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Petergal's SBS Blog

Providing an insight to the day to day technical issues a Microsoft SBS Support Engineer faces.

Please see https://ts2blogs.com/blogs/petergal/archive/2007/06/11/10521.aspx and...

Date: 06/11/2007

at https://ts2blogs.com/blogs/petergal Thanks! Petergal

Date: 04/03/2007

After 8 years in Product Support at Microsoft (CSS, formerly PSS), I decided to make a career...

Date: 01/16/2007

As a follow-up to this post, here are the steps to download and install the “stand alone” device...

Date: 10/02/2006

With the popularity of the Windows Mobile 5.0 devices with the MSFP, more and more people are...

Date: 09/11/2006

When running the Small Business Server Configure Email and Internet Connection Wizard, you might see...

Date: 09/07/2006

This call gets the "weird case of the week" award. One user cannot sync their Calendar items on...

Date: 07/17/2006

Interesting call this week. It was really quick fix. Really quick for 2 reasons: I know the default...

Date: 06/02/2006

The customer was getting the above error when clicking on Public Folders in Exchange System Manager....

Date: 05/12/2006

Scenario: SBS20034 devices - all sync fine 2 Cingular 2125 SmartPhones 2 Cingular 8125 PocketPC...

Date: 05/08/2006

That's what I thought the sound was! Upon further review, the hard drive was making that horrible...

Date: 05/01/2006

Ok, simple stuff here. The call was: 1. SBS2003 with a single NIC (192.168.16.2) 2. Clients on the...

Date: 04/12/2006

The way that "relay" can present itself can be very interesting. The customer reported that he was...

Date: 04/11/2006

I had a great call yesterday. Great meaning I was able to empower a customer to debug a memory dump...

Date: 03/23/2006

You take your SBS Premium box, web publish the /MobileAdmin virtual directory, hit the MobileAdmin...

Date: 02/22/2006

Well, sort of. Companyweb still has to be restored. Man, what a job. I ran into some serious...

Date: 02/14/2006

Here we go! The goal is to "migrate" from SBS2003 on Box A to a clean install of SBS2003 on Box A...

Date: 02/08/2006

Well, I broke down and bought a new workstation last weekend. It is a dual core AMD64 with 2 gigs of...

Date: 02/04/2006

Well, this is a new one. Pull out ERR and look up 85010001 ! The configuration was SBS2003 Premium...

Date: 02/02/2006

WMI cases can be fun. Here were the symptoms: 1. Trying to "connect" to WMI (right click My Computer...

Date: 01/17/2006

Well, that is sensationalism at it's best! I am going to be "OOF" next week (Out Of Office) so this...

Date: 12/31/2005

Interesting call today. The customer was reporting that his Exchange Server queues were full of...

Date: 12/29/2005

Well, it has been about a month since my last post. Apologies... My time was spent preparing for a...

Date: 12/21/2005

So you are a consultant selling/supporting SBS2003. Wouldn't it be cool to demo a...

Date: 11/16/2005

An HTTP_500 error on the PocketPC is a very generic error. It typically means IIS passed something...

Date: 11/14/2005

Today I worked on an issue where the SBS2003 server could not send mail to some domains. The NDR...

Date: 11/04/2005

Today I had the "hardware problem bit" set to 1! First, I worked on an issue where a server was...

Date: 11/01/2005

Ok, I am realizing that a "once per day" post is a bit ambitious! My new restated goal is once every...

Date: 10/21/2005

Today I worked on an issue where external POP3 clients (Outlook Express in this scenario) were not...

Date: 10/10/2005

If you call what I do "work"! I love my job and goofing with computers. Friday's I worked on an...

Date: 10/08/2005

See my previous posts for the details, same story, different day. Migration, LegacyDN, etc...

Date: 10/06/2005

Another Public Folder migration/permission issue Well, I am a day behind again....hopefully I will...

Date: 10/06/2005

Sorry for not getting this post out yesterday... Well, yesterday was all about winsock calls in the...

Date: 10/05/2005

Happy Monday to everyone! One of today's issues was trying to migrate public folders from one SBS...

Date: 10/03/2005