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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

Changing Active Directory functionality level


Active Directory is a very powerful and complex tool for large organizations. SBS 2003 protects the user from needing to be knowledgeable in configuring Active Directory and takes care of this for the user. However, this complex nature means that for the upgrade we need to adjust some of the configuration settings relating to the versions of Windows Server on the network. If you are not familiar with Active Directory, then I would simply follow the instructions.

Note

If you have a Windows Server 2000 system on the network as a domain controller, you will need to demote it using DCPROMO before you can continue here. Running DCPROMO will offer to demote the server it is run on for you.

As a little bit of background, Active Directory is built with the intention that it will increase in functionality and scope as newer versions of Windows Server are released. For SBS 2008 to function correctly, it requires that level to be at least that of Windows Server...