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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.

A security update issued by Microsoft has caused us some headaches at clients that are Mac and PC based. It looks like the following update has made a security change to the Outlook handles jpg files and this is causing Outlook to have an issue decoding the files when saving from email.

If you open the file from Outlook Web Access or send it to an internet based email it opens fine.

There are a couple of ways to fix this problem.

I recommend that you contact Microsoft and get a hotfix from them for the issue. Just following this link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951678/en-us and you can request access to the hotfix file. You will receive an email from Microsoft in a few minutes that will give you instructions on how to download and install the hotfix.

You can also uninstall the patch. You can do this by going to add/remove programs and look for “Security Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (KB945432)” and uninstall that.

Apparently this issue also effect Outlook 2007, but I have yet to see it. If you are having an issue with jpg attachments from a Mac and Outlook 2007 you can request a hotfix for it here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;952001