“How to stop the ‘SBCore Service’ Service” or “How to use SBS2003 as a normal server”
AKA How to stop Windows SBS2003 from shutting down automatically.
Most of this info was found here: http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=173731
Note: Removing this service apparently violates the license agreement for Microsoft Small Business Server. See the details here if you care.
Tools you’ll need – Process Explorer from www.sysInternals.com http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx
As you probably know, you have a service called [...]
How to disable hibernation in Windows Vista
4GB of wasted hard drive space for something I don’t use. Now you can disable it in 1 second:
Win-R, cmd to open a command prompt.
Type powercfg -h off and press <ENTER>.
That’s it.
“the iscsi name specified contains invalid characters or is too long”
This applies specifically to the iSCSI Intiator for Windows XP, but might apply to other versions as well.
Check to see if there are underscores in your volume group and/or volume names.
Downgrading from Vista to XP on Gateway MX8711 and similar Vista-only laptops without a floppy drive.
OK, I was going to finish this off at some point, but I’ve gotten busy with other projects, so I figure I might as well post what I have so far… If there’s any interest, let me know and I’ll see if I have any more useful insight…
Step 1: Get this stuff:
Intel Matrix SATA drivers for the Intel(R) 82801GBM [...]
SBS2003 Exchange POP3 Connector Polling Interval
A quick registry fix revealed here shows how to increase the POP3 email retrieval speed on Small Business Server 2003. Yes, having SMTP mail delivered directly to the server is better, but first things first!
1. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/SmallBusinessServer/Network/POP3 Connector”
2. On the “Edit” menu, point to “New”, and then click “DWORD [...]
Disconnect Remote Desktop Sessions
Thanks to Scott Forsyth, I found a way to disconnect remote desktop sessions when you are unable to connect to the server via RDP… Apparently qwinsta and rwinsta are built-in to Windows (XP Pro at least).
Scott said:
qwinsta /server:12.12.12.12
Where 12.12.12.12 is the IP address or name of the non-accessible machine.
This will display something like this:
> qwinsta /server:12.12.12.12
SESSIONNAME [...]