SBS 2008 Static IP Address

Remember back in the good ol’ days when you could just go into your NIC properties and set your IP address?  Then SBS 2008 comes along with wizard this and wizard that, and the next thing you know you get a “NO SOUP FOR YOU!” error and you can’t proceed.
Lucky for us, Philip Elder provided [...]

Installing Small Business Server 2008 and SQL 2005 Part 2

So now that SBS 2008 is installed, we move on to installing SQL 2005.  Note that a version of SQL 2005 is already installed for a SBSMonitoring, so you are actually installing a DEFAULT server instance.
Before you do the install, however, you need to make a registry change per this link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794697(WS.10).aspx

Installing SQL Server 2005
If you plan [...]

Installing Small Business Server 2008 and SQL 2005 Part 1

I’m in the middle of an SBS 2008 premium installation – I say “in the middle”, but I’m actually about to start the fourth version of the install.  The first two fell over into the swamp.  The third caught on fire and THEN fell it he swamp – the fourth one – AH – it’s [...]