Trillex small business server 2008 - Revision history

Heth at 13:10, 25 September 2009

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Trillex: /* IP Table */

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‎IP Table

Trillex at 07:35, 25 September 2009

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Trillex: /* Introduction */

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‎Introduction

Trillex at 07:04, 25 September 2009

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Trillex: /* Shares */

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‎Shares

Trillex: /* Problems I Ran Into and How to Fix */

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‎Problems I Ran Into and How to Fix

Trillex: /* SharePoint */

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‎SharePoint

Trillex: /* SharePoint */

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‎SharePoint

Trillex: /* Windows Firewall */

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‎Windows Firewall

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	To fix it, I had to reinstall the role DNS server and let it reconfigure itself. Afterwards, everything worked without a hitch.		To fix it, I had to reinstall the role DNS server and let it reconfigure itself. Afterwards, everything worked without a hitch.
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 | 192.168.1.2/24
 | SBS 2008 Server
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+| 192.168.1.1
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 | 192.168.1.10-254/24
 | Computers and Devices*
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 Pretty straightforward and easy.
 === How to Simulate at Mercantec  ===

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 == Small Business Server 2008  ==
-Microsoft have developed this branch of server operating systems to benefit smaller business that does not require big servers. By doing this, they've made a cheaper license that most business can afford with the ability to update.
+Microsoft have developed this branch of server operating systems to benefit smaller business that do not require big servers. By doing this, they've made a cheaper license that most business can afford with the ability to update.
 === Features and Components  ===
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 === Limitations and Requirements  ===
-Windows Small Business Server 2008 got certain restrictions. This is because Microsoft wanted this to fit, as the name says, a small business so they put in some limitations to make the server operating system cheaper. Most business will not affected by these limitations. A lot of the limitations, like specific amount of space for emails, can be managed by implanting business policies - such as making sure you keep a tidy email account.
+Windows Small Business Server 2008 has certain restrictions. This is because Microsoft wanted this to fit, as the name says, a small business so they put in some limitations to make the server operating system cheaper. Most business will not be affected by these limitations. A lot of the limitations, like a specific amount of space for emails, can be managed by implanting business policies - such as making sure you keep a tidy email account.
 These limitations are:
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 ==== Easy Configuration  ====
-Small Server Business 2008 has taken a hint from the unix world, have truly made it a lot easier to manage users and setting up the system. Upon installation, it starts up and installs the most commonly used services and utilities, such as DNS, IIS, Active Directory and more (These are also called roles and features). But the Windows SBS Console also allows for some amazing wizard options. If you want to add a user, it will automatically create a personal share for it, set the permissions for that folder as well as a "global" shared folder, create an email and send them a default "Welcome" email. Along with this, it can also print out this information. It is sort of a default way to do it, which can be very limiting to some.
+Small Server Business 2008 has taken a hint from the unix world, and have truly made it a lot easier to manage users and set up the system. Upon installation, it starts up and installs the most commonly used services and utilities, such as DNS, IIS, Active Directory and more (these are also called roles and features). But the Windows SBS Console also allows for some amazing wizard options. If you want to add a user, it will automatically create a personal share for it, set the permissions for that folder as well as a "global" shared folder, create an email and send them a default "Welcome" email. Along with this, it can also print out this information. It is sort of a default way to do it, which can be very limiting to some.
 While certainly streamlining the general process of managing and monitoring the server and the network, it can get very limiting in certain aspects and if you want to do something that isn't in the SBS Console, you will have to dig it out. If you are not familiar with earlier versions of SBS or Windows Server in general, you could get into a lot of problems doing something that was meant to be easy - like changing DHCP scope options, advanced permissions and logon scripts.
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 As stated above, the installation puts up a very standard, yet functional means of managing and taking care of shares. This is all very good but can be tedious to have to redo, since it just puts it in a standard folder called C:\Users\. If you have several partitions or harddrives, you'd most likely want to make use of them for user shares and documents. Thankfully, it is relatively easy to delete and redo the shares on different folders and is conveniently described in the SBS Console.
-It is also with relative ease that you can make sure that it is only certain users who can enter certain directories/shares. It is done in the same way as most 2000+ Windows operating system - but I will just scratch it down quickly; You can do it the time consuming way or you can just add groups that certain people get into. This is all done through the standard Active Directory or can be done through the SBS Console.
+It is also with relative ease that you can ensure that only certain users can enter certain directories/shares. It is done in the same way as most 2000+ Windows operating system - but I will just scratch it down quickly; You can do it the time consuming way or you can just add groups that certain people have access to. This is all done through the standard Active Directory or can be done through the SBS Console.
 I'd personally recommend keeping the sharing structure this way. There aren't many situations where you'd need to create it in a different way. So don't fix what isn't broken.
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 ===== Users =====
-As I noted earlier, there are several means of grouping up people, so mundane tasks are quickly done - like sending an email to a group of people can easily be done by putting them into a so called "Distribution Group". This creates the group on the email server and when mails are sent to this group, every one who is a member, will receive an email. Good for announcements.
