Wed, Sep 1 2004 17:40
bradley
FOLLOW THE WIZARDS! PLEASE!
Okay I'm still in “recovery mode” from my run in with an ADAPTEC raid 5 and zapping drives [blog post on that next] so when Norman emailed me a link this this article it just really shot me over the edge.
An article about Small Business Server. Oh Cool.
http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid1_gci1003317,00.html?track=NL-120&ad=490186
Windows Small Business Server 2003 (or WSBS2K3 for short) is a version of Windows 2003 Server designed to run in small network environments where there are no other domains and no domain trusts. Only one WSBS2K3 server can exist in a domain, and it must be the domain controller and Active Directory repository. However, when SBS is installed, it isn't automatically promoted to the status of a domain controller and doesn't have Active Directory installed; the administrator has to do this manually. Learn how in this tip.
NOT so Cool. The instructions in the article tell you that you need to do to DCPROMO a SBS box. Oh gawd.
And then he writes about it as “this is the way to install SBS” and this article can tell you how to dcpromo....
NO NO NO. We have an integrated install routine!
555087 - Windows 2003 Small Business Server Shuts Down Unexpectedly; Events 1001, 1013 and 1014 are Logged:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555087
Yo, dude. Please! Finish the integrated install. Otherwise tell Charlie and the rest of the Microsoft team that work so hard on the wizards that we just don't need them anymore and send them home for a permanent vacation.
I HATE articles like this that aren't clear that this isn't a fix, that the install was screwed up in the first place. That whomever installed the SBS totally hasn't taken the time to understand what makes SBS so great. IT'S THE WIZARDS. They do all that gunk for you. And like how could they have missed the integrated install anyway? You leave the cdrom in there as it reboots and the SBS part starts up?
We don't ever dcpromo in SBSland. We let the box do all of that for us. I've emailed this author to ask him to please take this article down and he's nicely going to adjust it to indicate that you need to finish the integrated install.
Anyone just coming into the SBS space. PLEASE. Grab Harry's book or Jason's book. LEARN what this little box can do and stop mucking it up. FOLLOW THE WIZARDS.
Last but not least, dude, we're SBS around here, not WSBS2k3. Please folks, the wizards are there to HELP you. Don't go around them, they are your friends, your helpers, your guides.
I've been swapping a few emails with Serdar as a result and will be sending him a SBS 2003 book and he says that he meant it as a guide to help those who “don't” properly install the system. He's already planning to change the article to let people know that the BEST way to recover from not installing the box the RIGHT way is to put disk one back in and let it do an integrated install as it was meant to do.
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