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Re: Need a good WAN suggestion

iQubed — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:19:59 GMT

Hi Terry,

You don't need to manually migrate offline folders. From each workstation (on the remote side), just right click over the appropriate folders and choose offline folders. This creates the offline folder on the workstation. You don't need to offline the whole Share, it depends what data they access regularly. Also, only differences in changes are synced so as to keep the amount of data transferred to a minimum.

Cheers,

Vijay

Re: Need a good WAN suggestion

iQubed — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:03:04 GMT

Hi Terry,

Perhaps the easiest option for the remote office users would to have offline folders, so that if the VPN connection isn't available then data is available on each workstation. When back online, these will sync back to the server.

There is Microsoft's Distributed File System (I'm not sure whether this was part of SBS 2000 - before my time), but using this would require Windows Server 2003 Std Ed at the remote office. I've not used this but have seen scenarios described where data can be replicated and you basically see it as one logical entity :-

http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=11&postid=16853&view=topic

Cheers,

Vijay

Why you Can't Run Multiple SBS 2003 Servers?

iQubed — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:06:26 GMT

Hi,

I was discussing why multiple SBS 2003 servers couldn't be run on the same subnet on the sbs2k Yahoo Groups. I suggested that some clues lay in the Swing process which was developed by Jeff Middleton MVP. Okay, we all argued and some said you could and it was only a DHCP issue and we went around in some circles until Jeff's reply put the definitive statement on the matter. I thought his reply was so important and so well detailed that I reproduced it on my blog

Does this guy know his stuff or what and how he's managed to bring all this together and then explain it to fellow IT Professionals, is nothing short of a minor miracle. He was at a Birmingham SBS Meeting a little while ago and he's a cool guy as well and buys people beers (out of his own money!). Anyway, we all know that we can't run multiple SBS 2003 Servers in the same domain/subnet but this really does describe why, what happens if you do and some clarifications on the Swing process which I hadn't realised before.

I hope this helps clarify some of the limitations involved, it certainly helped me.

Cheers,

Vijay

Re: Introduction to Outlook 2003/Exchange 2003 feature set...

iQubed — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:47:41 GMT

Hi Paulie,

Try the Microsoft Office Online site and also the Small Business+ service which is linked from the bcentral site.

I hope that helps,

Vijay

Overview of Vista's Diagnostic Tools

iQubed — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:59:17 GMT

There's an overview of Vista's Diagnostic Tools on the O'ReillyNet website by Mitch Tulloch.

Cheers,

Vijay

Re: Exchange Server Intelligent Message Filter

iQubed — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:43:45 GMT

Hi Paulie,

Interesting that you use a 3rd party for the filtering. How aggressive is the filtering? Do you have issues with it ever wrongly classifying real mail as junk?

I would think your customers would be quite happy as they don't have to worry about filtering through the spam themselves and/or checking Junk Email folders!

Cheers,

Vijay

Exchange Server Intelligent Message Filter

iQubed — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:52:26 GMT

I had a customer who recently asked me if I could do anything about the increase in spam they were experiencing. I advised them to use the Junk Email controls in Outlook 2003 as these work quite well in my experience (at least as a first option).

However, I then came across this link which is a guide to Exchange Server Intelligent Message Filter v2 Operations Guide linked from Susan Bradley's Blog. Looks like this is automatically installed with SP2 for Exchange Server. Has anyone got experience of using this? What are the results?

Cheers,

Vijay

Re: POP3 Connector Errors 1023, 1019, 1053 and 1056

iQubed — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 10:37:17 GMT

This is an issue that I see on one of the SBS 2003 servers that I manage on a regular basis. It has never stopped users from ultimately receiving email (the interval is set to 15 mins) because although an error might occur on one of the intervals, usually the mail will be delivered on the next pass.

On a server that has SBS SP1 on it, this issue is pretty much non-existent. I don't know the precise cause of these errors but seem to be common when I have discussed it with others.

The best solution is to have SMTP email configured as POP3 is a stepping stone to transition customers to SMTP. Also, mail will be delivered straight away without the minimum 15 min interval.

All you need to do is configure the MX record (usually from the domain management admin page of your domain provider) to point to the public IP addr/domain name of your customer and forward port 25 to the server. A static IP addr also helps in this scenario.

Re: CAL enforcement

iQubed — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:43:02 GMT

Hi Dave,

I'm never happy working with customers who break licensing conditions which is why in my post I stated that I had advised them on increasing their CALs, which they don't have an issue with. My question was, are domain logons denied when CALs are all assigned and say another user/device tries to logon? I have read from other sources, i.e. Harry Brelsford that this is the case. I'm not really asking what the underlying mechanisms and techniques are to enforce this.

I apologise if I gave the impression that my customer was prepared to be mis-licensed, they are definitely not!

Cheers,

Vijay

CAL enforcement

iQubed — Fri, 26 May 2006 13:33:27 GMT

Hi,

I have been trying to understand how CAL enforcement works but haven't been able to find a definitive answer. The 5 CALs that come with SBS 2003 are described as Universal CALs, so they can be either user or device CALs. The Microsoft Liensing faq http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/evaluation/faq/licensing.mspx says that

"At the top of the CAL Microsoft Software License Terms in the retail packaging, you can choose to allocate these CALs (up to a maximum of five) to either user or device."

This is a documentation issue and doesn't relate to physical enforcement as there is no option in SBS 2003 to do this, unless I haven't looked in the right place! Other sources say CALs are tracked by network authentication which is fine. However, I have a client who has 7 users defined and 6 client computers defined and have been able to logon with 6 users concurrently!

I have advised them they need to purchase an additional 5 user/device CAL which is strictly true but is there enforcement? Also, it seems that RWW and OWA require a CAL as well.

Is anyone able to clarify this for me, I'm confused?

Regards,

Vijay

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