Saturday, December 11, 2004

Installing SBS 2003 Marathon

This is certainly not an install for the faint hearted (or technophobes).
Sure the actual install of the software (after my initial RAID issues) was pretty painless - in fact most of it happened while I was a sleep.
No the drama just started after that.

I have to send a HUGE thank you to Susan for all the help she gave me today. She spent a quiet Friday night at home surfing newsgroups and googling issues and sending me links to help with the install.

Of course I complicated things slightly by not running DHCP on the SBS server, as I have a Linux server which is my internet gateway, mail and web server and also provides DHCP to my network. However once we got around this it worked pretty well.

I am just going to link all the web sites I visited today (along with reading pages of help documentation).
Windows Small Business Server Downloads Page (though I actually used Windows date to get most of these)
Wayne Small SBS FAQ
SBS Rocks - Down Home Computers. This page was invaluable at assisting with the To Do list especially the internet connection wizard.
Calvert Technologies Based in Adelaide
Brisbane Small Business Server Users Group and the Yahoo Newsgroup
Sean Daniel - invaluable for assisting with My Documents folder redirection issues, as was this google groups page along with a Microsoft page from Spain (in English)
SBS Links helped with Group Policy management for the Redirect.
Windows Small Business Server 2003 Release Notes


Posted by: Jethro | 9:14 PM |