Hello RobertThis is my first attempt at Small Business Server 2011 and have a couple of questions if that is ok with you, I only wanted Server 2008 standard for SQL as a collegue is working with SQL developing databases for another collegue, I was told that I needed to go to Small Business Server 2011 standard and Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on to get the SQL as well, so this is what I have done.1. I have installed Small Business Server 2011 Standard successfully and also activated and downloaded all updates and service packs. manually changed the DNS to my router and all is working ok, I do not understand why I needed to buy the Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on as the SQL seems to be part of Small Business Server 2011 standard.2. Is the Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on only for extra licensing?3. If so how do I add the licenses.?
Designed and priced for small businesses, Windows Small Business Server 2011 is an affordable server solution to help your business run more efficiently. It provides core functionality for:\r\n\r\nNetworking\r\nServer and PC Backup\r\nSecurity\r\nAdvanced e-mail and calendar capabilities\r\nDatabase and line-of-business support\r\nDocument and printer sharing\r\nRemote Access\r\nWindows Small Business Server offers you a server solution with reduced complexity and increased manageability over traditional enterprise servers, helping you to focus on running a more efficient business.
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ntThe next step in the Small Business Server 2011 configuration is to start putting system-related details into the wizard. The server name and domain name values are very important, as they cannot be changed after the installation is finished. This inconvenient requirement puts the decision process on the administrator for a relevant nomenclature.
ntAfter a generally uninteresting series of configuration and reboot activities, the server is ready to go! You may have to log in as the username and password configured in the previous step. From here, the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard Console is the administrative interface for everything on the server. Small Business Server 2011 introduces a number of changes and is the first Windows Server product so tightly integrated with cloud technologies. If you are a candidate for upgrading Small Business Server to the new version, now is the time to go for the evaluation!
Can you restore SBS 2011 on completely different hardware than the server hardware? The drive space was the same size but the CPU, Motherboard & RAM were completely different from the server and I was not using RAID as on the server.
Great Blog! I setup SBS2011, but could get Backup Config. to recognize my usb drive. Says I have a 7.6 GB drive. Tried serverl diff sizes. Never made backup. Now want to try and leave D: drv RAID 5 alone. Maybe repairs will work? How can I save what I have now, perhaps for a partial restore later?
A very nice and usefull blog.We are running out of disc space. So I have to use new discs and RAID controller for the SBS2011 server. A migration to new hardware is out of scope, because most of the hardware wil be used again.I hope this totturial will help.I will keep you informed.
I have SBS 2011 installet to 2TB drive (its VM in citrix xenserver).Now since I really need only ca 300 GB and turns out that for snapshots etc 2TB is way too much I want to reduce disk size to 300GB.
Thanks for you reply, I think this is a great solution if you run SBS as a Virtual Machine, but there are a lot of people who run SBS 2011 as a physical installation, because to virtualize a single SBS server you need an extra windows server license for the host and adding System Center suite is another additional costs. This is a problem for a lot of SBS customers, so to save money the built in backup solution is a cheap alternative, if you know the limitations.
I think the Windows Server backup will give you trouble because the Windows installation does not have a driver for the new controller (correct me if I am wrong) if this is the case the windows server backup will fail after restore and restart.
I did a bare metal restore from an external usb drive. Looks great, found latest backup. Say restore C and Restore D. Takes quit some time, which is logic (about 400GB). De result is succesfull restore.Then the server reboots and windows starts with logo like normal. Then crashes and reboots.Then starts again and I get into some kind of repair mode. I have to select keyboard language and then go through a screen with login as administrator. It knows the administrator password because that has to be correct. Finally I get into a repairscreen where I can start again an restore of go to command prompt.
Rip an .ISO image of the SBS 2011 DVD onto your Windows 7 64-Bit computer, then install / run the software from the link above. Create the bootable USB Memory Stick using the .ISO image you created earlier and when completed, boot the server from the USB stick, add the RAID Controller Drivers ( =en&cc=uk&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3984625&prodNameId=3984626&swEnvOID=4064&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-12f912453fee48179ee8c834d2) and you will be able to continue to install SBS 2011.
You need to download the drivers from the HP website ( =en&cc=uk&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3984625&prodNameId=3984626&swEnvOID=4064&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-f48f94c33b3745a5bfaefeaeb1) then extract them to a USB drive and when you have booted from the Windows SBS 2011 USB drive and are at the point where you want to create a Disk for SBS to use, you can install a Driver from the USB drive and continue the installation.
Actually you may have misundestood my question. Of course I tried to boot off the iso - although CD's are cheap they are not free. The problem here was that the first CD was simply not bootable not because of any defect but by design. Now I could be wrong here and have defecive images and one could in fact boot Disk 1 . I downloaded it twice with the same result - only the spinning DHCP message shows which is essentially the "black screen of death" when trying to boot an OS. I almost never check the checksum because my experience has been that if the checksum is wrong the install won't work anyway so you'll need to download it again. Almost all distros have a check media option on the setup screen as well. It is true as you rightly say I could mount the ISO itself rather han running setup from the burned ISO - but often I want permanent media. So I will continue the way I am proposing and which Ulli agrees should work. The only difference is that I will install Windows 2000 instead of XP so I can refresh my memory about the connect/disconnect method of running a program from CD in a VM (to install SP4). Besides that I haven't installed Windows 2000 in a VM for several years and am curious to see if newer VMware Tools have improved the video. In Windows of course it quite easy to uninstall Tools from the Control Panel which I'll do before upgrading to Windows 2003 SBS server, The reason I want to experiment with this older server version is of course that one of reasons to use this virtualization technology is to run several servers on one machine to maximize the ROI in server costs and of course isolate apps etc etc. I now know (do to posts and ansers in this grop) that communication between the virtual servers is quite possible I was actually pretty sure that I could tell VMware that I'm installing any version of Windows during a custom install silnce the VM is a real machine in almost every way (but better in some ways!) I just wanted to double check that here is no reason why you can "fool" VMware so to speak and save myself frfo havinigf to trubleshoot this exttemely buggy release. I'll let you knkow how it went in a couple of days - like most other people I mulitask I'm running Linux OS's to learn aboutqemu-kvn virtualiztion. .
My SBS 2011 was a migration install, running as a virtual machine as a destination server with a physical machine hosting the source SBS 2008 server. The only difference in how all this works from two physical servers is using the migration answer file.
The single thing I have had to do a workaround on permissions rather than just entering them via a prompt is mounting an .iso onto a virtual DVD drive. I use Virtual Clone for the latter, and on my SBS 2011, I have an iSCSI drive on which I keep downloads and other tech stuff. From the parent machine, i mounted an .iso image and then captured that drive letter in Hyper-v Manager after using domain credentials to get to it. However, when Hyper-v Manager tried to boot from the drive, it coughed up the file location.
Personally, it was just too much work for a simple work around. Which is to remote desktop connect to the host OS (log on with administrator account) and run Hyper-v Manager from the start menu there. You can also always remote desktop into the SBS 2011 server once it is up and running.
Server Core 2008 R2 is a free download, so you are not using your Premium license for the host. Do keep in mind there is no GUI for the core, and everything is done via the command line. To run Hyper-v manager, you have to enable remote management of your host and also set up a client, then run Hyper-v manager from the client to create VMs or to manage them. You can always remote desktop to your servers to access the VMs themselves. 2ff7e9595c
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