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Backup and Restore of IIS Configuration

Costas Tsaklas — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:35:12 +0000

With the tight integration of the SBS components, IIS is in the center of all of them. Backup, Monitoring, OWA, OMA etc., all rely on IIS. Although the backups of the IIS metadata happens automatically, it’s always good to have backup before major changes take place.

SBS Best Practice: Backup and Restore of IIS Configuration

“Centro” is here – Windows Essential Business Server

Costas Tsaklas — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:17:21 +0000

Windows Essential Business Server (code name “Centro”) was announced today. Cool stuff…

More information can be found at Microsoft Small Business Community Blog

Access companyweb from a remote location when https is not allowed over port 444

Costas Tsaklas — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:10:45 +0000

It could happen to all of us. We own a small business and we rely on SBS 2003 to run it. We work at a client and their firewall prevents https over port 444. How can we access SharePoint (companyweb)? Well, there is a solution as long as we run ISA 2004.

Create an A record that points to the external IP of the server (e.g. wss.publicdomain.com). Go to ISA Server and copy the SBS Windows SharePoint Services Web Publishing Rule. Paste it and rename it to something like CompanyWeb external

Edit the listener and change it from SBS CompanyWeb listener to SBS Web listener. We want incoming requests to be received on port 443

Under the Link Translation tab check the Replace absolute links in Web pages to make sure that URLs that use relative paths are being translated properly

Check to make sure that the Redirect requests to SSL port is pointing to port 444

Finally under Public Name add the of the FQDN that we will use to access the site

That’s about it. If we open a browser and we type https://wss.publicdomain.com we should be seeing the companyweb SharePoint site