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8 CHAPTER 1 INSTALLING WINDOWS SMALL BUSINESS SERVER 2008
As you go through the installation, the progress bar will continue to move along in amounts
corresponding to how far you’ve gotten. Along the way, you may see a few completely black
screens or pauses.
You will become intimately familiar with this screen throughout your course of interacting
with SBS 2008. Keep in mind that SBS 2008, like any other version of Windows, requires a great
deal of interaction (and reboots) in order to function properly. Chances are that if you’re an
attentive administrator, you’ll sit through many a reboot.
You should also note that the first time you install Windows there will be one last
screen that might strike you as unfamiliar. Well, at least it surprised me to see it the
first time. For lack of a better term, I’ll call it the ‘‘setting up screen.’’ You can see it in
Figure 1.3.
Figure 1.3
The setting up screen
This screen can take several minutes, so don’t be alarmed if SBS 2008 pauses here for a long
period of time.
After this initial and relatively painless install, SBS 2008 begins the user-specific setup
process. What’s really nice about this process, as opposed to previous iterations of Windows
SBS, is that SBS 2008 asks you questions only after the installation is complete. This is
a big change from Windows XP, where you had to occasionally click installations over
and over again. Personally, I can’t even imagine how many times I’ve clicked Next
during Windows installs knowing full well that I’d have to click Next again in another
10 minutes.
Manufacturer Installations
A good share of Windows SBS 2008 servers are bought straight from the manufacturer with
SBS 2008 preinstalled. In this case, most manufacturers will install SBS 2008 to this point and
then leave the remainder of the installation up to the user, because it is, for the most part,