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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

Backing up the existing server


While it is very unlikely that there will be a need to recover using this backup, not having it in place is very foolish. Should the migration fail or deliver undesirable results in any way, the ability to go back to a known good state is vital. There is nothing worse than discovering months after the installation of the new server that you have lost something and have no way to recover it. This way, you know you have a good copy you can go back too to either reset the clock or recover lost data.

Doing the backup

You can either perform a normal backup using the SBS 2003 backup tools or you can manually produce a backup with the NTBackup software provided on SBS 2003 to ensure that you have captured all files. To start NT Backup, go to the All Programs menu on the Start menu, select Accessories, System Tools, and then Backup.

In the backup tool, select all the drives that have data on them, as well as the system state and the Microsoft Information Store for Exchange...