SBS 2008 Antivirus Exclusions
SBS does so many things that there are lots of antivirus exclusions to make. Starting from my old SBS 2003 list, and working through the extensive research in this post, …
SBS 2008 Slow Startup and Shutdown
In my initial RAID 10 tests, SBS 2008 booted in 1 minute 43 seconds and shut down in 4 minutes 10 seconds. Now that I’ve been running for a couple …
Run-time Error 48 Loading DLL
I maintain a Visual Basic 6 application that connects to the server using ADO. Recently a Windows XP SP3 computer started throwing this error when first connecting to the server …
Server Backup and BitLocker
A lot of attention has been given to encrypting laptops because they are often stolen and their drives may contain sensitive company information. Another popular topic is the need to …
eSATA Drives Offline Because of Policy Set by an Administrator
I’m using eSATA drives so I can do server backup with BitLocker. I attached a couple of eSATA drives to a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise machine. After booting the …
Template Persistent Cache Error with Classic ASP under IIS 7
I installed a classic ASP application on my SBS 2008 server (see Moving Liberum Help Desk to SQL 2005 Express). When accessing the application from a browser, the following message …
Remote Boot Bitlocker without a TPM
One of the challenges of implementing full-disk encryption is how to provide the key to unlock the drive when the system boots. This is especially important with servers, which may …
Back Up SQL 2005 without Full-Text Index
This script was supposed to be a download from the previous post, Moving Liberum Help Desk to SQL 2005 Express. However, WordPress won’t let me set up a SQL script …
Moving Liberum Help Desk to SQL 2005 Express
For the last several years, I’ve been running Liberum Help Desk on SQL 2000 under IIS 6. With my recent upgrade to Small Business Server 2008, I needed to move …
Error Installing Exchange 2007 SP3 on SBS 2008
Today I wanted to install Exchange Service Pack 3 on my SBS 2008 box. MSKB 982423 says the only thing to worry about is Forefront, which I’m not using. I …