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PowerShell Not Your Father’s Command Line

By BoonTee,on May 24th,2011%

There is a great 31 part blog post on PowerShell that is in developement (part 23 of 31 at this moment). Everything you wanted to know about PowerShell and some great scripts that can be used.

The main landing page for the blog is here –http://blogs.technet.com/b/matthewms/p/powershell.aspx

Here are the titles.

Part 1 of 31:Why PowerShell?
Part 2 of 31:The Basics on How to Read PowerShell
Part 3 of 31:Where Did All the Good Cmdlets Go?
Part 4 of 31:Who Ya Gonna Call For Help?
Part 5 of 31:What’s in it for Devs?
Part 6 of 31:A Cmdlet By Any Other Name Would Be An Alias
Part 7 of 31:Conjunction Function PowerShell What Are Functions?
Part 8 of 31:Won’t You Take Me To Functiontown?
Part 9 of 31:Another Side of PowerShell Profiles
Part 10 of 31:PowerShell Protecting You From Yourself
Part 11 of 31:PowerShell Providers and You!
Part 12 of 31:PowerShell and The Registry
Part 13 of 31:The Provider Active Directory Style
Part 14 of 31:Sorry I’m Not Home Right Now,Walking into IIS Webs…
Part 15 of 31:ISE,ISE Baby…
Part 16 of 31:PowerShell Take Me Out To The Grid
Part 17 of 31:Who Wants to Manage Active Directory?
Part 18 of 31:So You Deleted A User…On Purpose
Part 19 of 31:Small Business Server,PowerShell,and Me
Part 20 of 31:Hanging with Hyper-V
Part 21 of 31:Knock Knock PowerShell Calling!
Part 22 of 31:Good PowerShell Things Come in Nifty Packages
Part 23 of 31:HUGE Announcements,Disagreements,Best Practices and A Party…Oh My!
Part 24 of 31:PowerShell Did What!?!? How to Mitigate Risk!
Part 25 of 31:Did You Know PowerShell Can Talk VMware?
Part 26 of 31:Start Spreading the News…
Part 27 of 31:It Takes a Community to Raise a Language
Part 28 of 31:What is the .NET Framework?
Part 29 of 31:Demystifying MSDN and PowerShell static syntax
Part 30 of 31:PowerShell Likes the Pretty Blue Eyes of Azure Too
Part 31 of 31:That’s a Wrap and We are Not Done Yet!

SBS2008 and SBS2011 Log File locations

By BoonTee,on May 6th,2011%

The following is a list of locations for key log files stored in SBS2008 as posted here –http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2008/10/01/key-small-business-server-2008-log-files.aspx. This also applies to SBS2011.

C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs
Console.log	SBS Console Log
CTIW.log	Logs events of the “Connect to the Internet”wizard
DCPromo_yymmdd.xxxxxx.log	DCPromo that ran during SBS install
DPCW.log	Logs events of the “Set up your Internet address”wizard
ERRORLOG.TXT	Logs any errors that occurred during SBS setup
ExtSchemaTask.log	Logs result of SBS AD schema additions
FinishSetup.log	Logs the completion of the SBS 2008 install
GPOTask.log	Logs the creation of the SBS Group Policy objects
olsignupwiz.log	Logs events of the “Set up your Microsoft Office Live Small Business Web site”wizard
pop3connectorinstall.log	Install log for the POP3 Connector
SBSHook.log	Logs hooking of SBS install shell to Windows install and runonce modification
SBSSetup.log	Logs all events that occurred during SBS setup
adduser.log	Logs events of the “Add a new user account”wizard
addgroup.log	Logs events of the “Add a new group”wizard
CreateUserRole.log	Logs events of the “Add a new user role”wizard
CopyConnectComputer.log	Logs events of the “Connect computers to your network”wizard
SBCW.log	Logs events of the “Configure server backup”wizard
fncw.log	Logs events of the “Fix My Network”wizard
AddMultipleUsers.log	Logs events of the “Add multiple user accounts”wizard
FaxRoleInstallation.log	Install log for Fax
FaxCW.log	Logs events of the “Configure the fax service”wizard
MoveData.log	Logs events of the “Move Exchange Server Data”,“Move Windows SharePointServices Data”,“Move User’s Shared Data”,“Move User’s Redirected Documents Data”,and “Move Windows Update Repository Data”wizards
CIMW.log	Logs events of the “Configure a Smart Host for Internet e-mail”wizard
TrustedCert.log	Logs events of the “Add a trusted certificate”wizard
VPNCW.log	Logs events of the “Configure a virtual private network”wizard
C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\MonitoringServiceLogs
Contains logs for SBS Monitoring and it’s associated data collection tasks
C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\pop3connector
Pop3service.log	POP3 Connector log
C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\WebWorkplace
W3WP.log	IIS worker process log for RWW

HP Proliant Microserver

By BoonTee,on April 14th,2011%

I’ve been working with the HP Proliant Microserver. This little unit makes an excellent cost effective server for SBS 2011 Essentials,or Windows Home Server 2011. The unit is inexpensive,and can handle up to 4 plug in Hard Drives. In fact,it also make an excellent NAS device or backup server when running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials.

