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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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Change SMTP server for SBS 2011 Self Monitoring Reports

SBS 2011 sends daily/weekly/instant reports from the account SBSMonAcct@. It uses localhost as the SMTP transport as being SBS Exchange is usually installed. I want to use an external SMTP server. Where can I change these settings? Thanks.
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What to do after SBS migration?

I'm going to be migrating my SBS 2008 server to SBS 2011. The old server is a physical machine that I'd like to make use of as a file server. Once the migration is complete, can I just reinstall the server stopping before the SBS installation? I…
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Change companyweb to intranet.companyname.com

We're having issues with a sister company that has an SBS 2011 Standard server on site on a separate domain to ours - they have problems editing documents via SharePoint, whereas my manager can get in just fine externally. We noticed that the…
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migrate SharePoint to SBS Server

We have a SharePoint 2003 server and we need to migrate that data to SharePoint 2011 on a SBS server. We cannot use the migration tool because one of the servers is SBS and the other is not. We exported the SharePoint data from the old system, but…
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SBS 2011 POP3 Connector tries to pick-up non-existing e-mails

Windows Server SBS 2011, running Exchange Server 2010: Our client has their own Exchange e-mail accounts, but also some old POP3 accounts which are hosted somewhere else but are still in use. So we use the POP3 Connector to pick up those e-mails and…
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What would cause this error nightly during NTBackup (SBS 2003)?

I am getting the following warning message on 510 different files (always the same ones) every night: WARNING: Portions of "[INSERT FILENAME HERE]" cannot be read. The backed up data is corrupt or incomplete. This file will not restore correctly.…
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Can't See Any Useful Info in SBS 2011 Windows Backup Logs

I have a number of logs in c:\windows\log\windowsserverbackup that follow the pattern wbadmin.*.etl. I have opened these files in the Event Log tool and can only see a large number of entries with GUIDs and nothing else in them. In fact, there…
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Decrease amount of memory used by Exchange?

I know that Exchange Information Store (store.exe) is indeed a memory hog. So much so that it doesn't always seem to respectively release memory when other applications need it - causing the machine to be sluggish. This is SBS 2011 Standard SP1 with…
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SBS 2011 Exchange Server SMTP log locations (Exchange 2010)

With a SBS 2011 box (Exchange 2010) there is a user complaining the mail he sent was not received. He has used delayed send and the items were in the outbox on their Outlook client - they also show in the sent items as sent OK. Could someone please…
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Exchange 2010 Transport Certificate , Event ID 12014

I am getting cert error on our external domain for TLS. I already have a cert for Web Outlook and ActiveSync, but that's a different domain name, this is our mail.name from our MX records that I've never put a cert on. I don't mind buying a public…
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Windows DNS on SBS 2011: How to push Alternate DNS Server

are windows SBS is starting to go and when it does all the clients in our office loose dns settings and then as a result can not get out to the internet for services they need as a temporary measure I have manually edited some of there computers to…
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Is server being compromised? I've seen a client telnet session at logon

I've seen open a new window with a client telnet sesion at login this morning at SBS 2011 server. The window displayed some random chars (non alphanumerics) a few seconds and gone. The server is fully updated and doesn't have any script at logon.…
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Secondary "Management" NIC on SBS 2011?

Looking for a solution to an issue I've run into at a site. Essentially we've run out of network drops for a server. The server itself has all of the necessary network drops, but we do not have one for the new UPS. I'm trying to get the UPS to be…
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Server Network Fails whenever a Client Computer connects to Server

I have an IBM x3400 server at a remote site, running SBS 2011 Premium. This is a really remote site in outback Australia, about 3000 kms away from me at present. Yesterday their network went down during the day. I got them to turn everything off and…
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Convert RAID 5 to RAID 10 without data loss

I have a Windows SBS 2011 server on a Dell R610 with RAID 5 configuration [3 disk]. Is there a way to convert it to RAID 10[4 or 6 disk] without losing anything or needing to re-install the whole OS and all the applications?
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