I have one workstation on a SBS that when any user uses that workstation and
they open and close any word or excel fiile the file become read only when
you open it at another workstation
Any ideas

I am doing a little reconfig of My sbs network, but I need a some advice
before I do. Here is the current set up:
+-20 users, sbs 2003 r2, 1 nic, web filter(proxy), Cisco 1601 router -->
frame relay(256k) to data processor who also acts as ISP. All data

Not sure where to post this - running sbs 2003 and about 5 clients. Has all
been working fine on the print front. Installed an HP office jet onto the
network (HP software all loaded onto client pcs) now the clients cannot
print to any networked printer - the spooler on the client ...

Is there a way to limit access to outlook/exchange users
connecting via RPC/HTTPS? Looks like there is for OWA (Active
directory user properties->exchange features->protocols->owa enable/
disable) Anything similar for RPC/HTTPS?

We'd like to try SBS 2008 RC1. I'm downloading it right now (RC1), so can
someone please describe me differences  between SBS 2008
(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/essential/sbs/default.mspx) and
Essential Server 2008

This Weird question of the day is premised on the observation that one
of the messages that was returned in an NDR attack was actually a spam
message that I had received.  This is happening at night when all the
client computers are turned off.  And as I just use Exchange SMTP to ...

A little circular (red with a white X in it) icon appear in the app
tray, and when one puts a pointer on it, a message balloon pops up
saying that Windows XP had detected spyware and that we should click
there to download the latest anti-spyware tools from Microsoft.  

I need to start "Help and Support" service. Just rebuilt SBS R2 and applied
updates. In event log, when I go to "information", I get error panel that
says system service not running.
I went to the services MSC and could not find "help and Support"

A user who created several subfolders in her Office Outllook with connection
to Exchange server on SBS 2003 Premium R2 is not able to view these
sub-folders. She said these are not Personal Folders because she did not
create any personal folders.

Hi..
could someone give me pointers on set up of sbs 2003 R2 with two domains
which require to use two smart hosts for email delivery.
e.g. domain1.com --> smart host

I have a Windows 2003 LAN with no outside connections to the
internet.  I have just recently added a new workstation to the LAN and
it will not update to the group policy settings for our domain.  All
the other workstations have picked up the policy without a problem.  I

I have had SBS Monitoring and Reorting running fine for months but the last
week it has not produced a single daily performance report.  The email is
sent but just says 'Page cannot be dispayed'.  Same error when I try running
it in Server Management.

I had a hardware failure on the SBS 2003 server on a small LAN and am in the
process of trying to get everything up and running again but have hit a
problem with exchage. All thoughts very welcome.
The original arrangement was very simple with SBS2003 Prem, a 2003 Std. for

I can't get the client computers on my domain to register with update
services.
This is a brand new install, WSUS only sees the server, which was able
to update with no issues. I have 8 clients that I can't send updates

We receive e-mails to e-mail addresses that do not exist.  How do we block
these e-mail addresses?  I remember reading about it a few years ago, but
cannot find it now.
Thanks.