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Small Business Server 2008 - Installation, Migration, and Configuration

By : David Overton
Book Image

Small Business Server 2008 - Installation, Migration, and Configuration

By: David Overton

Overview of this book

Small Businesses need to capitalize on the investments they make in IT to drive the business forward. SBS 2008 is uniquely positioned to deliver, but a poor implementation becomes a hindrance rather than a benefit to your business. Well implemented solutions enable your business to appear larger, yet more dynamic than many enterprises. It's easy to get Small Business Server 2008 up and running when you've got this book to hand. It helps you in a clear and friendly manner to understand how to implement SBS 2008 inside your business in a way that matches your business needs. The author's experience enables him to share a tried and tested path to deliver the business benefits without becoming bogged down in unnecessary details that are not relevant to small businesses. SBS 2008 is a fantastic investment for Small Businesses to make towards a well managed and highly functional IT solution in their business. This book is the culmination of many years advising small business owners and consultants on the recommend, tried and tested path to implement small business technology from Microsoft. Through this book you will gain an understanding of the features you can choose to use and then how to securely implement the server to deliver them. It will guide you through the installation and configuration process with the help of step-by-step instructions and plentiful screenshots. It will also explain how you can benefit from the collaboration tools based on SharePoint and how you can protect all your business data with a back-up process that covers anything from deleted files to a fire in the office. Imagine how great you'll feel when your Small Business Server 2008 is ready and working, and you can get back to surfing the Internet!
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Small Business Server 2008 Installation, Migration, and Configuration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

SBS 2008


You are able to look to SBS 2008 to deliver the following:

  • Provision of a robust email system to a small (up to 50) group of users

  • Support for easy collaboration between those users: email, shared calendars, document repository, and Internet access to all facilities

  • A single source of common data across the customers and suppliers of a business, with easy tools to manage that data in one place

  • Provision of a web site for customers, suppliers, and staff

  • Management of the company's PCs for security, efficiency, and backup

  • Enabling staff to be productive while working away from the office

To explain a bit more about how this is done, I will briefly describe the role each component technology has to play in the overall solution.

Each technology provides much more than the short description below.

Windows Server 2008

Windows Server provides much of the infrastructure that is used by SBS 2008. All the networking components that enable PCs to find each other, the server, and the Internet are managed...