Re: Rebuilding SBS Server 2003 SP2

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Are you using https://mail.ourdomin.com/exchange ?

If you are and it is bringing up your router login, then change your router
to not use 443 for remote management. I have seen routers that will not
forward port 80 or 443 because the router uses them.

The ONLY port you need open for Outlook RPC over HTTP is port 443 SSL. That
is it.

The only ports I open are 25, 443, 444 (sometimes for SharePoint), and 4125.
I do not do PPTP VPN, so no 1723 and 47GRE for me.

Check from the LAN first, if it ain't working internally, it'll never work
externally!

Gregg Hill




"Billy Burrows" <billy.burrows@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thats a relly good idea and im gonna do that right now!

Everything is working perfectly I think although we cant access owa or rww
from inside our network as if you try you end up trying to login to the
router.



"Jim Behning SBS MVP" <jimbehning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in message news:5477u3hbk78bp83238acfnpadaosglfb3n@xxxxxxxxxx
I do not have 110, 21 or 22 open on my servers. Some argue that 80 is
an issue. It does not look like a port issue assuming that your router
is not messed up. Does everything work internally ok? Sometimes you
can test things internally to rule out external router issues.
SOmetimes I attach my laptop to the external nic of the server if you
have a two nic server to eliminate the router as causing issues.

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:58:41 GMT, "Billy Burrows"
<billy.burrows@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

RPC over HTTP isuue still there following CEICW!

It does try but cannot get past login prompt!

My forwards are as follows in anyone can spot a stupid mistake that would
be
cool!

110 (TCP)
25 (TCP)
53 (TCP)
21 (TCP)
22 (TCP)
443 (TCP)
80 (TCP)
3389 (TCP)
4125 (TCP)
444 (TCP)
3389 (TCP)
1723 (TCP)
47 (gre)

Is there something missing or wrong? Is there a way of checkin on sbs to
see
if the connection request is even getting to the server?




"Billy Burrows" <billy.burrows@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi PPL,

Over this weekend I will be rebuilding our SBS server and have some
questions, if someone would be kind enough to impart some of their
wisdom
and experience I would be most greatful.

This will be the second rebuild (first time due to hard drive failure)
this time to overcome a server naming issue.

Some things that I am not sure about:

Is it worth partitioning the main SBS installation drive into the
following?

C:\ (Main SBS partition)

D:\ (pagefile)

E:\ (data).

The hard drive is 400Gb, the system has 4Gb RAM. With Nix we would
normally assign a swap partition of 3X system RAM, would the same
sizing
principles apply to SBS for the pagefile partition?

We do this routinely with NIX systems for performance reasons and so
that
we do not have to worry about recovering data from backup in the event
of
having to re-install the system. Does partitioning like this on an SBS
system improve performance and will it help in the event of a future
system re-install? If so what's the recommended partition sizes for
the
base installation, page file partition and the data partition?

How can I remove the old server from client systems so that offline
files
will not try to synchronize with it? On The previous re-build simply
un-ticking the option to synchronize to the old server in start > All
Programs > Accessories > synchronize didn't appear to work.

Many Thanks for any advice!



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