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Following on from my thread about upgrading a small business from an XP workgroup to SBS 2K3, I'm now at the end of day one. Day two (final day?) will be tomorrow, and I have some questions.
First, many thanks to everyone for getting me this far, and giving me the confidence to have a go
This is where we are at:
The server was set up at my house and one brand new client PC was joined. My domain is xxx.local. All patches applied, extra CALs applied. Standard list of client apps used.
The smoothwall box and modem have been replaced by a Draytek Vigor 2800. Internet from the new server, joined PCs and the exisiting (as yet unjoined) PCs all works, as does the http://server/connectcomputer magic (thanks to the DNS tip in the other thread!). Segmented LAN looks good.
The UPS software is installed and appears to be working. Will do a run-down test tomorrow. The software predicts a 40 minute uptime with full batteries!
Printers: Needed a longer cable to attach the main printer to the server - have that now. Other printers will have to stay as shared-local.
Tape backup - haven't started yet.
Moving the main application (proprietary database) - not started because the suppliers want to do it themselves
Now the main questions:
When I created a user for use with the new client, I was asked about setting up email. The main email is pop3, e.g. tony@yyy.com - note this is different to my domain's xxx.
When I created a user today and joined an older computer (which didn't have email set up on it) I wasn't asked about email and had to manually add the pop3 account. So now I can choose which account to send from, and of course the default is Exchange, which doesn't work for external emails because the 'from' is tony@xxx.local so it usually gets rejected (gmail is the one account I could test that didn't) and of course can't be replied to.
How do I fix this?
Users on Computers: When creating users, you create a computer and get asked which users to associate with it. As not all users exist yet I can't associate them all with each computer. How do I make sure all users can roam around all computers properly?
Daresay I'll think of some more questions once the day's fog clears in my head
TIA
T.
First, many thanks to everyone for getting me this far, and giving me the confidence to have a go
This is where we are at:
The server was set up at my house and one brand new client PC was joined. My domain is xxx.local. All patches applied, extra CALs applied. Standard list of client apps used.
The smoothwall box and modem have been replaced by a Draytek Vigor 2800. Internet from the new server, joined PCs and the exisiting (as yet unjoined) PCs all works, as does the http://server/connectcomputer magic (thanks to the DNS tip in the other thread!). Segmented LAN looks good.
The UPS software is installed and appears to be working. Will do a run-down test tomorrow. The software predicts a 40 minute uptime with full batteries!
Printers: Needed a longer cable to attach the main printer to the server - have that now. Other printers will have to stay as shared-local.
Tape backup - haven't started yet.
Moving the main application (proprietary database) - not started because the suppliers want to do it themselves
Now the main questions:
When I created a user for use with the new client, I was asked about setting up email. The main email is pop3, e.g. tony@yyy.com - note this is different to my domain's xxx.
When I created a user today and joined an older computer (which didn't have email set up on it) I wasn't asked about email and had to manually add the pop3 account. So now I can choose which account to send from, and of course the default is Exchange, which doesn't work for external emails because the 'from' is tony@xxx.local so it usually gets rejected (gmail is the one account I could test that didn't) and of course can't be replied to.
How do I fix this?
Users on Computers: When creating users, you create a computer and get asked which users to associate with it. As not all users exist yet I can't associate them all with each computer. How do I make sure all users can roam around all computers properly?
Daresay I'll think of some more questions once the day's fog clears in my head
TIA
T.
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