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5113080.html http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61457,00.html - - - - - - - - - - Debian's Response Things got pretty exciting in the Linux world recently, when the Debian Linux distribution announced that a cracker had broken in to four debian.org machines, escalated privileges to root, and installed rootkits on several of the servers. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/202 - - - - - - - - - - Until next time.... see you on the wires.... Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145601
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    - DNS Configuration Hi, Several of my customer's ISPs charge for DNS hosting. I would like to have my servers do it instead. I have customers with 12+ domain names and they will be charged a lot for this by their ISP. Rather than having network solutions point the domain name to the ISP's DNS it will be pointed to the SBS servers. I have several customers running SBS so I am hoping that I can use seperate servers for DNS redundancy. What I would like to ask is if anyone out there can give me or point me towards idiot proof instructions for how to do this on the SBS2000 server. Guy Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145598
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    - Brightmail Anti-spam Has anyone had experience with Brightmail anti-spam on SBS2000? I know that it is expensive ($1499/year) but I have heard some good reports. Thanks, George Beckwith Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145593
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    - Health Monitor won't open I can no longer open it. I get no event log errors, it just won't open anymore. This is on an HP Proliant ML350 G3, I say this because I am wondering if it is a server model bug. Server has been running for 3 months and it used to open. May have been started by a patch installed last month. Any comments before I try to uninstall and reinstall it? Are there problems reinstalling this? Thanks Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145587
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    - W98 client using Outlook 2000 connecting to SBS 2000 Exchange I have the following problem: "the name could not be matched to a name in the address list" prompting on the W98 client after loading Outlook 2000. Any ideas or suggestion would be greatly appreciated, thanks Or A help list of procedures for connecting W98 Outlook 2000 clients to SBS 2000 Exchange. Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145578
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    - SMTP We have a small network (25 users) all using win2k & a SBS 2k server, this connects to the outside world via a linux firewall, if the firewall (or the ADSL line) goes down any mail sent during this time ends up in the destination unreachable queue, understandable, however all subsequent outgoing mail ends up there also, & the only way to move them is to stop & restart the SMTP service, any ideas why this is happening? and more importantly how to stop from happening? Any & all suggestions gratefully recieved, I don't have all that much hair left! __________________________________________________________________ Mike ICQ#: 122232506 Current ICQ status: + More ways to contact me __________________________________________________________________ Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. - Arthur C Clarke Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145573
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    - ISDN Router Hi all, Can anyone recommend an ISDN Router that will support VPN pass-thru. Thanks.... Andy Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145572
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    - Exchange 2000 Hi, I'm getting the following event log error when I start up SBS, The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service depends on the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service which failed to start because of the following error: %%0 Get this when starting the MTS stacks as well. Windows SP4 with hot-fixes Exchange SP3 If I manually start the system attendant, then the IS and MTA stacks its starts up ok? but won't auto start any suggestions? Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145567
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    - Internet failed! I am at a client site where their Internet connection had failed. It seems the router was the fault but the "administrator" here tried to fix it by changing IP addresses of the second NIC and even adding a third NIC in. I have restored a system state but unfortunately the latest one is the night after the changes first started. Anyway, I have now removed the 3rd NIC, set up the second to how it should work, ran ICW again (no change to ISA or Exchange) but it aint working! If I ping an IP I get an instant faillure, not even a time out. I have a system state backup from August but this caused more problems that it fixed. However the Internet was working, email and everything else so I am sure the problem is configuration or something that needs manually adjusting. Any help woud be great! My weekend is dwindling! Tippy. Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145560
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    - slow server connection hi.. situation: got a client with a sbs2k server. the server seems ok in most areas. thing is no one can connect if the server's nic is set to anything other than 10mps. even tho the card is 100/10. have replaced the cable. the one area that concerns me is that the server is kept in a cupboard with a large incoming power cable. but it is quite well shielded. My intention is to trial the server outside this area, but just in case does anyone have any other suggestions. btw the cat 5 run is less than 30 feet. Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145548
