Tony Ma has been doing these great series of Tech articles on SBS 2008 in the MAPS partner newsgroups. Check out his latest!   Hi All, Welcome to the partner online communities. I hope you have had a wonderful holiday! This is the last round of the SBS 2008 Knowledge Sharing series. This time w...

New ways of doing the same old things is sometimes hard to get a handle on.  Sharing out printers in the 2k8 era is like that.  Since the server is 64bit, when you attach a 32 bit workstation, the native driver isn't 32bit but 64 bit.  One of the ways you can deploy printers is a ...

Revisiting DNS on Server 2008 You experience issues with UDP-dependent network services after you install DNS Server service security update 953230 (MS08-037): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956188/ Remember I said.. Windows Server 2008 Ephemeral port allocation and the MaxUserPort registry entry I...

One of the best resources for information ... I think... is the Partner managed newsgroups.  Lately they've been publishing these "tech bulletins" in there.  Check it out: This is the second round of this Tech bulletin regarding SBS 2008. After installing SBS 2008, we need to...

Just saw someone report that they were getting an alert on their SBS 2008 regarding licensing. Now you know that there's no console for licesning, right?  You do need to be legal, however but the engine underneath doesn't count. It can however get large ...therefore keep this "know...

On SBS 2003 if you wanted to enable files and folders to be transferred between the remote computer and your computer you had to check a box.  And if you were running Vista you had to run IE as administrator for the drive mappings to work. In the 2k8 era you have to use the RDP client to have t...

Just a quick reminder that The Wayne & I will be in Melbourne tonight for a combined SBS user group session & demonstration on WESS. Joining us will be HP, Citrix & Kaseya & so come along to get the latest information & ask all those hard questions (of Wayne, not of me...). Detai...

To all that came to hear me talk about SBS and EBS thank you for coming tonight! There was a packed house and I hope you enjoyed the demo of SBS 2008.  As I said during the presentation, if you have any question at all, feel free to ping the blog! Remember the links we talked about: The SBS 200...

Body: I’ve been thinking long and hard about this. I believe that the SBS 2008 Migration Wizard is incorrectly named. Therein lies a major problem. Microsoft have trained us to become accustomed to wizards doing all the right things for them. They've...(read more)...

Body: Just last night I posted an email to the MSSMALLBIZ yahoogroup. At that point I knew that many of us in the community had pushed hard on Microsoft to provide downgrade rights for the 2nd Server to allow it to become Windows Server 2003 Standard...(read more)...