Hi

 

I iam currently running SBS 2003 on a HP dl380. Symantec AV identifed virus threats and quraentined it. Since then iam not able to run updates either from my wsus or from windows website. BITS is not running when i try to start the service i get an error C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs file not found. Any help would be highly appreciated. Iam attachine a part of the update log.

Thx Brown

 

I had a issue with wsus 2 so i have upgraded to wsus 3 and the log i posted is 2 days after upgrade.

Any help is highly appreciated.

 

Rgds

Hi Balaji,

 

What kind of viruses were detected and why are they still quarantined?

Hi Marina

Thx for the reply

 

Its all over my server went down had to work overnight and get it up again. Now i did not restore the backup as we run a schedule of sql on external storage and my docs are redirected to different storage. effectively the system is was oprational within 4 hours. I have another question i have a a full sbs backup taken a day earlier i just want to restore exchange alone. How do i do it. Help Please.

Hi Balaji,

 

If you would restore Exchange, it would overwrite the current store. As I am assuming that the server and thus exchange are running now. You will have to elaborate on what exactly you did.

Hi Marina

 

Ok here is the scenario. I have a system running mirroring for OS (sbs 2003) and Raid 5 for data. I had stored all my data and doc redirection in Raid5. Our deployment is very simple. When i had an issue my priority was to get my property management system up so i reinstalled the sbs and connected all users and got the system going. for the mails i conveted the ost to pst and an imported them to outlook so all are up and ruuning. Now for some users running office 2002 iam unable to find the ost also had some users just using OWA so iwant to retrive their mails. can i do the following.

 

1. install sbs on a diff machine

2. restore exchange backup

 and retrive their mails.

 

regards

balaji

Hi Balaji,

 

The ost file is there since Outlook 2003, so no wonder you didn't find them on the machines that are running Outlook 2002. Which makes me wonder, why you didn't install Outlook 2003 on those machines, as you are licensed to do that.

There are a lot of articles on restoring exchange. But if you are going the route of installing sbs on a different machine for this, please make sure that that machine is never ever connected to the current network. How to back up and restore an Exchange computer by using the Windows Backup program: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=258243

Hi Marina

 

Thx for the advice. ihave installed sbs on a diff machine and retrived all mails . i will never ever connect it to my network  its a standalone machine and will be reformatted and reused once this is overl.Ok i have licenses for office 2003. But all these machines are more than 5 years old so it had 2002 running on them when i took over so more of a lethargy from my side.I have approved budget for new machines which are supposed to be deployed next month. One more question if a machine isinfected with rootkit what happens when it is restored to a similar hardware with nt backup(system state and all).

 

Thx again

 

Balaji

Hi Balaji,

 

SBS comes with the Outlook 2003 license, so you don't even need the Outlook from Office XP.

If you don't know when the machine got infected with a rootkit, you will bring back that rootkit in the network if you restore it.

Hi Marina

 

All these machines were installed with office Xp when i took over and also lethargy from my side. My server was installed with wsus and patched uptodate also had symantec corp edition which did not find the rootkit. I ran an online scan with kaspersky which detected the rootkit i did speak about this to symantec support they had no answers. Anyway clean installed sbs and up and running now. I have installed 6 SBS boxes now but this is my first disaster recovery experirnce had quite a bit of tension but all ended well. 

 

Many Thanx for your answers

 

Balaji