Installing a Second Server : SBS 2011 Essentials & Premium Add on Server Part 2

March 9, 2012 by Leave a comment

sbse-conIn my other post on this subject, i mused over the pro’s and con’s of Installing the SBS Essentials Connector on the PAO Server in an effort to get it to appear in the RWA, to allow remote users to connect to it.

You can relive that magical post right here.

Anyway, being a man, i do a lot of thinking while in the bathroom, and an idea hit me the other day which i tried out.
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SBS 2011 Essentials – Manually Installing SSL Certificate

March 5, 2012 by 4 Comments

sbse-conI have been spending some time answering questions in the SBS Essentials forum over at TechNet recently, and i noticed that there is still a lot of outstanding questions and issues with the Remote Access wizard for SBS Essentials, especially surrounding installing an SSL Certificate.

One of the big headaches comes when you have a domain with one of the ‘supported’ registrars, Enom or GoDaddy. Read more of this post

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SBS 2011 Standard: Add a PSConfig Email Alert

February 27, 2012 by Leave a comment

sbsstdA client called me today to say ‘we cant get on the internet’, I asked what happened when they loaded up the browser, and they got a 503 Service Unavailable.

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Quick Fix: SBS Essentials Client Backup – Drive Offline?

February 17, 2012 by Leave a comment

sbsessI recently added my Laptop to my Essentials server, so it would be backed up.

At the time i had 2 partitions a C and a D partition. Whilst reconfiguring my laptop to dual boot Windows 2008 R2 I decided, following a conversation with Tim Barrett, to boot the Windows 2008 install from a VHD, rather than a partition. So i decided to remove that D partition.

After doing this, the Backups kept failing.

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Introducing the Microsoft SBS 2011 Essentials Answer File Tool!!

January 16, 2012 by 12 Comments

sbse-conI have never been able to understand coding. It has always been a bit of a mystery, or black art to me, left for the likes of Slytherin house to enter their Parseltounge into Visual Studio or your developer tool of choice.

I mean, it literally makes no sense at all does it. Read more of this post

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Nonpaged Pool Resource Allocation Error (SRV Error 2019)

January 3, 2012 by 2 Comments

I currently have a clients server that every so often experiences a condition where it stops responding to network requests.

You can still ping the server, and it still processes some basic commands, like a shutdown command, but it does not allow browsing files or folders, and you cannot RDP to the server. You will also be unable to launch applications if you manage to logon to the server locally.

You may have experienced a similar condition after regaining access to the server you will most likely see that the System log is full of Errors. In my experience this will be Event ID 2019, Source, SRV.

The Server was unable to allocate from the system Nonpaged pool because the pool was empty.

I have seen this occur on Servers and Workstations, there are a lot of fixes suggested online, but so far Read more of this post

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What’s Under your Hood? Finding Installed Roles and Role Services

December 20, 2011 by 3 Comments

SBS2008Right now i am dealing with an SBS 2008 Server that was missing the Terminal Services Gateway service. This meant that RWA was not working. Users could login to the RWA, choose which computer to connect to, but then they got an error saying that the Terminal Services Gateway service was not running and to call and shout at their Administrator Read more of this post

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