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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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Connecting Vista/Win7 Clients to SBS2011 AD

With a new SBS 2011 server a customer ordered from Dell, I was trying to connect some Windows Vista Business and Windows 7 Professional clients to it, and I keep getting errors. So, I mustered up all my experience to try to troubleshoot some…
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Error with smarthost forwarding mail

I have just set up a new SBS2011 server, it is using the ISP smarthost to send mail. Normal sending of mail works fine, but one of our users has a blackberry which rather than setting up BES for 1 user, we wanted to forward on any emails to the…
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Security Groups Not Showing In "Standard Console"

Setting up a new Windows SBS 2011 machine and notice the startup "Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard Console" which is full of wizards making things simple. Under "Users and Groups" it shows a list of Security Groups. When I add a Security…
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Solutions for an "inconvenient" or incorrect server name in SBS 2011

Our customer is requesting that we change the name of their new SBS 2011 server. Obviously this is not possible, or at least not recommended. I've told them that it would not be worth the effort to change the name, but I'm wondering if there is…
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File restore after Windows SBS 2011 Shadow Copy

I recovered my drive D with a shadow copy of November 2011 by accident, now all my files all users at our company created are gone and there is no single external backup. Can I recover the files with some file recovery tool or is it gone…
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Group Policy Filter Auto Populating a Server

How could a server keep showing up in a Security Filter in my Group Policy Manager? I've removed the servername$ manually and I've gone as far as to set the Deny check mark on Apply group policy under the Delegation tab > Advanced, but it keeps…
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Remote Desktop profiles vs. Scripted login

I have a Windows SBS 2011 Essentials Server that has three clients with RDP connections. They need to use the same program but with three different serial numbers. The serial number resides in a simple text file in the same directory as the…
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3 companies, 2 xch (2003/2010), 2 sbs server (2003/2011), 1 physical network

That is my case: Inside one building there are 3 different companies. Two of them using an SBS 2003 server for file sharing and exchange role. We also have a dedicated server W Indows 2003 for DNS and DHCP. We are trying to install a new SBS 2011…
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Remote Web in SBS 2011 Essentials (SSL Issue)

I am having an issue setting up Remote Web in SBS 2011 Essentials. Everything works except Remote Desktop, which keeps giving me SSL cert errors. Is there a way to override the TS Gateway's decision to not allow cert errors? If not, the specific…
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SBS 2011 Premium Add-on SQL Server

We have set up a new Intel server running Windows HyperV Server R2. Two VMs are running: Microsoft SBS 2011 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (Installed from the SBS 2011 Premium Add-on disc) The package we bought has the Premium add-on…
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Error 812 when connecting to office VPN

I am currently setting up an office VPN on a new server (running SBS 2011), and I keep getting "Error 812: The connection was prevented because of a policy configured on your RAS/VPN server..." when I connect with my Windows 7 laptop. However, I…
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Is it possible to remove my domain controller and switch to a simpler Windows network?

I have a small network (about five client PCs running Windows 7 or 10 and a server running a stripped-down version of Small Business Server 2011). The only relevant things our SBS server does is host a couple of shared folders and being a Domain…
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SystemState backup on SBS 2011 Std. - How many hours would you allow it to run?

I'm doing a migration of SBS 2011 Std to Server 2019 following server-essentials.com documents. This is for a 10 user domain. Exchange is on the SBS box but mail is being handled by o365. This is certainly not doing anything 'fancy' It's the…
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Opening a folder with a certain files forces a return to the parent folder

I have this unbelievable behaving in this constellation: Windows Server 2019 Standard Desktop running in the trial version the 2nd day. A fresh copy, without additional software. Just added the server to the domain. The drive F: is mapped to an…
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VPN Connection: It connects but no access to remote network resources and shows as Private rather than Domain

I have a puzzling issue that I cannot find an answer for. I'm trying to connect a Win 10 (1909) machine to a VPN running on SBS 2011, via a RADIUS server. The client connects OK, apart from I don't have access to any of the resources on the…
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