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Windows SBS 2008 – Flaky with Trend [with UPDATE]

Learned today, the hard way, that Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 has some issues working with third-party software in particular Trend-Micro’s AV.

What occurs is the server will experience after several days (~5-6) problems with some servicesstopping, Global Catlog, Active Directory, email, DNS from functioning correctly. The only way to recover from this ‘flaky’ state is to reboot the server. Microsoft report they are working on a patch and are currently testing and should have it available in a couple of weeks. Until then I would recommend anyone to schedule a reboot every 2-3 days to prevent this issue from building to it’s flaky state. This is also the ‘workaround’ that Microsoft has recommended as well.

I will update this post when the patch is made available.

2/17/2009 —-UPDATE——

Microsoft now has a patch/Hotfix available and is working on a KB article. Go to the following link for more info http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2009/02/12/you-may-lose-network-connectivity-on-sbs-2008-when-using-a-driver-which-utilizes-tdi.aspx

and the Hotfix is at http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=961775&kbln=en-us

Will be applying this Hotfix this week.

Overcoming the size limit – How to send 100Mb files

Most email servers will allow you to send file attachments up to a certain limit. This limit is normally around 8-10Mb in size. This is by design to prevent email sending/receiving to be as short as possible as it travels from server to server as well as keeping mailbox sizes to a minimum.

However some have needs to send files to someone quickly. They are left with few options 1) Copy the file to some medium such as a CD, USB and ship/mail/walk it to the recipient or 2) upload to a server and have someone retrieve the file as a download. This second option would be the most efficient method but has some complexity for some such as Where do I upload to? Do I need a login/password? How do I get the other person to download? It can be difficult for someone who may be unfamiliar with the process. This is where uSend.io makes it simple.

You can send up to 100Mb with uSend.io. If you browse to uSend.io you will be asked two (2) things: Choose a File to Upload and email address of recipient(s). It’s that simple.

An email will go out to your recipient(s) with a private link to download the file. If you are concerned with privacy/security I would recommend placing a password on the file. If it is an Office document most of them can have a password placed on the file from office or you could simply zip the file (WinZip, 7-Zip) and password protect. This may also allow the file to be smaller but be sure your recipient knows how to unzip the file and also the password.

If you need somewhere to store files for longer periods checkout drop.io A great way of having Voicemail, Faxes or files emailed directly. Your personal drop box.

Group Preferences – The end of Complex Login batch/scripts?

Windows 2008 has added a new subset within Group Policy management with preferences. I was trying to see if Windows 2008 had a better way of doing drive mappings per Groups instead of the old ‘IFMEMBER’ method when I stumbled upon this blog article The Death of IFMEMBER. Wow did it open my eyes to the various possibilities of Group Preferences.

Group Preferences are broken down to Computer configuration and User configuration and works similar to the policies but provides more targeted settings. Below I show some of the screenshots of creating Drive Mappings based on Group Membership.

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