And Harry Potter said...
Anyone who's spent time around the SBS community will most certainly have heard the name Susan Bradley, and if you subscribe to her blog RSS feeds, and read them, you'll have read multiple posts about the SBS wizards and why you should use them (try http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/09/03/12962.aspx , http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/09/01/12713.aspx , http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/06/24/8898.aspx ).
“The Diva” tells us to use the wizards - in a non-too delicate manner - because it's that important, and really that simple. And I support her (& the wizards) 100%. Even outside of “blog land” the SBS message is to use the wiazrds. So why is it that I visit a site today and find a “techie” trying to hand-tune the Internet connection in an SBS2003 server, just to get RWW working?!?!?! Lucky I didn't have Susan's 2x4 handy.
No I'm not paid by Susan, but she's got a strong virtual voice in the SBS community so I'm leveraging it. I can just hear it now...“excuse me people, why are you not using the wizards to do that? <big swig of Moutain Dew> Do you realise the SBS development team worked real hard for us, so we can work that little bit easier and just make this stuff work?“ I'm sure if you've met Susan you can hear it too - and see the hands waving around ;)
So, I told the techie to STOP what he was doing in the IIS and ISA consoles and run the darn wizard. Sure enough, after he'd spent who-knows-how-long fiddling with the server and just ran the wizard it all started working.
Please please please - don't try to reinvent the wheel. The wizards are there for a reason, USE THEM!!! Don't make life hard for yourself, your client or anyone who needs to touch the server after you've moved on.
Spend a little time playing Harry Potter (or Hermione for that matter) and make some magic.
Rant over - resuming normal transmission