Category Archive: SBS2003

Apr 14 2011

Solution to the Windows Exception: "The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship"

I came across this issue today and found this solution.  Got this error when logging into a machine that I hadn’t touched in months: "the security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship" Not exactly sure why, but changing from a FQDN to a short name resolved …

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Apr 07 2011

Microsoft Forefront

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  I’ve spent a little time looking at Microsoft Forefront as Microsoft Security Essentials is so good I wanted to know what the “professional” tools brought… The management software has very odd requirements:- Needs to be Windows Server 2008 R2 Not a Domain Controller Configuration Manager 2007 Which is great for enterprise but doesn’t fit …

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Mar 23 2011

Windows Server 2008 R2 Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Server not displaying in SBS 2003 RWW

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A clients Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Server failed.   We installed Windows Server 2008 R2 and configured it as a Remote Desktop Server.  But it didn’t appear in the RWW as a 2003 Terminal server would have normally.  As the image below demonstrates. Thanks to Philip Elder, http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2008/08/terminal-server-not-showing-up-in.html for the following fix.  Which I have posted here …

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Jul 16 2010

How To Forward e-mail in SBS 2003

This video demos how to forward all e-mails from one user account to another users account and if required how to have them delivery to both accounts also. It would be if the video didn’t get removed by mistake…. may got around to rerecording one day.  (16-12-2010)

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Jul 11 2008

SBS CAL Resets

  This has happened to me on a number of SBS boxes whit low hard drive space, generally on drive C: SBS resets the cal count to 5! We have just had a customer call and this has happened to.  Normally we backup the CALS using the built in backup utility within SBS Console. Found …

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Jul 04 2006

SBS 2003 Features I Wished Where There

It would be cool when you logged into RWW and clicked on the Connect to my computer at work that as well as showing you the computer name it displayed the computer description, also weather a user was logged in, if the PC was powered down this was displayed via a icon, which could be …

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