The Follow is recommended for a Small Peer to Peer Network
1. Backup
1.1 Netgear Network attached Storage Device
The
Device Itself
Cost
Install
Instructions
IDE Dive in the Netgear Storage device. The best is
Seagate because of 5 year Warranty,
sweet point is $83 250G, best vendor is www.gogocity.com
Sync each My Documents on each PC on the Network to the NAS
SmartSync comes with Netgear Storage Central, additional copies are $30 for
2-9 PC.
1.2 Ghost each PC at least once/year with a Ghost Image to the
NAS, burn a DVD from the NAS using the default 2G increments. Make a Boot
Disk for the Desktop or Laptop. Ghost 2003 works well and is not
costly. Microsoft OneCare has backup,
Anti-Virus, Anti-spyware for $49 for 3 PC and support. Symantec charges for their support
$29/incident. Plus their cost to is $30 for a 1 year renewal.
Need to check if OneCare backup is nightly or syncs as files are created.
This document compares Backup Software:
http://data-backup-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
Needed is a solution that creates an exact image solution so a PC can be
back up quickly.
1.3 Purchase a DVD burner and burn critical files to DVD at
least quarterly, monthly would be better. Sony DVD from Newegg
is good:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=Suggested&Description=27-131
Purchase DVD media in packs of 100 to lower cost.
2. Business Critical
2.1 Determine which PCs are "business critical" move them to 4 hour Dell
maintenance by buying new HW and getting as long a maintenance agreement as you
can get. I know Dell will do 4 years on Laptops, because I just bought one
for my daughter, it was $310, but she is 3.5 hours away from home.
The Cost 4 year Dell 4 hour Care is
$410.
2.2 Keep a Spare PC around already network ready. A laptop that is old
works well for this. Make sure it has networking and all Office software
on it, including a legal copy of MS Office and any other used software.
2.3 Each PC should have a UPS to take it down gently in a power outage.
3. Security Software
Patches use MS Automatic
Updates, upgrade from Windows Update to
Microsoft Update
Get to Office 2003 for each
PC so Microsoft Update works on it. If the Small Business is a Non-Profit,
consider the
MS
Charity License. Only 5 licenses are needed to use this resource.
Use Microsoft OneCare
Use
Sypbot Search
and Destroyer
Monthly with a Script, since you need a couple of products to protect you from
Spyware. Need a couple of Spyware products.
Make sure the MS Firewall is
turned on and functioning.
Scan the network with
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
and fix holes.
4. Wireless Network
The Current network is
configured as #1:
Is it
1) Internet ----Router for church
-----router for guests
or 2) Internet----Router for
Guests-----Router for church staff
|------Router for Guests
or 3) Internet----switch-----------|
FW/VPN
|------Router for Church Staff
This allows guest PCs on the Church network. A better solution is to a
$100 VPN/FW device such as this:
here is a write up on Amazon for the device. Another good
byproduct is that it is a VPN gateway for the Local LAN.
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3 of 3 people found the following
review helpful:
Great little router to run your home office, July 18, 2006
The main reason I bought this router was for its dedicated DMZ
port. What good is this? Since the RV042 has three discrete
ethernet controllers (one for the WAN, one for the LAN, and one
for the DMZ) you can easily create routine rules that allows a
machine to be visible to the internet AND keep your LAN safe.
Many low end home routers have a DMZ-like facility, but this
really just opens up a single port to a computer within your
LAN. The problem with this is that if the "DMZ" computer gets
compromised it is on your LAN! That means other machines could
potentially get compromised.
This is not the case with the RV042. You can create routing
rules that explicitly state what connections are allowed and
what connections are disallowed. For example, any computer on my
LAN can access any computer on my DMZ, however my DMZ can not
access my LAN. This allows for excellent security.
The router supports the syslog protocol which allows you to send
its system logs to a centralized logging system. This is a very
common configuration for UNIX systems.
The one thing I would change about the RV042 is to give it
1000BaseT ports. You can simply add a Linksys SD2008 to
accomplish this.
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Have MACs on the internal Network in the Router for
Laptops.
5. Consider doing a Free Microsoft Small Business Assessment
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/products/server/small-business-server-2003r2.mspx
I am willing to complete this with proper
documentation.
6. Other Software on Every PC
Adobe Acrobat
Free Adobe PDF Creator,
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp download both the
Converter and the PDF Creator.
WinZip to compress files.
WS_FTP to drop off files at FTP sites.
GoldWave to manipulate Wav and MP3 files.
Belarc Advisor to do security checks and what SW is
installed
AOL IM to allow all office members to talk to their
children or be "close in an emergency". IM worked at 911, phones did NOT.
Consider purchasing SnagIT and Camtesia Studio for
Non-profits for making Micosoft Media Player, QuickTime or FlashPlayer files.
Skype would be useful for taking to Missionaries overseas
for free (Joe?).
7. The General Plan General
Plan for Budgeting for a Church with no IT Budget
8. Web
Define a Church "Acceptable Use Policy for Guest
Wireless", i.e. no porn, no sex, no offensive language, etc. Gaming?
Make the Church "Shared Storage" (define in #1
above) area where all content should be stored.
Distribute the content to all Pastors and Ministry Areas
of the Church, set up publishing account. Only allow them to publish to
their area..
Keep the content in FrontPage, not multiple products.
FrontPage works fine, since they are a Microsoft Office shop.
Everyone must use the same BRBC_Template.
Train the web publishers.
9. Remote Access to BRBC Church Network NOT Guest Network
Set up the Linksys VPN Gateway defined in #4
Install client on Laptops and
Train on how to access the network.
Linksys supports dyndns.org native in their routers.
Set up BRBC.dyndns.org and monthly renew it for free.