Inside SBS Podcast Episode #19 - Getting Started with SBS

This episode, we decided to break with our standard format and bring a guest online for the podcast.  Pamela Cassoy, an SBS consultant, joins us for a discussion about her experiences starting out with SBS deployments.  Pamela was gracious enough to describe a number of hurdles she overcame in getting her first SBS installs in place.  We cover a lot of ground in this episode - troubleshooting, best practices, our experience with broken servers, and much more.  Please join us for another foray in to the multi-faceted world of Small Business Server support.

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Show Notes

0:00 Introduction
00:20 Meet Pamela
03:07 Installation difficulties - partitioning issues
07:30 OEM Preinstall
08:30 Standard partitioning vs OEM install
10:00 Backup strategies, performance, recovery strategies and partitioning
15:30 Moving the swap file 
16:54 Tape backups and RSM
22:56 NTBackup vs 3rd Party Solutions
24:55 Testing network throughput
26:04 Event Viewer errors - group policy and crypt32 errors
29:20 Event log tips and tricks
31:00 Windows Update troubleshooting
33:20 NDR Troubleshooting
36:45 Recipient filtering and mailbombs
40:41 Windows Mobile 5 devices and junk mail filtering
41:48 The sticky note analogy of SBS CALs
45:35 Memory allocation errors after adding more RAM

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 02, 2006
  Are y'all going to add links to technotes mentioned to these notes?  Heading off to google for the "Memory allocation errors after adding more RAM" thing... (Or should I use MS Live search? :) )
  
  Thanks,
  Bill
• Anonymous
  June 03, 2006
  I was under the impression that links to KBs discussed in the podcast were goign to be posted here. Somewhere else? Please let me know where.
  
  Don Ramm
  donramm2@cox.net
• Anonymous
  June 07, 2006
  There actually isn't a KB on this (yet).  I just posted a how-to on it:
  
  http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2006/06/07/433707.aspx