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Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer

Lay the proper foundation for your new SBS 2003 server or review your existing SBS 2003 server by using the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer. The Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer examines a server that is running Windows Small Business Server 2003 (Windows SBS) and presents a [...]

Speed Up Exchange Shutdown

Anyone who’s ever rebooted a box running Exchange knows how agonizingly slow the wait can be. The slow shutdown is especially pronounced when Exchange is installed on a domain controller – i.e. SBS. Use this simple batch file to speed up the process by stopping Exchange services before Windows shutdown. Exchange 2003: net stop MSExchangeES [...]

“Loading your personal settings” takes forever to complete.

One of my clients experienced this problem when logging on to their 2003 SBS network. Seems a prior tech company had rebuilt their SBS network and they were now experiencing this very annoying issue. A quick switch to force kerberos to use TCP instead of the default UDP and all was well. Wish all problems [...]