Tag archive for ‘small business server’

Windows SBS 2008 – Flaky with Trend [with UPDATE]

Posted by Frank on Jan 30, 2009 • (3)

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’ [...]

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

Posted by Frank on Jan 18, 2009 • (1)

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 NEW Small Business Server 2008 – x86/x64 Print drivers

Posted by Frank on Jan 13, 2009 • (0)

It’s here, of course it is at the end of 2008.  Microsoft now has gone to Small Business Server 2008 First thing to understand is that this is a 64bit version Only. The requirements for loading are on a different level than SBS 2003. Minimum RAM is 4GB and 60GB HDD (however it will allow [...]

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