Bypass SBS 2008 Memory Requirements

For anyone looking to work with SBS 2008 in a dev environment but unable to provision VM’s with 4gb of ram you may be interested in this little reg key..

I see lots of posts around the net asking for ways to bypass the memory requirements but not many with answers. I stumbled upon this one recently which has finally allowed me to get some SBS 2008 dev work done.

When installing SBS 2008 once you are past the initial install and are up to the first page of the configuration if you hit shift+F10 to bring up a command prompt then launch regedit you can edit the following key to allow the install to continue even though your machine doesn’t meet the requirements.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\Setup]
“SkipReq”=”RamRequirement”

This may also be useful for those of you running on the bare minimum but with an onboard videocard which is consuming some of the ram pushing your usable ram down.

Hope this helps a few people

mRemote

Just a quick post for anyone looking for mRemote downloads and/or source code as the latest wasn’t easily found on their page.

mRemote as their website says is “a full-featured, multi-tab remote connections manager”. I use it for accessing RDP/VNC/SSH services on a variety of hosts so that I can keep it all neat and in one interface. However the developer has since merged the project into a paid for application so at some point the current 1.5.0 may no longer be on his site.

For now I have uploaded the current latest source code and binary for anyone looking for a copy. Long live mRemote. However I will note the paid for application is pretty good so if your feeling generous grab a copy

  mRemote_1.50_Setup_EN.exe (2.5 MiB, 435 hits)

  mRemote_1.50_Source.7z (4.3 MiB, 472 hits)

*UPDATE*

Check out mRemoteNG http://www.mremoteng.org as an ongoing build of mRemote by another author.