Using Small Business Server Standard 2011, what is the preferred best practice for a group of about 15 computers.
To use it as the router/firewall and have it be assigning DHCP, or have it connected with the rest of the network via a switch?
When I installed Microsoft Small Business Server 2008, it automatically installed DNS and DHCP.
However we simply do not need a DNS server on our server box (we really only use it for file storage and Active Directory).
How do I go about uninstalling DNS, and just directing the server to use the ISP's DNS servers, instead of the server currently handling the DNS.
I also would like to do this remotely, so a connection will need to be maintained remotely with the server.
Is there anyway to backup various laptops/desktops connected through my network to my server.
I can put any kind of operating system on this server. I was thinking maybe there is some type of clonezilla that will work for this task. So yes I do want images of the machines.
I'm guessing it would have to have DHCP, PXE capabilities, etc...
Any suggestions?
Pretty much I just want to stop using my external drive and have to do machines one at a time to back them up and instead back up several all at once.
I have a startup script on my server that is suppose to run at startup and install Office 2010 on my workstation computer however it is not working. Running rsop.msc it shows that the startup script is being called on the workstation computer.
The server has Windows 2008 R2 and the workstation has Windows 7
Here is the script: http://pastebin.com/c03gvvbt
I have followed the directions on: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff602181.aspx
The workstation has access to the folder so I'm not sure why this script is not running, any ideas?
I'm trying to setup group policy for Google Chrome (http://support.google.com/installer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146164) particularily I'm working on setting up the Configuring the list of force-installed extensions. I can find the extension ID by looking in tools-extensions in Google Chrome but I cannot find the update URL for extensions like Adblock or Google Mail Checker, where would I find these?
Here is my initial setup.
I have a router, a switch is connect to that router, on that switch is a Physical Server, on that server is a virtual machine (WIN2K8R2 192.168.1.21) and also on that switch is a physical workstation (WORKDESKTOP 192.168.1.100).
Physical Server is using EXSI Hypervisor 5.0, Virtual Machine is Windows Server 2008 R2, Phyiscal Workstation is Windows Pro 7 64bit
Now I have setup DHCP, DNS, AD on the WIN2K8R2 server, and have successfully connect the WORKDESKTOP to this server. So the LAN part is working fine.
The server can also access the internet.
Howver the workstation cannot access the internet for some reason.
The workstation does not show a gateway, manually setting the gateway through to my server ip (192.168.1.21) must trick it into thinking there is internet as it says there is but I cannot ping anything.
As far as I know the routing tables on the server look correct because it shows when using the route print command: 192.168.1.0 blah blah 192.168.1.21 which should be correct, I think.
Am I overlooking something?
How do I continue my troubleshooting?
I have an application at https://localhost:4321
When using Internet Explorer 8 I'm greated with a "There is a problem with this website's security certificate" message with the big red X etc...
Two options are presented: Click here to close the webpage, and Continue to this website (not reccommened)
Of course I want to continue to this website so I click that, and it goes to the webpage.
I want to get rid of this screen via group policy I have tried adding it to the intranet zone (via GPO), however this problem still persists. Any ideas?
EDIT: Sorry I do want it to trust on every computer in the domain so it has to be run through GPJ, I'm just not sure how best to do it.
I have Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 and when creating a GPO for my SBSComputers the settings do not apply.
For instance I have enabled Verbose vs normal status messages in the Group Policy Management Editor in the Windows SBS Client Policy.
However, when logging onto one of my client computers and looking at the local group policy this setting is not enabled.
Why would that be?
EDIT:
Ah it looks like I just had the basic concept wrong, running gpresult /H did indeed show that the policy's are in effect on these machines.
Thanks!
Currently the small business has about 10 computers 1 FreeNas Server and 10 employees.
Until their recent move into a new office they have each had their own computer with local accounts.
However now they will start having employees use different computers at different times of the day.
This is where the need for Active Directory comes in.
What kind of server hardware would you suggest to fill this need. Additionally what kind of server software should I use. I was thinking Microsoft Small Business Server Standard 2011.
EDIT: The business is a simple service business which simply uses Microsoft Word, Excel, Publisher. They also use the Google Apps for Business, and one other online application (that is hosted somewhere else) So the hardware needs are minimal.
EDIT 2: The business is a non-profit so costs for software are very low thanks to http://techsoup.org so I'm mostly wondering what server software would be best for my needs without too much included that I won't be using.