Windows Small Business Server 2008 - Build information <in progress>
This document is intended to be a community edited build document. Do not consider this to be Microsoft authoritative. Rather it is opinion based and community driven with your feedback. Please use this to augment reading the TechNet Library's deployment information and getting started guide and following the SBS Blog as well as Philip Elder's Migration guide. To get an idea of how long a clean installation takes, see HandyAndy's Blog. For a version in French, see Une version française de ce document est disponible ici. The document is hyperlinked to pages that go into further detail for each section. To read the underlying section, merely click on each roman numeral section below.
I. OVERVIEW OF SBS 2008
A. MEDIA B. PRODUCT KEYS
C. HARDWARE
D. PLANNING OF THE SETUP
E. INTERNET GATEWAY (FIREWALL)
F. VIRTUALIZATION
II. INSTALL PROCESS A. PREPREP B. INSTALL OF THE OS
III. KEY TASKS AFTER THE SERVER IS INSTALLED A. MAKE A BACKUP B. INSTALL CERTAIN UPDATES FIRST C. SPEED UP REBOOTS D. INSTALL A HOTFIX TO FIX THE DEFAULT GATEWAY E. FIXING DNS
F. IE TRUSTED SITES
G. MOVE DATA AND DISABLE IIS LOGGING
H. DHCP SCOPE BEST PRACTICES
IV. TWEAKING THE SERVER FOR OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE AND CUSTOMIZATION A. SBS CONSOLE TWEAKS
B. TWEAKS FOR WSUS
C. TWEAKS FOR SHAREPOINT
D. TWEAKS FOR REMOTE WEB WORKPLACE AND OWA
E. TWEAKS FOR SEARCH
F. TWEAKS FOR MONITORING
G. TWEAKS FOR NOTIFICATIONS/ALERTS.
H. TWEAKS FOR FAX
I. TWEAKS FOR EXCHANGE 2007/OUTLOOK
J. TWEAKING for DEVICES AND PRINTERS
K. TWEAKS FOR REMOVING RSS FEED SYNC
V. BACKUP / RESTORE / DISASTER RECOVERY A. SBS NATIVE BACKUP AND RESTORE B. USING SHADOWPROTECT IT EDITION FOR DISASTER RECOVERY OF SBS 2008 C. IMPACT OF WGA ON A SERVER D. EXTERNAL BACKUP DRIVES COMPATIBILITY LIST VI. GROUP POLICY, SERVICE PACKS, ADDITIONAL SERVER INFORMATION A. UPDATES AND SERVICE PACKS B. USING GROUP POLICY C. ADDING ADDITIONAL SERVERS TO A SBS 2008 NETWORK D. ANTIVIRUS HOW TO VII. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES <in progress>
Ed Price MSFT edited Revision 103. Comment: Title case
Ed Price MSFT edited Revision 102. Comment: Clarifying external links.
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 85. Comment: added default gateway section link, relabeled following sections.
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 84. Comment: added link under G step 4 for possible console crashing fixes
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 83. Comment: added link for gpo to access admin shares of vista/win7 workstations
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 82. Comment: added link for HP hardware tips
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 81. Comment: added a clarification tip to "speeding up reboots"
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 80. Comment: added link to capi2 errors and solution
Tim Barrett edited Revision 79. Comment: Added blog link for displaying RSS feeds in SharePoint
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 78. Comment: link to gpo/script to fix mydoc permissions on redirected folders
HandyAndy edited Revision 15. Comment: under keys added the word on for readablity "only on the back "
kweilbacher edited Revision 32. Comment: Added reminder to cancel WSUS configuration wizard after installing WSUS 3 sp2.
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 38. Comment: added Tweaks for WSUS
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 39. Comment: added technet powershell wsus cleanup script option
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 41. Comment: added link to the blog post for speeding up reboots
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 42. Comment: added 2 substeps under "move data and disable IIS logging"
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 44. Comment: removed long URLs and changed to links
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 45. Comment: added link to blog post for adding a TS server
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 46. Comment: added section "Tweaks for notifications/alerts"
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 47. Comment: added info for accessing UNC paths via OWA
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 48. Comment: added new section "SBS Console Tweaks", with 2 bullet points
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 49. Comment: added links to download files for console.exe.config customizations, menu.aspx and tsweb.aspx tweaks
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 50. Comment: added 2 more bullet points to tweaks for monitoring section
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 54. Comment: added Antivirus HowTo section
Kevin Royalty [SBS MVP] edited Revision 55. Comment: added real world exchange 2007 sp3 example from another blog