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The Great SBS Wizard Challenge

Asked by TechSoEasy in Windows 2003 Server, SBS Small Business Server

Tags: sbs, wizard

I've now been posting here on EE for about three years. Most of that time spent in the Small Business Server Zone (ne Topic Area). There have been a number of recurring themes in the few thousand questions I've participated in during that time, but none that causes more controversy than whether the SBS Wizards should be used, or if you can configure an SBS without them.

Since I've always taken the stand that in order to properly configure an SBS you must use all the wizards. I guess this has often been interpreted as "you cannot properly configure an SBS unless you use all the wizards". But since the wizards are really just advanced scripting tools, you could obviously make all of the same settings or even different ones manually.

So, the question I now pose to all who care to respond is: Why?

Why would you want to manually make these settings when there is a tool that will do it for you in a fraction of the time? On this point, I believe there is no debate on whether or not working with the wizards will take less time if one were to make ALL of the same settings manually. The issues seem to be that either the wizards do things that you don't want them to do, or that you have special circumstances which seem to conflict with the way the wizards configure things. So, to clarify the question, I will ask, "What situations have you found that they prevent you from implementing a customized solution?" or "What situations have you found that the wizards do something you don't want them to do and your only option is to not run them (ie, the wizard makes 10 settings and you like 7 of them but don't like 3)?

Your answer should have a concrete example of a situation as well as an explanation of how the wizard causes the problem.

Of course if you disagree with my time premise, (that making the exact same settings manually would take longer), I'd be interested in hearing about that as well.

I would have posted this in the Experts Lounge area, but since it's focused on SBS only and many of you don't even go to the Experts Lounge, it makes more sense here.

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Jeff
TechSoEasy

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The Great SBS Wizard Challenge

Asked by TechSoEasy in Windows 2003 Server, SBS Small Business Server

Tags: sbs, wizard

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