Hi All,
I work at a non-profit where no one (myself included, truly) knows how to perform basic server tasks and historically we have recycled former staff's logins (i.e. new employee jdoe still logs in as retired HR manager jsmith) in order to avoid shelling out the $100/hr to the IT company that controls our server.
Maybe that strikes you as a travesty, maybe as a quibble. In any case I hope you can walk me through some of the basics.
I have access to a "super user" account with vast permissions and I prefer to work on this from my workstation rather than hunkered over the server workstation. Our server is SBS 2008 and I am running XP on my workstation. I have installed the Administrative Tools kit and I can access Active Directory Users & Groups and all kinds of other fun stuff like that. I've also installed the IIS > SMTP components from Add/Remove Software.
I have stumbled through user management and permissions and the like but now I'm stuck on the email configuration piece. It seems like one missing piece here is an .msc or other component from my Admin Tools window called Server Management or Manage My Server or something along those lines. I haven't had any luck finding/installing this piece.
The problem is that I'm not approaching this systematically -- I'm just taking stabs in the dark without really knowing where these steps will lead.
Can you please answer these questions:
1) Is it impossible or really painful to do what I'm trying to do: manage users and SMTP from a different platform using Admin Tools?
2) If this isn't overly burdensome, can you help me understand where I'm coming up short? All the guides I'm finding online are pointing me to components (one in particular, Server Mgmt) that I can't seem to find.
Any input would be appreciated.