Re: Is there a Dummies guide to SBS and laptop users??
- From: v-yanniw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ("Jenny wu [MSFT]")
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:32:45 GMT
Hi Grant,
Thanks for using the SBS newsgroup!
Actually, we do not have an official document that describes this. However,
I would like to provide the following information, you can choose strategy
based on your needs:
For more security, you can choose setup VPN session with Connection
Manager. After the VPN setup, the laptops can work as LAN workstations,
access domain shared resources and so on.
In this way you need setup the SBS server box as the VPN server, open
related port on software firewall and hardware firewall/router. And install
VPN client on laptops (Connection Manager).
You can refer to the following KB article to get detail steps to setup VPN:
324747 HOW TO: Provide Secure Point-to-Point Communications Across a
Private Network or the Internet in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=324747
HOW TO: Configure a Connection to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) in
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314076
For more convenience, you can configure RPC over http on these laptops. The
process is very easy in SBS environment. After configure RPC over http,
Exchange still can automatic detect client workstations status. If some
laptops in LAN at that time, it will not launch the RPC to send/receive
mails so that mails can be operated speed. If it detects the laptop now
locates internet, it will launch RPC to send/receive mails.
To configure RPC over HTTPs in SBS environment, you can refer to the
following steps:
I. When you run CEICW, you need enable firewall and then the Services
Configuration page and the Web Services Configuration page will appear
later. In these pages, you can configure firewall to open related ports to
allow specific traffic transfer and publish some web services to internet.
Additionally, if your hardware router supports UPnP, this wizard will
automatically help you open related ports.
I would like to list the steps for your reference:
1. Expand Standard Management | To Do List.
2. Click Connect to the Internet in the right pane.
3. Navigate the wizard to Firewall and then select Enable firewall. In the
next page, make sure the E-mail item is checked in services configuration
page.
4. Click Next and then select Allow access to the following web site
services from the internet.
5. Make sure Outlook via the internet, Remote Web Workspace items are
selected and select any additional services, such as Outlook Web Access,
that you require. click Next.
6. On the Web Server Certificate page, select the Web server certificate
type, and then click Next. You can choose to either install a new Web
server certificate or locate a third-party certificate.
7. The wizard automatically configures Exchange, IIS, and the RPC proxy
registry entries.
I suggest you refer to KB 825763 to get more information about configure
SBS network connection:
825763 How to configure Internet access in Windows Small Business Server
2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=825763
And then domain users login their workstations, open the RWW site
(https://FQDN/remote) and Click the link for Outlook via Internet on the
right of the RWW homepage. Follow the instructions to configure the Outlook
client.
II. On the Outlook client, make sure it is Windows XP SP1 with the hotifx
331320 installed (or a later service pack).
Please refer to following KB article:
331320 Outlook 2003 Performs Slowly or Stops Responding When Connected to
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=331320
For more system requirement, please refer to the link:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/three/ch8/OutC07.htm
More information:
If those laptops user often work remotely, you may like to configure
offline files to make network files available offline by storing shared
files on your computer so that they are accessible when you are not
connected to the network. If you do this, you can work with the files the
same way that you work with them when you are connected to the network.
When you reconnect to the network, changes that you made to the files are
updated to the network. For more detail information and steps to configure
offline files, please take a look at the following articles:
How to use offline files in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307853/EN-US/
How To Configure Offline Files to Synchronize When a Particular Network
Connection Becomes Active
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=312171
841171 How to configure client-side caching on a Windows Server 2003 server
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=841171
Related information:
Windows Small Business Server 2003 Upgrade Best Practices
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/deploy/sbssetupbestpra
ctices.mspx
Windows Small Business Server 2003: Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/techinfo/overview/generalfaq.
mspx
Hope it helps! If you have any unclear about my information please let me
know. I am happy to be assistance of you!
Have a nice day!
Sincerely,
Jenny Wu
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>From: "Edhy Rijo" <erijo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Hi Grant,
>
>I don't have any White Papers, but what I do is to locally setup the
laptop
>as part of the domain, so when they are working with the laptop in the
>office (wireless) they can be in the domain, then for outside they use
>Outlook over the web which works pretty good. So far I have not been
asked
>for VPN yet <s>.
>
>--
>Edhy Rijo
>www.progytech.com
>Bronx NY
>
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>"Grant Ovenden" <GrantOvenden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:E7FE5ECB-541B-4689-8237-F67E5B06FB37@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hi everyone, we are attaching more and more laptop users to SBS sites
for
>> our
>> clients, but I am still willing to say I am not sure if we are doing it
>> all
>> correctly.
>>
>> Is there a Dummies guide or a FAQ guide for this sort of thing?
>>
>>
>> Laptop users, should they all get mail via RPC over HTTP, or should they
>> use
>> the Connection Manager etc. to logon and get mail that way?
>>
>> In most cases, our laptop users only really want Outlook updated, but
one
>> or
>> two probably need to VPN into the server and get documents etc.
>>
>>
>> Can someone point us in the right direction maybe to some good White
>> Papers
>> or Tech stuff on this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Grant
>>
>
>
>
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