Good saturday to u. I am harry brelsford, the author of Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices (the purple book). Each day I am posting up several pages of this tome until SBS 2008 ships.
Today we complete the a–important client computer connection process at the procedural level in SBS 2003!
enjoy the read….harrybbbbb

Harry Brelsford, Microsoft Small Business Specialist (SBSC)
CEO at smb nation, www.smbnation.com

Attaching the Client Computer

So now for one of the more interesting updates in the SBS 2003 time frame: adding the client computer. In prior SBS releases, you’d use a client computer setup diskette (e.g., Magic disk) at each workstation to configure it for an SBS network. Word is that the diskette not only went the day of the dinosaur, but somehow didn’t pass Microsoft’s internal security audit of the SBS 2003 product (as part of Microsoft’s internal security code review).

You will now launch your client computer from a power on state (that is, turn on the computer!). Assuming the computer is physically attached to the local area network that houses the SBS server machine (and receives it IP address dynamically), then follow these steps:

Log on to the client computer (this would be a local logon).
Launch Internet Explorer from your Start menu. Type http:// springers1/connectcomputer in the Address field. It is this URL address that will display a Web page that allows you to connect the client computer.
The Network Configuration screen appears as seen in Figure 4-27. Click Connect to the network now.

Notes:

The new and very cool client computer setup process commences right here. Read the screen carefully about receiving a security warning notice (which you would approve to continue).

The User Account and Password Information page appears in the Small Business Server Network Configuration Wizard. Type Administrator in the User name field and Husky9999! in the Password field. Click Next. This step is necessary to provide domain-level administrator credentials to allow the machine to be joined to the domain (we need a God-like account to configure the machine, which makes sense).
On the Assign users to this computer and migrate their profiles page, select Administrator and NormH under Available Users. Click Add and these two user names should appear under Users assigned to this computer as seen in Figure 4-28. Click Next.

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BEST PRACTICE: Three points to surface here.

(A) This step is effectively adding the user as a local administrator in order to install software on the local machine. At the Worldwide Partner Conference hosted by Microsoft in New Orleans in October 2003, CEO Steve Ballmer entertained a question from a concerned attendee that this seemed like a case of very generous security to grant a mere mortal (agreed!)...

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