SOLUTION: Group Policy links

by admin on December 30, 2011

In SBS2011 the most common problem/complaints are:

- Home Pages being changed to http://companyweb

- Folder redirection not happening correctly

 

To see which Group Policies are defined:

- On the server, administrator tools –> group policy management.  The policies will be listed beneath domain.  If you right click on one, Enforced will either be checked or unchecked.  Unchecked means that is it defined, but not enforced.  You would globally edit the policy here.

 

To update the Group Policy on a specific machine

- Start –> Run, ‘gpupdate /force’, log off if prompted.

- On the server you would do this to make sure the changes you have made recently in the Group Policy manager are available to the clients

- On the clients, it forces the client to pull down the latest policies.  It can take up to 3 times running the command

 

To see which policies are currently applied to a client/server machine

- Start –> Run, ‘rsop.msc’

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Solution: Blackberry web app says error 500

by admin on December 30, 2011

fix blackberry admin web app on a server. BESX 5.0.3, server 2003.

 

set the following reserved ports and then restart the listed services afterward

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters

Reserved Ports

48855-48858

45588-45588

49955-49955

45599-45599

 

Restart DNS

Restart BES Admin service

wait 5 minutes

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Solution: cannot access server after removing ISA 2000 or 2004

December 30, 2011

Symptoms:  After uninstalling ISA 2000 or 2004, all inbound traffic to that server is blocked.  No file share access, no ping response, etc.   Solution: After rebooting run the following command to turn off a hidden service Command – “net stop ipnat”

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Solution: SBS 2008 Remote Computers

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When you use mail.domain.com/remote to log in via remote desktop instead of setting up port forwarding. SBS has a way of automating this process. Remember to add users to each machine after you add it here so they can log in. To connect a client computer to the network by using the internal Web site [...]

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Solution: Corrupted updates for Symantec Mail Security (SMSME 6.5)

November 29, 2011

Upgrade to one of the following versions: 6.0.12 or higher 6.5.5 or higher These versions increase the time allowed for the copy process to five (5) minutes.   If this issue persists increase the copy timeout using the following steps:   1. Run regedit. 2. Create the following DWORD registry key: 64 bit Operating System: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Symantec\SMSMSE\<version>\Server\DefsUpdateTimeInSecs 32 [...]

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SOLUTION: Windows 7 Slow To Login To Domain Enviroment

October 11, 2011

Symptoms: Win7 machines appears to take a very long time to log into their desktop. Search Terms: Win7 x64, windows 7 64 bit, slow log on, slow logon, slow domain, long welcome screen Fixes: Solution 1: Registry Hack Run gpedit.msc. Go to computer configuration. Go to Administrative templates. Go to System. Go to User profiles. [...]

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Solution: Common Server Slowdowns

September 7, 2011

 “My server is slow” A lot of the general server slowness I’ve been seeing recently has been with clients who use SQL daily. How can you tell it’s SQL slowing the server down? Go into the processes in task manager and look for sqlservr.exe. If it’s taking up a lot of RAM, then it usually [...]

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Solution: OWA 2007, send as another user

August 22, 2011

In 2010 you can add the “From: “ option in the settings. Problem solved if you have the permissions as listed below.   In 2007 (exchange) things run differently. You have to log into the server and give yourself send-as and full access permission in the exchange management console. Just right click the user mailbox [...]

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Solution: SBS 2008 Monitoring database full

August 18, 2011

When monitoring a Small Business Server if there are reports of numerous slow downs which can be caused when the database is full or nearly full. When the database logs are full there will be 1. Run services.msc. 2. Stop the Datacollectorsvc service(Windows SBS Manger Service), SQL Server(SBSMONITORING) service (To be able to unlock monitoring [...]

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Enable God Mode In Windows 7

August 18, 2011

There is a hidden feature within Windows 7 that allows a user to control and tweak features of their computer from one place. Generally users must dig threw the control panel and have to go threw various menus to tweak one feature of Window, but by using ‘God Mode’ a user can access just about [...]

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