Re: SBS, Internet Only - Questions

From: Andre (emerald_at_spam.isle)
Date: 05/18/04 

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 12:22:25 -0700

Yes, we have looked at that software. Unfortunately, it does not allow the
install of any type of exchange client and if you try to install exchange on
top of it, the install will fail. SBS has everything we need, the only
necessary step now is to locate some better information for this.

"Martin Mitchell" <martin@nospam> wrote in message
news:uOiS$oQPEHA.2740@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Perhaps Windows Server 2003 Web Edition might intrest you. See
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/overview/web.mspx,
> however I believe you would need some software on top of this for the
> handling of email.
>
> --
> Martin Mitchell
>
> "Andre" <emerald@spam.isle> wrote in message
> news:10akjqts8i7ubf7@news.supernews.com...
> > So the company has SBS Premium installed to a server machine with 1 nic.
> > Right now we have absolutely no use for the internal server aspects of
the
> > software. We will not have any interal PC's hooked up to it, no
sensitive
> > data installed on it, nothing. It will be a stand alone machine by
itself
> > connected to an internet pipe. You could say we are going to use it as
a
> > glorified web server. Down the road in a few years, sure, maybe we will
> > re-install and configure it for in-office use. But not now.
> >
> > Basically our usage of the server software will fall into 3 categories:
> > FTP: Stanard anon FTP
> > Web: Standard anon WEB
> > SMTP: We want users at home to send mail through it using
'ourserver.com'
> > as their outgoing mail server.
> > POP3: We want users at home to get mail from it using 'ourserver.com'
as
> > their incoming POP3 server.
> >
> > There are some questions that I am hoping someone savvy enough can
answer:
> >
> > EMAIL: This is exactly what we want - When any person at home sends an
> > email to our doman user@ourserver.com, the email is sent through the net
> > directly to our server, and our exchange software takes the email and
> > dumps
> > it into the 'user' mailbox folder. Then 'user' in our company is able
to
> > connect to our server over the net, using POP3 to his own box
> > USER/PASSWORD
> > and is able to download those messages directly from our server. Is
this
> > even possible, having mail delivered directly to our server with no
middle
> > man at the ISP involved? If so, how? The documentation included with
SBS
> > Premium is extremely weak in this area and doesn't go into detail on how
> > the
> > configuration of this setup should work. Is this type of email even
> > possible with SBS, where all email sent to us goes directly to our
server
> > Port 25 and our server processes it? If so, what key configurations
> > should
> > I look for? Is there a more detailed explaination of the exchange
> > configuration somewhere on the web, or even a book that I can buy which
> > covers SBS Exchange?
> >
> > Email again, as I understand it when a user sends something SMTP out
from
> > his machine, he can put ourserver.com as the outgoing SMTP server. The
> > email will be sent to our server, which then forwards it directly to the
> > destination server. How can I 'test' that this has been properly
> > configured
> > without first transfering our domain over to the box that I'm setting
up?
> >
> > Is there any limitation to the total # of people that can be connected
to
> > the anon FTP site at any given time?
> >
> > Is there any limitation to the total size of files or number of folders
we
> > can host in the FTP, granted we have enough hard drive space? Will the
MS
> > FTP server choke on a certain size of files or number of folders?
> >
> > Is there some critical flaw with the built in Microsoft FTP server that
> > makes it weaker for FTP than another software such as, say, CuteFTP? Is
> > it
> > somehow easier to hack than CuteFTP, is that why everyone is always
> > bashing
> > MS FTP and saying that using it is a death warrant? If there is
something
> > weak about MS FTP that makes it easier to hack, we have CuteFTP already
> > purchased and can use it. I would rather use the built in FTP with the
> > server, but need to know why everyone says it's so weak.
> >
> > Is there any limitation to the total # of people that can connect to our
> > public website at any given time, short of the # we put into the IIS
> > configuration? Or could we have 1000 people browsing our site all at
> > once?
> >
> > Services: As I stated previously, a lot of features and services we
don't
> > need are installed anyways in the SBS software by default. If we're
only
> > pumping out web, ftp, and email, what services can we safely turn off
(set
> > to manual) without jeapordizing the ability of the server to serve
content
> > over the internet? I have tried searching but cannot find a
comprehensive
> > resource that lists each of the services in the SBS software, and what
> > types
> > of functions the service performs. Any service that works solely on the
> > connection between the server and an internal lan machine that can be
> > stopped I would like to stop.
> >
> > Is there any book out there that covers advanced IIS configuration and
> > security that you might recommend? I had the displeasure of purchasing
> > "Windows Small Business Server 2003, Administrator's Companion" and I
> > found
> > that this book contains very little information short of what you can
> > already find in the wizards and built in help of the operating system
> > itself. Bluntly put, it's useless. I need either a book that covers
with
> > more detail and much more in depth SBS 2003 and it's services and
> > configuration, or something else that covers IIS 6.0 and walks over
> > security
> > risks, configuration tips, etc.
> >
> > Please reply to the newsgroup as I don't get spam, thanks.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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