Hello people,
We are moving to a new building, and I thought I would take the
opportunity to upgrade from SBS2000 to 2003. The boss has also
volunteered to buy us a new machine for the server. I think it is
going to be a similar spec, but with IDE instead of SCSI drives (more
space, possibly not as fast).
I am looking for some advice about how best to set-up and configure
the new network, and how best to make use of the old server. I already
have a copy of SBS 2003 which came with this year's Action Pack
subscription (I have two copies of SBS 2000, one which we bought with
the original server, and one from last year's Action Pack). However, I
believe it is not possible to have two SBS machines connected on the
same network. Is this correct? Obviously it would be useful to have
both machines connected together to transfer data across (although I
do have a couple of removable USB drives that I could use for this if
necessary).
Currently I have an old 486 machine that I am using as a web server
(running Apache on Win98 with Web Forwarding from the SBS machine).
This is very slow, but does the job (our main website is hosted
externally at the ISP). My thought is to throw this away and perhaps
use the old server for this instead. When I originallay set this up I
was advised by people in this group that having a web server sitting
in the SBS network was not a good idea from a security point of view,
and instead I should have set it up in it's own 'DMZ'. I decided to
take the risk and don't seem to have had any problems. Would the same
considerations apply with SBS 2003? If I decide to use the old SBS box
for the web server, it would seem a bit of a waste to have it sitting
there just doing this one job. I would prefer to have it on the
network and available for other things, possibly hosting a database.
Might it be a good idea to have exchange running on this machine
instead of the new server?
Anyway, this will hopefully all be happening in a couple of weeks time
(as soon as the boss signs the lease on the new building). This will
only be my second SBS installation, and my first attempt at copying
stuff across from one to another so any advance warning of any likely
problems would be greatly appreciated. Are there any patches I should
download in advance?
Thanks,
Phil.