My infamous SBS 2008 brings more issues! :D

satanicguardian · 28 Jan 2013 at 14:21

Hey guys, the sbs server is giving me a headache again, adding client computers back onto the domain under the instruction of my MD. Had an issue where the client pc's were saying there was an issue with something not being up to maximum requirements, I found out this was easily fixed by a server update.

This isn't a MAJOR issue but it is annoying however, even though the clients are definitely online and connected to the server, the SBS console shows them as offline or unknown, does anyone know as to why?

satanicguardian · 28 Jan 2013 at 15:34

bremen1874 said:
Did you ever fix the client DNS issues?

Yes I did

I can't for the life of me remember what it was now, it was one tiny thing I'd overlooked. I think the router was pointing at the wrong place, that bit does seem to work now

satanicguardian · 28 Jan 2013 at 15:57

I've just tried disabling it on a client, I can disable it for home or work networks, public networks, but it won't let me disable it on domain networks

satanicguardian · 28 Jan 2013 at 17:09

bremen1874 said:
If it won't let you disable the firewall you just need to tweak the group policy settings to remove the block.

This obviously shouldn't be necessary. What OS are the clients running?

All are running W7 Professional

satanicguardian · 12 Feb 2013 at 23:59

Had to make sure the ipv4 settings were point specifically at the SBS server on 192.168.10.2 and I had to go into advanced, "append dns suffix" and put in the dns address of my server, i.e. myserver.local