Pro Windows Small Business Server 2003 (eBook)

The Small-to-Medium Enterprise (SME) marketplace is the least supported of all businesses with regards to Information Technology. These are not home users (for whom there is an extremely supportive publishing industry) and they are not large enterprise customers who have a dedicated set of 'expert' publishing companies producing professional guides for every conceivable piece of IT. This is where this book comes in. It gives a no-nonsense insight into exactly what to do with Microsoft's Small Business Server, making it easy for the SME owner to set up and configure a fully operational IT infrastructure with no hassle.

Tony Campbell is a veteran Microsoft consultant (MCP) specializing in the architecture and design of secure Microsoft-centric business solutions. He also has vast experience in many other industry niches such as networking, collaboration, security, business logic, and disaster recovery and resilience. Tony has been involved with all sizes of business, from the very small to the very large, and has successfully delivered secure, reliable, robust solutions to more than 150,000 clients during his 18 years in the business. Tony started his career back in the 1980s as a green screen mainframe programmer for the British Meteorological Office, finally arriving after a long journey to his current role as a self-employed IT consultant for more than a dozen full-time customers. Tony is a regular contributor to a number of IT journals distributed across the globe, and has been involved in the production of software manuals, user guides, white papers, hardware manuals, and training courses. His love of writing has led to publication of some fiction by a number of small presses as well as by a few more obscure magazines.

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Microsofts Windows Small Business Server has taken the market by storm, offering a compelling solution for business with 50 or fewer employees. Pro Windows Small Business Server 2003 is a complete guide for intermediate-to-advanced administrators who have deployed the Small Business Server, gotten it working for their organizations, and want to take the product and its features to the next level. This book is your solid reference to SBS 2003, and you'll gain great insight to IT security.Inside this book, you'll find everything you need to know about managing SBS 2003 on a daily basis. Author Tony Campbell walks through all the aspects of installing and running the products in the suite. Specific topics include Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows SharePoint Services, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Microsoft Shared Fax Service, Routing and Remote Access, as well as coverage of the Premium Edition, and even a chapter on troubleshooting. A requirements gathering and mapping exercise will teach you how to best plan a small businesss IT system.