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SBS2008 – No default gateway after power loss

When you reboot an SBS 2008 server, you may experience some of the following symptoms:

  • The SBS server will be unable to browse to the Internet.
  • Users will not be able to connect remotely to the SBS server using utilities such as remote web workplace or Outlook web access.
  • Client PCs that rely solely on the SBS server for DNS may not be able to browse the Internet.

If you run ipconfig on the SBS 2008 server you will notice that the default gateway is blank.

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Windows Vista / 7 – Default gateway 0.0.0.0

A problem which although I thought was initially fixed (see quickfix below) reoccurred later that same day. The issue was reported as ‘no internet connection’ which turned out to be a misconfigured default gateway