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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.

During the install of AVG it gives a conflicting anti-spyware product detected error message and will not install. The message then goes on to say: “Setup had detected ewido anti-spyware or ewido anti-malware installed on your computer. Anti-spyware protection is now included in AVG. In order to proceed with installation, you will have to uninstall the previous anti-spyware product first”

I checked add/remove programs and I did not see any reference in there to ewido anti-virus / anti-malware, but I did find a key for it in the registry. Once I deleted the the “HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\ewido anti-spyware” registry entry I was able to install AVG with out any further problems.