+As I noted earlier, there are several means of grouping people, so mundane tasks are quickly done - like sending an email to a group of people can easily be done by putting them into a so called "Distribution Group". This creates the group on the email server and when mails are sent to this group, every one who is a member, will receive an email. Good for announcements.
-You can also group people in security means which, surprisingly, is called "Security Groups". Using these security groups can be wise if you only want a specific amount of people being able to use, say, a printer or a cetain share. You can, for example, have a group just for the big bosses where they have access to just about everything.
+You can also group people in security means which, surprisingly, is called "Security Groups". Using these security groups can be wise if you only want a specific amount of people being able to use, say, a printer or a cetain share. You can, for example, have a group just for the big bosses where they are given access to just about everything.
 Both of these groups can be attached to users during addition of users and groups.
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 As stated earlier, it is also a event viewer. It keeps track of just about everything that is going on and lists if there has been an error on a specific role or if something has gone horribly wrong - much like what the SBS Console does, except this is deeper - it will show a warning symbol or something else in the main panel and then you can start digging into it.
-Obviously, you can find and configure more in details if you go directly to the role/service itself than if you went through SBS Console or Server Manager. Both of them, however, conveniently links to this. A thing to note, is that whatever you add through SBS Console will be added to Active Directory, i.e. users and groups added will be added in it. If you view through Active Directory, you will see these in it's own directory, so you can sort through what changes came from SBS Console.
+Obviously, you can find and configure more in details if you go directly to the role/service itself than if you went through SBS Console or Server Manager. Both of them, however, conveniently link to this. A thing to note, is that whatever you add through SBS Console will be added to Active Directory, i.e. users and groups added will be added in it. If you view through Active Directory, you will see these in it's own directory, so you can sort through what changes came from SBS Console.
-I am really loving these extra tools, that just makes server monitoring, and to some extend, managing a server a lot easier. Just having a monitor attached to it with SBS Console running constantly will make sure that a lot of errors are caught early on.
+I am really loving these extra tools, that just make server monitoring, and to some extent, managing a server a lot easier. Just having a monitor attached to it with SBS Console running constantly will make sure that a lot of errors are caught early on.
 === Remote Web Workplace ===
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 [[Image:Sbs2008.png]]
-It can be done in many ways, but this is a pretty good one for what we got.
+It can be done in many ways, but this is a pretty good one for what we have available.
 Remember that this is not how it will look physically.
-What we got is a router that connects to the internet. We could have connected the server directly to the router and the switch with it, but that could create a necessary burden on the router - which could strain the network if huge amounts of datas are passed through. You CAN do it but there is no reason to it, if you already got a switch handy. Why would it do this? Well, every packet going to the server would have to go into the inbuilt switch in the router as well as every packet aiming for the web, would have to go through it. Again, you can do it but it is not ideal.
+What we got is a router that connects to the internet. We could have connected the server directly to the router and the switch with it, but that could create a necessary burden on the router - which could strain the network if huge amounts of data are passed through. You CAN do it but there is no reason to, if you already have a switch handy. Why would it do this? Well, every packet going to the server would have to go into the inbuilt switch in the router as well as every packet aiming for the web, would have to go through it. Again, you can do it but it is not ideal.
-Now that we cleared that up, we got a switch connected to the router. This switch is connected to the server and as many computers there are in the company. Notice that there easily could be more switches in the physical setup, due to computers being spread out in different departments and offices.
+Now that we cleared that up, we have a switch connected to the router. This switch is connected to the server and as many computers as there are in the company. Notice that there easily could be more switches in the physical setup, due to computers being spread out in different departments and offices.
 === IP Table  ===
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 *<strike>192.168.138.131</strike>
-<strike>What I will do is give the server the first IP and the computer the second one. Because of this, I cannot install DHCP. I find that installing DHCP is pretty forward anyway and shouldn't need to be documented as we can just assume it is there. It is used for Internet Connectivity section and I will describe it like it is used like that. But if it is needed, let me know and I can find another way to do it.</strike>
+<strike>What I will do is give the server the first IP and the computer the second one. Because of this, I cannot install DHCP. I find that installing DHCP is pretty straight forward anyway and shouldn't need to be documented as we can just assume it is there. It is used for Internet Connectivity section and I will describe it like it is used like that. But if it is needed, let me know and I can find another way to do it.</strike>
 After having tried the above, I've decided to just make a small network with just 2 computers in it with no connectivity to the internet. I enabled the scope, I described earlier and set it's gateway and DNS to the fictional router. I've updated both client and server so I shouldn't require any web access.
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 Small Server Business is using Exchange Server 2007.
-Exchange Server got a lot of roles and functions that is tightly integrated into the very core of the operating system, providing one of it's main infrastructures together with Active Diectory.
+Exchange Server has a lot of roles and functions that are tightly integrated into the very core of the operating system, providing one of it's main infrastructures together with Active Diectory.
 Exchange major functions are that of e-mails, calendar, contacts, tasks through calendar, IIS (webserver) and data storage.

