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Subject: Adding a member server to a SBS 2000 installation
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Gregroy Orton User is Offline
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11/06/2006 04:21 PM  
I currently adminster an SBS 2000 single server installation.
This has all the usual SBS components, ISA (not in use), exchange, etc installed and running fine.
This also performs all the backups, acts as the print server, file server, WSUS server, intranet server, blah blah blah; pretty much all our business critical stuff is on one server.

I have some old server hardware (dell poweredge) with 200GB worth of HDD space that is going to waste and a spare windows 2000 license.
I also have some other software (project , visio, that kind of thing) that currently sits on a laptop used by operations and barely get used.

I have found out how easy it is to create a member server on an SBS network, either for file sharing, intranet or TS application server mode and I am currently in the process of setting up this new member server. Some of this is just to move the load away from our current server.

But the microsoft documentation also says I can make this new server a Global catlog and DC as well. I was under the impression that SBS could only have 1 DC at any one time?
I dont think I understand the whole DC thing properly, can someone explain to me or post a link to a description of how the SBS setup with DC's works?

There is so much I need to ask and I need to phrase it properly.
Essentially what I want to do is:

> Add a server to my exisitng SBS 2000 domain
> Set it up as a TS Application Server to server Visio, Project, Group Mail and other business applications that I would like to keep centralised.
> Set up a DHCP server that will give out DNS settings that maintain internet connectivty upon failure of the SBS 2000 machine
> A second file server
> A corporate SMTP that we can use to send our multiple domain emails from
> Possibly use the server as a firewall to replace ISA 2000
> A backup domain controller (this is the one I am most confused about) does it just maintain a list of users replicated from the SBS machine that still allows users a logon if the main SBS machine goes down? if so, that all they will be able to do?

Can someone please tell me if this is actually feasible, what conflicts with each component would it cause, or are there potentail conflicts, if so, what would be the best plan of action to fix them, and what is your advice on what I can do?

Let me see your answers and then I can see if I have made myself understood. Otherwise I can clarify some things
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