CEICW and WSUS
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- Date: 30 Apr 2007 22:54:59 -0700
All,
I'm pretty new to SBS 2003 but I'm an experience Windows/Exchange/
Security administrator. So... I'm really looking for technical
details to my questions.
Recently I configured an SBS 2003 Standard for my brother-in-laws
business. I didn't use the CEICW wizard to get things going - I
pretty much just configured minimum requirements by hand (gateway, dns
forwarding, exchange forwarding, etc) as I'm most comfortable
modifying the settings directly. The box works fine and passes mail.
I didn't make a ton of changes because I want to understand the
wizards better before configuring a bunch of stuff by hand (which
really isn't the SBS way as I can see).
Here is their setup:
internet -- firewall -- internal network (SBS connected to internal
network with 1 NIC).
The firewall is an advanced firewall consisting of an smtp gateway
(not just a plain proxy), web proxy, etc. Thus, right now I'm not too
worried about the security of the box because there is no external
services directly exposed to the internet (oh.. and no laptops at this
time).
Anyway, eventually I expect to expose OWA, Outlook Mobile Access, and
maybe Sharepoint (not sure until I research security considerations
and business needs).
When running the CEICW what exactly does it do as follows:
1) When prompting for DNS and gateway information is it configuring
the NIC and DNS forwarding? Or something else?
2) What does the "Web Services Configuration" modify? We don't have
ISA, so is this actually modifying IIS settings or something else?
3) I'm assuming the wizard will modify some of my mail settings (like
forwarding, etc). Anything I should watch out for?
The configuration of WSUS looks very limited via the SBS interface. I
have better control using the WSUS admin interface directly. Are
there any side effects of doing this?
Also, if there are any good sites for technical SBS info I would
appreciate those.
I bought a book about SBS 2003 R2 from MS and the book sucked -
basically is was a sugar coating of the wizards. Googling isn't
revealing much either.
Anyway, thanks for reading my long message!! Any help greatly
appreciated!
Jeff
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