Windows Small Business Server 2003 is the Microsoft operating system in the `SBS` line based on Windows Server 2003.
Questions tagged [windows-sbs-2003]
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How to get partition information from non-booting server?
Need to manually rebuild a mirrored array on a server and am in the process of reinstalling SBS 2003 on it. However, it's a Dell server, and know that there's the Dell FAT32 diagnostics partition, a system partition, and a data partition, but do…

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Error when attempting to do a differential or incremental backup of Exchange using ntbackup
We're running Small Business Server 2003 here. I was reviewing our backup procedures lately and noticed in the ntbackup logs that the differential backups of Exchange were failing with the error:
(SERVERNAME)\Microsoft Information
Store\First…

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The MAPI call 'OpenMsgStore' failed: The MAPI provider failed Exchange 2003
Recently we moved our Exchange 2003 (SP2) database from one drive to another. Now every other day or so we get errors coming up in the event log:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeSA
Event Category: MAPI Session
Event ID: 9175
Date:…

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Convert SBS 2003 domain to Server 2008 R2 Standard - will this work?
I have been tasked with converting an SBS 2003 domain to Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. The customer plans to expand past the limitations of SBS, and does not use Exchange Server at all. Here's the current set up:
City A: This is the client's…

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OWA website down in sbs2003
Suddenly and inexplicably the Outlook Web Access site on one of the SBS 2003 sites I manage is down. To my knowledge, nothing has changed on the server and we've rebooted it to see if the site comes back up. It doesn't.
It doesn't work from inside…

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I'm going to move a domain name. How do I ensure that remote access, email and so on still work?
There are two domain names that I am going to move to a different hosting company. One of them is nfsh.org.uk and thehealingtrust.org.uk is the other. They are hosted by different companies.
We are able to use Remote Web Workplace and Outlook Web…

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how long to replicate adprep /forestprep to second domain controller?
i updated our sbs 2003 server using adprep /forestprep
waited about 1/2hr and checked the second DC 's usn number, the sbs 2003 is 8875 and the usn for the second DC is 4410?
can i force the second DC to check in with the sbs 2003 to get updated…

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transfer of fmso roles to an sbs 2003 computer from original DC running server 2003
here is the outline that was done about 4 years ago.
1) we had a Windows 2003 server pdc running in the organization
2) i added sbs 2003 to the network about 3 years ago, at the time i transferrd the fsmo roles from the Win2k3 box to the sbs2003…

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IIS Admin Service won't start
I have a Windows 2003 SBS Server (SP2) that suddenly has a problem starting the IIS Admin Service.
This not only means that intranet sites are no longer available to the users but more importantly, Exchange has a service-dependency on the IIS…

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Load entire database with additional RAM?
I recently upgraded my upgraded from Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 with 2 GB RAM, to a shiny-new server running Microsoft Windows Server 2016 with 64 GB RAM. I configured MySQL on the server to use "all available memory" because that is the…

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Add IP address to lease list on SBS 2003
I've deleted an IP address by mistake from the DHCP Address Leases list on Small Business Server. Is there a way to get these back or restore them? I've tried, but to no avail.

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Is it possible to check the SBS Backup log over RSS?
i am using a SBS 2003 and i would like to read the Backup log as a RSS/Atom Feed, are there any tools out there to accomplish that?

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TS server to SBS 2003 server - CAL
If I connect to TS over RDP and after that run application which resides on SBS 2003 server (shared app directory), do I need to buy SBS 2003 CAL beside TS CAL?
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Windows Server 2003 SBS cannot download files
I have an extremely bizarre issue on one of SBS2003 servers, belonging to my client. Server cannot access some URLs. I can access simple sites, such as google, but every time I'm trying to go to msn.com, or mozypro.com the site will timeout.
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Migrated SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 and my Outlook clients didn't get the new server name
Source server is SBS 2003, called sbs
Destination server is SBS 2011, called sbs11
Everything ran swimmingly, the migration went well.
However, when my users log into Outlook, the Exchange address field still says 'sbs' not 'sbs11' and it isn't…

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