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Small Business Server 2008 - Build Info

Windows Small Business Server 2008 - Build information
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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