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    - moving shared folders I need to move the Company folder to a new larger drive. Are there any requirements for doing this in SBS2k? Can I just move the entire folder. How does the Active Directory system work on moved folders. Any suggestions would be helpful. Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145546
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    - Synchronising outlook on laptop Hi How can I make sure that my laptop's outlook offline folders are synchronised so if I take my laptop off the network, I can still read the downloaded mail and reply to it offline? Is there a good resource for information on how to properly setup offline folders and synchronisation with server? Thanks Regards Yahya Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145523
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    - Antispam - SBS2000 - POP3 downloads... Hi all, Quick request for advice. Anyone got any pointers on anti-spam software that will operate effectively in the following set-up?: SBS2000 - Broadband Internet connection using 2 x NIC and Broadband Router Mail is downloaded via multiple POP3 mailboxes [5] Outgoing mail has a disclaimer added as per instructions on www.smallbizserver.net [so we have no SmallBusiness SMTP connector but two SMTP virtual servers configured] Trend C/S/M Suite in place Trialled Trend Scanmail eManager but felt it was average 'out of the box' and required a fair bit of ongoing configuration to operate reasonably. Have license for full Trend NeatSuite [only utilised the C/S/M elements thus far] - price was so close to C/S/M that it made sense really, especially if we end up going to SMTP mail further down the line. This is noted purely in case it may have any relevance. Ideally, we'd like something that links with Exchange [obviously] and would allow at least a degree of automatic 'white-listing' so that anyone our users send to would automatically be allowed in and never be tagged as spam. If it could automatically update its definitions and rules that would also be a benefit. We're not too concerned about outgoing content filtering as it's not really a concern in our particular set-up, so we don't particularly need something that is 'heavy' on that front. Hope that's enough info to start with. Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, David Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145521
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    - XP clients way slow after Win2k server made DC I have a peer-to-peer network of 10 users that consists of: Win2k SP2 Server - member server XP Pro SP1 clients DSL Router giving out IP info via DHCP (clients access the Internet directly through this router) I wanted to setup an actual Domain so ran dcpromo to convert the server to a Domain Controller. I took all the defaults as far as sole domain controller and forest info. I wasn't sure about the DNS naming convention so used a FQDN of lawfirm.company.com. DNS installed without incident and I re booted. No alerts and I began setting up user accounts and a logon script. I noticed that the full name of my server was now server01.lawfirm.company.com and started getting nervous ( I was expecting the server name to just remain server01 I was able to join a workstation to the domain but found that my logon script wouldn't map any drives and more distressing, access to shares and computer resources crawled to a standstill. I re-ran dcpromo, demoted the DC to a member server (lost my user accounts I knew about) and uninstalled DNS but after a reboot noticed that the server name now had a trailing dot after it's name. What's more, any user accounts (i.e. local admin) now had a dot before the name (.administrator etc.). My main questions are: How come my clients couldn't quickly access the DC? Is it a client DNS issue because they get their DNS info from the router? Is this a querying issue? Have I screwed up my server as far as the "." being in the user accounts and hostname id's? I really would like to have this network take advantage of an authenticated environment but am afraid to re-run dcpromo and deal with client issues again. If I re-run dcpromo, do I have to identify my DC as FQDN? How short of a name can I get away with? Thank you for seeing something I obviously didn't and your help. Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145518
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    - Song of the week - Dec 5, 2003 Ok, Christmas is less than 20 days away! So, to get you in the proper spirit ... the classic: The Christmas Song (by Mel Torme) MID: http://www.tantara.ab.ca/fun_xmas/job_aids/songbook/chestnut.htm Software's burning on an open fire Windows crashing every day You keep hoping that it's time to retire But where's the backup that you made? Everybody knows that Linux has just got to go Can't make everything work right Laptops running with no filters to show And hackers working hard tonight We know that Bill Gate's on his way He's loaded lots of disks and patches in his sleigh And every mother's child is gonna pray To see if X-Box can really load and play And so I'm looking through my software disks From DOS to Windows 98 All thought it's been said many times, many ways Make a backup today! Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145517
