Re: Rebuilding SBS Server 2003 SP2
- From: "Billy Burrows" <billy.burrows@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:56:15 GMT
Hi Lanwench,
Thanks for your help! You have helped me out before, I think with the last
rebuild I had to do.
Yep grateful, I swear im getting lysdexic with age, and lack of sleep ;-)
Being new to SBS I actually followed the install wizard through word for
word and didnt pay much attention to the server name beyond making sure that
the domain was not .local (we have mac's). I then configured an MX record
for mail.ourdomain.com and got an SSL cert for that domain. Im now getting
issues with exchange system manager because the SSL server name (being mail)
is different from our server name, I also cannot configure Outlook to go all
RPC over HTTP and suspect the same reasons. Going to RWW and hitting the
link that says connect outlook over the internet the suggested settings are
correct as per our server name but not correct according to our MX record or
SSL cert. I have tried the MS resolution to my Exchange system manager issue
but the problem persists and quite right too as the server name is wrong for
the cert.
Have also been getting disk latency warnings and high RAM usage warnings so
figured a rebuild was the perfect time to investigate these (chuck more RAM
at it and use a quicker disk).
Disabling offline files makes perfect sense to me but they like it on a just
in case basis, in the event the server goes down while working on something
important but it will be disabled!
We did have RAID but like a numpty I configured a 4 disk array in srtripe
mode then one of the drives failed and I was in a world of smelly stuff.
kind of reluctant to do it again, well not really I just dont have enough
disks to do it now. Was intending to configure X2 disks as stripe then
another two as mirror but I swapped the mobo out for another which only has
space for 2 drives, is it worth configuring a x2 drive mirror?
I love partitioning with nix, once setup everything is v-tidy and helps a
lot with re-installs but havent a clue with partition sizes with SBS, I have
sucked and seen many times with unix to get it right but then unix doesent
suck out 2 days of your life re-installing and reconfiguring so really
really gonna try and get it right first time through on this third time
through, lol
Cheers :-)
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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Billy Burrows <billy.burrows@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi PPL,
Over this weekend I will be rebuilding our SBS server and have some
questions, if someone would be kind enough to impart some of their
wisdom and experience I would be most greatful.
Grateful, even? :-)
This will be the second rebuild (first time due to hard drive
failure) this time to overcome a server naming issue.
Wow. What's your server called - IHATEMYBOSS ? This is a pretty large task
to undertake for something that's merely cosmetic (and internal).
Some things that I am not sure about:
Is it worth partitioning the main SBS installation drive into the
following?
C:\ (Main SBS partition)
D:\ (pagefile)
E:\ (data).
There's no advantage to putting the page file on a different partition.
You will see a performance improvement only if it's a separate disk/array.
If you don't have that setup, and will have a single array, I would do
something like this:
C: (OS, pagefile) - 20 to 40GB
D: (Exchange & SQL data) - at least 100GB depending on your needs, ideally
more
E: (Users shared folders, clientapps, fax, any other custom / company
shared data) - the rest of the space
The advantage of the partitions is that things don't step on each others'
toes. So, a user's data folder can't get chock full of MP3 files and knock
Exchange offline.
The hard drive is 400Gb,
I'm hoping you've got a hardware RAID array in here?
the system has 4Gb RAM. With Nix we would
normally assign a swap partition of 3X system RAM, would the same
sizing principles apply to SBS for the pagefile partition?
We do this routinely with NIX systems for performance reasons
No performance benefit here, as per the above.
and so
that we do not have to worry about recovering data from backup in the
event of having to re-install the system.
Sure. And it's just tidier.
Does partitioning like this
on an SBS system improve performance and will it help in the event of
a future system re-install? If so what's the recommended partition
sizes for the base installation, page file partition and the data
partition?
How can I remove the old server from client systems so that offline
files will not try to synchronize with it?
Disable offline files first. And keep it that way -what's the need of that
nonsense on a LAN-connected computer?
On The previous re-build
simply un-ticking the option to synchronize to the old server in
start > All Programs > Accessories > synchronize didn't appear to
work.
Disable it via group policy.
Many Thanks for any advice!
.
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