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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

Network security configuration


There are a few areas where we can improve the security of the network. They are around the firewall, reducing the traffic that arrives at the SBS 2008 server, and the security certificate that is used to secure and identify the server communications.

Configuring the firewall ports

I did mention the SBS 2003 firewall ports in Chapter 3, but SBS 2008 uses a different collection of network ports to achieve its connectivity. You will need the following ports configured on your firewall to direct traffic to SBS 2008:

Port

Usage

25

Email coming into the server

80

Used to direct traffic to 443 (optional)

443

Secure web traffic, such as Remote Web Workplace and mobile services for phones

587

Secure SMTP (optional), if you have secure SMTP relay enabled, such as for IMAP, then this port is used

987

Secure access to the Windows SharePoint Services site

993

Secure IMAP (optional)

1723

VPN Access (optional)

3389

Remote Desktop (optional), as this can be...