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    - Hosting a website Got a few bugs in the system and need some help. First running: AD, DHCP,DNS, ISA, IIS, RAS and Exchange from SBS200 all behind a router. Router forwards certain port traffic to external interface. I have two websites setup in IIS. I did this because when I had the site in the wwwroot directory I lost the exchange instant messenger and Trend Micro Anti-virus managment console. So now, First is the local intranet handles Exchange instant messenger, Trend Micro Anti-virus and Exchange and listens on any unassigned port 80. The second is the public website and listens on the external interface IP address port 80. I'm able to view the public website by typing the the external interface ip address and the external internet address (www.mydomain.com). So the router is forwarding correctly and I have the DNS entry correct. I have ISA publishing rules for OWA and WWW. The WWW rule forwards the www.mydomain.com to the external interface IP address. The OWA forwards www.mydomain.com/exchange*, www.mydomain.com/exchweb*, and www.mydomain.com/public* to the internal interface IP address. The OWA rule also includes the external internet IP address, the external interface IP address and the internal interface IP address with the directories as well. The theory here was no matter what I typed domain name, public ip, external interface ip, internal interface ip with /exchange it would give the authentication window. PROBLEM1: I'm only able to access OWA via the internal interface IP address. Authentication window pops up and logs on fine. So somehow the ISA publishing rule isn't forwarding to the internal interface IP. Now, If I stop the public website and type in the public IP address I receive the standard page under construction and I'm able to send smtp mail again. If I type the public IP address + /exchange or www.mydomain.com/exchange I get the authentication window and I log on fine. ISA is listening for requests on the external interface IP address port 80. So I know that ISA is forwarding the information correctly and that I have the proper rules set up. PROBLEM2: How can I set my domain up to use my DNS server as the name server for both the site and mail? I have an Mailexchanger What changes do I need to make to the router, ISA, and the DNS server? I have a forward zone added for mydomain.com. And Host entries for DNS-internal interface IP address, MAIL-internal interface IP address, WWW-external ip address. Mail Exchanger- mail.mydomain.com. So I have valid internal ip address for dns.mydomain.com, mail.mydomain.com, www.mydomain.com. I think I'm close getting it all together, but I think I'm missing one or two steps. Any and all help is much appreciated. Robert Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145506
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    - Access to Remote Web Workspace and Intranet We are running SBS 2003 and all is fine internally. We cannot access the Remote Web Workspace from the internet to gain access to our internal system. Our system is sitting behind a firewall but we have opened up the proper ports we believe. Does anyone have any suggestions? Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145504
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    - Software Update Service and SBS 2000 w/ ISA Server Can SBS2000 with ISA server installed use Software Update Service? I've installed SUS w/SP1 ona SBS2000 with ISA server installed w/ SP1 and in trying to syncro get error 0x80072EFD: unable to connect. I've configured SUS to use the proxy server (ISA server) <servername> port 8080 same as clients use for internet access. Any Suggestions??? Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145502
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    - Set up VPN Connection to SBS 2003 from Mac We just completed our installation and configuration of SBS 2003 yesterday. Everything works fine on our PC's but we do have a few users with Mac's. I need to figure out how to setup a couple of remote Mac's to be able to connect to our intenal Intranet via a VPN. Is there a way on a Mac to configure a PPTP session? If so, how would we go about it? Any help would be greatly appreciated... Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145499
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    - Domains We're adding SBS 2003 to an existing network. We've reached the Domain name part of the set-up, but can't add the server to an existing domain. We get the message that the netbios domain name already exists. Creating a new domain name isn't an option, since it would require us to reconfigure all of our workstations. I called the support center, but found that it would cost me $245 to get beyond this install problem! Considering how much I've already paid for the product, this isn't acceptible. (I can get Linux support for a lot less.) Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145492
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    - Remote Desktop I usually vpn to the SBS 2000 server and than open a Remote Desktop Session, but since i rebooted the server I can still connect to the server via VPN but now I get this error when trying to connect via RDP: Because of a protocol error at the client (code 0x1104) this session will be disconnected. has anyone seen this before? Peter V Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145491
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    - Problem with contacts Users have contacts in their "contacts folder" but when they click on To: to add them to an email message either the contact doesn't show up, or will show up twice. How do I correct this? Thanks, Chon Nguyen Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145490
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    - Network neighbourhood in sbs2k domain I cannot see any clients on the network neighbourhood from the SBS2k server. I can ping computers successfully, and network traffic can operate as normal. How can I get this network neighbourhood working again? MTIA Paul Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145488
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    - HOSTs and LMHOSTS in SBS environment I am running a Win2k SBS server enviroment with 30 win2k/XP Pro computers. I have a problem with the newest ones added to the network, where connecting Outlook to Exchange seems to time out. It takes 3 retries before it logs on, and then its fine. Problem is, this also happens when connecting via a vpn to the server. How can I get this resolved, as it takes some users 5 minutes to log on successfully with outlook. regards, Paul Mcken Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145477