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 Just to give me some kind of aim, I will put up these demands for myself:
-The company got 15 computers. They require logins that goes through an exchange server. As any normal company, they also require emails, a website, personal login and a means of getting their files stored remotely on the server. A VPN connection for the workers as well as a means to manage the server remotely could also be mandatory.
+The company has 15 computers. They require logins which go through an exchange server. As any normal company, they also require emails, a website, personal login and a means of getting their files stored remotely on the server. A VPN connection for the workers as well as a means to manage the server remotely could also be mandatory.
 === Introduction to 64 bit Architecture  ===
-With Windows Server 2008, Microsoft made their operating system 64 bit. This is done for several reasons, but the "main" part of it is that it supports more than 4 GB of memory. They've actually made it mandatory, so you cannot install it without less.
+With Windows Server 2008, Microsoft made their operating system 64 bit. This is done for several reasons, but the "main" reason is that it supports more than 4 GB of memory. They've actually made it mandatory, so you cannot install it without less.
 There are more to it, but mostly in memory allocations i.e. larger address spaces, wider registers and data paths. If a 64 bit operating system is handling a 64 bit compiled program or game, it will feel faster in that it got less limitations. This means that the processor can process more data at a time.
 == Small Business Server 2008  ==

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−	~~Day 4 Tasks: SBS 2008:~~
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−	~~Windows Share Points Services 3?~~
−	~~Share Points Items?~~
−	~~Share Points Roles?~~
−	~~Customizing a Share point Site ?~~
−	~~Windows Exchange Server 2007 theory ?~~
−	~~Distribution group vs Security group ?~~
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	= Deployment of Small Business Server 2008 =		= Deployment of Small Business Server 2008 =
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−	~~THIS IS AN UNDERGOING PROJECT. MOST THINGS, IF NOT ALL, WILL CHANGE DURING THIS WEEK!~~
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−	~~IF YOU SEE AN ERROR, CONTACT ME.~~

