...and btw we have a lot of SBS boxes installed in homes... in case you
ever want to play with active directory in a home environment :-)
Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote:
SBS must be a PDC of a network.. you are seeing the effects of
"SBSCore" a dll that checks to make sure you are running SBS as a
domain controller and that there are no other SBS servers in the
network. If it does, it will say "sorry Dude, I ain't running" and
will reboot constantly. It's a license checking mechanism to ensure
you meet the EULA on the box.
You can't have two SBS boxes on the same network.
Oh..oh when did they buy this? If this is OEM.. and he bought it
after March of this year.. there's a technology upgrade program where
he can get R2. What's cool about R2 is the license. It allows you to
have additional SQL servers in the network without having to buy SQL
cals. The SBS cals will cover. But he can't have 2 SBS boxes. But
this also depends on if he can run SQL 2005 workgroup as the R2 era
has that as it's SQL flavor.
As far as replacing the SBS box.. we have a method for that that we
recommend at www.sbsmigration.com
Please.. by all means... give him my email address. We need to get
him to SBS resources. He's got a lot of options here.. but he's now
in SBSland and we do things a little differently and this isn't the
venue for a SBS discussion.
Forward him this email, give him my email addy... we need to talk.
He's got options.
Paul Williams wrote:
I've never seen SBS, but my younger brother has just started a new
job (first one since leaving Uni) and bought a new server and it came
with SBS. When he built it it appeared he had no choice but to make
it a DC, even though he only wanted it as a member server -there's
already an SBS box there.
Anyway, we didn't know at the time (this was a phone conversation) so
I told him to go ahead with the promotion (thinking it was just a
stupid Dell wizard) and demote it later. He did this and now it
reboots every day.
So, I think I know the answer to this from the tidbits of info. I've
seen in the groups and forums, etc. but can the 2nd SBS box be added
to the domain with the first SBS or does he need to get a k3 Std.
license instead? All he wants at this point in time is a SQL and
file server.
(As you can guess, this is a small company, he's one of three dev
guys there).
And, if they wanted to replace the existing SBS box with this new
one, how do they go about that if you can't have more than one SBS
box? I doubt they want to migrate...
Thanks,
--Paul
----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz -
SBS Rocks [MVP]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:45 AM
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Information about lingering objects in a
Windows 2000-based forest or in a Windows Server 2003-based forest:
You know us blondes....
With barely a twig, let alone a tree in our forest...and I'll have
you know this twig is clean installed 2k3 domain (I strongly believe
in no inplace even in our twig domains down here).
(and for the record for everyones trivia tonight....while I choose
to have a single DC (at this time) ... SBS can support additional
DCs in our domain.... hey.. I've even used ntdsutil and ADSIedit
even down here ;-)
Brett Shirley wrote:
Susan, how on earth could _you_ get a lingering object? Seems
impossible
with only one DC, oh wait did you just forget to delete it?
>From The Love,
-B
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
wrote:
Information about lingering objects in a Windows 2000-based forest
or in a Windows Server 2003-based forest:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=910205
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