The full information for this unit can be found here –http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/au/en/sm/WF25a/15351-15351-4237916-4237917-4237917-4248009.html

For SBS2011 Essentials,go with the maximum 8GB RAM,2 x mirrored 1TB,and additional drives to suit use.

For Windows Home Server 2011,go with 4GB RAM,and as many drives as you need,preferably with a mirrored OS and main data volume.

Always get the UR482E –3 year Next Business Day Carepack warranty,as this is reasonably inexpensive,and quite worthwhile in protecting your investment.I would also strongly recommend installing the HP Proliant Microserver Remote Access Card ( 615095-B21) –http://h30094.www3.hp.com/product.asp?sku=10265812&mfg_part=615095%2DB21&pagemode=ca

This is an excellent Remote KVM and IPMI card,which would normally be found in higher end servers,but is available for this little unit. The documentation is rather sparse,and if you need to access the device out of the box,the default username and password combination is admin and password. More information on how to reset this card if you have lost this password can be found here –http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c02681440&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Microsoft Showcase:SBS2011 Standard Learning Bites

By BoonTee,on January 19th,2011%

Microsoft have release a bunch of video how-tos on various aspects on SBS2011.

Administrative Console:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/620ed52e-2bdb-4515-909f-97681d2d8597
Connect to the Internet Wizard:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/1218c6b0-5db2-4d37-99c1-a2688656c7a7
Internet Address Management Wizard:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/0f192dc2-e21f-45b3-baa3-c1e4b189d4bf
Managing Users:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/514da254-f3b7-4ca1-92e4-7eb05ef1d835
Groups and User Roles:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/8991999e-fc80-490f-898a-82672a0dde6b
Shared Folders:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/c1ec82e2-c2e9-4164-8c61-e71bcf01df54
Managing Storage:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/59aa838a-af12-450f-9057-b5676d97663f
Connect Computer:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/fb9ed24b-0f5e-40c5-8683-5fc2773025ab
Computer Properties:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/4df451ee-4098-4305-8dff-4603e1ed015b
Backup Wizard:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/930ab826-457a-4596-a939-877178e2f4de
Health Reporting:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/62e5dc60-4b5d-4bc3-b29f-36d218f16f18
Security:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/b2662ba3-452f-4b44-a5f0-8aa82f42151d
Managing Updates:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/48c08415-e081-4f03-9945-675b08c637a3
Using Remote Web Access:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/1ba60a50-1329-44df-8062-9455f3a5b1ea
Managing Remote Web Access:http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/32195fbe-3018-4897-a278-9dd3f0335129

This is actually a fairly handy resource for training. There are a lot more videos and helps here –http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/default.aspx

SBS2011 Hotfixes

By BoonTee,on January 19th,2011%

Three Knowledge Base articles have been released for SBS2011. The first one is a repeat of the TDI driver issue which is used by some AntiVirus vendors,which caused problems in SBS2008. This hotfix whould be implemented in the upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 release.

Slow Network Performance on SBS 2011 –http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2493361/en-us?sd=rss&spid=1167
Windows SBS 2011 Standard Known Post Installation Event Log Errors and Warnings –http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2483007/en-us?sd=rss&spid=1167
Windows SBS 2011 Standard Certificate may fail to install on a Vista or Windows 7 Client –http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2489744/en-us?sd=rss&spid=1167

Announcing SBS2011

By BoonTee,on January 8th,2011%

SBS2011 has been released to manufacturing and is available for download on MSDN,Technet,and can be ordered from VLSC.

Here are some links to the various resources that are popping up fast and furious.

