Error 0x80070057 returned from call to Adding routers IP address

If you have an HP ML350 G5 and use the SmartStart disk to install SBS 2003 R2 and you get this error when you run the CEICW (Connect to the Internet Wizard), check this location in the Registry, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSettings\ZoneMap.

If the ZoneMap key is not under InternetSettings, add it. It seems that the HP SmartStart cd removes this key and it is needed when you run the wizard because it adds entries into the IE security zones. It is also setting the "Require server verification (https for all sites in this zone" checkbox on the local intranet zone.

Thanks to Mariette Knap with the Small Business Support Forum for letting us know.

Cannot Access CompanyWeb After Installing 948110

If you're like me and have suffered with your SBS Sharepoint Companyweb not working after the 948110 SQL update, take a look at this as a possible solutions.

My customer had SBS 2003 R2 Premium with SQL 2005 installed but we never upgraded the Sharepoint from MSDE. The update that was installed broke my customers site, like so many others. All the info I read on the web and at the SBS Blogs said to "Perform the upgrade again to SQL Server 2000..." so instead of going through all that, I figured I would just upgrade the MSDE to SQL 2005 for Sharepoint. Thanks to the wonderful M&M's for publishing this article on how to upgrade Sharepoint to SQL 2005. It worked like a charm and I am now able to get back to my companyweb.

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Event 537 in SBS 2003

I decided to battle a few lingering problems with one of my SBS 2003 servers today and thought I might share with you my results. One of the symptoms was a very high number, over 25,000 to be exact, of Event 537 in the Security log. The exact error I got was below:

Logon Failure:

Reason:
An error occurred during logon

User Name: ***
Domain: ***
Logon Type: 3
Logon Process: Kerberos
Authentication Package: Kerberos
Workstation Name: -
Status code: 0xC00002EE
Substatus code: 0x0
Caller User Name: -
Caller Domain: -
Caller Logon ID: -
Caller Process ID: -
Transited Services: -
Source Network Address: -
Source Port: -

This was weird to me since it did not show any other info other than the username and domain. After reading a few articles online, I came across this one that stated to check to see if there were any HP printer management packages installed on the pc. I thought how odd because most of the errors I was reading about said to check the net time, but I checked it out on the machine that user was logged into and sure enough there was an HP Document management tool running in the tray. Turns out it was for a printer that was no longer in service. It seems this issue can be caused if there are applications from client computers trying to logon by incorrect accounts and password. So I removed the application and rebooted the pc and so far there are no more events in the Security log.

The link to the newsgroup I got this from is here. I hope this helps someone out there.

WSUS on SBS 2003

For those of you who don't know what WSUS is, it stands for Windows Server Update Services. In a network where you have a lot of pc's, this makes Microsoft Updates easier and faster especially when you have 25 pc's downloading the same update 25 different times. The updates are syncronized with a WSUS server and distributed from there. When Automatic Update runs on the clients, a GPO tells them to use the local WSUS server instead of downloading from the web.

I took a look at this package about 2 years ago but at that time the company I worked for was using a workgroup so I could not use the software the way it was designed. Today I will be using a Microsoft article to setup WSUS on an SBS 2003 server, which I will post a link to here for you to see.

SUS which is WSUS's predecessor will not be supported by Microsoft after July 10, 2007 so if you are using this technology, you will want to upgrade to the latest. By then WSUS 3.0 will be released and will support an even broader range of products.

Prepare your SBS domain for an additional R2 Domain Controller

I came across this article the other day and found it an interesting read. It's called, "How to prepare the SBS domain for an additional R2 Domain Controller". It walks you through how to upgrade the Active Directory Schema on an SBS server to R2 if you purchase a new member server preloaded. Basically it uses the disk from the Server 2003 R2 set and runs the adprep tool from within it. After that you can insert additional domain controllers that are Server 2003 R2 into any SBS network. Click here to view the article.

SBS 2003 R2: Vista and Office 2007 compatibility update

To all of you that manage an SBS network, this is for you...

An update will be sent through the Microsoft Update to Windows SBS 2003 with SP1 and Windows SBS 2003 R2 customers in the March timeframe. If you need the update before then, it can also be downloaded. For more information on how to download, please read the Vista and Office 2007 FAQs.

The download will be available as of February 9th in the English, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, French,German,Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Hungarian, Portuguese, Turkish, and Greek.

For additional details, please see the following resources:
Vista and Office 2007 FAQs
Related Knowledge Base Articles
KB 926505 – Update for Windows Small Business Server 2003: Windows Vista and Outlook 2007 compatibility
KB 911829 – Outlook Web Access (OWA) update
KB 929556 – Firewall Client for ISA Server
KB 930414 – ISA Server 2004 update package for Vista 64-bit editions
KB 930955 – Vista User Profile WMI Provider
KB 931095 – Regarding Outlook users; note: this is a catch all KB for someone who has XP with Outlook 2007 – a separate update is not required, it is the same update as mentioned in KB 926505 Microsoft Download Center - Using Windows Vista and Outlook 2007 in a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Network:
https://mail.techisc.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=46E95C56-1A4C-45BD-8D69-5F41FF8F1F22%26displaylang=en

Related Microsoft Blogs:
https://mail.techisc.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/
https://mail.techisc.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://blogs.msdn.com/sbsdocsteam/default.aspx
https://mail.techisc.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://blogs.technet.com/kevin_beares/default.aspx