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    - SBS 2003 issues with adding to an existing domain Hi we are trying to replace our current sbs 2000 machine with a new sbs 2003 machine. We have a second Win2003 machine that is part of the domain. We removed the old sbs 2000 machine and installed 2003 it detected an existing domain and told us we could not install on an existing domain. So we installed with a new local domain. We then proceeded to demote the windows 2003 server and tried to add it to the existing SBS 2003 domain. We have not had success yet. We would really like to keep all user groups and security rights if possible? My questions is this: If we have an existing domain with a server 2000 or 2003, how do we add SBS 2003 to that network and migrate all the active directory settings or at least the user accounts. Or is there another way around this? Some of my clients are considering upgrading to Exchange Server and I'm trying to convince them that sbs 2003 would be much better for them, the only problem is adding it to their existing network with the minimal amount of setup. One example in particular is a client with 2 win2k servers one is for accounting the other is for Exchange test server they want to upgrade the demo exchange server with SBS 2003 but are very worried about anything being done to the other 2003 accounting box. Thanks for you help on this Sean Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145474
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    - Compaq SBS Setup Hello, We have a Compaq ML350 server that we ordered with SBS 2000 preinstalled. I am a little confused though because on the start menu it says "windows 2000 server" not SBS server. Also, the licensing applet works like standard Win 2000 server in control panel. This issue came up because we recently ordered new licenses for the server and I was trying to install them. Is there something not setup correctly here? Would Compaq have not done the SBS install? Looking at the license sticker on the machine, it definitely says SBS server. Was there something we were supposed to have done to the server after receiving it? This server is production and cannot be re-done. Second issue.... We are setting up a new SBS 2K server for a large branch location (seperate domain, servers wont communicate etc) and I am doing the entire setup myself (no compaq) and I am confused because of the way the compaq server is setup and the way the new one looks - they are not similar and I was relying on the similarity to get me through the configuration. Basically on the new server, I installed the OS then ran the SBS wizard. I saw references to install procedures at www.smallbizserver.net and wanted to follow such, but I do not see any install steps on that website. Not sure if I am doing everything correctly. After setting up the new server, I do not see any 'Manage Computer' item on the start menu to install the licenses. I see Admin Console, but that doesnt seem to have anything about licensing. Have I done something wrong here already? This is fresh and can still be redone if it needs to be. Thanks for any help, Mike Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145473
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    - SBS2K3 will not Continue Setup - TCP/IP Hello All, I'm attempting to install Windows Small Business Server 2003 (Windows Server 2003, Exchange 2003, etc.) on a Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop. The initial installation of Windows 2003 Server goes fine, but when I attempt to "Continue Setup", I am met with the following error in the setup requirements: A network adapter must be installed, enabled, and configured with TCP/IP There is a network adapter on the laptop that appears to be working fine (status lights blink, etc.), however I can't get past this message to continue installation of SBS. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks, Neil Dittmar Software Developer Aurora Information Systems Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145472
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    - SQL running on SBS Running SQL on SBS2K, is this a good idea or is better to run on it's own server? I heard SQL can cause the server to take a hit on performance. Server is a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC. Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145469
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    - How many client licenses I have Win2K Small Business Server. How do I see how many user licenses that I have? My originals are stored offsite so I can't just count the disks. Dan Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145467
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    - Computer Management doesn't connect Through "Computer Management" I can't check other computers event logs from my server, I get an error saying the computer can't be found. Same error if I select a computer in Active Directory and select Manage. The computer shows up in Network Neighborhood and I can connect to shared / mapped drives. Any ideas where to begin looking into this problem? Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145461
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    - Laptops and SBS ? I've been looking for an overview of how to set up an XP/pro laptop so it can use domain resources (SBS2k for now) when in the dock, in the office and be usefull when detached from any network. For now Outlook uses a POP server via the internet, but eventually we will use the inside Exchange server. How do I set up a Mobile user to work standalone AND use the exchange server. I guess My Documents can be mirrored between the server and the laptop. How do I set this up ? Is there an analogous mirroring capability on Outlook and exchange ? We shared contacts to be accessale when offline, and resynced if the copy on the laptop is modified. When out of the office the user will be (a) completely detached (b) on a 56KB modem, and (c) on a broadband connection. How do I set up the machine to work in all cases ? Thanks -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes@panix.com Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145456
