I am an Orthodox Christian; this is known by many as Greek Orthodox or Russian Orthodox. This is the third Sunday in Great Lent known as the Sunday of the Cross. It marks the half way point through lent. It is a time to rededicate ourselves to the Lord; continue the course we set at the beginning of lent of preparing ourselves for the resurrection of Christ. If you pay attention to the references in the services you will notice they start to have references to the resurrection, yet still focusing on our souls and preparing them to see the resurrection.
Besides being an orthodox Christian I have the blessing of sharing little thoughts about orthodoxy and playing orthodox chants every Tuesday evening on a local community radio station in Chico, CA. The radio station is KZFR and you can tune in each Tuesday from 10PM to midnight either at 90.1FM or on the web at www.kzfr.org. For a little blurb about the show look at http://www.kzfr.org/shows/gentleLight.html.
Well that's it for now. Mostly you will see posts bound up with something I am working on at the moment. This post is just to give a little more information about who I am.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Hello
My name is Leland and I manage a small network of 30 computers tied together with a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium. As time progresses I hope to share some of my thoughts and findings in running this network in hopes that some out there might find this information useful. The network includes Windows XP, 2000 and one 98SE machine. I use F-Secure Anti-Virus Small Business Suite to secure the network. Also, the Premium edition of SBS 2003 includes the ISA server for the firewall between the network and the web. It also includes the Exchange 2003 server, Sharepoint 2.0 and SQL server 2000.
On this network we used to run Small Business Server 5.5 with NT 4.0 as it's core. This machine served us well and continues to be of some use as we have some legacy apps hosted on it. As time has been moving on I have been relying on this server less and making greater use of the new server. It's funny because they tell you with SBS 2003 you can not have 2 domain controllers and that is true to a certain extent, but not entirely correct. The two domain controllers can not create a trust relationship, but if the administrator password is the same for all machines they can work together. If you want to full group policy, etc, you must login to the SBS 2003 server domain. However I still use the NT 4.0 domain to login to so that users don't get a login prompt when accessing the old server for legacy apps. Once some upgrades happen this year I will be able to get away from this. I would like to make this NT 4.0 machine a member server, but that would be a very involved process. First I would need to get all the clients logging into the active directory domain, and after that then I could try. I found some products that can supposedly demote a domain server but don't know if they are still supported. The Microsoft method for this would be to upgrade it to Windows 2000 or 2003 Server. The problem is the hardware is not fully supported and I am not sure I have all the drivers needed to perform a successful upgrade. I'll write more on that if I ever get there. Be sure to let me know if you have any ideas on the subject.
Until later...
On this network we used to run Small Business Server 5.5 with NT 4.0 as it's core. This machine served us well and continues to be of some use as we have some legacy apps hosted on it. As time has been moving on I have been relying on this server less and making greater use of the new server. It's funny because they tell you with SBS 2003 you can not have 2 domain controllers and that is true to a certain extent, but not entirely correct. The two domain controllers can not create a trust relationship, but if the administrator password is the same for all machines they can work together. If you want to full group policy, etc, you must login to the SBS 2003 server domain. However I still use the NT 4.0 domain to login to so that users don't get a login prompt when accessing the old server for legacy apps. Once some upgrades happen this year I will be able to get away from this. I would like to make this NT 4.0 machine a member server, but that would be a very involved process. First I would need to get all the clients logging into the active directory domain, and after that then I could try. I found some products that can supposedly demote a domain server but don't know if they are still supported. The Microsoft method for this would be to upgrade it to Windows 2000 or 2003 Server. The problem is the hardware is not fully supported and I am not sure I have all the drivers needed to perform a successful upgrade. I'll write more on that if I ever get there. Be sure to let me know if you have any ideas on the subject.
Until later...
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