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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

What is not covered


There are two areas that I will not be discussing in the migration steps as they either impact only a few users or are too broad to cover in detail.

ISA configuration

ISA Server is an optional component of SBS 2003 Premium Edition that provides an intelligent firewall to the system. ISA Server 2004 is found only on a small proportion of SBS 2003 systems. As the network will need a firewall that is not installed on the server, the simplest solution is to remove ISA Server 2004 from SBS 2003 before migration.

Other Security & Firewall software

Network security and firewall settings can cause problems during migration especially if they are not configured to the standard SBS 2003 settings. For example, when writing the chapters on migration, the system I was working with had Symantec security software on that continually blocked network communications. In the end, I disabled the network security to enable the migration to continue once I was sure the existing network was...