As any administrator of SBS knows that when you log on much like the Server Management Console on all of the other server editions do the SBS Management Console comes up at logon. This screen shows that I have a number of critical errors under security and also under updates. When I go to the console's reports page, the detailed reports tell me that several computers are way out of date and their firewalls are not turned on. Seems like a nice feature, however the computers in question are no longer a part of our network. They were removed a while back before I got here which was at least two months ago. I removed them from the network using the SBS Console and cleared them out of AD however these reports are still jumping up and down saying there are critical errors on the network due to these machines not receiving the updates or having their firewall turned on. What am I missing those computers should be completely removed from this domain and their update or FW status should no longer be an issue.

 

Please help!.!.! I hate sbs and have no patience for it.

Hi, your server centralizes something? Log server? It looks like the clients must be contacted, maybe you have to check specific software. Tell me what that server do (did).

It's an SBS domain controller. and the clients are unreachable, they don't even excist on the network or in active directory. They only show up in the report logs as being unreachable how do I get that to stop since their no longer part of my organization.

You should have a policy or something else which centralize everything to your server. If a client has the firewall turned off, it isn't in the server's log.

But how does a server know if a clients firewall is on or off, if the client is no longer a client of that network/domain. The client in this case was removed from AD removed from the list of SBS Network Machines, physically pulled off the network and had its hdd shredded. What else do I have to do to get this server to forget that this client was ever on the network. There is no reason for it to sit in any record. The client machine cannot be a threat if doesn't exist anymore. So how do you get the server to realize it doesn't exist. Communication with that client is not possible it's gone, trashed, deleted, terminated...

But how does a server know if a clients firewall is on or off, if the client is no longer a client of that network/domain.

 

This is the question: HOW can you tell a server to check the client's firewall status and report it to the SERVER'S LOG?!

 

I really don't know HOW to do this, once you can understand why your server is checking the client's firewall status... you will be able to fix this issue.