SBS 2011 Backup Failure - A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed. Unknown error (0x800423f0)

I was configuring SBS backup on an SBS 2011 machine to a 2 TB external hard drive. But I got this error on the first backup:

SBS 2011 Backup Failures - A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed. Unknown error (0x800423f0)

After some quick research, I found that in some of the updates installed, there was a Sharepoint update that had downloaded, but needed to be manually installed. That's pretty lame, but whatever.

The method of updating Sharepoint properly is discussed here:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/05/24/you-must-manually-run-psconfig-after-installing-sharepoint-2010-patches.aspx

In essence, it's just go to an administrative command prompt. Go to this folder:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN

and run this command:

PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures

removing Sharepoint from an SBS box

Here is a Microsoft article on removing Sharepoint from and SBS box:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829114

This was relevant to me in a certain situation where I was getting tons of STS_Config errors on a box where I had no desire or need for Sharepoint

WSS v3 upgrade - SBS needs in place upgrade

After spending 3 hours troubleshooting why I couldn't get SharePoint v3 on an SBS box, I found that the problem was the you CANNOT do an in place upgrade. You have to do a side by side install as per this Official SBS Blog entry:

http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2006/11/30/wss-v3-0-installation-on-sbs-2003.aspx

Sharepoint error: ‘Edit document’ requires a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible application and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater

I had a user get this error when trying to edit a Sharepoint doc:



I read the necessary article from MS, and it was no help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893698

but then I found this article:

http://yunetasblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/sharepoint-error-when-try-to-edit.html

which said that owssupp.dll add-on in IE could be disabled, which in fact was the case. So I enabled the owssupp.dll add-on in IE and then Sharepoint acted normally.