Had this question come up today, so thought I'd drop a quick post on it. The Directory Synchronization tool used with Microsoft's Online Services does a one-way sync from your Active Directory up to the BPOS servers, and does not migrate passwords. You have to do those manually, and if you change a password in your local AD, it must be updated manually on the BPOS side.
See the Microsoft Online Services "About Directory Synchronization" page for the official wording on it.
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Critical Update Available for ShadowProtect 3.x Customers |
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Valued Partners:
StorageCraft would like to announce the availability of ShadowProtect 3.5.1 for download now. This software patch fixes a rare issue found in ShadowProtect 3.x which affects some incremental backup images, but not full backup image files. This issue causes some incremental image files not to include all of the file system changes made since the last backup image. Any affected file will show chkdsk errors when mounted. This rare issue occurs on some systems running Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 – but is not limited to these systems.
If you are running ShadowProtect 3.x, StorageCraft recommends that you download ShadowProtect 3.5.1, run the patch, reboot your system and begin a new backup image set – starting with a new full image of your system. To download this ShadowProtect update, please select:
ShadowProtect Server Edition:
ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition:
ShadowProtect Desktop Edition: http://www.storagecraft.com/downloads/ENU_Desktop_Setup_3.5.1.exe
The ShadowProtect 3.5.1 update does not affect your current ShadowProtect 3.5 recovery CD. Therefore, a new .iso download is not necessary.
If you have additional questions regarding this update, please visit the StorageCraft Support Center:
http://forum.storagecraft.com/community/
For more information about this update, please refer to the ShadowProtect 3.5.1 readme file.
http://www.storagecraft.com/documents/readme_3_5_1.rtf
Thanks,
The StorageCraft Team
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New post by SBS superhero, Mark Stanfill, on how to correct for missing subject fields and how to manually install SSL certificates in Small Business Server 2008. Thanks Mark!
Great blog post by Steve Knutson on his "Failed to create Edge Subscription" error in his Essential Business Server 2008 migration from Small Business Server 2003. We've seen this error in EBS installed into virtualized environments, but the timing issue with SBS and EBS was a new twist on the same error. Thanks for the screen shot and the log content too!
Microsoft's Windows Server and Windows Azure teams are now one, the Server & Cloud Division.
Microsoft Joins Push for Better Computer Science Education in U.S. - Thanks to each of the organizations involved (Microsoft, Association for Computing Machinery, Google Inc., Intel Corporation, the Computer Science Teachers Association, National Center for Women & Information Technology and the Computing Research Association) for getting the awareness out there for this. In my opinion, what also need to be addressed in our schools is K-12 math and science. The current curriculum from what I've seen does not cover the enough of the basics, or enough problem solving, critical thinking, and research. I am not an educator, but as a father of an elementary student, and as a business owner who owns a technology consulting firm, I feel our public school system is setting the bar way too low for our students. Curriculum like what is being used by K12.com, is doing a much better job of this from what I've seen, but we need to have this level of quality across all our school systems.
Ran into this earlier today. If you happen to be messing with your SSL Certificates and get your "Set up your Internet Address" wizard into a state that it fails, run the Fix My Network Wizard (FNCW) and you should be good to go.
In my case, the DPCW log (C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\DPCW.log) was showing in its last two entries "certcoll is null or zero count" and "closing store" with the Internet Address Management Wizard (IAMW) closing out.
Thank you Steve Holland for getting the word out on this. Doing a Microsoft migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008? Download the latest (as of this blog post) migration help file to your SBS08 box BEFORE you start.
If you work with Small Business Server, make sure you follow Steve Holland's Twitter feed. I've known Steve since 2003 when he attended our first PSSBS meeting in Seattle. Also check out his team blog on MSDN. He may have moved to southern California, but he's still a good guy. ;-)
Second in the Mark Stanfill EBS 2008 tweet series (check out his TMG series here), we have Mark's latest on Rules for Successful Replacement Mode. As before, I'll be updating this post with new tweets as Mark sends them out. Be sure to check back for updates.
#EBS08 New Series - Mark's Rules for Successful Replacement Mode - MR4SRM. RM = replacment mode.
#EBS08 MR4SRM Rule #1 - Make a complete server backup first. No exceptions.
#EBS08 MR4SRM Export config to XML using http://bit.ly/2jlxkE. Pay special attention to all IP addresses . Make sure they're corrrect.
#EBS08 MR4SRM You need 2 functional EBS servers for Replacement Mode. If not, restore one server from backup.
#EBS08 MR4SRM Always back up CALs on Mgmt server before RM.
#EBS08 MR4SRM Mgmt server needs CALs reinstalled or restore post RM.
#EBS08 MR4SRM Mgmt Server RM will pull down all WSUS data again - many GB. Export & import - http://bit.ly/4DUxtN. Backup data drive
#EBS08 MR4SRM All servers are going to need patching. Expect many reboots, considerable time.
#EBS08 MR4SRM Security & Msg can pull updates from WSUS rather than MU. Deselect optional updates during RM. Critical updates come from MU
#EBS08 MR4SRM Make sure AD is healthy before RM. Always run IT Health Scanner first - http://bit.ly/Od1uH
#EBS08 MR4SRM Never, ever delete computer accounts or run metadata cleanup before RM. http://bit.ly/Cwsrr
#EBS08 MR4SRM All DCs need to be online and contactable before RM.
#EBS08 MR4SRM Make sure IIS is healthy, started, listening on port 808 for /remoting directory on all servers before RM.
#EBS08 MR4SRM Run "dnscmd /config /enableglobalqueryblocklist 0" for wpad autodiscovery - http://bit.ly/3NceQm
#EBS08 MR4SRM Management Server restore - repair all SCE clients underAdministration node.
#EBS08 MR4SRM RM on Messaging obviously does not restore mailboxes & PFs. Make backups first - online, offline, PSTs. Belt and suspenders.
#EBS08 MR4SRM To get Security Server to report back to SCE after RM - "net stop fweng /y", repair SCE client, restart services
#EBS08 MR4SRM Remove UM (if present) from Exchange before RM of Messaging Server to avoid setup failure.