Small Business Server 2008 Tips and Tricks Name

Small Business Server 2008 Tips and Tricks Name: Mornay Durant Title: Sales & Marketing Director Company: The IT Department Session: WSV 205

announcing 11 tips for the price of 9 BITS Company. Web Drive Architecture Spam Disclaimers SBS Monitoring RWW OWA CALS and more

11 tips for the price of 9 Bandwidth usage Email disclaimers Exchange anti-spam Drive architecture and swap files Share. Point – Client integration and search CALS OWA Customizing RWW Backup failure notification SBS Monitoring cleanup

Controlling Bandwidth Usage Services such as WSUS use BITS to download data. By default, data is downloaded at maximum speed and throughout the day. Restricting the bandwidth available to BITS and the time slots during which to operate, bandwidth usage can be reduced.

Controlling Bandwidth Usage Create a SBS Bits Configuration Group Policy Edit the new policy Navigate to Computer Configuration->Policies->Administrative Templates>Network-> Background Intelligent Transfer Service Double click Maximum network bandwidth for BITS background transfers This setting limits the network bandwidth that BITS uses for background transfers (this setting does not affect foreground transfers). You can specify a limit to use during a specific time interval and a limit to use at all other times. For example, limit the use of network bandwidth to 10 Kbps from 8 AM to 5 PM, and use all available unused bandwidth the rest of the time. If you enable this setting, BITS will limit its bandwidth usage to the specified values. You can specify the limit in kilobits per second (Kbps). If you specify a value less than two kilobits BITS will continue to use approximately two kilobits. To prevent BITS transfers from occurring, specify a limit of 0. If you disable or do not configure this setting, BITS uses all available unused bandwidth.

Controlling Bandwidth Usage

Email disclaimers are provided by means of Transport Rules in Exchange 2007 Launch Exchange Console and navigate to Organization Hub Transport Then create a new Transport Rule

Email disclaimers Click a new Transport Rule for the disclaimer

Email disclaimers Select people outside the organization

Email disclaimers Select the disclaimer text option

Email Disclaimers Enter the disclaimer text

Email disclaimers Click New to create the disclaimer

Anti Spam Certain emails may be rejected because of builtin default antispam SCL actions Emails with PDF attachments from ABSA are examples of this Launch Exchange Console Navigate to Organization Configuration Hub Transport

Anti Spam Select the SPAM tab, then double click Content Filtering

Anti Spam Select the Action tab, then uncheck the “Reject messages” check box

Drive Architectures & Swap files The more drives the better 1 x System Drive 1 x Exchange Drive 1 x Data Drive Create a dedicate partition on non system drive for pagefile to reduce fragmentation related performance issues More spindles offer best performance

Share. Point – Client Integration On new installations, Client Integration is not enabled. The result is that many options are not available including “Upload multiple files” and the ability to create Office documents directly in Share. Point using the New button. Launch Share. Point Central Administration>Application Management->Authentication Providers->Default Zone Select Yes radio button in the Enable Client Integration section Click Save

Sharepoint – Client Integration

Share. Point – Enabling Search Share. Point 3. 0 in SBS 2008 does not require SQL server for full text search But full text search must be enabled manually Download and install Office 2007 i. Filter Reset IIS (iisreset) Stop Share. Point search index process (stsadm – o spsearch –action fullcrawlstop ) Restart indexing of sites (stsadm –o spsearch – action fullcrawlstart )

SBS 2008 CALS are not activated in SBS 2008 There is no “Installed CALS” view as there was in SBS 2003 CALS are therefore paper based (DSP) or e. Open (VLM)

OWA file access New OWA feature Browse files in shared folders using OWA Read only functionality Launch OWA Click Documents link Only supply share UNC

OWA file access

Customizing RWW landing page You can customize the appearance of Remote Web Workplace, including adding a display name for sign-in, sign-out, and the home page. You can also choose a background image and display your company’s logo. Remote Web Workplace supports the GIF, PNG, BMP, and JPG image formats. Your custom background image or logo should be approximately 760 pixels wide by 500 pixels tall. Additionally, you can select only from image files that are stored in the Program FilesWindows Small Business ServerBinwebappRemoteImages folder on the server. If you have custom images that you want to use, copy them to this folder first.

Customizing RWW landing page

Backup failure email notification SBS 2003 notified when backup failed with email message Similar functionality is available in SBS 2008, but must be programmed We use the Event to catch “backup failure” alerts that will trigger the email Launch Task Scheduler Expand Task Scheduler Library Right click Event View Tasks Create Basic Task

Backup failure email notification Name the task

Backup failure email notification An event log entry will trigger our process

Backup failure email notification Event 521 will trigger the email. The log is the application log and the source is Backup

Backup failure email notification Select “Send an e-mail”

Backup failure email notification Supply email details

Backup failure email notification Check the “Open the Properties dialog for this task when I click finish” check box

Backup failure email notification Ensure that “Run with highest privileges” is checked

SBSMonitoring Cleanup An agent is supposed to clean out records older than 90 days from the SBS Monitoring database Sometimes it doesn’t The result is a very slow SBS Console, especially when it comes to Reports, and Very long Disk Queue Lengths on the C: drive resulting in loss of performance Verify with Performance monitor, see Physical Disk Queue Length reach and maintain high levels

SBSMonitoring Cleanup Launch SQL Server Management Studio Express as Administrator Connect to <SERVER>SBSMonitoring Expand Databases->SBSMonitoring>Programmability->Stored Procedures Right click dbo. Cleanup. Database and select Execute Stored Procedure Click OK

SBS Monitoring Cleanup Click OK to start cleanup

SBS Monitoring Cleanup may run for several hours

SBS Monitoring Cleanup will return 0 if successful

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