Open regedit and go to  [...]]]> I found on several of our servers that the ipsec service fail’s to start on some of our SBS servers, this is because the DNS service randomly picks 2500 ports and seems to pick the port ipsec uses, to fix this you need to add some exclusions into the registry.

Open regedit and go to  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\ReservedPorts and type the following numbers in addition to the ones already there.

• 1645-1646 – Used by IAS
• 1701-1701 – Used by L2TP
• 1812-1813 – Used by IAS
• 2883-2883 – Used by AUTD
• 4500-4500 – Used by IPSEC

I found this info on the Official SBS Blog

First on [...]]]> When joining a Windows 2008 server to a SBS 2003 network to be used as a terminal server it doesn’t automatically show up on the RWW as an Application Sharing Server to add the server to RWW you need to modify some registry keys on both the SBS2003 server and the 2008 server.

First on the SBS 2003 server modify the following registry key.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\RemoteUserPortal\KWLinks\AppTS is set to 1

Next on the 2008 server modify the following key, this key was actually missing on my installation so i created a new dword value key

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\TSEnabled =1  

‘Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP2 could not install WSUSService and the performance counters. For more information, see the Setup logs’

After a bit of research I narrowed it down to being mime entries being missing from iis manager, I assumed this is because we are running Sharepoint Services [...]]]> I recently encountered a problem where we couldn’t open documents using the new office file format when opening them from the Companyweb on SBS2003, and if I tried to save them it saved them as a zip file.

After a bit of research I narrowed it down to being mime entries being missing from iis manager, I assumed this is because we are running Sharepoint Services v2 which was part of the sbs install and you can’t upgrade to WSS3 from 2 but thats a different topic.

Anyway I managed to fix this by running this script on the server, paste this into notepad and save as 2007.vbs if you run this multiple times you will end up with multiple entries in your mime types.

‘This script adds the necessary Office 2007 MIME types to an IIS Server.
‘To use this script, just double-click or execute it from a command line.
‘Running this script multiple times results in multiple entries in the IIS MimeMap.

Dim MimeMapObj, MimeMapArray, MimeTypesToAddArray, WshShell, oExec
Const ADS_PROPERTY_UPDATE = 2

‘Set the MIME types to be added
‘ MimeTypesToAddArray = Array(“.manifest”, “application/manifest”, _
‘ “.xaml”, “application/xaml+xml”, “.application”, “application/x-ms-application”, “.deploy”, “application/octet-stream”, _
‘ “.xbap”, “application/x-ms-xbap”)
MimeTypesToAddArray = Array( _
“.docm”,”application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12″ , _
“.docx”,”application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document” , _
“.dotm”,”application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12″ , _
“.dotx”,”application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template” , _
“.potm”,”application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12″ , _
“.potx”,”application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template” , _
“.ppam”,”application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.addin.macroEnabled.12″ , _
“.ppsm”,”application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12″ , _
“.ppsx”,”application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow” , _
“.pptm”,”application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12″ , _
“.pptx”,”application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation” , _
“.xlam”,”application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12″ , _
“.xlsb”,”application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12″ , _
“.xlsm”,”application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12″ , _
“.xlsx”,”application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet” , _
“.xltm”,”application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12″ , _
“.xltx”,”application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template” _
)

‘Get the mimemap object
Set MimeMapObj = GetObject(“IIS://LocalHost/MimeMap”)

‘Call AddMimeType for every pair of extension/MIME type
For counter = 0 to UBound(MimeTypesToAddArray) Step 2
AddMimeType MimeTypesToAddArray(counter), MimeTypesToAddArray(counter+1)
Next

‘Create a Shell object
Set WshShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)

‘Stop and Start the IIS Service
Set oExec = WshShell.Exec(“net stop w3svc”)
Do While oExec.Status = 0
WScript.Sleep 100
Loop

Set oExec = WshShell.Exec(“net start w3svc”)
Do While oExec.Status = 0
WScript.Sleep 100
Loop

Set oExec = Nothing

‘Report status to user
WScript.Echo “Mime Types have been added.”

‘AddMimeType Sub
Sub AddMimeType (Ext, MType)

‘Get the mappings from the MimeMap property.
MimeMapArray = MimeMapObj.GetEx(“MimeMap”)

‘ Add a new mapping.
i = UBound(MimeMapArray) + 1
Redim Preserve MimeMapArray(i)
Set MimeMapArray(i) = CreateObject(“MimeMap”)
MimeMapArray(i).Extension = Ext
MimeMapArray(i).MimeType = MType
MimeMapObj.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_UPDATE, “MimeMap”, MimeMapArray
MimeMapObj.SetInfo
End Sub

I found this on Microsoft Answers Credit for this must goto Brad_Saide

Unassigned Computers

Update Services Client Computers

Update Services Excluded Computers

Update Services Server Computers

The following things can disable updates on the console

Under Automatic Approvals, the Default Automatic Approval Rule is enabled in Options. Under Products and Classifications, [...]]]> If you make a change to WSUS administration console or update the software to WSUS 3 it will stop the SBS console reporting the status of updates on your network.

The following things can disable updates on the console

Under Automatic Approvals, the Default Automatic Approval Rule is enabled in Options.
Under Products and Classifications, All Microsoft Products is not selected in Options.
Under Synchronization Schedule, the Synchronize manually option is selected in Options.
Under Computers, the Use Group Policy or Registry settings on computers option is enabled in Options.
The Update Services service is stopped.

If these conditions do not apply, the Approve for Detection setting may have been disabled when you upgraded to WSUS 3.0 SP1. However, the option to change this is not available after you upgrade to WSUS 3.0 SP1. In this case, you must use a script to change the Approve for Detection setting.

Download the following file or copy and paste it into notepad and rename it to fixr2.sql Click here for fixr2 and copy to local c: then

Open a command prompt

Navigate to %programfiles% \Update Services\Setup

At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:

executesql.exe -S MICROSOFT##SSEE -i C:\FixR2.SQL -l C:\Output.log
This was taken from Microsoft KB945985

To fix the problem

On an SBS 2003 server this issue can be fixed by [...]]]> I came across an issue on SBS 2003 and SBS 2008 accessing http://companyweb on the server, after installing the cumulative security update for Internet Explorer (963027 or 969897) or Internet Explorer 8.0 or Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2.

To fix the problem

SBS2003

On an SBS 2003 server this issue can be fixed by applying update KB961143.

Note: You must have .NET Framework 2.0 installed before you apply this update.

SBS2008

On an SBS 2008 server this issue can be fixed by applying SBS 2008 Update Rollup 2 (960911).  This update is now available on Microsoft Update and WSUS.

Or you can use this method KB963027