	== Introduction ==		== Introduction ==

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	I'd personally recommend keeping the sharing structure this way. There aren't many situations where you'd need to create it in a different way. So don't fix what isn't broken.		I'd personally recommend keeping the sharing structure this way. There aren't many situations where you'd need to create it in a different way. So don't fix what isn't broken.
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		+	===== Users =====
		+
		+	As I noted earlier, there are several means of grouping up people, so mundane tasks are quickly done - like sending an email to a group of people can easily be done by putting them into a so called "Distribution Group". This creates the group on the email server and when mails are sent to this group, every one who is a member, will receive an email. Good for announcements.
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		+	You can also group people in security means which, surprisingly, is called "Security Groups". Using these security groups can be wise if you only want a specific amount of people being able to use, say, a printer or a cetain share. You can, for example, have a group just for the big bosses where they have access to just about everything.
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		+	Both of these groups can be attached to users during addition of users and groups.

	=== Tools of Small Server Business 2008 ===		=== Tools of Small Server Business 2008 ===

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	After having tried the above, I've decided to just make a small network with just 2 computers in it with no connectivity to the internet. I enabled the scope, I described earlier and set it's gateway and DNS to the fictional router. I've updated both client and server so I shouldn't require any web access.		After having tried the above, I've decided to just make a small network with just 2 computers in it with no connectivity to the internet. I enabled the scope, I described earlier and set it's gateway and DNS to the fictional router. I've updated both client and server so I shouldn't require any web access.
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		+	== Exchange Server 2007 ==
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		+	Small Server Business is using Exchange Server 2007.
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		+	Exchange Server got a lot of roles and functions that is tightly integrated into the very core of the operating system, providing one of it's main infrastructures together with Active Diectory.
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		+	Exchange major functions are that of e-mails, calendar, contacts, tasks through calendar, IIS (webserver) and data storage.
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		+	With 2007, they introduced several new features, including:
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		+	* Protection (anti-spam, antivirus etc.).
		+	* Extensive Scripting language (Microsoft PowerShell).
		+	* Increased allowed size of database and allowed amount of databases that can be run through Exchange.
		+	* Outlook AnyWhere, a remote access to a web e-mail client.
		+

	== Problems I Ran Into and How to Fix ==		== Problems I Ran Into and How to Fix ==

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	Through SharePoint, users or administrators can create "items" which can contain certain information or a workplan - making it an ideal platform to gather on and keep everybody up to date and synced.		Through SharePoint, users or administrators can create "items" which can contain certain information or a workplan - making it an ideal platform to gather on and keep everybody up to date and synced.
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		+	A bit of a downside to SharePoint is that every site you make will, by default, make use of a new port. This means extra adminstration because you have to open up another port, depending if you are using a router or not, for every site you make.

	== Network Diagram ==		== Network Diagram ==

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	SharePoint is a flexible "tool" from Microsoft. Essentially, it is a means to make webpages with ease using a preset form but it is more than that. It can be used as a sort of a file server or a "whiteboard" for work projects, groups and more where the workers can share their work, information etc. It is also a platform for various programs.		SharePoint is a flexible "tool" from Microsoft. Essentially, it is a means to make webpages with ease using a preset form but it is more than that. It can be used as a sort of a file server or a "whiteboard" for work projects, groups and more where the workers can share their work, information etc. It is also a platform for various programs.
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		+	As an administrator, you must think it could be hell administering all of the SharePoint items that your business will make use of, but with most things Microsoft, you have a means to give other users group "leadership", so they can add/remove items themselves and generally configure their own item without having to contact their local administrator.

	Through SharePoint, users or administrators can create "items" which can contain certain information or a workplan - making it an ideal platform to gather on and keep everybody up to date and synced.		Through SharePoint, users or administrators can create "items" which can contain certain information or a workplan - making it an ideal platform to gather on and keep everybody up to date and synced.

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 Obviously, it got a deeper configuration, which can be accessed through the Server Manager tool.
 Personally, I feel that this is the way a Firewall should be. When everything that is necessary to make a server/network run is already plotted in, you can just make minor changes and tweaks here and there for whatever you need to make use of.
 == Network Diagram  ==