Running Small Business Server

Summary

This chapter has covered many of the most important aspects of running your SBS 2003 infrastructure. I can’t emphasize enough that the best way to learn how things work is to dig in and use them. There are a lot of low-level details and nuances that simply cannot be covered in detail in this book—we still have to look at the rest of the components included with the package, such as Exchange 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services.

One important point to bear in mind is that the built-in Help and Support facilities within Windows Server 2003 and the additional help content supplied via Server Management in SBS 2003 is really comprehensive. To access the Help and Support facility from Windows Server 2003, click Start ➤ Help and Support. This allows you to search for specific topics, such as network configuration or Internet connectivity, as well as presenting some high-level documentation and walk-throughs of commonly performed tasks.

In addition, Microsoft’s website has reams of valuable information on configuration and management, and I’d recommend that you look there for any relevant documentation and white papers on running SBS 2003. You can also obtain all the latest software updates and security patches from the Microsoft website (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs).