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Installing Windows Server 2003 Small Business Edition into an existing SBS environment today. After joining the machine to the domain and promoting it to a domain controller I was ready to continue with the SBS install. When I went to start the install it does a health check and gave me an error that “Windows small business server does not support internet connection sharing” and instructions on how to disable it. Unfortunately those intructions did not was as I did not have the sharing tab in my network connections that it was referring to.

Fixing the problem was pretty easy so that I could resume my setup. I stopped the “Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)” service, set it to manual, and I was able to get my install going.

Every once in a while working for a consulting company, you happen across a little goody that you just know other people in the profession would appreciate. Here’s my glorious find from the other day.

I had a client yesterday that was getting the following message back from their Exchange server when they tried to send email to anyone outside of their network. They could get receive email and send email internally.

You do not have permission to send to this recipient.  For assistance, contact your system administrator. <server.domain.local #5.7.1 smtp;554 5.7.1 <rob@domain.com>: Relay access denied>

I was able to fix this problem pretty quickly by restarting the SMTP service under services in computer management.

They did have to resend any messages that had been rejected.