Sorry for this, but I really need some advice... I am moving an old SBS 2003
installation to new hardware (with new licenses). I am following the Technet
whitepaper "Migrating Windows Small Business Server 2003 to New Hardware". I
completed Step 2 of the white paper and was waiting for "Line of Business"
application developer to set a date of when they can be on site to move their
application before I proceeded to migrate Exchange.

In the mean time, the server started rebooting today every hour with event
codes 1001, 1012, 1011. The event codes say that I am in violation of EULA
since I have two SBS servers in the same domain (following the instructions
from Technet as described in the white paper above). It appears that there
is a two week limit on having two domain controllers on the same SBS Domain!

So... with my customer's application server rebooting every hour (this
really isn't funny - Nagware at its worst!), does anyone have a suggestion?
- Is there a way to lengthen or reset the timer? Two more weeks would do it.
- Can I reverse the steps in the white paper and restart when the vendor is
ready? This would be painful as the original process took 4 - 5 hours to get
this far (the old hardware is lacking).
- Proceeding with the installation cannot occur for a couple of days, which
means the Doctor's office server will reboot 20 - 30 times...

Two needs around public folders:

1. One of my customers needs several groupings of public address list of
various orginization groups that can be set up by a clerk and read by the
staff managers. My understanding is that you can do this in exchange, but so
far my seaching has not yet found the "how to" document on microsofts
technet. Can you point me to the right place?

2. The CEO also wants these new list to sync with his palm. Is this even
possable?

SBS 2003 SP2 Standard Edition. Server has been the most stable of all the
ones I look after. Event logs squeaky clean, etc. Trouble started within a
week of installing AVG 8.0 Anti-Virus SBS Edition. Coincidence? Symptom is
that there is a blank pane displayed for every node one clicks on in server
manager except for some of the Advanced Management nodes.
I have set the usual scan exceptions with AVG but it makes not difference.
All services are running and the event logs are clean. I have done an IIS
reset but no joy.
Any idea how I might get to the bottom of this?

I have one machine running SBS 2003 SP 2. DNS is configured on this machine.
Recently we had a website set up for us but hosted outside. I can't access
our website from our network as I keep getting error messages that the page
could not be displayed. I have no problem accessing the webside from
anycomputer outside our network. I pinged domainname.org and got replies
from my Server's internal IP address. I then pinged www.domainname.org and
got the message that "ping request could not find host www.domainname.org."
Since this looks like an internal DNS issue, where in the DNS Manager can I
go to and have www.domainname.org point at the correct IP address? Thank you
in advance.

Good evening!

Have a client who is terribly under-licensed: SBS2003 Premium. I remoted
into their server today to do something and was greeted with the warning. I
then looked in the Event Viewer and in the Application Log saw the 221.
This Event ID ed for appeared for the first time today (kinda surprised that
it took this long....).

Question: what happens next (and 'client purchasing sufficient CALs' is not
necessarily the answer....)?

I know that with 'normal' Windows you can disable the Licensing Server.
That service is flaky at best. I have done it at least 75 times in the last
two years. No repercussions (but, then, all the clients are properly
licensed!). However, I *know* that many things are different with SBS2003.

Can a Windows 2008 Server Terminal Server co-exist with a SBS 2003 server? If
so, how do you setup the licensing server? Has anyone done this?

Thanks,
Shelly

I have a simple one machine domain using Windows Server 2000. Exchange is not
currently being used (but will be in the sbs 2003). I have just purchased SBS
2003 preloaded from Dell on a new server and I want to add it so it is the
"main" machine for the company but would like to have the users have the same
logins etc that they have using the existing windows 2000 server. Not sure
what to expect when I plug the new Dell into the existing network and walk
through any wizards that may appear.

I have seen much documentation but still not sure best/easiest way to do
this so that the SBS 2003 has all the roles it needs and the original windows
200 server can be either just used as a file server or taken off line without
any domain consequences.

Or would it just be easier to create a new domain with the new SBS 2003 and
reconfigure users. Not sure what happen to their Outlook stuff etc as that is
login dependent on the old domain? There are 7 users in the company.

Thanks,
sd

I've just purchased 10 more user CALs for small business server
2003, specifically two of the per-user 5-CAL type (T74-00002). I had
20 CALS installed previously. Running SBS 2003 Sp2.

I'm running into a problem now when I create a new user with an
email address using the wizard, and the mailbox is not created.
Logging in with outlook and OWA doesn't create the mailbox, in fact I
get errors. OWA returns an "http/1.1 503 Service Unavailable" error,
and Outlook returned an error that I'm assuming has something to do
with the mailbox not existing (don't remember the exact wording.) I've
sent test emails as well.

I've since rebooted the server, and based on some information on
the web had both 'updated' and 'rebuilt' the Recipient Update Service
from the exchange manager, but still no mailboxes. I count a total of
20 mailboxes, I seemed to be maxed out even though I should have 30
now.

Is it a problem with the CALs, or is there something else I need to
do? Thanks,

I am planning a wireless network for a coffee shop and was wanted to get
some recomendations on hardware. I am looking for a wireless device that
would have the following features:

remote admin
content filtering
initial connection to coffee shop page that requires logon to access to
internet
hides wireless conections from each other so users cannot see each others
computers when connected

Thanks for the help!

I am trying to install SBS2003 R2 into an existing AD Domain following
this procedure:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884453/en-us

I get stuck at transfering the schema master role. When selecting the
sbs computer name (step 9.e.h) I get the error message "The following
Active Directory error occurred: The Domain Controller could not be
set. The parameter is incorrect.". I tried to go to "Active Directory
Users and Computers" and connect to the AD server (x.y.com) as well as
the sbs (xsbs.y.com) but I still got the same error.

Please note that I log into the sbs with the administrator account
that is used on the AD server. I could not login with a local account
(don't know why).

Also note that in "Active Directory Users and computers" the current
domain controller is listed as x.y.com (AD server) and bellow I have
three entries ("Any...", x.y.com, xsbs.y.com).

Thanks for any help.