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Windows SBS 2011 includes the operating system for your
server, but you must purchase the Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows
XP operating system for your workstations separately. Once you have
installed Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP, you can join your
workstations to the network by running the Connect Computer program on them.
Note
To run successfully, the Connect Computer program requires that you
use Windows 7, Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later, or
Windows XP with SP3 (for 32-bit) or SP2 (for 64-bit) or later. In
addition, the client computer must be running Internet Explorer 7 or
later and .NET Framework 4.0 or later, both of which are available as
free downloads from the Microsoft Download Center.
1. Connecting Computers to the Network
When you click the Connect computers to your network link in the Windows SBS Console’s Getting started tasks
list, a wizard appears that is primarily informational. After a page
reminding you that you should create user accounts before you connect
computers to the network, the wizard explains that you must run the
Connect Computer program on each workstation that you want to connect
to the network.
You can deploy the Connect Computer program to your workstations in
two ways, as shown in the Connect Computers To Your Network Wizard (see
Figure 1): by connecting
to the Windows SBS 2011 server with Internet Explorer and downloading
the program; or by copying the program from the server to a removable
medium, such as a USB flash drive, and moving it to the workstation.
When you select the Access the program through a web browser (recommended) option, the wizard displays instructions for connecting
to the server from the workstation, the same instructions found in the
Getting Started pages for the user. Selecting the Copy the program to portable media option displays the Specify A Location To Copy The Connect Computer Program page, shown in Figure 2,
which enables you to copy the Connect Computer program to any storage
device recognized by the file system. The total size of the program is
only 226 kilobytes (KB); you can therefore use a floppy disk or any USB
flash drive. You can also copy the program to a folder on a hard disk
and burn it to a CD-ROM.
2. Running the Connect Computer Program
To run the Connect Computer program on a workstation, use the following procedure:
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Log on to your workstation using an account with network Administrator privileges. -
Click Start, and then click Internet Explorer. An Internet Explorer window appears. -
In the Address box, type http://connect and press Enter. The Welcome To Windows Small Business Server 2011 page appears.
If the client computer does not meet the requirements to run the
Connect Computer program, a page listing the requirements appears.
If the client computer meets the requirements, a page appears containing a Start connect computer program link. -
Click the Start computer connect program link. A File Download—Security Warning message box appears, asking if you want to run or save the program.
Note
If you have the Connect Computer program on a removable medium,
insert the disk or drive into the computer and run the Launcher.exe
program.
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Click Run. Then click Yes in the User Account Control dialog box. The Connect Computer Wizard appears, displaying the Choose How To Set Up This Computer page. -
Click the Set up this computer for myself
option. The Verifying Computer Requirements page appears as the program
checks the state of the computer. If the computer meets the
requirements, the Computer Requirements Are Verified page appears.
Note
If the computer does not meet the requirements for running
the program (for example, if a Windows Vista workstation does not have
SP2 or later installed), the wizard informs you what must be done
before it can continue.
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Click Next. The Type Your New User Name And Password page appears. -
In the User name and password text boxes, type the credentials for your domain user account and click Next. The Verify Computer Description page appears.
Caution
The user name and password you supply on this page must be for a
domain account created using the Windows SBS Console, not the local
account created during the workstation installation.
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The computer’s current name appears in the Name of this computer text box. You can leave it as is, or change the name and add a description, as desired. Then click Next. The Move Existing User Data And Settings page appears.
Tip
Computer names can be no more than 15 characters long; are not case
sensitive; and can consist only of letters, numbers, and the underscore
and hyphen characters.
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If the computer has documents and settings on it that you want to
retain, select the local account name from the drop-down list and click
Next. The Confirm Your User Data And Settings Selection page appears. -
Click Next to continue. The Restart The Computer page appears. -
Click Restart. The system restarts, completes the setup process, and restarts again. -
Log on using your domain user account. The Connect Computer Complete page appears. -
Click Finish. The wizard closes, the computer appears in the Computers list on the Network page of the Windows SBS Console, and the workstation is now ready to use.
The Connect Computer Wizard performs a variety of configuration changes on the workstation, including the following:
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The wizard joins the computer to the AD DS domain, creating a new
computer object in the MyBusiness\Computers\SBSComputers OU and adding
it to the Domain Computers group. -
The wizard installs the Windows SBS 2011 ClientAgent and Windows
Management Instrumentation (WMI) Provider components on the workstation. -
The wizard adds the domain user account to the local Administrators and Remote Desktop Users groups. -
Using Group Policy settings, the wizard configures the Windows
Update client on the workstation to download new updates from WSUS on
the Windows SBS 2011 server and install them automatically every day at
3 A.M. -
The wizard sets the Home page in Internet Explorer to the server’s
Internal website and creates a Windows SBS group o the Start menu, also
containing a shortcut to that site. -
The wizard creates entries in the Internet Explorer Favorites list
for the Internal website, Outlook Web Access, and Remote Web Access. -
The wizard opens selected ports in the Windows Firewall
configuration to allow the workstation to send and receive the traffic
associated with the Windows core networking, file and printer sharing,
WMI, Remote Desktop, and Remote Assistance features.
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