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