Windows Small Business Server 2003 is the Microsoft operating system in the `SBS` line based on Windows Server 2003.
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The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable - SBS2003
I'm getting the following error all the time on a clients SBS2003 box. The server is a Dell PowerEdge T300. I've run the Dell diagnostics on the SAS controller and both drives, and everything comes up good. Everytime the server is rebooted, it…

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Unable to logon locally to Server 2012 R2 after removing Exchange from SBS2003
I receive the following error when logging on locally to a newly introduced Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard.
The sign-in method you are using isn't allowed. For more info, contact your network administrator.
Everything in the migration was going…

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Can you demote SBS 2003 DC with Exchange still working
I'm sitting with a bit of a delema, and I don't want to demote the AD on the SBS 2003 server before I know it is safe.
We are consolidating servers, and I installed a new Windows 2008 R2 Standard Server, and promoted it into the same DC forest. I've…

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Upgrading SBS 2003 Premium (with SQL server) to Essentials 2012 R2
As support (and running on old hardware) is fading out for SBS 2003, we are considering upgrading to essentials R2, as suggested by microsoft. The exchange environment will be migrated to Office365, but what about SQL server. It is used in our…

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Can a busy or under-resourced Windows Small Business Server 2003 cause momentary client disconnects?
I deal with an application which runs on network clients, and opens many database files from a network share. This is a flat-file-type database, as opposed to SQL Server or whatever.
We have a couple of Windows Small Business Server 2003 sites who…

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Outlook 2010 suddenly starts autodiscover and event log shows schannel error 36887
we are running and rather small domain network using an SBS 2003 and Exchange 2003 on the server side and outlook 2010 on the clients.
This setup has been working quite well for some years now and has not been changed lately, apart from installing…

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Server 2003 SBS DNS not resolving webpages
We have an SBS 2003 Server that has developed what I believe is a DNS fault. It is a domain server used for DNS, DHCP, file server and exchange duties. About 24hrs ago it became apparent that any internal clients, also external clients connecting…
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SBS 2003 Raid restore with fresh install
I have a box running SBS 2003 with one hard drive for the os and another three in a raid 5 configuration [edit: using the build in SBS raid system]
The os hard drive seems to have died, even trying chkdsk and repairing isn't working & it just blue…

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SBS 2003 - Rename Domain Netbios Name Without Renaming Active Directory Domain Name
I have client running a Small Business Server 2003 R2 network with a strangely named domain. The fully qualified domain name is a straightforward contoso.local. The domain netbios name (shown as pre-Windows 2000 domain name), however, is contoso2.…

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Migrating SBS 2003 to 2012 standard
My company is currently trying to migrate a Windows Small Business Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012. We know the general procedure, but we want to make sure we aren't going to mess anything up tremendously. Here's the steps we were planning on…

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Server 2003 DNS Issues
We are having a certain issue at a client where the internet will stop working and when I do a ping test to a website, it replies Pinging www.google.com (10.0.0.1) and then the pings fail. However, when I restart the DNS server service on the…
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How do I allow FTP on SBS 2003
I've been asked to find out why a server cannot connect to our Data Distribution server via FTP (standard port 21).
The problem server is SBS 2003. I've port forwarded FTP in their Gateway/Firewall (even though this server is not a FTP server…

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Upgrade from SBS2003 to full windows domain
A company running SBS2003 wants to switch to the full windows domain (no longer SBS), including Exchange 2013.
How would they upgrade to a full domain, and how do they remove SBS? Is there a set of steps that must be followed?

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Migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008
I have installed SBS 2008 STD and just realized that for migration I had to create a answerfile.
We just want to migrate the users and mailboxes (From SBS 2003) ; is there a way I can do this without re-installing and running the user migration on…
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Event Viewer showing 1372 and 1528 errors after unsuccessful Exchange uninstall (SBS 2003)
We recently attempted to uninstall Exchange 2003 from a SBS 2003 server.
Unfortunately, the uninstall failed with the following errors:
Event Viewer is now showing the following Directory Service errors together every 30 minutes:
1373, 1528
I've…

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