Endless Paradigm

alright, its been a very long time sense iv posed and iv got a nice pile of knowledge under my belt.

but now i want do do something with it.

i have a pile of resources at my disposal but im a coder, i don't know how to set this up for me and my 'team'.

i have a decent computer wanting to be set up as my server.
i need it to be able to:
1.work with visual studios ie "team foundation server" for code
2.store large amounts of multimedia for the sound person ad my artist
3.allow email for me and the others. "microsoft exchange?"
4.host a website. "microsoft sharepoint? and sql?"

so my question are:
what os do i need for it. "windows server 2008?"
and how to install and configure all of these programs.

example:
i log onto my laptop and open visual studios.
i conect to the server and check out a few files and begin working on them.
email the artist and tell her i need the new sprites to be so and so big.
while the other coder on the team works on the same project, but different parts as he rides the buss.

is this feasible or are my aspirations too big =/
also yes, i am trying to make a game studio =D

wee already have visual studios, adobe suit, and autodesk software. wee just need to make it all come together into something splendid.

If you're using all the MS stuff, it makes sense to use Windows on the server.
But I'm still not exactly sure what you're trying to do.

Eg, why do you need a mail server (Exchange)?  Don't want to use Hotmail/Gmail/etc?

Or maybe you're just looking for code/repo hosting?  If so, there's quite a few if you're doing an open source project (SourceForge, Google Code, Github etc).  Closed source hosting will probably cost you a bit.  You could set up your own SVN/Git/whatever server if you prefer doing that, if that's what you're trying to do.

If all you want is something to hold your files and serve emails, you don't want Windows anything.  You should set up a NAS system on your computer, using one of the many linux distros tailored to this use. It can hold your files, and you can stick them there, whether they are programs, songs, movies, whatever. As for email, I don't know anything about MS exchange, but I do know that sendmail and postfix are the two programs you'll want to set up an email server on a linux system. Running a website off a linux server is also trivial with either lighttpd or httpd.

If you're going to be running a website and email, you might want to look into a hosting solution and get yourself a vps or dedicated server. It can take a lot of bandwidth to run a web/mail server, and a lot of home internet connections simply aren't fast enough to handle it.

there issen't very many members at the moment and i wanted to learn how to do stuff like this.
i know there is online ways of doing what i want but i want to be able to toy with everything myself instead of having to rely on a third party.

and the last time i tried setting up windows server 2003 it... dident work out well.

i would use Linux but all of the other computers wee use are windows.
I figured id use wamp for the website if i couldent figure out how to use sharepoint.

also, is trac any good? LINK

There's probably some Microsoft Windows administration courses around if you're really struggling to set up a Windows server.
That's about all I can suggest if you insist on Windows and don't want to run over the internet.

It doesn't matter if all the computers you run are windows. For a server, you should go with Linux or one of the BSDs. All of the tools are server tools, existing to put information on the internet to be accessed. As long as you have the software for accessing the info (web browser, email client, and ftp) it doesn't matter WHAT you run on the client OS.

Yeah for servers you probably want to run Linux.