Re: Thanks to those who help me...
From: Scamps (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/14/04
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Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 07:37:52 -0700
thanks for your comments Frank.
I think that infact SBS does meet my needs. One only has
to read the set book to see it is clearly aimed at the
small business. We do OK but I think overall SBS needs a
complete overhaul of the user interface. i thihnk I am
suffering from a possible bad install because most of my
problems stem from things not working that should have
worked from day 1.
I must admit that moving from internal SQl development
and Access client development I have come to absolute
deadstop trying to connect to sharepoint services from
FrontPage in order to move the SQL server development
online. Any help here would be much appreciated.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Scamps,
>
>It is unfortunate that SBS does not meet your
expectations, but quite
>frankly this is not a completely uncommon situation.
>
>The fact is, SBS can almost certainly do a superb job of
meeting the needs
>of your business. That is an expectation that you have,
and one that can be
>met. But it's not necessarily a do it yourself project.
If it has been
>marketed in that light, then it has been marketed in
error.
>
>Where the problem lies, is that you have been led to
believe that this is a
>simple product that can be successfully and completely
implemented and
>maintained by a person with a limited set of IT skills.
Unfortunately, that
>is not an expectation that can be consistently met,
because the skill set
>that any one given person has is not known or consistent
across all persons.
>
>You are not at fault. The developers of the product are
not at fault. You
>are simply in a situation where you need someone with
the right skill set to
>get this product set up for your business.
>
>--
>Les Connor [SBS MVP]
>-------------------------------------
>SBS Rocks !
>
>
>
>"Scamps" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:cbb301c438ff$bea1d7b0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> ...with a difficult and demanding product.
>> I appreciate this newsgroup and the good folk who take
>> time to help others.
>> I have been using SBS2003 since Jan2004 and I have to
say
>> if it wasnt for the help from here and my "reasonable"
>> skills from 12 years experience with windows O/S as a
>> user I wouldnt stand a chance with this supposed small
>> business product. I am a business person first and a
>> frustrated IT manager second.
>> Since I installed it:
>> Back Up has never worked satisfactorally. It fails if
the
>> full SBS back up is run and you have SQL server and
>> Exchange Installed. If you try and work around creating
>> separate ntbackup schedules that backup various
>> components separately (to Overcome the above issue)
then
>> it appears a random event that they actually run to
>> schedule.
>> Exchange. Now that Ive set up about 10 people as users,
>> Exchange no longer is set up as part the user set up.
If
>> a mailbox is created then the user cannot be seen from
>> the client, And now I dont even get a user mailbox in
the
>> user set up process. Thankfully the web client still
>> allows me to connect to the mail box whilse outlook2003
>> cant see the mailbox.
>> IIS is a complete myth for a user like me. I want to
use
>> Front page to develop the "CompanyWeb" but I am met by
>> security messages which prevent me editing the site. I
>> try to read the help notes but sink rapidly in to a
pool
>> of technobabble which does nothing but create
depression.
>> ISA is even worse. I want to access my sequel server
>> database from remote but darent even contemplate it.
>> When I first installed the server I had some kind of
>> replication service running which kept user data
>> synchronised between the server and the clients but
this
>> (possibly because I was running mcafee antivirus)
caused
>> huge problems until I turned the synch feature off.
>> CompanyWeb I think is meant to be some wizzy
implemention
>> of something called sharepoint but every time I try and
>> use the "Create" menu tool I get messages that tell me
>> that what I am trying to do failed for some obscure
>> reason.
>> In the Server Manager Utility evry time I look at the
>> backup section the webpage part fails on a 403 message.
>> Try as I might (back to IIS and ISA again) I have not
got
>> a clue what bit if the security stuff I need to fix.
>> The Back up utility is buggy. clicking on certain parts
>> of the interface makes it go mad.
>> Thank goodness SQL server keeps plodding on and has its
>> own backup process. Most of my effort goes into
>> developing our SQL server solution with Access and
thats
>> a solid plus point.
>> Whoever designed this product has absolutley no idea
what
>> a small business is. I have to keep plodding on with
this
>> product because as an data led growing business
because I
>> cant afford failure. Your help in this community
>> compensates for a poor interface on this supposidly
entry
>> level product.
>> Scamps
>
>
>.
>
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