Disaster Recovery
10 TopicsHow 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.Proper Backup/Restore Methods for a Small Business Server 2008 Running as a Virtual Machine
First published on TechNet on Jul 06, 2010 [Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support]There is a common misunderstanding as to what a proper backup and restore procedure should be for SBS 2008 running as a virtual machine.How to Perform a Bare Metal Restore on Small Business Server 2008
First published on TechNet on Jun 11, 2010 [Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shobhit Garg and Justin Crosby from Commercial Technical Support]Today’s post will cover the basics of performing a bare metal restore on Small Business Server 2008.How to Backup and Restore Companyweb in Small Business Server 2008
First published on TechNet on Jun 02, 2010 [Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Kunal Ghotge, Gagan Mehra, David Copeland, Justin Crosby, and Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] In this post, we will discuss options to backup and restore your SharePoint (Companyweb) site.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 – How to Export and Import Mailboxes To and From PST
First published on TechNet on Jan 13, 2009 [Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre]As many are already aware, exmerge is no longer supported in Exchange 2007, this has been replaced with the Power Shell cmdlets import-mailbox and export-mailbox introduced in Exchange 2007 SP1 that now handle this functionality.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.