SBS 2008 and Third Party AV

Having problems loading the SBS 2008 Console? Keeps crashing a few moments after you open it? The problem might be the way the SBS 2008 console tries to use WMI to enumerate the security status of the various AV products that you have sitting on the servers and PCs on your network. Check out this procedure:

http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2009/03/12/sbs-console-crashes-when-duplicate-entries-from-av-products-are-written-into-security-center.aspx

Its a bit deep, and requires some concentration and patience, but definitely worth a look.