Reinstalling Exchange roles on SBS 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd728006(WS.10).aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2009/05/21/repair-microsoft-exchange-server-roles-on-windows-small-business-server-2008.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd767439(WS.10).aspx

CA eTrust Updates fail

Blog post here http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproappcompat/thread/a2b11a70-7e04-4b67-964c-8d7ba7279929

Unable to scan to email

Todays issue appeared during a migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008. The Xerox copier was configured to send incomming faxes to a shared mailbox. However, it was no longer performing this, offering only 'transmit failed'.

After not being able to get anything further from the copier as to what this issue was, I installed Network Montior and reviewed traffic from the copier.

Trawling through the SMTP traffic highlighted that Exchange 2007 was rejecting mail with a 530 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated.

I rechecked the Exchange hub transport to ensure that relaying was permitted, which it was. Digging deeper, the Default connector did not have anonymous authentication ticked, which is why this was failing.

Installation issue on Proliant ML350 G6 Server

Installing SBS 2008 on a new Proliant ML 350 G6 I found the installation hung on the "completing installation" phase. After some digging and obscure forum post pointed toward the second SAS controller for the tape drive.

Removing the SAS controller for the first stage of the installation alieviated the issue.

Leasons Learned

Ignored a SBS BPA error, which almost caused my migration to fail.

Blog post

Understanding the WinSXS folder

What is it? http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2008/09/17/what-is-the-winsxs-directory-in-windows-2008-and-windows-vista-and-why-is-it-so-large.aspx

More detailed what is it? http://www.winvistaclub.com/f16.html

Why is it so big (or not)?http://www.davidlenihan.com/2008/11/winsxs_disk_space_usage_its_no.html

How to reduce the space for SP1
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709618(WS.10).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709655(WS.10).aspx

How to reduce the space for SP2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335036(WS.10).aspx

SBS 2003 and SBS 2008 Best Practise Analysers updated

I strongly recommend the BPA, from the SBS BPA's through to Exchange and ISA BPA's.

The MS teams have updated the BPA checks from both SBS 2003 and SBS 2008.

Read the post here.

How to install Exchange Server 2007 SP3 on a computer that is running Windows SBS 2008

Article here

Windows 7 Mobile - Development links

http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/WP7TrainingKit/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431744(VS.92).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402529(VS.92).aspx

http://developer.windowsphone.com/

How to upgrade your Windows SharePoint Services websites on Windows SBS 2008 to Windows SharePoint Foundation 2010

Useful blog post on upgrading SharePoint to the current SharePoint 2010 Foundation on an SBS server.

Blog Post Here