To resolve this issue:

1. Open Contacts
2. Press the menu (blackberry) button and select ‘Options’
3. type ‘RSET’ (in uppercase, without the quotes)
4. You will be prompted with ‘This will erase your desktop contacts list, and reload it from your server. Continue?’, select Yes to reload.
5. Your local contacts will now be erased and the device will start to synchronise with the server again. This process could take around 30 minutes.
6. Test the process by creating a new contact in Outlook and checking if it comes across to the Blackberry (~5 minutes)

Thanks to GaryCutri’s post on the Australia Blackberry Forums.

Investigation revealed the following error in the Application Log:

Source: Windows Server Update Services
Event ID: 364
Description: Content file download failed. Reason: The server does not support the necessary HTTP protocol. Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) requires that the server support the Range protocol header.


This particular client uses a SonicWall TZ150 firewall appliance. The Gateway Antivirus feature is the culprit. To enable the HTTP Byte-Range protocol header, and allow WUS to download the updates into the repository, do the following:

1. Log in to your SonicWall
2. In the address bar you should have something similar to “http://10.0.0.1/main.html“. change “main” to “diag” (Should read similar to “http://10.0.0.1/diag.html“)
3. Click “Internal Settings” on the left-hand navigation bar
4. Check the box next to “Enable HTTP Byte-Range requests with Gateway AV” (approximately 2/3 down the page)
5. Click “Apply” in the top right corner of the screen
6. Click “Close” in the bottom left of the screen.
7. WSUS should shortly begin downloading updates – to confirm, open the “Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP1” management console from Administrative Tools.

Thanks to ComputerX’s post on the WSUSWiki for this info.

The command line for the task is:

shutdown /r /t 30 /c "Scheduled Reboot task" /d p:0:0

Occasionally the task fails with an error code of 0x4f7. This means that the console session is logged on and in a locked state!

Long and the short of it – Make sure you completely log off any active administrative sessions on the server when you schedule the next run of the task!

Alternatively, modify the command to look like this:

shutdown /r /t 30 /c "Scheduled Reboot task" /d p:0:0 /f

The /f on the end forces a restart – it also forcefully closes any running applications in any logged-on session.

On a few of my client sites, I have seen this happening recently, causing some performance issues for LOB applications. If have found SQLSERVR processes to be the culprit at both of these sites, with some instances using up to 500mb.

SBS uses instances of MSDE for a few of its core tasks:

• WSUS (For centrally managing and reporting on the Windows Update process to Small Business Clients)
• MSFW (For the ISA Server 2000 / 2004 instance shipped with SBS Premium)
• SBSMONITORING (For the inbuilt performance and usage reporting)

None of these instances require so much memory! I have no problem with a SQL / MSDE instance using memory when it is for a LOB application, but for maintenance, reporting, and logging?!

To limit the amount of memory each instance can use:

1. Determine which instances you wish to limit. I do this by finding the process ID using the built in Task Manager, then determining what instance is running under that process ID with Sysinternals Process Explorer.
2. Launch a command prompt
3. Start the SQL prompt, connecting to the desired instance (e.g. SBSMONITORING)
   osql -E -S SERVERNAME\<INSTANCENAME>
4. Execute the following commands to enable setting of advance options:
   USE master
EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options',1
RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE
GO
5. Execute the following commands to set the maximum memory in MB. Replace 100 with your desired setting (I use 100MB):
   USE master
EXEC sp_configure 'max server memory (MB)',100
RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE
GO
6. Execute the following commands to disable advanced settings, for safety’s sake:
   USE master
EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options',0
RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE
GO
7. quit

Within about 30 seconds the instance should have dropped it’s memory usage to within about 50mb of your desired setting. Changing this actually changes the size of the dataset that is cached in to memory, there is still other overhead that means your active memory usage may still be around 175mb.

Thanks to Tokahao’s post at the WSUS Forums for this info.

The ‘Configure E-mail and Internet Connection Wizard’ would not complete, erroring at the ‘Network Configuration’ stage. Logs showed the following:
Error 0×80070422 returned from call to Configuring the time service().
Error 0×80070422 returned from call to CNetCommit::Common().
Error 0×80070422 returned from call to CNetCommit::Commit().

Services MMC snapin showed the Windows Time service as stopped. Starting the service gave the following error:
“Could not start the Windows Time service on Local Computer.
Error 1058: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. “

Solution:

• Click ‘Start -> Run’
• type ‘regsvr32 w32time.dll’, click ok
• when it says ‘DllRegisterServer in w32time.dll succeeded’, click ‘ok’
• Start the time service.

The error will now be resolved and the internet connection wizard should go through without error.