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Reset Domain Administrator Password
“Help! I cannot log onto my server, how do reset the domain admin’s password?” This has been asked a thousand times. Rather than continually advising folk or posting elsewhere I thought it best to...
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Using DDNS services with SBS 2008/2011
Often a small business cannot justify the cost of acquiring a static IP from their ISP. It is still possible to host e-mail and other services using a dynamic public IP, but you will need to use a DDNS...
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Editing SBS 2008/2011 Server Reports
There have been many complaints that there are numerous events logged in the daily SBS reports to which the ultimate Microsoft solution is; “The errors/warnings are benign and may be safely ignored”,...
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Windows VPN Client Deployment
subtitled: What happened to the SBS Connection Manager? VPN name resolution is a common problem for many IT folk. I have addressed in in previous blogs by manually configuring the VPN client to...
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How can I add CALs to my SBS 2003, or SBS 2008
SBS 2003 CAL’s and SBS 2008 are no longer available for purchase, however there are still many of these servers in use and some in growing companies in need of additional CAL’s. The solution is to...
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SBS 2008 / 2011 adding an SSL certificate
[Note: some links point to SBS 2008 configurations, some to SBS 2011, the procedure is the same for both] Just a quick comment to address the many internet posts suggesting that SBS requires a...
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SBS connect / connectcomputer wizard fails
Generally when a computer cannot join the domain using http://connect (SBS 2008 & 2011) or http://SBSname/connectcomputer (SBS 2003) it is due to inability to correctly resolve the name of the...
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Users not displaying in SBS console
A common question is; “why are my users missing from the SBS console, under the users tab?” If a user is created in the “SBS way” by using the “Add new user account” wizard under Users and Groups |...
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