As you prepare your hardware for installation, decide how to partition the drives on your server. As a best practice, for increased performance and easier backup and restoration, add the system and data partitions on separate physical drives. At a minimum, you should create one partition (the C:\ partition) for the operating system and applications, and then create a separate partition for data. As an option, you might consider using redundant storage technologies, such as RAID5 or RAID1, to help protect your data.

Windows SBS 2011 Standard does not support the use of language interface packs (LIP) or multilingual user interface (MUI) packs.

When you install Windows SBS 2011 Standard in a Hyper-V environment, WSUS is not available for up to one full day after completing the installation. During this time, you cannot change WSUS settings or synchronize WSUS with Windows Update. It is not necessary to take any corrective action. The server resolves this issue automatically after several hours.

The remote desktop technology used by Windows SBS 2011 Standard does not support UTF-8 encoding. Because of this, you cannot use Remote Web Access to connect to a computer that contains Unicode characters in the computer name. To avoid this issue, do not include any Unicode character in the name of your server or in the name of any other computers on the network.

For a current listing of Unicode characters, visit the Unicode website (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=206329).

This is a Windows Kernel-EventTracing error that appears each day in the Server Event logs section of the Network Report.

You can safely ignore this error. The server is functioning correctly.

When you use Remote Web Access to establish a remote desktop connection to another computer, the remote connection does not close automatically when you exit or sign out of Remote Web Access. This presents a security risk if you establish the connection from a public computer.

To make sure that other users cannot access your information when you are working from a public computer, make sure that you manually close all remote desktop connections before you sign out of Remote Web Access.

You may encounter this error if you sign in to Remote Web Access from a computer that is running Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3) and either Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8 installed. When you click the help link, the Enable Remote Desktop Services ActiveX Client option is not available.

To work around this issue

If a user signs in to Remote Web Access from a computer that is running Windows XP with Service Pack 3 installed and then tries to connect to another computer, the following error may appear:

"Your computer can't connect to the remote computer because an error occurred on the remote computer that you want to connect to. Contact your network administrator for assistance."

To resolve this issue, you must log on to the Windows XP computer, and turn on the Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP). For detailed information and instructions, see KB951608 “Description of the Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP) in Windows XP Service Pack 3” at the Microsoft Support website (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=206328).

If you have computers on your Windows SBS 2011 Standard network that are not in the Windows Small Business Server organizational unit in Active Directory® Domain Services, you cannot assign remote access to those computers through the Windows SBS 2011 Standard console. Consequently, those computers are not available for remote connection through Remote Web Access.

To fix this issue, after you add users to the Remote Desktop Users group, create a new registry key on the server to enable the client computers to connect to Remote Web Access.

Note
The steps for adding users to the Remote Desktop Users group vary slightly, depending on your operating system.

To add users to the Remote Desktop Users group on a client computer

To create a new registry key

Some hardware manufacturers provide network adapters and drivers that feature fault tolerance technology. You can use fault tolerance technology to group network adapter ports for a connection to a single physical segment. This is known as “network teaming.” If connectivity through one port does not work, another port is automatically activated to handle the connection. This process is transparent to the operating system and to other devices on the network.

The Windows SBS 2011 Standard Connect to the Internet Wizard and Fix My Network Wizard do not support network teaming because it is a scenario that is not typically used in a small business environment. However, you should use these wizards to correctly configure the server to use a single network adapter.

If you decide to use network teaming, you should not use the Windows SBS 2011 Standard networking wizards after you configure teaming because doing this will have an unknown effect on the team. Additionally, because the Windows SBS 2011 Standard networking wizards do not support network teaming, if you require assistance from Microsoft support, you will be instructed to remove the network team and then to use the Windows SBS 2011 Standard networking wizards to correctly configure the server for the network.

To remove a network team