Wednesday, August 19, 2009

While it has been awhile. I fired Microsoft. After spending a couple of years trying to get small business server to work, I give up. SBS 2008 is junk. As an example when using the help program you are directed to a web page at Microsoft.com that is not there. I had everything working more or less and after it updated itself it changed the home page on my computer. I think the problems are in the Small Business part of the program. SBS uses windows server, exchange server, and something called WSUS these are hooked together with a console and some wizards. I think that the standard windows server is a pretty good system, but SBS is like the "el cheapo" server system and doesn't get the best programmers. To top it off the anti-malware solutions are priced like a small business is made of money. I can't imagine setting up a Small Business Server at a small business and having half the problems I had. The whole idea with a client server operating systems is wrong to begin with. The server is set up to keep the regular employees from doing anything that might cause a problem. Active Directory is like a dictator telling you how to use the Internet, your computer, and your email. Hire good people train them well and setup web page to enter information and retrieve it. I will post more on this later. I will revise this posting a few times in the next few days - I hope.