Quick Fix: Cancel Email Forwarding Exchange 2007/10
October 24, 2012 2 Comments
Had a call from a client who needed to cancel all automatic forwarding of email to one recipient.
Easy you might think. Read more of this post
Quick Fix: Unable to Delete 0 Bytes Folder
September 5, 2012 1 Comment
Have you ever had to delete a folder only to find you cant? Read more of this post
Quick Fix : DNS Forwarders SBS 2011 Essentials
May 4, 2012 10 Comments
Update – This post will also apply to Windows Server 2012 Essentials
I have seen a number of posts on the forums about people who are having trouble with DNS Resolution on SBS 2011 Essentials.
Sean Daniel posted an excellent explanation of the how’s and whys of Essentials and DNS, and why the Server has a Dynamic IP… <shudder>
Anyway, knowing why something does something, and not being happy with it doing it, are two separate things.
So, if you want to force your DNS Forwarders to be something other than your Default Gateway, or, to use something else instead, you can build a simple scheduled task to do this.
Quick Fix: Cannot Delete File In Use?
March 14, 2012 Leave a comment
I am testing a PowerShell script to delete files based on age, as Acronis ‘Backup Location CleanUp’ seems hopeless at this task on this particular network – seems to work ok on others.
I found a neat little script here, http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Delete-files-older-than-x
It was working, but failing to delete one file in particular giving me the error that the file was in use. Read more of this post
Quick Fix: SBS Essentials Client Backup – Drive Offline?
February 17, 2012 Leave a comment
I 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.
Quick Fix : Installation Cancelled : Installing SBS 2011 Essentials Connector
January 23, 2012 Leave a comment
I was working on a Windows XP system last week, and joining it to an SBS Essentials domain, the connector installed with no issues at all. Read more of this post
Quick Fix : Disable the Microsoft SBS 2011 Essentials Launchpad
December 9, 2011 2 Comments
A lot of people deploying SBS 2011 Essentials seem to have developed a special affection for the Launchpad app. That is to say they seek to disable it at the earliest opportunity.
Personally on my deployments i have only disabled it on the users request, Read more of this post
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