Inside SBS Episode #8 is Here! We had a lot of fun recording this week's episode. We talk a lot about best practices for upgrading existing domains to SBS and also delve in to the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Transition Pack. When people call us about these issues, these tend to be really long, involved conversations, so you're going to hear a lot of hard-won wisdom and strong opinions. Please join me along with James Fredrickson, Peter Gallagher, and Chris Puckett for a round-table discussion on all things SBS. ----------- In this episode: Sbsshow.com - can't say enough good things about them SQL 2005 Launch Backups revisited Preparing for Transition Pack Pricing web site - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/howtobuy/pricing.mspx A tale of two Transition Packs Is the SBS AD different? RWW after Transition Pack? TS in App Mode on a DC (are you insane?) Supersizing Upgrading an existing domain controller - http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=884453 When not to use the Migration White Paper and ADMT Microsoft Advisory Services - http://support.microsoft.com/gp/advisoryservice Swing Migrations - http://www.sbsmigration.com/ Your weekly cricket ----------- We'll be taking a two week hiatus for vacations and the Thanksgiving holiday, but we'll be back for episode 9 on December 2nd. See you then!

In this week's episode: The Internet Mutual Appreciation Society - www.sbsshow.com The MyBusiness OU - safe to delete? Exchange with 2 Email Domains 327000 How to grant "Send as" and "Send on behalf" permissions in Exchange 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/?id=327000 839986 FIX: The Mail Profile combo box is disabled when you use Enterprise http://support.microsoft.com/?id=839986 828770 Resolve Anonymous Senders Functionality in Microsoft Exchange 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/?id=828770 Exchange Slow Due to Desktop Search Clients http://support.microsoft.com/?id=905184 Outlook on the Server? - 828050 You Receive a Warning Message or You Cannot Start Outlook on a Computer http://support.microsoft.com/?id=828050 Exchange Performance Analyzer - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4BDC1D6B-DE34-4F1C-AEBA-FED1256CAF9A&displaylang=en Backups revisted - best practices Tips for Road Warriors - Changing passwords remotely, my documents redirection Gigabit Nics - best practices 2 Nics on the same network SQL Mail - http://support.microsoft.com/?828750 [Apologies for the late arrival this week. I spent the majority of yesterday in the E.R. getting rehydrated after a stomach flu.]

In this week's episode: *Damian joins the podcast (that's Spanish for "yes") *CRM 3.0 Beta is out *MOM on SBS? *Audiovox SMT5600 with Activesync, mobility, certs, and everything *Weekly cricketcast *Susan Bradley asks about repartitioning domain controllers *ISA 14709's due to disk performance issues *SharePoint alerts not working *When you're done here, check out the podcast at http://www.vladville.com *Exchange SP2 new Public Folder Permissions Wizard

* Exchange SP2, new registry keys for 75 GB Limit * MS05-051 issues with security changes - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=909444 * Transition Pack licensing, CALs, media, best practices * Office SP2 Revision Coming * Shadow Copy Backup failing due to SQL Writer * First Caller! Vlad talks about his experience with shadow copy. * Exchange SP2 and mobile clients * Exchange SP2 and the IMF * Pickle? No, PCL. The Exchange 2003 SP2 anti-phishing filter http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=902953 * Les calls in to talk about the IMF

In this episode: * Fake XP SP3 * Multiport Fax Cards and Fax Best Practices * RWW with TLS * SBS and Domain Rename * SBA on SBS? - http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/products/office/accounting/detail.mspx * VOIP and SBS * MS05-51 and the IWAM acccount (%windir%\registration is the folder we're thinking about) - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=909444 * Crickets * James talks about Exchange Store corruption * GroupWise Migrations - you really, really want the 5.5.2 client * ISA 10060 Timeouts * ISA Address Ranges

I'm using a different encoding for this show. The quality should be a little better, and those of you who had problems listening to the first couple of episodes on various players should have a better experience. In this week's episode: * We are the most popular SBS podcast on the planet ;) * SBS in a VM? * Bare metal restores * The benefits of a second DC for disaster recovery * Public Folders are haunting Peter - unable to access items in Outlook * Entourage SP2 * Office SP2 gotchas, tips and tricks * Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) in an SBS environment * We open the phone lines...and nothing happens

The encoding we're using is a little non-standard. I haven't had anyone tell me that it doesn't work on their MP3 player, but the Libsyn player control on this page does not work correctly. To listen to the file, please right-click on the mp3 link and download the file.

Inside SBS Episode #2 is now available. In this episode: * Downloading the podcast * OEM installs and SP1 * Missing DLLS and MSI Installer 3.1 * Connection limits in ISA 2004 blocking traffic * Firewall client on an ISA server * We open the phone lines...and nothing happens * Message tracking in Exchange * Only admins can log in to an SBS server with a security lockdown enabled * IMAP over SSL

In this episode: * Strict RPC Compliance * Firewall Client Settings blocking Outlook *Stop 0x20 on older versions of Symantec Antivirus with PCAnywhere *Exchange 2003 SP2 *Deny rules on top of allow rules in ISA