This episode, we decided to break with our standard format and bring a guest online for the podcast.  Pamela Cassoy, an SBS consultant, joins us for a discussion about her experiences starting out with SBS deployments.  Pamela was gracious enough to describe a number of hurdles she overcame in getting her first SBS installs in place.  We cover a lot of ground in this episode - troubleshooting, best practices, our experience with broken servers, and much more.  Please join us for another foray in to the multi-faceted world of Small Business Server support.

Show Notes

0:00 Introduction
00:20 Meet Pamela
03:07 Installation difficulties - partitioning issues
07:30 OEM Preinstall
08:30 Standard partitioning vs OEM install
10:00 Backup strategies, performance, recovery strategies and partitioning
15:30 Moving the swap file 
16:54 Tape backups and RSM
22:56 NTBackup vs 3rd Party Solutions
24:55 Testing network throughput
26:04 Event Viewer errors - group policy and crypt32 errors
29:20 Event log tips and tricks
31:00 Windows Update troubleshooting
33:20 NDR Troubleshooting
36:45 Recipient filtering and mailbombs
40:41 Windows Mobile 5 devices and junk mail filtering
41:48 The sticky note analogy of SBS CALs
45:35 Memory allocation errors after adding more RAM

Please join the Inside SBS podcast gang for a round-table discussion on everyone's favorite SBS component - the POP3 Connector.  We do a deep technical dive in to how the POP3 Connector works under the covers and discuss best practices, common misconfigurations, troubleshooting, and much, much more.  This episode features the first appearance of our newest team member, Ed Walters.  Ed spices things up for us with his uniquely Texan perspective.

Show Notes

00:00 Introduction and a brief history lesson
02:00 Best Practice #1 - Not a long term solution
02:20 Back to the real world
06:20 POP3 Connector vs the POP3 Service
08:20 Reasons to keep POP3
11:40 Updates to be aware of - SBS SP1/ KB 835734
14:30 Architecture part 1 - diagnostic logging
17:30 Using OE/Telnet as a test client - KB 165186
20:45 ETRN/ATRN
22:30 Keep a copy of the mail on the server?  Getoudahere
24:30 Download interval less than 15 minutes?
32:00 Event Sinks
37:00 http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=885685 - How to troubleshoot the POP3 Connector
39:05 CDO (No, not *that* pickup method)
40:30 P1 and P2 headers
43:45 Global Mailboxes
44:15 POP3 Does not Support BCC - http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=265739
47:00 Lost mail
48:15 Hosting your own global mailbox
51:30 Duplicate messages
53:45 Hosting the same domain at two locations - http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=300681
54:30 Architecture review - "architorture"
54:55 Testing CDO via the pickup folder
56:15 Corrupt message in \program files
57:00 Peter's homage to 885685
58:05 Peter has the final word - go to SMTP