Re: Simple setup of domain servers for school labs
- From: joca <joca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:54:02 -0700
Yes, that about sums it up, they are being used for file sharing and I've not
seen one yet with any other components installed and/or being used.
"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" wrote:
It sounds like the SBS servers are being used strictly as file servers.
(other components such as Exchange, Sharepoint, etc. are not installed or
not being used). Can you confirm this?
The key to successfully deploying and administering SBS, is to use the
built-in 'Wizards' as much as possible. These wizards are automated
routines that perform network setup, user setup, server configuration and
maintenance with limited input/effort from the administrator.
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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"joca" <joca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
joca <joca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Thank you for replying. I haven't had a lot of experience with SBS2003,
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.
Hard to answer. How much experience do you have with SBS2003 now? AD?
Exchange? Group Policy? etc.
Standardizing the setups is something I would do ASAP. But first you need
to
document them all.
AD,
group policy (no Exchange in place) as you probably surmised. I have been
working with school techs regarding the support of Mac servers/clients for
a
large district. Way back in the day I had supported Novell, WinNT, 98 for
private industry. Hoping the principles are the same. Unfortunately,
there's
no funding available for training. Since I've been charged with this task,
I
intend to learn as much as I can to help the teacher's support the
servers/clients in place ultimately helping students. I've had a lot of
hands-on exposure recently trying to figure out what's going on/or not
with
the servers and have been making notes on the specs as I go along, I'll
definitely have to check out lanwench later on (it is blocked by our
firewall
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