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    - PRoblem with small business server/exchange/outlook I have recently had problems with my client computers on my domain. When logging into outlook, the message 'exchange server is unavailable' and retry option comes up. after 2 or 3 attempts, the computer eventually logs onto outlook and operates fine. I am using windows XP pro, Office XP pro and the server is Small business server 2000. Any ideas greatly apprieciated. Paul Mcken Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145447
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    - Client connection Hi all, I have one Win XP Pro client that just won't logon to SBS. All logon & passwords fail even though they work from other clients. Log on using the local admin password & when ipconfig /all - it points to the server! I can even ping the Sever & get replies even though I've not logged on to the SBS network. Any ideas? TIA, Gary Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145445
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    - Benefits from a 2nd CPU ???? Will I benefit from adding a second P3-1.4G processor to my existing Dell PowerEdge 1500SC server running SBS2K box? TIA, Chad Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145444
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    - Antispam Software for Exchange 2000 running on a SBS 2000 Hi Everyone. Any suggestions for a good antispam software for the Exchange server running on a 2000 SBS? Thanks in advance, ...ilia Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145441
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    - ASP pages in IIS on SBS2k We have ported a web site from a UNIX server to our SBS server. In doing that, we changed some of the pages to ASP pages with VBScript. Now the pages don't work, and all I get is an *IIS 500* error with no other descriptions. What do I need to do to enable the SBS server to handle our ASP pages? Thanks in advance. Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145440
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    - Mapping network drives over VPN I have trouble mapping network drives to my 2000SBS server. When client located on office LAN, mapping network drives on server works fine When client located in home office, using VPN to connect to office LAN, mapping network drives on server does not work, but i can map shares on other computers connected on office LAN. I'm using Zyxel Zywall 10 at office, and Zyxel Zywall1 at home to create the VPN tunnell. Any ideas? Thanx RL Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145437
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    - SBS 2003 Setup 1st question, is there yet a discussion group or decent online resource for SBS 2003? I know this is probably asking a lot considering the age of the product. 2nd question, I have been attempting to setup up a dial up Internet connection on the server using the wizard that is accessible from the ' to do list '. This wizard appears outwardly to go through all the motions of setting up the connection. But when attempting to access the net on a client machine or even on the server itself no connection is made. I think I have found the script that the ICW creates (.vbs) and after checking through it appears that the wizard has not populated the phone number within the script (smodemPhoneNumber). I Have manually populated this and the server still does not attempt to make a connection. Does anyone have any ideas? Am I going massively wrong here? In hope of help Ben Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145432
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    - Outlook 2000 vs Outlook 2002 What are the main differences? Is it any good? As Outlook 2002 is part of the SP1a install onto SBS, it also has a key on the back of the CD - when and where do I use this key as my SBS is ready for client deployment of Outlook 2002. Skc Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145425
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    - SWEN At one time I had seen some posts regarding blocking SWEN virus at the ISA server. I can't seem to find those posts. Any one have any suggestions? I'm grabbing the emails with my virus protection, but I swear I saw something that could filter them before they ever got through the email. Thanks for any help you can offer. david davidm@clip.com Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145415
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    - PcAnywhere and SBS2000 I'm getting ready to rollout Pcanywhere on SBS2000 with ISA to about 20 hosts. Any one done this before? Is there anything special I need to do to get access to the hosts from remote locations? Tips? Please advise. Thanks in advance for your help. David davidm@clip.com Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145413
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    - Cloning server disk I'm hoping someone can give me some advice. I've been looking over the past posts on this issue, but still don't feel all that confident. Intermittent disk errors (in system log) have been stopping Exchange, so I think that replacing the disk would be a good idea, although disk management doesn't report any problems. Since the server is 100 miles away I haven't been down there yet to run chkdsk. It's the first drive - two partitions (OS, pagefile and Exchange logs mostly) - IDE, no RAID (don't ask), basic disk. What's the best way to go about cloning the two partitions to a new disk (Ghost 2003?) and what problems am I likely to run into? TIA -- Kathy Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145409
