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This blog discusses topics in Small Business Server, CRM, and user groups, as well as items of interest that might occur along the road. Larry Lentz is a 25+ year computer industry veteran with 18 years as an independent consultant and owner of Lentz Computer Services, http://www.LentzComputer.net. Larry holds numerous Microsoft certifications and leads the Alamo PC Organization's MCSE Advanced Special Interest Group and the SBS SIG (http://www.LentzComputer.net/SBS). Larry is located in San Antonio, Texas. Lentz Computer Services was the first Microsoft Small Business Specialist in South Texas and is now a Microsoft Certified Partner. Larry was awarded the Microsoft MVP in CRM for 2006, 2007, and 2008..
SBS 2003 is Now OLD Technology with Today's Hardware

I am in the middle of installing SBS 2003 R2 Premium on a client's new server. I've already blogged some of my 'experiences'. Today I ran into another 'interesting' issue. I installed ISA server but when I did the Configure E-mail and Internet Connection Wizard (CEICW) it errored. I tried accessing the server via RDP and could not. Then I had a look at the Services and found none of the ISA or Firewall services were running. Nor could I start them. I looked in the Event Applications log and found Event ID 14109, "The ISA Server Standard Edition cannot run. Either the server is using more than 4 processors, or it is configured to use the Active Directory services....". Well, this server only has TWO processors, the legal limit for SBS. However, each processor has FOUR cores. So the server is seeing EIGHT processors, double what ISA will allow. Old software meeting new hardware! How do you solve old software problems? With a service pack, of course. Googling the error message produced a recommendation to install the latest service pack for ISA. So I downloaded SP3 for ISA Server 2004 and installed. Now ISA is happy. CEICW is happy. And, I can not remote into the server so I can finish configuring it from the comfort of my den.

Published Monday, January 07, 2008 9:18 PM by LarryLentz

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# re: SBS 2003 is Now OLD Technology with Today's Hardware@ Tuesday, February 19, 2008 5:17 PM

I believe you have a typo in the last sentence:

not = now.  

:-)

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