Michael Vizard, Editor In Chief, CRN, January 2004
We at CRN applaud!

Hugh Anderson, Montreal Gazette, January 2004
Harry Brelsford's clearly written explanations and authoritative recommendations make this book an essential accessory for SBS administrators and users.

John Martinez, Reseller Advocate Magazine, December 2003
Harry Brelsford extends his winning streak in delivering another userful book...

Michael Domingo, Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine (MCPMag), January 2004
Dishes out practical IT information and sound business advice!

Book Description
This 3rd-party technical book looks deep into Microsoft's popular Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS) product from a real-world vantage point. This is Volume One: Introductory and Intermediate. Readers will find this to be a ready guide to successfully implementing a secure SBS 2003 network for a sample company. Competencies will be gained in SBS 2003 planning, setup and deployment for the server and client computers and: * Configuring the underlying Windows Server 2003 operating system * Using Exchange Server 2003 * Exploiting Windows SharePoint Services * Using Remote Web Workplace * Implementing security via RRAS NAT\Basic Firewall (SBS 2003 standard edition) and ISA Server 2000 (SBS 2003 premium edition) * Creating a database that supports line of business applications with SQL Server 2000 * Effectively using the Shared Fax component * Using the Server Management console, the To Do List and countless SBS wizards * Points to numerous third-party SBS tools and applications to extend your SBS environment! * E-book provided to readers who register the book. This book also weaves business thinking into the rich technical discussion so readers gain appropriate context on how to implement SBS 2003 in small businesses. If you start at page one and continue to the end of the book, you will have created a super-duper SBS network for a sample company and can call yourself an SBSer with great pride. You should be warned: This third-party book contains humor that adds life to the pages (it is not another dry computer technology tome). It even has a photo section of the worldwide SBS community!

From the Publisher
SMB Nation is a small publisher focused on small business technology books and Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices is another book in that line. This book reflects the publisher's strength in SBS and SMB topics froma third-party, real world point. Future books will address more SBS topics (advanced, extending, etc.)

From the Author
It is my great pleasure to bring you this comprehensive SBS 2003 book that reflects both the technology and business-sides to the SBS 2003 product. Make no mistake - this is a technical book first and foremost based on SBS 2003 being deployed in the real world. It reflects the "good stuff" I've learned by consulting to my real world clients and with my Microsoft relationships in Redmond. Also reflected in this book are comments and the input from attendees at my SMB Nation conferences!

About the Author
Harry Brelsford lives on Bainbridge Island, WA outside of Seattle and works as a real live SBS consultant in addition to his writing, training and speaking activities. Harry writes to popular monthly SBS newsletter titled Small Business Best Practices and travels with world with his SMB Nation conferences and workshops.

Excerpted from Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices by Harry Brelsford. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Selected passages from Chapter 8: Remote Web Workplace Not only does travel, which is "remote" by its very nature, allow you to learn firsthand the mobility solutions in SBS 2003, it affords the opportunity to meet SBSers worldwide who have different viewpoints to contribute. Across this book, such diverse insights have been interjected in a technical realm. Every day, SBSers worldwide are thinking of ways to work with SBS 2003 not imagined by the SBS development team in Redmond, Washington, or yours truly on Bainbridge Island. In this case, the insight is humorous, wherein some SBSer known only to the SBSers above, started pronouncing RWW as "arrr-wuuuwuuu," an admittedly silly saying that seems to have found traction. BEST PRACTICE: Rumor has it that, in Redmond, this area is called RUP (rhymes with pup, like puppy). If you call Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS), you could say RUP and arrr-wuuu-wuuu, but your coworkers who overhear the telephone call might look at you kinda funny. BEST PRACTICE: Two initial thoughts on RWW are important to carry forward. First, when you access the external Web page that is exposed on the external interface of your SBS server machine, it is a Welcome Web site that greets you. This assume you opened Port 80 by selecting Business Web on the Web Services Configuration page in the EICW (not recommended). This is NOT RWW at this point. Rather, you select RWW from the Remote Web Workplace link from the Welcome Web site. Better yet, you can access RWW by addressing it via the FQDN/remote (discussed more later). Second, a point of confusion amongst SBS 2003 hands-on lab attendees in the Fall of 2003 was that RWW offers only the ability to take remote control of your desktop at work. That’s only part of RWW. This will be revealed herein, but it’s good to have this little chat first. Forward! RWW Procedure: Daze and Amaze! As you start this procedure, there is a big assumption you will introduce a remote computer into the SPRINGERS scenario (so far you’ve worked with the SPRINGERS1 server machine and the PRESIDENT client computer). A favorite way to describe the mobility area in SBS 2003 time frame is to say you’re using a laptop over WIFI from a Starbucks coffee shop to access the office network! What you need is a client computer that is not part of the SBS 2003 network and could be considered as being on the "outside" (not on the 192.168.16.x subnet). In Appendix D, you’ll receive guidance for setting this up as a virtual network using either VMWare or Virtual PC from Microsoft. To facilitate this, I created a Windows XP Pro workstation in a workgroup called HASBORN (the machine name is NormLap). I assigned the static IP address of 207.202.238.225 with a Class C subnet to this external client computer. The naming isn’t as important here as the concept of having an external client computer up and running in the SPRINGERS storyline

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This ready guide to Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS), based on final code and real-world consulting experience, teaches you the "SBS way!" Using a structured SBS setup methodology and completing specific step-by-step procedures, readers will deploy a secure SBS 2003 network for a sample small business. Warning: This book contains humor, a known contributor to good health. Be advised that reading this book may actually help prolong your life. Certainly SBS 2003 Best Practices will improve the quality of your technical life as you follow Harry's witty and gritty Texas banter and learn to painlessly demystify the multifaceted SBS 2003. Heck, the SBS photo section alone is worth a good guffaw or two! Long-time SBSer Harry Brelsford is a Bainbridge Island, Washington, consultant, author of 11 books and trainer in the small and medium business (SMB) space. Holder of the MCSE, MCT, MBA titles, Harry weaves "business think" into his technical writings to add the most value for readers. He is the founder of the worldwide SMB Nation conference series focused on SBS, and the publisher of a popular monthly SBS newsletter. Important: SBS 2003 Best Practices is written from a third-party vantage point, allowing the author to "tell it like it is" and offers impartial advice on how to extend SBS 2003 with additional tools and programs.

SYNOPSIS

This 3rd-party technical book looks deep into Microsoft's popular Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS) product from a real-world vantage point. This is Volume One: Introductory and Intermediate.

Readers will find this to be a ready guide to successfully implementing a secure SBS 2003 network for a sample company. Competencies will be gained in SBS 2003 planning, setup and deployment for the server and client computers and:

* Configuring the underlying Windows Server 2003 operating system * Using Exchange Server 2003 * Exploiting Windows SharePoint Services * Using Remote Web Workplace * Implementing security via RRAS NAT\Basic Firewall (SBS 2003 standard edition) and ISA Server 2000 (SBS 2003 premium edition) * Creating a database that supports line of business applications with SQL Server 2000 * Effectively using the Shared Fax component * Using the Server Management console, the To Do List and countless SBS wizards * Points to numerous third-party SBS tools and applications to extend your SBS environment! * E-book provided to readers who register the book.