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    - mailing-dns servers; we admin a company that uses sbs server for mailling. in these days they usually cannot send mails. first it comes back with maeesge of delay and after tries it completely returns back with could not send message. we use dial up connection of superonline.com and gets the dns ips 212.252.119.3 - 4. i recognized that i cant ping the dns servers error message is timed out. i enchanced the time of timeout but result is still same. i do need to decide exactly that the problem occures coz of that. if not what the problem can be? thanks in advance, Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145407
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    - Win2K VPN Client Access Does anyone know what operating systems are compatible with the VPN software that this built in with Windows 2000? Of the following O/S, which are not compatible? 1.)Windows 2000 Professional (surely this one is) 2.)Windows XP Professional (Surely this one is) 3.)Windows XP Home edition??? 4.)Windows NT 4.0 Any help will be appreciated. Nick P Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145406
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    - SBS2k hardware migration - anyone actually done it successfully? has anyone successfully moved an SBS2K install from one hardware platform to another, whilst keeping the Active Dicecotry info intact? Let's assume that the hardware is different (that being the most likely position here). I have dug around on this NG for ages now, started threads to ask Q's but, despite an amount of pointers and Q articles which cover bits of the process, no-one has actually come forward with a complete working procedure and Microsoft has nothing (I can find anyway). If someone has done this successfully, they would be immensly popular with me and many others if they could share their wizardly skills. Otherwise I am resigned to having to build a new box and completely re-set up every single damned PC and laptop, re-set up all the remote access functionality on each and re-install every client-server app for them all - a ruddy nightmare!! Gerry Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145404
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    - My Documents on C:\ redirection We have around 30 Windows 2000 Pro client on our SBS2000 network each running Office 2000, ACT!, and some other software. How do I make sure (due to client HDD failures/reformats) that everyone saves their work to a mapped drive on their machine (governed by a login script that auto-maps each drive to the file server on our SBS network)? I want users to automatically (when they go to File>Save As) in any application, get redirected to either F Drive or their personal area on Z:\ Please help. skc Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145397
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    - Adding Client Pack Causes AD error Having re-built a Windows 2000 SBS Server last week all was running ok until I added the client pack to activate the additional 5 CAL's. This was a disk that had already been used so I needed to call MS for the password. After activating and re-booting the AD was completely screwed!!! When trying to run Active Directory Users and Computers I got: - "Naming information cannot be located because: The target principal name is incorrect. Contact your system administrator to verify that your domain is properly configured and is currently online." I followed the advice of some technet articles and postings here but the only way to fix the problem was to run DCPROMO remove the AD and DNS re-boot and re-create. I tested this 4 times and got exactly the same results every time. As soon as I built an SBS server (and SP'd it!) I ran DCPROMO created an AD and DNS (AD integrated or not makes no difference) then ran the client add pack the AD was screwed. I could not find any documentation that said you should not do it in this order - in fairness I haven't looked that hard after the fact! Also I am not sure if it will apply to new disks that have not as yet been used - I would hope not!! One to watch out for.. IanH... Tag: joining a domain Tag: 145396

I would like to know if i can join a domain from a
remote site. I have setup some laptops to connect to a
small buisness server 2000 using VPN i can connect to the
server and use outlook to connect to the exchange server
this works fine, The problem is I can not browse the
network. I have had a pc hardwired to the network and
joined a domain, when i connected this through VPN i can
browse the network. does the client need to be connected
to the domain?? can i join a domain through VPN????

Thanks in advance

Regards

Stephen

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Re: joining a domain by Henry

Henry
Mon Dec 08 17:51:25 CST 2003

Sure.
At the Log-on screen select the Domain,
and the Log-on Use Dialup Connection Checkbox
while selecting the VPN Setting to the Remote Domain
as the connection method.

--
Henry Craven.

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SBS 4/4.5 : microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz
SBS 2000 : microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000
SBS 2003 : microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
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"Stephen Osborne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:057601c3bd71$49cafde0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I would like to know if i can join a domain from a
> remote site. I have setup some laptops to connect to a
> small buisness server 2000 using VPN i can connect to the
> server and use outlook to connect to the exchange server
> this works fine, The problem is I can not browse the
> network. I have had a pc hardwired to the network and
> joined a domain, when i connected this through VPN i can
> browse the network. does the client need to be connected
> to the domain?? can i join a domain through VPN????
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards
>
> Stephen

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