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Windows Small Business Server 2003 is the Microsoft operating system in the `SBS` line based on Windows Server 2003.

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Need to prevent SBS 2003 disabling its DHCP server if it sees another DHCP server on network

The DHCP server on our SBS 2003 server shuts itself down automatically after a couple of hours of having a Hamachi gateway running on the same LAN. The server incorrectly assumes that Hamachi might start assigning DHCPs to other clients on the…
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WSS 3.0 on SBS 2003 Search Not Working

I've got WSS 3.0 installed on SBS 2003 (side-by-side install with SBS's WSS 2.0). Everything works fine but search. I get no errors or warnings in the event log. I've got all the WSS services running under domain accounts (e.g. not network…
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SBS 2003 exchange database optimization period, should it be before the sbs full backup or after backup is done

i just want to check something. i always thought that a full sbs 2003 backup (through backup wizard) actually optimized the database of the exchange server. i was curious to see if you would suggest maybe doing an exchange database optimization…
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Windows Small Business Server 2003 SP2 upgrade plan

I support a non-profit organization running a SBS 2003 SP2 (x86) server. Apparently, SBS 2003 SP2 will be end-of-life some time in 2014. Should I be quite insistent that they upgrade the server OS (as it will soon be unsupported) to Server 2012, or…
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Exchange Relay to External Contacts - Vulnerable to spam?

We have a distribution group setup on our SBS 2003 server, it has a an exchange email address and contains members from within the company, including a few contacts setup that have external addresses. We then have a website setup to send to the…
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Outlook/Exchange allows some users to open a jar attachment

Using Windows SBS 2003 and Outlook 2007. We just received an email virus in a jar file. For most users Outlook blocked the attachment as per usual, but unfortunately on one users computer this didn't happen. Tools -> Attachment Handling shows the…
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SBS 2003 boot stalls at acpitabl.dat

I have a SBS 2003 server running for 3 year without any problems, and few days ago it freezes during the boot. System is using two 500 Gb drives in RAID1 (Intel Matrix 7.5) After trying to load in safe mode, boot stops on acpitabl.dat. First idea…
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replace SCSI raid controller with SATA on SBS 2003

Is it possible to add a second raid card (there is a second pci-x slot) that uses SATA and transfer the current contents of the SCSI card's HDDs to the new larger SATA HDDs Background: I bought 2 new 1 TB SATA drives and IDE <-> SATA converters…
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SBS 2003 to 2011 Migration: Public Folder Migration

Been banging my head into this wall for a while now, but still can't seem to get past it. Currently I'm trying to complete a migration from SBS 2003 to 2011. I've been following along the Microsoft migration guide (except Sharepoint) to the letter…
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Exchange: One account does not get new e-mail in their Outlook inbox, but Outlook Web Access shows it

I am responsible for a Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 serving e-mail via Exchange to a small company. Yesterday, it appears everything was working fine. This morning, one account (the one that is used most intensively, of course) started to…
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Exchange 2003 Offline Defrag

Looking to do my first offline defrag this weekend on Exchange 2003. Our Exchange DB is on E drive and server1 is the temporary location where there is sufficient space. Dismount the store and change to c:\program files\exchsrvr\bin Does this look…
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Exchange- Outbound emails not working

My old mans 2003 SBS Server is doing weird things.. specifically with Exchange. Inbound emails are trickling through slowly, but outbound emails have stopped working. Is there a way to track outbound emails to see what is happening with them? We use…
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Exchange 2010: Find Move Request Log after move request completes

EDIT: significantly changed my question here to streamline it a bit. I've gone ahead and used 100 as my corrupted item count and ran it from the Exchange Shell. So the trail of tears continues with my SBS 2003 to 2011 migration: all the mailboxes…
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DNS issues on Windows Server 2008

I've inherited an issue with 2 servers, one running SBS 2003 and one running WS2008 (non-R2). Periodically Google and other popular sites will appear down. Now obviously we know it's not a problem with the remote sites, it's become an internal joke…
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SBS 2003 Unexpected shutdown to standby

In the past 24 hours our Windows SBS 2003 server has twice experienced an unexpected shutdown, resulting in the server going into a power off/standby state - not an OS standby. Upon restart (finger on the power button type), the usual "why did your…
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