Windows Server - community newsgroup category for SBS 2008

Asked By Tim

27-Dec-08 01:08 PM

underneath 'Servers\Windows Servers\Small Business Server' there are 9
different sections:
Small Business Manager
Small Business Server 2000
Small Business Server 4.x
Small Business Server - Backoffice
Small Business Server Beta
Small Business Server Beta -Backoffice
Small Business Server ISP
Small Business Server Setup-Configure
Windows Small Business Server General


Is there ever going to be a
Small Business Server 2008

27-Dec-08 01:13 PM

SBS2008 and EBS2008 support Via Microsoft NNTP Public News Groups

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Web Based Access:

Web Access to Newsgroup SBS2008
https://connect.microsoft.com/sbs08/community/discussion/richui/default.aspx

Web Access to Newsgroup EBS2008
https://connect.microsoft.com/ebs08/community/discussion/richui/default.aspx

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NNTP Access to SBS2008 and EBS2008 Newsgroups:
To gain access groups via NNTP (Which is preferred by a lot of people)

First you need to set up an access password as detailed Here:
https://connect.microsoft.com/cougar/messageboards/community.aspx

If this is the first time you set this up it may take up to 6 hours for
Microsoft to set your password.

After 6hrs you can configure your NNTP Reader
(Doing this before 4 or 6 hrs will result in no connection.)

To access the Microsoft Connect newsgroups, if you wish to use a newsreader
program, such as Outlook Express and Windows Mail that supports multiple
news
servers. (The instructions are below)
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To add a news server to Outlook Express:

Start Outlook Express.
On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
Click Add, and then click News.
In the Internet Connection Wizard, follow the instructions until you reach
the Internet News Server Name page.
Enter "connectnews.microsoft.com" for the News (NNTP) server, select "My
news server requires me to log on," and then click Next.
Enter your newsgroup ID and password, and then click Next.
Click Finish, and then click Close.

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To add a news server to Windows Mail:

Start Windows Mail.
On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
Click Add and then click Newsgroup Account.
In the Internet Connection Wizard, follow the instructions until you reach
the Internet News Server Name page.
Enter "connectnews.microsoft.com" for the News (NNTP) server, select "My
news server requires me to log on," and then click Next.
Enter your newsgroup ID and password, and then click Next.
Click Finish, and then click Close.
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Once you are configured this direct links will hook you up.
(or you can manually search and add the newsgroups.)

For NNTP News Access of SBS2008 Newsgroup:

For NNTP News Access of EBS2008 Newsgroup:


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Russell Grover - SBITS.Biz
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
Microsoft Certified Small Business Specialist
World Wide 24hr SBS Remote Support - http://www.SBITS.Biz

27-Dec-08 01:15 PM

You probably can't see replies today as the web interface is out of wack.
When you can, look over the following and consider using a nntp news reader
such as Outlook Express or Windows Mail instead of the web interface.

http://connect.microsoft.com/cougar/content/content.aspx?ContentID=8333

Which is reproduced below for your reading enjoyment:

SBS08 Public Newsgroups

Welcome to the SBS Public Newsgroups Page

If you would like to simply read the new SBS 2008 Public newsgroups...
They can be reached via the web here: SBS 2008 Public Newsgroups

Ask a question to the SBS 2008 Public Newsgroups / Setup your favorite NNTP
Newsgroup Reader....

Step 1: Join the Public Windows Small Business Server 2008 Connection here
on MS Connect. Click here to join.

Step 2: Setup your favorite NNTP Newsgroup Reader (Detailed instructions
here):

If you have already registered for other connections on MS Connect, you can
simply refresh your newsgroups list and you should see the the
microsoft.connect.windows.server.sbs08 and
microsoft.connect.windows.server.sbs08sdk newsgroups in your reader.

The NNTP / News Server is connectnews.microsoft.com (betanews.microsoft.com
will work as well)

If you have not setup a NNTP Newsgroup Account on MS Connect before do the
following 2 things;

Go to the following URL to setup your credentials; Set Newsgroup Password

Go to the following URL for instructions on how to setup your reader;
Configure NNTP Reader

Thanks for using our new Public Newsgroups hosted on MS Connect. We hope the
registration process is acceptable. We chose to go with this new NNTP Server
to help address issues with not having authentication on
MSNews.Microsoft.com.


--
Larry
Please post the resolution to your
issue so that others may benefit.

27-Dec-08 02:06 PM

No because it is over on the Connect newsgroups where we can keep out the
spam.