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20 CHAPTER 1 INSTALLING WINDOWS SMALL BUSINESS SERVER 2008
Other Alerts
The last main setup task is to address any extra alerts. By going to the Other Alerts section, as
you did with the previous sections, you can observe your server and see its status, as shown
in Figure 1.19. As you can see, there is a Critical status flag on OFFICESVR. When this hap-
pens, you can click the server and then click the View Computer Alerts button on the right (not
visible in the figure). This opens the general alerts window shown in Figure 1.20.
Figure 1.19
Alert status
Figure 1.20
Computer alerts
By selecting each of these alerts, you can diagnose the reason behind them. In my case,
I’ve stopped the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service and Windows Live
OneCare because of updates and networking choices I made behind the scene. I will turn these
back on later; therefore, I can dismiss these updates and consider my server initial setup phase
complete.
Getting Started Tasks
Now, the elephant in the room that you’ve undoubtedly noticed is the Getting Started Tasks
screen shown in Figure 1.21. Various chapters in this book will address each of these tasks, but