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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

Preparing to migrate line-of-business applications


We have now gone through all the steps required to prepare the Microsoft applications and settings that would normally be installed on a SBS 2003 system; however, if you have installed SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005 or any other applications, you need to consult with the vendors for those applications on how to move them to a new system.

At this point, you may decide to install these applications onto a second system as part of SBS 2008 Premium edition or again onto the first server of SBS 2008. If you are planning to do the latter, bear in mind that you are moving from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008, which means from Windows Server 2003 32-bit to Windows 2008 64-bit and that the impact of the applications on the first server could be high. If you wish to use only one physical system, then you can consider loading the Premium server inside a virtual machine so it can be managed and easily transferred at a future date.

Each application will require...