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Hey guys, a few of you in this thread may know my current IT situation as I'm always screaming for advice! 
Basically my company is half way migrated to full cloud computing, we host our emails on office 365, our files on sharepoint and there are future plans for our IT infrastructure to be ran purely on windows InTune.
At present though, with the steep learning curve sharepoint presents for some of our less "able" users however, I want to delay intune for a few months. The problem that remains though, is that the server is on it's very last legs; it has so many corrupted files and services, it's insanely slow, it is actually MISSING exchange due to someone uninstalling it, the whole thing is basically a slow, horrible mess.
I want to fully reinstall it, I have the SBS 2008 disc and key, I'll admit though, I have never reinstalled a server before, I assume it is a very similar process to reinstalling a normal desktop OS but I guess there are extra steps that need to be performed when the installation completes.
At present I believe our server is running the DHCP service, the router is disabled so the server assigns all the IP addresses internally. Can someone give me some advice as to how I can set all of this up again on a fresh server?
I know how to create accounts etc on the SBS console and join the domain on the workstations; is there anything else I need to look out for? I intend to do it on a Saturday out of office hours to avoid disruption but I want to make sure once I reinstall it I can get the internet back online correctly on every machine.
Thanks in advanced
Jamie
Basically my company is half way migrated to full cloud computing, we host our emails on office 365, our files on sharepoint and there are future plans for our IT infrastructure to be ran purely on windows InTune.
At present though, with the steep learning curve sharepoint presents for some of our less "able" users however, I want to delay intune for a few months. The problem that remains though, is that the server is on it's very last legs; it has so many corrupted files and services, it's insanely slow, it is actually MISSING exchange due to someone uninstalling it, the whole thing is basically a slow, horrible mess.
I want to fully reinstall it, I have the SBS 2008 disc and key, I'll admit though, I have never reinstalled a server before, I assume it is a very similar process to reinstalling a normal desktop OS but I guess there are extra steps that need to be performed when the installation completes.
At present I believe our server is running the DHCP service, the router is disabled so the server assigns all the IP addresses internally. Can someone give me some advice as to how I can set all of this up again on a fresh server?
I know how to create accounts etc on the SBS console and join the domain on the workstations; is there anything else I need to look out for? I intend to do it on a Saturday out of office hours to avoid disruption but I want to make sure once I reinstall it I can get the internet back online correctly on every machine.
Thanks in advanced
Jamie
