Re: Advice - network structure and ISA?

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"Kevin Weilbacher" <kweilbacMVP@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Some comments:
>
> 1. I cannot tell from your post if you have one or two NIC's in your
> server -- but you want two NICs. Connect one NIC to the ADSL router, and
> connect the second NIC to your switch

Sorry - forgot that point. Yes, it will have two NICs.
Any advice/comments on configuring ISA2004 for clients that are not on
the domain?

> 2. When you install SBS and it asks for an internal domain name - it
> usually recommends using ".local" as a suffix - such as sbs.local.
> However, since you will have some MACs in the network, you need to use
> something other than.local -- use .lan or something else -- sbs.lan or
> myserver.lan

Thanks for the tip. Why is it that Macs (I tend to use Macs for the
computers
and MACs for the physical network addresses) can't handle .local ?

> 3. Since this is your first SBS install, I cannot repeat this enough ---
> please plan on installing SBS three times. Insstall it once just to learn
> the process and take notes. Do it a second time after asking your
> questions back here in the newsgroup, and take detail notes of how you
> answer or respond to every prompt. Then after testing your server, do it a
> third time to verify that your notes are correct. Once you put the server
> into production, you will not have an opportunity to "play", so plan and
> schedule it now.

OK. I'll take that onboard. I presume the fact that I'll be installing an
OEM
version won't change your advice?

Ronnie


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