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.
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am currently having a nightmare, which we’ve been wondering if trend 5.1 on sbs 2008was the issue.
all sorts of network and VPN wizards messing up… will let you know how removing trend afffects it and also apply hotfixes after it hopefully gets sorted
Also we experienced some DHCP issues as well. Either it would stop or only hand out 10 leases, etc. btw the Trend we were using is the latest Worry-Free version.
Currently deploying a Totally Windows 2008 domain only with no issues so far, so hopefully it’s only isolated to SBS 2008.
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