We run SBS 2008 virtualised under VMware ESXi which like most hypervisors 
does not support USB passthrough to the guest OS.
This limitation creates a complication with SBS backup which we have 
resolved by implementing a USB over IP device to present a USB HDD to SBS as 
a backup target. Unfortunatley the software that runs the device does not 
install as a service so if the Admin account is logged off the backup HDD is 
disconnected, not an ideal situation.

The old "path\INSTSRV.EXE My Service path\SRVANY.EXE" does not seem to be 
supported under Server 2008, does anyone know of the 2008 equivalent or a 
way to get the old method to work on SBS 2008?

Cheers,
Simon. 

Answering my own question:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverMigration/thread/98a97aee-c62b-4683-94ab-3777899cf7de

The technique listed in the above post seems to work.


"Simon Thomson" <simon@specterra.com.au> wrote in message 
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> We run SBS 2008 virtualised under VMware ESXi which like most hypervisors 
> does not support USB passthrough to the guest OS.
> This limitation creates a complication with SBS backup which we have 
> resolved by implementing a USB over IP device to present a USB HDD to SBS 
> as a backup target. Unfortunatley the software that runs the device does 
> not install as a service so if the Admin account is logged off the backup 
> HDD is disconnected, not an ideal situation.
>
> The old "path\INSTSRV.EXE My Service path\SRVANY.EXE" does not seem to be 
> supported under Server 2008, does anyone know of the 2008 equivalent or a 
> way to get the old method to work on SBS 2008?
>
> Cheers,
> Simon.
>