Setting Up a Broadband Connection with a Local Router
A broadband connection using a local router can be set up with either one or two network adapters in the server. Figure 6-3 shows the arrangement when you have two network adapters. In this setup, your server is the default gateway and default firewall. Figure 6-3. How the network is connected using two network adapters on your Windows Small Business Server. Tip Using one network adapter, the router becomes the default gateway and the Windows Small Business Server firewall can't be configured....
Using Printer Migrator to Back Up or Migrate Print Servers
You can use the free Microsoft Printer Migrator utility also called the Print Migrator to back up, restore, or migrate print server settings including printer drivers and print queues. This utility makes moving to a new server much easier simply back up the print server configuration on the old server and restore it to the new one even when the servers are running different versions of Windows. Don't try to restore a Windows Server 2003 print server configuration on a Windows NT 4.0 server,...
Changing Which Sites Are Externally Accessible
You can use three methods to control whether a site hosted by Windows Small Business Server is accessible to external users who don't have a Virtual Private Network VPN connection to your network Change the firewall settings to prohibit or allow access to the Remote Web Workplace, Outlook Web Access, the Default Web Site or the http companyweb site. This permits or denies all external users though some sites such as http companyweb, Remote Web Workplace, and Outlook Web Access are still...
Redirecting My Documents to the Default Server Folder
Windows Server 2003 has the capacity to redirect users' folders by applying Group Policy. Windows Small Business Server, however, has a single setting that implements the redirection of each user's My Documents folder to the server. Tip Redirecting all My Documents folders to the server will take up a lot of disk space. Make sure you have sufficient room. The partition on which the Users Shared Folder is created has default disk quotas of 1 GB per new user. To redirect all My Documents folders,...
Drive Failure in a Mirrored Volume
If one of the disks in a mirrored volume fails, you continue to have full access to all your data without loss. Windows Small Business Server marks the failed disk as missing and takes it offline, as shown in Figure 7-23, while sending alerts to the alert log and popping up a balloon on the server console, as shown in Figure 7-24. It continues, however, to read and write from the other half of the mirrored volume as though nothing had happened. Be warned, however. You no longer have any fault...
Preparing for a Disaster
As Ben Franklin was known to say, Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. This is truer than ever with modern operating systems, and although Windows Small Business Server 2003 includes a number of exceptionally useful recovery modes and tools, you still need to prepare for potential problems. Some of these techniques are covered in detail in other chapters and are discussed here only briefly, whereas others are covered here at length. A fault-tolerant system is one that is prepared to...
Mounting a Volume
Windows Small Business Server allows you to mount a dynamic volume or any partition or logical drive in an extended partition on an empty directory of a non-removable NTFS drive. The volume being mounted appears to users as a simple directory. This feature makes it possible to create larger file systems that use multiple hard disks without the inherent risks of using spanned volumes, because the failure of any one of the mounted volumes affects only the directories that were part of that...
Configuring an Alert
You must choose threshold values for each counter on which you set an alert. This is done on the General tab of the Properties dialog box for the alert. When you create an alert, the Properties dialog box is displayed automatically. If you need to add counters at a later date, you can access the Properties dialog box by right-clicking the name of the alert file, choosing Properties from the shortcut menu, and clicking Add on the General tab. More Info For information about specifying a computer...
SQL Query Analyzer
The SQL Query Analyzer is a useful tool for both creating quick queries of the database and conducting more in-depth analysis of the best way to structure a particular query to improve execution speed. The SQL Query Analyzer application is shown in Figure 19-15. Figure 19-15. The SQL Query Analyzer. Figure 19-15. The SQL Query Analyzer. The left pane of the SQL Query Analyzer is an Object Browser that lets you browse through the databases that are registered on your server. You can use the...
Publishing SharePoint Through ISA
Unfortunately, installation of ISA Server 2000 disables remote access to the http compan.yweb home page. To correct this and make companyweb available from the Remote Web Workplace after you have installed ISA Server 2000, you need to do the following 1. Create a new protocol definition for Inbound TCP 444 as described in the Creating Protocol Definitions section. Give this definition the name Companyweb Inbound. The port number is 444, the protocol type is TCP, and the direction is Inbound. 2....