Re: Simple setup of domain servers for school labs

Quite a bit to consider here...

How many servers are we talking about?
How many computers in each lab?
So the students logging into the servers will be logging in from both
Windows and Mac computers in the labs?
Are the student computers stationary in each lab or do they use 'traveling'
laptops (that can be taken from one lab to another)?
Are the PCs/Macs wired or wireless?
Are there specific apps for each lab (over and above the standard Microsoft
Office suite of apps)?
Are the servers all SBS 2003 Standard or a combination of SBS Standard and
Premium servers.
Are all the domain names the same for all SBS servers (but the servers are
in different labs)?
Is there only one server per lab?
"be mobile"... do you mean that the students should be able to move from
one lab (server) to another, or just be able to jump on any computer and
have their 'profiles' follow them?
Are the licenses for the SBS software OEM, retail or volume license? (and
do you have the media, SBS install keys and CAL install codes for each SBS
server)?

Lanwench has some good advise about documenting all the servers. The basic
SBS setup is less important than any special apps that are installed on each
server for use by the students in particular labs. If the PCs and Macs are
stationary in each lab, it may also be important to standardize the
operating system install for each PC or Mac so that they can be easily
reinstalled.

I'm not convinced that SBS is the proper product for a student lab unless
the students are being taught the basics of small business.

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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"joca" <joca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've been assigned the supplemental support of a large number of SBS 2003
SP2
servers setup by a number of contractors. The setups vary, from what I've
seen so far they are all AD domain servers, have some semblance of roaming
profiles (not necessarily working well), some use group policy for
management
and some use local gpedit. They are all limping along in school labs. The
primary purpose is to have students authenticate, save and be mobile with
access to some shared folders and network applications. Teachers are
responsible for user input and how that's handled varies as well.
Everything
is currently very hands on. The goal is to standardize the setup to
streamline support for all. The schools are primarily Mac so there's no
other
site support or central support (I guess that's me). Any suggestions,
links,
etc. would be greatly appreciated. Just downloaded SBS2003BP tool. Thanks.


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