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Hello readers!    You probably already know, but from the Office SBS Blog, news that the Best Practices Analyzer has been updated. http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2010/09/07/sbs-2003-and-2008-bpa-updated.aspx   Read more →

OK people, as of right now, even though it states on the Sage website that Sage 50 2011 will work with with Outlook 2010, it does NOT! This is quite unbelievable as a YEAR ago I contacted some people internally in Sage with the then Beta of Outlook 2010 to report that Outlook 2010 X64 edition did not work as… Read more →

Right then, another one for the memory banks…. Today we had to install SP2 on Exchange 2007 sitting atop of Windows 2003 X64.   During the installation of Exchange 2007 we got the following error first: Exchange Server component Unified Messaging Server Role failed. Unable to remove product with code 84a6e864-10a5-47c0-ac31-426fe71e4906. Fatal error during installation. Error code is 1603. Last error… Read more →

Keep the faith people…. Microsoft Flight has been announced.    Read all about it here….   or, in fact, read not MUCH about it and then wonder some more about what is going on… Before you ask, I don’t know either. http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/ Read more →

OK….    everything is over, but I have a slight issue with Exchange 2010 and RPC over HTTPS.   That is being worked on and won’t be a problem I would expect to see in the shipping product! Other than that, this beauty is up and running and frankly I am delighted to have all the current technology on the SBS box.  … Read more →

It shows you……   if you walk away from something for a while, the thing sometimes fixes itself!    The public folder migration from SBS2008 to SBS V7 is now complete! I ran the nice little script that the SBS migration documents tell me to use to migrate my Public folder data between the two SBS servers again and this time it appears… Read more →

The sharepoint migration was very very easy.    Upgraded it to the new look and feel and I am very impressed!    How much nicer than Sharepoint 3 is this!  (Excuse the black privacy blocks) I am also extremely impressed with the completely overhauled Remote Web Workplace.    It seems snappier to! I especially like the Shared folders section, which makes life easier… Read more →

OK….  its been a bit of a disaster overnight.    Important points to remember…. Make sure to give your secondary virtual server more than a single core or you end up with this: Make sure that you give your mailboxes time to transfer between the servers before you reboot the source box Make sure to reset the password policy back to… Read more →

OK, so I have a new SBS server on my domain.   21 Days to do the migration, but I prefer 21 hours tops….. So, my next step in this migration is to Robocopy over the redirected folders.   This will be very easy for me, as I hate folder redirection and therefore never enabled it on the SBS2008 box.    I ran… Read more →

Well, here goes….   I am doing a migration on the public build of the SBS Aurora “V7” from my SBS2008 setup.    Sure, there is a huge migration document….    but lets assume that everything on my network is perfect and see if we can get this down to a few steps….     having the HyperV setup is going to be fantastic here… Read more →