Understanding Client Networking in SBS 2011 Essentials
First published on TechNet on Jan 23, 2012 [Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay from Commercial Technical Support]The Small Business Server 2011 Essentials server is designed to seamlessly integrate into an existing network infrastructure.SBS 2011 Essentials Setup Hangs while Waiting for DHCP Address
First published on TechNet on May 04, 2011 [Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay and Wayne Gordon McIntyre from Commercial Technical Support] The installation of Small Business Server 2011 Essentials may hang at the “Please wait while installation continues” screen: At this point of the installation, setup is attempting to configure the network and acquire an IP address from a DHCP server.Small Business Server 2011 Slow to Boot and Several Services Fail to Start
First published on TechNet on Feb 18, 2011 [Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby and Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support]If you uncheck the IPv6 protocol from your network interface card on your Windows SBS 2011 server you may see the following issues after a reboot:Microsoft Exchange services fail to start Server hangs at "Applying Computer Settings.You May Get an Error "Verify that the Source Server Name is Correct" While Trying to Install SBS into an Existing Domain
First published on TechNet on Feb 08, 2011 [Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rod White and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support]When migrating to Small Business Server 2011 standard you may receive the following error message.Are your client machines getting errors such as “Network Path Not Found” or “The Specified Network Name Is No Longer Available” when connecting to a Windows 2008 Server share?
First published on TechNet on Sep 24, 2010 [Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Robert Paige from the Windows Server Partner Ecosystem Team]We wanted to resurface a continuing support issue with deployments that we first commented on back in December of 2009, and again in a March post on the Microsoft Enterprise Networking Team Blog.You May Lose the Default Gateway on SBS 2008 Every Time You Reboot
First published on TechNet on Apr 22, 2010 [Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay from Commercial Technical Support and Chris Puckett from Product Quality] When you reboot an SBS 2008 server, you may experience some of the following symptoms: The SBS server will be unable to browse to the Internet.Returning Small Business Server 2008 to a Supported Network Topology
First published on TechNet on Feb 26, 2010 [Today’s post comes to us courtesy of James Frederickson and Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] We have seen an increase of instances where customers are experiencing various networking problems because they have altered the networking topology by installing multiple NICS or assigning multiple IPs to their single NIC.You Cannot Install the Hyper-V Role on the SBS 2008 Primary Server
First published on TechNet on Aug 07, 2009 [Today's post comes to us courtesy of Martina Grom, Technet Team Blog Austria] When you install the Hyper-V Role on your SBS 2008 Primary Server the DHCP Service will no longer be able to assign IP addresses to your client machines.BITS, IAS, VSS and RRAS May Stop Responding on SBS 2008 With a Particular NIC Driver
First published on TechNet on May 18, 2009 [Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby and Damian Leibaschoff]We are investigating an issue with certain Intel PRO/1000 EB with I/O Acceleration network card drivers on Windows Server 2008 that can cause the BITS service to become unresponsive after a few hours to several days of operation.
