Many of the clients that I work with are considered small to medium size businesses. Some of them are small enough that they still run a peer to peer network and dont want to or cannot invest the type of money it takes to install an SBS or even Server Standard server. About a year ago I was at a vendor presentation when they started to discuss Microsoft Foundation Server 2008. I got to thinking that this could be a really great option for our smaller clients.
Fast forward to April 2011, we have a new not-for-profit company who hires us to do a server installation and eventually support their infrastructure. The installation was to be put in as the client was creating a brand new office so there was no pre-existing server or network to speak of and all new cabling had been run.
The installation was very basic, the server was an HP DL series server which came with the HP branded media. I installed the OS on the server and configured it for a new domain. The server was also configured to do file and print sharing as well.
In addition to the server, there were 4 other HP workstations joined to the domain and configured with individual domain users, a Watchguard XTM21W wireless firewall appliance, and a new gigabit switch.
The entire project took a total of 3 days to complete.
Exactly one week later a similar server project was installed for a different new client. This client had 3 existing computers all running in a peer-to-peer network. The Server 2008 Foundation server was the identical HP DL series server that was used in the previous server project.
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