Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Windows XP SP2 and SBS2003

I have finished!
I now have 6 PCs running Windows XP SP2 and connected to the Small Business server.
I have exchange mail enabled and working, I have desktops and my documents synchronising onto the server, I have all my company documents stored on the server and being backed up, I have Shavlik patch management software installed and working.
I still have my Linux machines as the gateway to the internet, the mail server and firewall.

I have learnt a lot through this process.
The only thing I lost was my email folder! all 175Mb of it. My fault! I deleted it after thinking I had backed it up only to realise later that I had deleted the backup while cleaning folders out prior to reinstalling the operating system.
Fortunately I had an earlier backup that only lost me a little mail that wasn't critical.

The only other issue I had was on the ASUS P4C800E Deluxe motherboard with 2 S-ATA drives. Nothing I tried would let Windows XP recognise the drives. I ended up using the IDE drive as the Operating system and putting the S-ATA's in after it was booted up. They could only be recognised as dynamic disks.
Solution - I wont buy that board again! I have two other ASUS boards running S-ATA drives as the only drives and they work fine.
Here's how I did that.


Posted by: Jethro | 11:00 AM |