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Hi all,
I work for a small IT firm (less than 10 staff). We provide IT support, hardware maintenance, software and website development.
I have recently taken over the running of the internal network/servers/software, and want to re-organise how it is done. What I am looking for, is some pointers as to the best practice. We have a Microsoft Action Pack Subscription, so have access to all this software (MS website)
We have 2 servers (detailed below), and a Netgear router that handles our ADSL and provides a firewall, and pushes out the connection throughout the building.
Server 1:
- P4 3.0GHz
- 1GB RAM
- 40GB (!) hard drive
- Seagate DDS3 tape drive
- Currently running Windows Server 2003 Small Business, and provides emails, user accounts, shared files and backup (powered by Veritas 7.0)
Server 2:
- P4 3.0GHz
- 1GB RAM
- 2 x 120GB SATA hard drives in RAID 1 mirrored
- Currently running Windows Server 2003 Standard, and does pretty much nothing!
In your expert opinions, what is the best way to lay all this out? I was thinking of setting Server 2 up as the main email/file server, and letting Server 1 do a nightly backup, and also run some shared applications if needed (such as Project, SQL Server etc). I suppose it could be setup with ISA Server and used to handle the Internet connection side of things, but there seems little point when the Router does a good job on its own.
Any thoughts?
Edit: BTW, all clients are running XP SP2, with Office 2003, using Outlook for emails. We currently logon to the domain, controlled by Server 1
Matt
I work for a small IT firm (less than 10 staff). We provide IT support, hardware maintenance, software and website development.
I have recently taken over the running of the internal network/servers/software, and want to re-organise how it is done. What I am looking for, is some pointers as to the best practice. We have a Microsoft Action Pack Subscription, so have access to all this software (MS website)
We have 2 servers (detailed below), and a Netgear router that handles our ADSL and provides a firewall, and pushes out the connection throughout the building.
Server 1:
- P4 3.0GHz
- 1GB RAM
- 40GB (!) hard drive
- Seagate DDS3 tape drive
- Currently running Windows Server 2003 Small Business, and provides emails, user accounts, shared files and backup (powered by Veritas 7.0)
Server 2:
- P4 3.0GHz
- 1GB RAM
- 2 x 120GB SATA hard drives in RAID 1 mirrored
- Currently running Windows Server 2003 Standard, and does pretty much nothing!
In your expert opinions, what is the best way to lay all this out? I was thinking of setting Server 2 up as the main email/file server, and letting Server 1 do a nightly backup, and also run some shared applications if needed (such as Project, SQL Server etc). I suppose it could be setup with ISA Server and used to handle the Internet connection side of things, but there seems little point when the Router does a good job on its own.
Any thoughts?
Edit: BTW, all clients are running XP SP2, with Office 2003, using Outlook for emails. We currently logon to the domain, controlled by Server 1
Matt