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Susan Bradley

Susan is just a wacko SBSer who started down her path by hanging out in the SBS newsgroup community. She's not a Microsoft employee or affiliated with Microsoft. Get a feel of the SBS “vibe” and join in the SBS community!

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Looking for migration advice?
May 16th, 2017 | Susan Bradley | The SBS Diva
There’s a couple of sources you can look to: Mariette’s site at https://www.server-essentials.com/migration-guides Robert Pearman’s guide to moving from SBS 2011 to server 2016 – https://windowsserveressentials.com/2017/03/28/migrate-sbs-2011-standard-to-windows- - Read More
 
What about the media pack?
May 16th, 2017 | Susan Bradley | The SBS Diva
Got a question the other day asking about the media pack availability for Server 2016 essentials. To be honest with you I had totally forgotten about  that. In talking to the folks (Cliff in particular) that still run media servers at home they recommended installing Plex or  Kodi - Read More
 
Dual rebooting after this week’s update
April 12th, 2017 | Susan Bradley | The SBS Diva
If you are seeing your machines reboot twice after this week’s updates, you aren’t alone. It appears to be due to an RDP patch that is included inside the rollups. Bottom line plan on it taking a little longer to reboot this month. - Read More
 
What’s the support lifecycle for SBS 2008?
March 2nd, 2017 | Susan Bradley | The SBS Diva
I would look at the support for Exchange 2007 as a solid indicator as that’s what you are probably migrating your email off of. For Exchange 2007, the last support date is April 11, 2017. Finding the same information for Windows server 2008 is nearly horrific.  I had to look at Vista sp2 - Read More
 
What’s the support lifecycle for…
March 2nd, 2017 | Susan Bradley | The SBS Diva
The other day I was asked what’s the support lifecycle for SBS 2011.  Bottom line it’s the support of it’s parts. So it’s Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 which is supported to 1/14/2020. Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 2/22/2011 1/13/2015 1/14/2020 - Read More
 
RWA on Essentials 2016 only working for a short time?
February 28th, 2017 | Susan Bradley | The SBS Diva
As noted in these threads….. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/fc9140e3-9ae7-4ba3-898b-1ec196ab8538/remote-web-access-works-for-about-a-week-at-a-time?forum=ws16essentials https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/95098edc-e4f8-478d-ab90-edd717cf1e94/ - Read More
 
Problem creating/renaming a folder on a network share with Win10 Anniversary Update (Error 0x8007003B)
January 30th, 2017 | Susan Bradley | The SBS Diva
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4011347 January 26, 2017—KB 3216755 (OS Build 14393.726) On the catalog site at this time is an update that those of us in the SMB world will want to get and install on our Windows 10 1607 machines.  It fixes a painful bug that if indexing is - Read More
 
Keep the faith
January 19th, 2017 | Susan Bradley | The SBS Diva
https://networkdefend.blogspot.com/2016/09/fix-windows-10-error-0x8007003b-when.html The fix is coming soon. But man, it’s making me seriously consider that I need to not rely on Windows basic indexing as a network feature going forward.  This has taken much too long to fix. - Read More
 
De-consumerizing Windows 10 Pro
January 10th, 2017 | Susan Bradley | The SBS Diva
So here’s many of the scripts and links I’ve accumulated and used to “de-consumerize” Windows 10 at the office: Removing the unwanted apps in Windows 10 Step one: Download this zip file taken from this blog site. Extract the file, launch PowerShell. Enter the following - Read More
 
Windows 10 roll out tips
January 9th, 2017 | Susan Bradley | The SBS Diva
So to remind myself of the next time I’m rolling out Windows 10… here are some tips to fix annoyances: Can’t enable numlock? Win10: Change the value of …ControlPanel/Keyboard/InitialKeyboardIndicators to 2147483650 for ALL USERS not only for .Default (my current user was 2 - Read More
 

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