Product Information

Microsoft Product Page –http://www.microsoft.com/sbs/en/us/beta.aspx
Microsoft OEM Information Page –http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/products/servers/Pages/sbs_overview.aspx
Technet Blog Release (with more links) –http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2010/11/02/announcing-windows-small-business-server-2011.aspx
Removal of Drive Extender from SBS2011 Essentials –http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2010/11/23/windows-small-business-server-2011-essentials-update.aspx

Training Resources

Microsoft Technet SBS2011 page –http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg490793.aspx
Microsoft Partner SBS2011 Training resources –https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40156189
Training overview –https://www106.livemeeting.com/cc/plc_usa/view?id=7167072010102962653&role=attend&pw=z2T*B%7C%7D%27N
Migration –https://www106.livemeeting.com/cc/plc_usa/view?id=7167092010102963040&role=attend&pw=g_G%3D%5Ds3_w
Server management,monitoring,health –https://www106.livemeeting.com/cc/plc_usa/view?id=MGT101PSW2&role=attend&pw=gD.8mt59f
User and client management –https://www106.livemeeting.com/cc/plc_usa/view?id=7167132010102964027&role=attend&pw=K%3Bz4%2836Hf
Messaging and collaboration - https://www106.livemeeting.com/cc/plc_usa/view?id=7167152010102964430&role=attend&pw=ZMX%7Bb.%7D6f
LOB support virtualization –https://www106.livemeeting.com/cc/plc_usa/view?id=7167172010102964829&role=attend&pw=z%3C%2Cc%3AD6g6

Online Help and Resources

SBS2011 Build Document wiki –http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/small-business-server-2011-standard-build-document.aspx
Microsoft SBS Forum - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbusinessserver/threads

Migration Resources

Microsoft Migration Guide –http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg490796.aspx
Microsoft Whitepaper for SBS2003 to SBS2011 migration –http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ea184914-6445-4d7a-a432-927e6880dcd0
Swing Migration –http://www.sbsmigration.com

Knowledge Base Articles

How to Manage the Remote Desktop Gateway Service in SBS 2011: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2472211/en-us?sd=rss&spid=1167
Windows SBS 2011 Standard Remote Web Access Connect to Client Fails if Server is Behind a Web Proxy Server: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2483125/en-us?sd=rss&spid=1167

SBS7 is released as a Public Preview

By BoonTee,on September 22nd,2010%

ANNOUNCING THE AVAILABILITY OF WINDOWS SBS 7 PREVIEW:

I am very pleased to announce that Windows Small Business Server “7” (SBS7) Public Preview is available for download.

Built on Windows Server® 2008 R2,this exciting new edition of the all-in-one solution server for small businesses will include Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 SP1,Microsoft SharePoint® Foundation 2010,and Windows Software Update Services. Small business customers will find significant security and management enhancements over previous versions,as well as much richer features for providing file-and-print,email and Internet services to employees.

Together with Windows SBS code name “Aurora”,available to download here since August the 16th,SBS7 is dedicated to providing small business customers with a highly manageable,low complexity solution to help cut costs,save time and be more efficient. SBS7 offers on premise email and collaboration suite functionalities that Aurora’s customers can add through online services.

SBS7 also offers a great opportunity for small businesses with prior versions to upgrade their servers and to simultaneously take advantage of the advancements in security,reliability,and connectivity technology. For this reason,SBS7 offers enhanced migration tools,extensive pre-migration checks,and prescriptive guidance included in the software.

Furthermore,with SBS7,small businesses gain the freedom to securely access all of their communications from virtually any Web-browser or mobile device —getting more done wherever they are with the integrated Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft Outlook® Web Access (OWA) capabilities.

Customers using SBS7 will also have the opportunity to view,edit,and share Microsoft Office documents online with SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft Office Web Apps. As the online companion to Microsoft Word,Microsoft Excel(R),Microsoft PowerPoint(R),and Microsoft OneNote(R),Office Web Apps gives users the freedom to access documents from virtually anywhere.

To learn more about Windows Small Business Server “7”,you can visit our SBS site.

The preview release is available on our Connect site and can be downloaded now. If you haven’t already signed up for the preview,you can visit our Connect site and get signed up. We have also setup a Connect feedback form to capture your reaction to the product,bugs and suggestions as well as a newsgroup where you can discuss the preview with other beta testers.

All the pieces are in place,so don’t wait any longer. Download the preview and start testing with us!

Kevin Kean

General Manager

Windows Home and Small Business Server team

PowerBiz Solutions

PowerShell Not Your Father’s Command Line

SBS2008 and SBS2011 Log File locations

C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs

C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\MonitoringServiceLogs

C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\pop3connector

C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\WebWorkplace

HP Proliant Microserver

Microsoft Showcase:SBS2011 Standard Learning Bites

SBS2011 Hotfixes

Announcing SBS2011

SBS7 is released as a Public Preview

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