Hey Everyonethanks for the recent emails about the maintenance plan for windows server 2008 now i need to know this if this is ok:) thanksfor a functional windows 2008 standrd edtion how do i configure and optimise this to a like a network of 9 computers?also 2 of these pc's will have microsoft office 2007 on them so i need these 2 also to be configured to suite my clients and have them with functioning network access to server 2008 standrad edition. how can i do all this please:)thankskoala77

hi koala, You mean to sayyou have 9 clients and you are looking to network them ? along with windows 2008 standard edition ?if so step 1 : bring a hardware switch with 40 ports for small subnet and connect the clients using cat5 cable step 2 : you can use private Ip address range such as 10.x.x.x or 172.16.x.x or 192.168.x.x which are used internally to a subnet. step 3 : you can either configure the aboev ip addresses as static or configure a DHCP server on windows 2008 server and assign these ip address to the clients automatically which will reduce you to configure the ipaddress on 9 clients manually.step4 : for name resolution you need to configure the dns server on windows 2008 server. if the above steps are what you are looking for , please respond so that we can point you to appropriate links to configure the same.sainath Windows Driver Development