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Windows Small Business Server 2011 is the Microsoft operating system in the SBS line based on Windows Server 2008 R2. It will be the last in the SBS line and went RTM December 13th, 2010 and was first officially released March 9th, 2011. Like the rest of the SBS line, it includes a number of Microsoft products bundled with it, the tradeoff being that the number of users is limited and some functionality useful for larger organizations is disabled.

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Windows Small Business Server 2011 is the Microsoft operating system in the SBS line based on Windows Server 2008 R2. It will be the last in the SBS line and went RTM December 13th, 2010 and was first officially released March 9th, 2011. Like the rest of the SBS line, it includes a number of Microsoft products bundled with it, the tradeoff being that the number of users is limited and some functionality useful for larger organizations is disabled.

It is available in two editions, Essentials and Premium, both of which are 64 bit only. A Premium "add-on" pack was released for either version which primarily included stand-alone editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, and a standalone edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 for Small Business, both of which were licensed only for use on SBS, with the Server 2008 R2 license to serve as a Hyper-V host, into which SBS 2011 would be virtualized. This add-on also allowed for the use of Remote Desktop Services in SBS 2011, an additional domain controller and the ability to use SBS with a small branch location or locations.

Notable product inclusions and restrictions in SBS 2011 are:

  • PC user limit of 25 (Essentials) or 75 (Standard)
  • Exchange Server 2010 SP1 (Standard)
  • SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Standard)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express (Both)
  • Automated backup software (PCs and server in Standard, Server only in Essentials)
  • IIS, DHCP, DNS and (restricted) Active Directory functionality (Both)
  • Windows Software Update Services (Standard)
  • User friendly, wizard-based management and monitoring console (Both)

As it is the last in the Small Business Server line, it has no direct successor, but the product that will be replacing its role in targeting small businesses is Windows Server 2012, Essentials edition.

More information can be found on Wikipedia page dedicated to the Small Business Server line, or at Microsoft's page for Small Business Server 2011.

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My company has outgrown SBS/Essentials. How do I migrate off?

My company is running SBS2008/SBS2011/Essentials, but it has grown to the point where this no longer meets our needs (We have too many employees!) and/or the software is going out of extended support. What is the migration path off of…
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Event 4625 Audit Failure NULL SID failed network logons

In 3 separate systems, the following event is being logged many times (between 30 to 4,000 times a day depending on the system) on the domain controller server: An account failed to log on. Subject: Security ID: SYSTEM Account Name: …
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How do you restart the Task Scheduler service without rebooting the server?

I am running into an issue with the task scheduler service and I have found that restarting the Task Scheduler service should do the trick in fixing my problem. Unfortunately, I do not have the option in services.msc (as Administrator) to stop,…
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What does SBS 2011 do "under the hood" when you give a user admin access?

I have been using Windows Server for many years now and when I have someone who needs local admin access over their machine, I apply it through group policy in a similar way to this answer. One of my clients has SBS 2011, and, one of the features…
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Outline the quirks of Windows Small Business Servers (SBS)

I'm not much of a Microsoft administrator. However, I do work extensively with new and existing Microsoft Exchange deployments. That's just how the career-arc went. I'm working with a small customer of 15 users who's not content with the local "PC…
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w3wp.exe hogs memory

On a Small Business Server 2011 installation a whole number of w3wp.exe processes appear to be using a disproportional lot of memory. The SBS out-of-the-box installations comes with a total of 7 sites and 20 ASP.NET application pools (Sharepoint,…
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Cannot connect to SSTP VPN - Unable to check revocation because revocation server was offline

I have been trying to set up an SSTP VPN to my SBS 2011 server and have been battling certificate issues the whole way. I've been able to generate a new certificate for my external vpn address, import it into my client machine, and added my server…
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How do I reconfigure Exchange Autodiscover?

So I've had issues for a long time with out of office, i believe my exchange has been setup incorrectly. When running tests on testexchangeconnectivity it connects to http://mydomain.com/autodiscover and tries…
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Group policy issues

We are having an issue on one of our clients relatively new sbs installs. The domain consists of a single SBS 2011 server with 4 Windows 7 clients and 3 XP clients. Most of the time everything is fine, however roughly every 3 days, Windows 7…
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AD migration from SBS2011 to 2012 R2 and new domain

We have an existing SBS2011 server, and would like to migrate to a new 2012 R2 server. Ideally, we'd like to do this in a new domain - 1. we'd like to reorganize the OUs to remove the "SBS" named stuff (i.e. all users aren't in users, they're in…
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Renewing SBS2011 Exchange Self-Signed Certificate w/o changing home page in IE?

On a previous server when we used the built in SBS wizard to renew the certificate it worked, however it reset all of the computers on the domain's IE home page to companyweb. Is there a way to do the renew without resetting everyone homepage?
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Domain joined PC not appearing in AD or SBS Console

So one of our clients users renamed their machine while it was domain joined. I thought maybe AD was intelligent enough to update (I'm fairly new to AD, an apprentice in fact!) but all that's happened is the following: The old computer name no…
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Migrate from SBS 2011 to 2008 Standard

I have a customer who is running a Windows Domain with a Windows Small Business Server 2011. Now I want to "update" (or downgrade?) to a 2008 R2 Domain. For two reasons. The customer has nearly reached the SBS user limit The customer now has a…
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Choosing Windows Small Biz Server Version (2008/11 and Standard/Essentials)?

We currently have a SBS 2003 server that is on its way out. Our shop is small (< 10 PCs), and our needs are not that great. I've been looking at Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and trying to figure out if it will work for us. These are out…
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Where can I see my CAL usage?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We're running a SBS 2011 standard edition server and have got seven employees on different full and part time contracts and are now going to hire another person. I'm not…
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