Simple concise business server setup

Moving from xp, awaiting delivery of mini server and desktop clients this week with installation next weekend. Is there a single concise document anywhere on how to set up a small business server so users have a common address book as well as private, how they can interact with timeline (or is that only for local files?), does timeline work on the server and if not what then. How to configure imap on the mail server etc What are the gotchas, the donotforgets etc. Millions must have done this before me so I dont want to reinvent the wheel. I'd VERY much appreciate any pointers rather than keep searching through all the discussions as I'm doing now.
Many thanks, Bill

billeco wrote:
Brilliant! Many thanks for that link. However, I 'm still in the dark as to:
a. how users and timemachine interact ie can a user use timeline to step back a few saves or can that only be done by admin via remotedesktop.
With Lion there is a function called "Versions" which will provide a local copy of the edited files, so the user could get back in time without having TimeMachine configured and saving the whole computer.
But it doesn't replace a backup! When the harddrive dies, all versions will be lost

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Message was edited by: Allan.Thornton

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