Re: SBS2003 New instralaltion onto a Dell POweredge 2900

On Mar 16, 5:28 pm, "Gordon Keenan" <gordon...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Been working on a new installation all weekend and I have to say that this
has been one of the worst installs I have ever had in a long time.
I have never experienced so many weird issues with SBS 2003 before so I can
only assume that the issues experienced are down to the Dell hardware side
of things as well.

The server spec is:
Microsoft Small Business Server R2 2003
PE2900 III - Quad-Core Xeon E5320 1.86GHz/2x4MB 1066FSB
PE2900 III - C4 - RAID 5 PERC5i/6i 3-8 HDD
PERC 6/i Internal RAID Controller Card (256MB cache, battery backup)
PV LTO-2-LT, 200GB, 24MB/s, Internal Tape Drive, HH, 39320A SCSI Controller
4GB 667MHz FBD (4x1GB dual rank DIMMs)
Broadcom TCP/IP Offload Engine functionality (TOE) Enabled

I keep getting errors in the event log about the caching being an issue with
drive C: (from what I have read online it would appear SBS is trying to do
something to the cache side but the raid card is not allowing it - so
possibly in theory the error could be ignored)

EVENT ID 32: The driver detected that the device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has
its write cache enabled. Data corruption may occur.

If I create a VPN connection to the server then I can connect fine. From
there I can log in via remote desktop, etc etc

If I try to access the server directly via remote desktop etc I get either
an incomplete login box, and the system times out of a blank grey screen and
then it times out.

If I try to go in via:https://ipaddressofserver/remoteorhttps://ipaddressofserver/exchangeagain it tries to connect but then times
out.

In the event log I see the following error:
Failed to load Terminal Server Profile path. Note that the profile path must
be less than 256 characters in length. User Name: Administrator Domain:
COMPUTERDOMAIN

Now this installation is the same basic install that I have done year in and
year out, and I have to say I'm frustrated in what the heck is happening
here is a bit of an understatement!

I have been searching for solutions all over the place, and the only thing I
came across that does not really fit into anything above, but, I sorta
thinking may do.. but with no reason other than blind hope, would be the
network cards being used or the drivers? The cards are (and I'm only using
one) - Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE (NDIS VBD Client)

If it is the network card, can anyone suggest a way to sort them out? This
is new gear and I don't want to have to swap NICs about when the things
appear to be working ok otherwise!!!

Typically I have a few users who (tomorrow) will all be looking to do remote
work from home tomorrow night (yes I can give them the von workaround PHEW!)
but heck I need to know why on earth I cannot get in via the normal routes I
use on all the other serves I have out there!!!!

Where's me gun.....

Help and a new set of eyes/brain very much appreciated here people.

G

Oh geezzzz! This is the exact server config I am getting ready to
order on monday. Except, with the 2.5ghz quad proc. How many HD's
you go with? Did you go with the SAS or SATA? Have you called Dell
to see if they have any gotchas on that config? I assume SBS came pre-
installed you are just configing it. Are you sure there is no IP
problems on the lan? If VPN works then sounds like you got some weird
IP addressing going on that is causing RDP not to work localing.
However, that is very strange as I would think the VPN would not work
either.

Is this a SBS Premium? If so are you using the two nic config with
one on the wan or do you have a external router?
.

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