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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replacing an active directory server
I'd like to replace an SBS 2003 active directory server on our small LAN. It also has sage services running, so I'd rather leave it online, instead of trying to move the sage stuff onto the replacement machine.
So instead, I'd just like to turn off…

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Mount Exchange 2003 Database in Exchange 2010 in SBS 2011?
So the scenario I am facing is where I had an old SBS 2003 server. I used Outlook to export emails to a PST, saved on a USB and then imported them back into the new SBS 2011 server (two different physical boxes).
We have now destroyed the old box…

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Windows SBS 2003 SP2 freezing after installing Trend Micro WFBS
I'm new in charge of a server running Windows SBS 2003 with SP 2.
First thing after I got in charge of the system was to update the old WFBS 3.7 to the current version.
Now the users reporting that sometimes the network connection to the server is…

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Exchange 2003 to 2010 migration with a smart host
I'm trying to migrate a SBS2003 to SBS2011 and the source has an Exchange 2003 forest running on it. I'm using the migration tool, it's a small forest with less than 50 mailboxes.
The problem I am having after running the BPA tool, is that the…

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SBS 2003 Can't Boot after restore from backup
I have a problematic SBS 2003 installed on a Dell PowerEdge SC430 server. The server has two SATA drives originally configured as a RAID-1 mirror using software RAID (i.e. no RAID controller). After a problem with disks, the server was rendered…

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SBS 2003 Account to Login Locally at the Server
I have a SBS 2003 running AD, DNS, Exchange etc.... this is a manufacturing environment that runs 24 x 7 seven days a week. Very seldom but we do experience a Server lockup and need to reboot the server. Currently only one person is server admin…

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Should I install the SBS 2011 Premium Add-on on a second server or just install SQL on one server?
I'm in the process of migrating a SBS 2003 to SBS 2011. The new server is installed on a HP DL360 with ESXi 4.1, having 38GB RAM, a 2.53Ghz E5649, 4*300GB SAS RAID1+0. My questions are:
Should I install the SBS Premium Add-on on a separate server…
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How to secure a Windows SBS Server against fraudulant login attempts?
I administer a Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 server for a small business. The only ports that this server has exposed to the internet are SSL and the RDP tunnelling port used by the SBS remote web workplace feature.
I've noticed in the…

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SBS 2003 Distribution Group not showing up in Active Directory, but it still works
Under the "MyBusiness" object in Active Directory we have our "Users" folder where I can see all our users as well as all our distribution groups -- except one particular group. Let's call it groupx@ourdomain.com
I can email this distribution group…

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EDB repair in SBS exchange 2003
One week before in our HP PROLIANT ML370 G5 server with RAID5 one hard disk turned amber and we removed and it is working under degraded state until now.
Yesterday morning our users in the domain complained that mails are not going from their…

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Exchange User unable to receive SOME internal mail
One of our Users is having a strange issue, before explaining the issue I should clarify that our user Exchange server is collecting mail using a POP3 connector. (not sure if it's relevant)
The user having the issue can receive all external. However…

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Can't remote desktop into Windows 7 workstation in SBS 2003 network
We have a Windows Small Business Server 2003 network with Windows XP and 7 workstations. Some of the workstations have custom remote desktop ports and the modem/firewall (Netgear DG834) forwards these ports through to the workstation (static…

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SBS2003 Server Performance Report email gets corrupted
This is a problem I have had for some time, but it has until now been considered relatively minor (by myself and my colleague) so we haven't really tried to fix it. However, a couple of weeks ago an unfortunate series of events could have been…

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SMALL BUSINESS SERVER 2003 sp1 disaster recovery test, slow preparing network connections
ok did a test to different hardware for a sbs 2003 r2 sp1 machine, client wants a documented test. Have done this in the past many times for others but this time the "preparing network connections" takes long, takes about 20 minutes to boot to the…

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Gettings back to SBS sp1 from SP2 so I can run the transition pack
I have a windows small business server running sp2 and I need to migrate this to a full blown version of windows using the small business server 2003 R2 transition pack.
In order to do this you are supposed to do the following:
1) Uninstall sp2 if…

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