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Windows 2003 SBS SP2 and Scalable Networking Pack Problems Thursday, July 19th, 2007

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I was truly amazed when I read this Microsoft support document. If you install the Scalable Networking Pack on your Windows 2003 Small Business Server a whole bunch of stuff can just break.

If you work in technology support, just read the below list, basically a list of your worst nightmares all in one place.

From the article:-

After you install Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 (Windows SBS), you may experience many network-related symptoms.

These symptoms may include one or more of the following:

  • When you try to connect to the server by using a VPN connection, you receive the following error message:Error 800: Unable to establish connection. 
  • You cannot create a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection to the server. 
  • You cannot connect to shares on the server from a computer on the local area network. 
  • You cannot join a client computer to the domain. 
  • You cannot connect to Microsoft Exchange Server from a computer that is running Microsoft Outlook. 
  • You can only connect to Web sites that are hosted on the server or on the Internet by using a secure sockets layer (SSL) connection. In this scenario, you cannot connect to a Web site that does not use SSL encryption. 
  • You experience slow network performance. 
  • You cannot create an outgoing FTP connection from the server. 
  • The DHCP Server service crashes. 
  • Clients experience slow domain logons. 
  • Network Address Translation (NAT) clients that are located behind Windows SBS 2003 experience intermittent connection failures. 
  • You experience intermittent RPC communications failures. 
  • Clients that are configured as SecureNat clients may be unable to connect to the Internet. 
  • Some Outlook clients may be unable to connect to Exchange.  
  • You cannot run the Configure E-mail and Internet Connection Wizard successfully. 
  • Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server blocks RPC communications. 
  • Clients cannot visit the http://companyweb Web site. 
  • You cannot browse Internet Information Services (IIS) Virtual Directories. 

Link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936594