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Windows Small Business Server 2011 is the Microsoft operating system in the SBS line based on Windows Server 2008 R2. It will be the last in the SBS line and went RTM December 13th, 2010 and was first officially released March 9th, 2011. Like the rest of the SBS line, it includes a number of Microsoft products bundled with it, the tradeoff being that the number of users is limited and some functionality useful for larger organizations is disabled.

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Windows Small Business Server 2011 is the Microsoft operating system in the SBS line based on Windows Server 2008 R2. It will be the last in the SBS line and went RTM December 13th, 2010 and was first officially released March 9th, 2011. Like the rest of the SBS line, it includes a number of Microsoft products bundled with it, the tradeoff being that the number of users is limited and some functionality useful for larger organizations is disabled.

It is available in two editions, Essentials and Premium, both of which are 64 bit only. A Premium "add-on" pack was released for either version which primarily included stand-alone editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, and a standalone edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 for Small Business, both of which were licensed only for use on SBS, with the Server 2008 R2 license to serve as a Hyper-V host, into which SBS 2011 would be virtualized. This add-on also allowed for the use of Remote Desktop Services in SBS 2011, an additional domain controller and the ability to use SBS with a small branch location or locations.

Notable product inclusions and restrictions in SBS 2011 are:

  • PC user limit of 25 (Essentials) or 75 (Standard)
  • Exchange Server 2010 SP1 (Standard)
  • SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Standard)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express (Both)
  • Automated backup software (PCs and server in Standard, Server only in Essentials)
  • IIS, DHCP, DNS and (restricted) Active Directory functionality (Both)
  • Windows Software Update Services (Standard)
  • User friendly, wizard-based management and monitoring console (Both)

As it is the last in the Small Business Server line, it has no direct successor, but the product that will be replacing its role in targeting small businesses is Windows Server 2012, Essentials edition.

More information can be found on Wikipedia page dedicated to the Small Business Server line, or at Microsoft's page for Small Business Server 2011.

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Outlook/Exchange certificate errors

I have an SBS 2011 server running Exchange 2010 on which the self signed certificate recently expired. I have taken steps to re-issue the certificate but both still cause Outlook to throw a security alert when started up. The first step was to…
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HP DL380 G7 Losing Drive Array

I have an HP Proliant DG380 G7 dropping one of it's arrays every hour, on the hour, for 2-5 minutes. The OS is SBS 2011 Standard, the servers runs Exchange, DC, files & Trend WFBS 8. I can watch the D Drive disappear for the duration of the problem…
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SBS 2011 "Unable to query computer information" and event id 10009 DCOM for shutdown clients

I'm running SBS 2011 with some clients connected from home-offices via vpn. My problem is that the event log of the server is polluted every 30 minutes with DCOM 10009 errors: "DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer X using any of the…
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Restoring SBS 2011 Domain Controller with no DSRM logon access

I have a client's server running SBS 2011, it is their only server. I need to restore their OS to a previous date. Everything can go back to that date last week. They have a Windows Image Backup. When I try to log on in DSRM i get 'Logon servers no…
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Exchange certificate - different issuer external to internal?

We have a GoDaddy signed SAN cert for our Exchange 2010 server, internally it works fine - issuer is GoDaddy and cert chain checks out. Externally the same SAN seems to be used (the domains are the same as the GoDaddy SAN and we have no other…
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HUGE ammount of duplicate files in this directory

I maintain our companies SBS2011 server, and I have duplicate file reports emailed to me on a monthly basis. I've noticed an increasing build up of duplicated files in the following directories: NT…
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SBS 2011 CALs and Server 2012 / 2012 R2

I found this: Q. I want to have additional servers running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 in my SBS 2011 Standard domain. Do I need additional CALs to access those servers? A. No. As long as those servers are within the Windows…
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SBS VPN no longer working after migration to new server

Our SBS 2011 recently had some hardware trouble, so we decided to migrate everything to a new server which we also installed with SBS 2011. Since the migration, I've been having trouble to get our VPN to work. The connection fails with the following…
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MS Exchange Server2010 - server address?

We have a small business network with SBS2011 and Exchange2010 setup; the clients are all using Outlook to retrieve their email over the LAN, which works fine. But there is one apple machine that is also to be connected to the Exchange server that…
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HyperV Eject passthru disk while VM is running

I have a disk that I need to connect as a pass thru for one of my guest OSes, sbs 2011. The guests internal backup program will backup to the disk, which I'm planning to attach to the VMS SCSI controller. Since its a backup disk I also want to…
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Skip Windows SBS 2011 installation wizard / install products separately, without initial configuration

Hello, As we know, Windows Small Business Server 2011 is a package of: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Exchange Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010. After first part of installation where Windows is installed, we've got wizard which will…
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Windows SBS 2011 Dashboard + Windows Server * Services will not start due to Windows Server Service Provider Registry service

I have a Windows Server SBS 2011 Box that is having some strange issues related to the Windows Server Service Provider Registry. A number of windows server services were running into issues starting and I traced it back to this service. It's…
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SBS 2011 Group policy won't update/apply properly

i'm running SBS 2011 on a dell poweredge t110 II, and recently i've found that i am unable to apply/update group policies. I get the following error: The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file \abs. …
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Network computers wake-up just after putting them to sleep

Since the day we deployed SBS 2011, network computers wake just after putting them to sleep and as far as we can see they never go in sleep mode again. I know that SBS 2011 deliver updates to clients automatically during the night - and that's great…
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Is it safe to delete Exchange/IIs server certificate that is not tied to any service?

Exchange [EMC] View of certs Name: Blank Self Signed: False Status: The cert is valid for exchange server usage Services: None Subject: CN=Servername.domain.local Issuer: CN=Domain-servername-CA Expiration Date: 05/05/2015 IIS view of cert Name:…
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