Brian Reid – Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Master
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Enabling ActiveSync on a Sony P1i with a GoDaddy Certificate
GoDaddy issued certificates are not trusted by the Sony P1i phone and so if you are using a GoDaddy issued digital certificate for ActiveSync on one of these phones you will be prompted to accept the certificate at each sync. As this kills the purpose of push email sync you will want to stop the…
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Configuring an SSTP VPN on Small Business Server 2008
SSL based VPN’s are great. In short it is VPN without firewall or NAT issues (both of which you get with PPTP and IPSec VPN’s). But SBS 2008 does not enable SSTP VPN’s by default. It uses RRAS, so SSTP is possible, but it is not as easy as it first looks! The following is…
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Log On To Restrictions in Essential Business Server
Thirty days after installing Essential Business Server 2008 your licence restrictions take effect. This means that users are shown as unlicenced in the EBS Management Console will only be able to log into licenced devices (as shown in the EBS Management Console as well). Only licenced users will be able to log into any computer…
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SBS 2008 SharePoint Install Breaks Default SBS Web Site
A recent installation of a second SharePoint site on Small Business Server 2008 broke the Remote Web Workplace site for access from the internet. Intranet access to the site worked fine, but from the internet where the http request to the site is redirected to https had stopped working. Opening up IIS 7 Manager and…
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Hyper-V and VSS Backups Cause Bluescreen
I found the other week that my Hyper-V server, running Server Core and nothing else was restarting all of its own accord. As this is just a server at home, and the monitor is switched off 99% of the time I had not noticed it blue screening. So looking in the event log (remotely of…
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How to Configure CRM 4 on a Terminal Server When Not All The Users Use Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Outlook client software, when installed on a terminal server (Microsoft or Citrix) results in the CRM toolbar (which is part of the CRM Outlook Add-in) appearing for all users of the server regardless of whether or not they require the functionality of CRM and irrespective of whether or not they…
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OWA Login Issues With RWW in SBS and WEBS
Remote Web Workplace (RWW) is a feature of Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (WEBS) and Small Business Server 2008 (SBS). Both of these operating systems provide a web portal to view internal resources such as Outlook Web Access (OWA), SharePoint and Remote Desktop to your own PC. I have noticed on a number of installations…
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Account Rename and Essential Business Server 2008 Installation Failure
The error “cannot find the specified active directory object: winnt:///,user” and “program file folder creation or environment variables setting did not finish successfully” appears during the installation of Essential Business Server 2008 on the Security Server if a group policy exists in your current environment that renames the local administrator account name. The GPO setting…
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Running Schema Upgrade Tool When You Have No DVD Drive on Infrastructure Master
The Essential Business Server installation steps for the Management Server might require you to insert the Prerequisite Planning Tools DVD into the Infrastructure Master to run schemaupgradetool.exe. What if you do not have a DVD drive on the current infrastructure master? Then copy over the network the SCHEMAUPGRADETOOL.EXE, MMSNETWORKINGNATIVE.DLL and the entire ADPREP folder. Then…
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SBS and WEBS 2008 Backup Fails to Backup Exchange Server
The following errors are reported in the Event Log Windows Logs/Application when you run the built-in backup that is part of Small Business Server 2008 (SBS) or Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (WEBS): Event ID 565 – Consistency check for component StorageGroup-GUID\’Microsoft Exchange Server\Microsoft Information Store\SERVER’ failed. Application ‘Exchange’ will not be avaliable in the…
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Remote Web Workplace not operating in SBS 2008 or EBS 2008
If when you log into Remote Web Workplace on Small Business Server 2008 or Essential Business Server 2008 as a non-administrator user you get the following error messages: Cannot connect to the Remote Web Workplace site. To continue, contact your network administrator. Event Viewer/Application Log/ASP.NET 2 Warning: Event ID 1309 ArgumentOutOfRangeException “Index was out of…
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Windows 2008, IIS 7.0, 64 bit Server, Terminal Services Web Application and Access Databases
This is a long list of pre-requisites, but for your information they do not work together. If you have a web site that uses Access as its data storage and you migrate that site to an x64 Windows machine then access to the Access MDB file ceases with the following error: “‘Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0’ provider is not…
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Enterprise Certificate Services and Terminal Services Gateway – Certificate Issuing for Internet Usage
To issue a certificate for the Windows 2008 Terminal Services gateway using your own intalled Enterprise Certificate Authority, out of the box you need to create a certificate request file, request the certificate from the Enterprise CA, install the issued certificate and map the certificate to the TS Gateway. This can help you if you…
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Enabling Previous Versions on Windows 2008 Server Core
Enabling Previous Versions for file shares on Windows 2008 when you have the full graphic’s interface is easy to do – but what about if all you have is the command line as you get in Server Core. To turn on Previous Versions (shadow copies) via the command line follow these steps: From the command…
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Moving WSUS 3.0 Content and Database
If you run out of space on your Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server then the following will allow you to move the content to another location on the same machine. Create a folder called WSUS on a different partiton from the current WSUS folder location. This folder must not be compressed. Open a command…
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SSTP (SSL VPN) on SBS 2008 RC0
Updated 31st March 2008: Please see http://c7solutions.com/blog/2009/03/configuring-sstp-vpn-on-small-business_31.aspx as this new article replaces the below, as the below refers to a pre-release version of SBS 2008. The working instructions for configuring SSTP on SBS 2008 is much more complicated than the steps below. SSL based VPN’s are great. In short it is VPN without firewall or…
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Hyper-V Not Booting From ISO Images
I got error 0xc00000e9 when attempting to boot into a new guest Hyper-V image, using an ISO image as my boot CD. Using the real CD in the host worked fine. So I downloaded the ISO again and all was well this time – must have been a dodgy download – now to go play…
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Hyper-V on the Dell Optiplex
With the correct BIOS settings enabled on a E8500 processor (see http://processorfinder.intel.com/ for the processors that support EM64T, Virtualisation and Execute Disable which is needed for Hyper-V to work), and with them and the Trusted Execution property set to On in the BIOS I got the following errors with Hyper-V RC1 on Windows 2008 Enterprise…
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Sage ODBC Error “cannot find all files in data path”
Saw this error when attempting to connect Excel/Microsoft Query to an installation of Sage when Sage v14 had been installed on Vista with Office 2007 (but these two programs are unrelated to the error). If in Microsoft Query I select the listed data source for Sage then it would generate the above error. The problem…
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Media Player 11 jumps or skips near end of songs
Finally fixed this one! On Windows Media Player 11, running on Vista on Dell hardware the sound-card (with a SigmaTel device) would ruin the end of every song, but sync the song to a mobile device or use a different media player (VLC for example) and the songs play the bit near the end fine.…
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CRM 3.0 Disaster Recovery
Updated 9 Jan 2009 as I needed to repeat these steps again, and so have clarified them a bit! I am in the process of performing a CRM restore, when I came across this cryptic message: “One or more Microsoft CRM groups do not exist”. I am restoring into a new Active Directory so the…