Move the SBS 2008 SharePoint Services content database to a Windows 2008 member server In a default SBS 2008 Premium setup you have two servers. One with SBS 2008 and another one with Windows 2008 Server installed. That additional server can be used for several purposes. sbs, sharepoint, migrate Read More
How to install Office Sharepoint Server 2007 on a member server On a default SBS 2003 installation you will get Windows Sharepoint Services 2.0 for free. In this document we will install a Windows 2003 R2 member server and on that server we will install Office Sharepoint Server 2007. This is effectively a 'standalone' installation of Sharepoint Server 2007 and therefor not an installation in a web farm. Office Sharepoint Server 2007, member server Read More
How to allow file access through OWA on SBS 2008 By default file access is already enabled on OWA for public and private computers on SBS 2008. You just need to do a few things on the SBS 2008 server to get it working properly. owa, file access Read More
How to archive email on SBS 2008 Exchange 2007 offers a very easy way to archive all ingoing and outgoing email which they call journaling. By default it will only offer you to do that archiving into a (user) mailbox. Another disadvantage is the way it is showing those messages as you won’t be able to see the content of the email, because those emails are in an attachment. exchange 2007 archiving, journaling Read More
How to join a Windows 7 client to a SBS 2008 server Install the Windows 7 client as you normally do and launch Internet Explorer. In the screenshot you see that you need to enable Intranet Settings. Click the Yellow Bar to see the options. One other thing is that you connect to a file that is named WindowsVista.aspx though you are joining a Windows 7 client. Last year (October 2008) SBS 2008 developers did not know precisely what kind of OS Windows 7 would be and they did not even know that it supposed to be named Windows 7. intranet settings, vista Read More
How to install FTP 7.5 on a SBS 2008 server Installing and configuring FTP 7.5 on IIS 7 is completely different compared to the old FTP on IIS 6. There are several ways we can configure a FTP server for User Isolation. Our task is to create FTP access for customers with the login credentials equal to the customers company name and those credentials are not part of our Active Directory. ftp, ssl, iis 7.5 Read More
Import and export mailboxes to PST files in Exchange Server 2007 Before we can import and export pst files from your mailbox store we need to set permissions. From Exchange Management Shell we use Add-ADPermission and set ExtendedRights. After this, we can export with Export-Mailbox and import with Import-Mailbox. import, export, email, backup Read More
Using Windows Firewall with secure FTP over SSL (FTPS) traffic Now that we have successfully configured our FTP server for secure FTP over SSL (FTPS) we need to configure our Windows Firewall because the default settings do not allow traffic. Normally you would open port 21 for FTP traffic but because we configured our server for Secure FTP there are more steps involved. The stateful FTP packet inspection in Windows Firewall will most likely prevent SSL from working because Windows Firewall filter for stateful FTP inspection will not be able to parse the encrypted traffic that would establish the data connection. ftp, ssl, port 21 Read More
How to set memory usage of the Internal Database on a SBS 2008 Sometimes you need to set the maximum amount of memory the Internal Database uses on a SBS 2008 and free up memory for other applications on your server. Here is how you do that. internal database, memory Read More
How to restrict users sending internet email on SBS 2008 Goal – to stop users sending email to external email domains. Why? Some of your users may not need to use email to communicate with people outside your organization, or perhaps some users in particular are abusing their privileges? Either way this simple guide will show you how to block users sending email to anyone outside your organization. First we must create a new distribution group to contain all users that are to be blocked from sending external email. external domain, exchange 2007, distribution group Read More
How to set up Autodiscovery for Outlook 2007 with ISA Server 2006 This is an update to the article How to publish Small Business Server 2008 using a Windows Server 2003 Computer with ISA 2006 Standard Edition - part 2. The steps to correctly publish Outlook 2007 Autodiscovery were left out of the first article, and this was brought to our attention by Blair George, so thanks for that Blair! Below are the additional steps required to publish Autodiscovery. autodiscovery Read More