Customer with an IBM 226 server, working for years, with a USB External
drive, working for 6 months.... Server has been rebooted several times
without any issues, no BIOS updates (new) available, rebooted today at
6AM and it hangs in the POST....

Hello again,
We are planning on following (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328804) in
order to help with the slow performance issues we see with our Exchange
server.  It is affecting users mailboxes.  Basically slow and lots of RPC

Since last Tuesday's update, I believe I'm having problems with the
DNS service listening on ports that other services require.
My  SBS2003 (non-R2) server has rebooted three times since the update
(including the time to apply the patch).  The first time, the IPSEC

Having serious issues with connecting to exchange using clients other than
Outlook. I know there's a good few variables with this including configuring
SBS correctly, making sure Ports are opened in firewall etc but I've checked
all this so many times and still no joy. What's ...

Does anyone know where i can find a comparison chart between 2000 and 2003.
We need to migrate an SBS 2000 server too 2003 and the customer before they
commits to it wants to know the advantages of  2003 over 2000. As if 2000 is
no longer supported by microsoft  is enough.

I have recently run a vulnerability test on my internal which yielded some
unknown open ports on workstations.  Can somebody tell me how to manually
close ports.  For the purpose of illustration, the ports I want closed are
TCP 49153-49156.  Thanks.

I had my backup fail several days in a row. I corrected the issue and want
to remove the failed references. When I open Server Management and click on
Backup the Backup Details show failed backups for several days. I would like
to remove the failed backups and start over. How ...

Is there any way to sync my nokia with my Hotmail account rather than Exchange?

We recently migrated to SBS 2003 and over the weekend we ran our McAfee ScanAlert
PCI compliance scan on the server. The scan picked up the "User specified
URL redirection (Open Redirect)" vulnerability in OWA which I'm sure some
of you know about. Details on it are here http ...

after latest update last week, emails are disappearing after being picked up
by pop3 connector successfully.
exchange connects, gets email from pop account.  email is gone???
used the message tracker, the messages in question have only 3 log entries:

I've been playing around with Microsoft License Advisor and was
surprised to find that it is often more expensive per license for the
Open License Only Level C option.
For instance, Office Standard from newegg.com is around $330, but a

I have a customer running Small Business Serever 2003.  I can connect
remotely during the day to all customer clients during the day but in the
evening I get a message that connectivity can not be established.  I can
connect to the server.  The clients are all turned on.  This is ...

I have a Small Business Server 2003 and want add a second DC that will be
Server 2003 standard R2. Can I do the normal Forestprep/Domainprep to the
standard R2 version like I would do if I didn't have a SBS server involved?
Will I break my SBS server if I do this from the Server ...

My sbs2003 server can  not normally reboot only running on safe mode, If I
boot from normal mode after applying computer setting will go shuting system
automaticlly, any idea?
Thanks for the help.

I successfully upgraded a Vista Home Premium machine to Vista Ultimate
so I can join the machine to my client's Small Business Server 2003
domain.
Both the SBS 2003 and Vista machines are fully updated and patched. I