Windows 2000/2003 questions

[LynnJ57]

Hi everyone,

New to the site, and not having a ton of experience setting up serve
hardware, I have numerous questions for you, but I'll start slowly.


1)For a home, or small office environment, with only 1-3 servers max
what is a good strategy for distributing roles(not FSMO) among th
servers. I have a few boxes at home, and want to run exchange(200
trial), file server, dns, dhcp, wins, ISA, and IIS. None of these ar
true server hardware, but they are equally powerful boxes, around 1.5
2ghz Intel workstations. In my personal use, these will really hos
just 4 people, but I may add some VPN connections later.

2)Also, when setting up servers on some type of true server hardwar
running SCSI RAID, what do I need to consider when setting th
partitions, and what is a good strategy for doing this? Say this is
domain controller running a few services at least.

Thanks!!! Look forward to learning a lot from you people


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LynnJ5

 

[Danny Sanders]

1)For a home, or small office environment, with only 1-3 servers max,

what is a good strategy for distributing roles(not FSMO) among the
servers. I have a few boxes at home, and want to run exchange(2003
trial), file server, dns, dhcp, wins, ISA, and IIS. None of these are
true server hardware, but they are equally powerful boxes, around 1.5 -
2ghz Intel workstations. In my personal use, these will really host
just 4 people, but I may add some VPN connections later.

I would suggest putting Exchange on a server by itself. Put DNS, WINS, DHCP
(don't *really* need it), ISA and IIS on the same server and one server for
the file server. In reality though with only 4 users you could get away with
putting them all on the same server.

2)Also, when setting up servers on some type of true server hardware
running SCSI RAID, what do I need to consider when setting the
partitions, and what is a good strategy for doing this? Say this is a
domain controller running a few services at least.

How ever you decide to partition your servers you need to make sure the
partition with the OS has enough free space for 2 to 3 (maybe 4) years of 6
to 800+ meg service packs and the various patches. I would say 30 to 40 gigs
of free space after the OS install might do it. I would install any other
programs on another partition, again take into consideration these programs
may need to be patched also.
Leave your self room for patches and service packs and be diligent about
keeping that free space only for that purpose.
The more free space the longer you can keep your server up to date and in
service before you have to worry about freeing up space.


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE



hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE