How to Perform an Authoritative System State Restore in SBS 2008/2011 Standard
First published on TechNet on Mar 31, 2011 [Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support]If you have ever been in the situation where you had to recover an Active Directory object that was accidentally deleted within a multiple Domain Controller environment, then you are probably somewhat familiar with the term “authoritative restore” and what it does.Deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials in an Existing Active Directory Environment
First published on TechNet on Feb 21, 2014 [This post comes to us courtesy of Rituraj Choudhary from Global Business Support] In this post we will discuss deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials in an existing Active Directory domain.Deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard/Datacenter with Windows Server Essentials Experience role in an Existing Active Directory Environment
First published on TechNet on Feb 17, 2014 [This post comes to us courtesy of Sandeep Biswas and Rituraj Choudhary from Global Business Support]In this post we will discuss deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard or Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter with Windows Server Essentials Experience role in an existing Active Directory environment.User Groups and Distribution Groups in Windows Server Essentials
First published on TechNet on Dec 24, 2013 [Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Yang Cao and Yuheng Cai from Sustained Engineering] To easily manage more than one user simultaneously, Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials (or the Windows Server Essentials Experience role on Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard or Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter) now enables you to group users together into a user group or distribution group by using the Windows Server Essentials Dashboard.SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration to a Different Domain Name
First published on TechNet on May 01, 2009 [Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre and Justin Crosby]There are many reasons why a company may need or want to change their domain name, there could have been a company merger/split, the current domain name is too long or not to their liking, or simply the company’s name has changed.What Username and Password Do I Need to Use for Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) in SBS 2008?
First published on TechNet on Feb 27, 2009 [Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan]The method in which the Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) password is set during an install of SBS 2008 is different than that of Windows Server 2008.SBS 2008: Released to Manufacturing!
First published on TechNet on Aug 21, 2008 On behalf of the SBS team, I am extremely pleased to announce that Windows Small Business Server 2008 software has been finalized! Today both SBS Standard and Premium are being released to manufacturing, which means we begin the process of finalizing international versions, creating media, building packaging, delivering the product to distribution channels and handing it off to our OEM partners, so it will be widely available by our November 12 launch.
