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SBS 4.5 IS FUCKING CRAP

OscarWilde

Fri Oct 5 03:53:00 2001

WHAT A FUCKING STUPID BITCH OF A SOFTWARE... ARGH THEY CRIPPLED THE SHIT SO BAD PLUS THEY CREATED THIS SBS CONSOLE TO MAKE THINGS EASIER. ONLY PROBLEM IT CHANGES STUFF BEHIND THE SCENES WHICH I CAN'T FIND ACCESS TOO.

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BITCH!!!
BITCH!!!!
BITCH!!!
MOTHER FUCKING GOD DAMN BITCH!!!!!!!

STUPID FUCKING GOD DAMN SBS 4.5!!!!!!


Okay i feel better now.

You may now return to the regular smamming and silliness...

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Fri Oct 5 04:08:55 2001

You may now return to the regular smamming and silliness...

Gladly :cheesy:

But what is SBS???

DrPizza

Fri Oct 5 04:34:26 2001

Small Business Server.

NT 4 Server with the following restrictions:
(1) A maximum of 50 CALs
(2) No support for BDCs

Plus a whole load of other stuff, including:
(1) SQL Server (limited I think to a few Gbytes and a few users)
(2) Proxy Server
(3) other crap that escapes me right now.

It's very convenient for its target market (i.e. small businesses), but its lack of ability to create a BDC is an annoyance.

I'm not aware of it lacking any administrative capabilities, however, and all the things that the console does are doable manually (except perhaps make the special and redundant floppy disks for setting machines' IP addresses).

OscarWilde

Fri Oct 5 05:25:19 2001

Actually SBS can work with a BDC, and I can demote a SBS server to a BDC. It does by default boot as a PDC and won't automagically reduce itself to a weenie BDC which causes conflicts, but its just a matter of demoting it and everything is okay then. Plus i can set other servers as PDC/BDC. I think that would be very stupid if you couldn't do that especially if you have to pull your server down for repairs.
Its the proxy server that has been crippled. The default web server HAS to have all unassigned IP addresses. Plus I seem to have a bitch of a time creating multiple websites. I just can't give access to the various root folders related to the different sites.
Oh and this is a confirmed "problem" for this suite. I've been checking the knowledge database and more and more am i realising that SBS is not really meant for dynamic networking stuff.

The SBS console changes configurations that do not show up in other places. If I use the SBS console to change some proxy related stuff, i expect the changes to be seen via IIS(MMC). Its like there are two settings.

The SBS console is supposed to make life easy. So far I find that its more of a hinderence then anything else.
Using IIS with the MMC is far easier. Plus the knowledge database at microsoft is pretty damn good that for a non-mcse-certified person like me can get around NT pretty well. Takes a lot of reading but its not difficult at all.

I have Windows NT BackOffice CD here in front of me. I can't find the box for it. And yes its original. We had an office in the US that used this, but we closed that office down and moved everything down here. The server was taken apart. So i'm allowed to install this version legally, but i have no idea what this CD will install.

ah crap! i need to get out of the IT dept.

DuffMan

Fri Oct 5 06:39:37 2001

Anything that Microsoft designs to make life easier for their customer will usually make it more difficult. Unless they are intending it to be used by an experienced admin, which is probably not the case with SBS.
PaulHill

Fri Oct 5 07:43:56 2001

SBS Rules.  It's a whole buncha shit for a grand.  It's designed for teeny organisations.  If you need multiple web servers, or large scale availability, you're probably outside SBS's target market.
Riso

Fri Oct 5 09:32:44 2001

from PaulHill posted at 12:43 am on Oct. 5, 2001

SBS Rules.  It's a whole buncha shit for a grand.  It's designed for teeny organisations.  If you need multiple web servers, or large scale availability, you're probably outside SBS's target market.

The man knows what he's talking about.