Have all mail filtered thru the server. and then redirected to the clients.
someone had any other things they wanted to suggest.
now squid im not to familiar with. Caching i guess would have its advantages
in an office setting. ive heard of dansguardian. thats a good option. i will
look into more. later on.
Im gonna say that Jackrabbit might be a little bit overkill. dont need
something that advanced. At most at a time we have roughly 15 users at one
time. And we would never need that much hard drive space. Around 500gb would
be substantial. and after that i can upgrade as needed.
Thank you for that last section. Very helpful.
Post by Jay R. WrenI am curious how a spam filter works in an intranet. Do you have
problems with intraoffice email spam?
As for the file server, just install ubuntu, install samba, set it and
forget it. It is probably the single easiest and most stable service to
deploy. When more security restrictions come around on the file shares
you can investigate unix groups and file level ACL.
As for the web content filter, squid is probably most mature caching web
proxy with filtering abilities, and is probably fine for your needs.
Although if you don't need caching something like dansguardian might
make more sense.
As for a web server for forms and leave of absence, again this is dead
simple. Install Apache. I'm not sure what software you will use these
forms and leaves, but its likely they will be php, so install that. I'm
not sure what you are really asking here.
As for pricing out parts for the server, I don't recommend building
servers. You can buy prebuilt servers for FAR cheaper than you can buy
parts. If I were to buy a file server right now, I'd look at a
Jackrabbit from Scalable Informatics. Disclaimer: Joe Landman is a local
lugger and Scalable Informatics is a Michigan based Business owned and
operated by him.
* do you really need these services
* upfront costs v. ongoing costs
* cost of time to implement and deploy these services
* cost of time to develop custom software
* cost of training your users to use these new services
* cost to of backups
* cost of power (electricity)
* cost of air conditioning
The last two are often the most overlooked and often the largest overall
or largest growing costs.
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Post by Aaron VanSledrightIt would be a local INTRAnet server. Nobody outside the building would
have access. It would not be outsourced. I am head of IT and it would
be my job to oversee if not do it myself. It isnt my first server
setup. however my first intranet server. im just looking to see what
kind of services i could run on it.
Yes, we could survive without it. It wouldnt have any major operation
other than hosting some shared files, the spam filter could be
disabled for 24 hours with the mail redirected. and so could the web
content filtering.
Ive used webmin before on many servers i find it to be an excellent
piece of software. Right now im looking for someone who has an
intranet server to see what they run on theirs to get ideas.
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Aaron VanSledright
Post by Aaron VanSledrightIf someone has any experience and/or suggestions that might help
me as i
Post by Aaron VanSledrightstart pricing out parts for the server and getting a list of
things to
Post by Aaron VanSledrightpresent to my boss that would be amazing!
If it's an important server, has a tight deployment timeframe, and is
the first one you ever attempted to set up then you don't want to.
Outsource it. The reason is that mistakes and delays caused by a
lack
Post by Aaron VanSledrightof experience may lead to blaming the OS. Enthusiasm <> experience.
The hardware and software configuration for a server depends on how
critical it is and how much it will cost the company if it fails.
Can
Post by Aaron VanSledrightyour company survive without it for 24 hours? Your costs are
directly
Post by Aaron VanSledrightproportional to the level of your paranoia and downtime costs.
I haven't done any business linux server setups yet so I can't give a
recommendation on hardware/software. For my internal server I've
found Webmin to be a good administration utility but I often just use
ssh.
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