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
The IP address of your local network adapter does not exist in the Local Address Table (LAT) for ISA Server
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