Re: Setup offsite, move onsite?

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With the help of a little router you can finish the setup totally without
having to change anything at the client side. The only thing you have to add
are - as Richard points out - local resources.

Configure the LAN of that router to be the subnet that you will have at the
WAN side at the client. Plug the WAN NIC of your server into that LAN and
configure it with its static IP. Then configure the WAN side of the router
to match the LAN in your own subnet. This way you have full Internet
connection, you can patch and test the server, you can create all user and
computer accounts and even test the reporting.

Once you get to the client, you just plug in the server, join the client
computers, configure printers and you are done.

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Claus
"Plecebo" <Plecebo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:198D3223-4892-4A5C-AF70-4145C9ACF771@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm rolling out a small SBS2003 R2 installation in the next week (waiting
on
the server to arrive). I live pretty far geographically from the site
that
the server will eventually end up at and I was wondering If I can do
some/most of the installation/configuration tasks before hand and walk in
with a system that just needs to be pluged into the infrastructure?

I know I will have to change the IP address (from dynamic, to the ISP
static
IP) and probably some other configuration changes. My main question is as
follows.

1. How much of the "to do" list can I accomplish off site?
2. Are there things I can run through (like the internet setup wizzard)
offsite then RE-run them onsite for the specific configuration?
3. Is this a horrible Idea?
4. any other general suggestions?

Thanks


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