Summary

The majority of all your daily management tasks in Windows Small Business Server 2008 can be, and should be, performed using the Windows SBS Console, or the Windows SBS Console Advanced Mode. But there will inevitably be some tasks that either can’t be performed from there or that are more easily performed using the native Windows Server 2008 management interface. Before you use the native tools, always verify that you’re not doing something that has a built-in SBS wizard. Whenever an SBS wizard is available, you should use it. The wizards almost always do several tasks in an integrated way that would be difficult to do directly using the native management tools, and you’ll have a better-behaved and easier-to-manage SBS environment if ...

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