Name Mornay Durant Title Sales amp Marketing Director Company The IT Department Session WSV205 11 tips for the price of 9 announcing BITS CompanyWeb Drive Architecture Spam Disclaimers SBS Monitoring RWW OWA CALS and more ID: 326418
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Small Business Server 2008 Tips and Tricks
Name: Mornay Durant
Title: Sales & Marketing Director
Company: The IT Department
Session: WSV205Slide3
11 tips for the price of 9announcing
BITS
CompanyWeb
Drive Architecture Spam Disclaimers SBS Monitoring RWW OWA CALS and moreSlide4
11 tips for the price of 9Bandwidth usageEmail disclaimersExchange anti-spamDrive architecture and swap filesSharePoint – Client integration and searchCALSOWACustomizing RWWBackup failure notification
SBS Monitoring cleanupSlide5
Controlling Bandwidth UsageServices 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.Slide6
Controlling Bandwidth UsageCreate a SBS Bits Configuration Group PolicyEdit the new policyNavigate to Computer Configuration->Policies->Administrative Templates->Network-> Background Intelligent Transfer ServiceDouble 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 8AM to 5PM, 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.Slide7
Controlling Bandwidth UsageSlide8
Email disclaimersEmail disclaimers are provided by means of Transport Rules in Exchange 2007Launch Exchange Console and navigate to Organization Hub TransportThen create a new Transport RuleSlide9
Email disclaimersClick a new Transport Rule for the disclaimerSlide10
Email disclaimersSelect people outside the organizationSlide11
Email disclaimersSelect the disclaimer text optionSlide12
Email DisclaimersEnter the disclaimer textSlide13
Email disclaimersClick New to create the disclaimerSlide14
Anti SpamCertain emails may be rejected because of built-in default antispam SCL actionsEmails with PDF attachments from ABSA are examples of thisLaunch Exchange ConsoleNavigate to Organization Configuration Hub TransportSlide15
Anti SpamSelect the SPAM tab, then double click Content FilteringSlide16
Anti SpamSelect the Action tab, then uncheck the “Reject messages” check boxSlide17
Drive Architectures & Swap filesThe more drives the better1 x System Drive1 x Exchange Drive1 x Data DriveCreate a dedicate partition on non system drive for pagefile to reduce fragmentation related performance issuesMore spindles offer best performanceSlide18
SharePoint – Client IntegrationOn 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 SharePoint using the New button.Launch SharePoint Central Administration->Application Management->Authentication Providers->Default ZoneSelect Yes radio button in the Enable Client Integration sectionClick SaveSlide19
Sharepoint – Client IntegrationSlide20
SharePoint – Enabling SearchSharePoint 3.0 in SBS 2008 does not require SQL server for full text searchBut full text search must be enabled manuallyDownload and install Office 2007 iFilterReset IIS (iisreset)Stop SharePoint search index process (
stsadm
–o
spsearch
–action
fullcrawlstop
)
Restart indexing of sites (
stsadm
–o
spsearch
–action
fullcrawlstart
)Slide21
SBS 2008 CALSCALS are not activated in SBS 2008There is no “Installed CALS” view as there was in SBS 2003CALS are therefore paper based (DSP) or eOpen (VLM)Slide22
OWA file accessNew OWA featureBrowse files in shared folders using OWARead only functionalityLaunch OWAClick Documents linkOnly supply share UNCSlide23
OWA file accessSlide24
Customizing RWW landing pageYou 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 Files\Windows Small Business Server\Bin\webapp\Remote\Images folder on the server. If you have custom images that you want to use, copy them to this folder first.Slide25
Customizing RWW landing pageSlide26
Customizing RWW landing pageSlide27
Customizing RWW landing pageSlide28
Backup failure email notificationSBS 2003 notified when backup failed with email messageSimilar functionality is available in SBS 2008, but must be programmedWe use the Event to catch “backup failure” alerts that will trigger the emailLaunch Task SchedulerExpand Task Scheduler LibraryRight click Event View TasksCreate Basic TaskSlide29
Backup failure email notificationName the taskSlide30
Backup failure email notificationAn event log entry will trigger our processSlide31
Backup failure email notificationEvent 521 will trigger the email. The log is the application log and the source is BackupSlide32
Backup failure email notificationSelect “Send an e-mail”Slide33
Backup failure email notificationSupply email detailsSlide34
Backup failure email notificationCheck the “Open the Properties dialog for this task when I click finish” check boxSlide35
Backup failure email notificationEnsure that “Run with highest privileges” is checkedSlide36
SBSMonitoring CleanupAn agent is supposed to clean out records older than 90 days from the SBS Monitoring databaseSometimes it doesn’tThe result is a very slow SBS Console, especially when it comes to Reports, andVery long Disk Queue Lengths on the C: drive resulting in loss of performanceVerify with Performance monitor, see Physical Disk Queue Length reach and maintain high levelsSlide37
SBSMonitoring CleanupLaunch SQL Server Management Studio Express as AdministratorConnect to <SERVER>\SBSMonitoringExpand Databases->SBSMonitoring->Programmability->Stored ProceduresRight click dbo.CleanupDatabase
and select Execute Stored Procedure
Click OKSlide38
SBS Monitoring CleanupClick OK to start cleanupSlide39
SBS Monitoring CleanupCleanup may run for several hoursSlide40
SBS Monitoring CleanupCleanup will return 0 if successfulSlide41
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