Re: MS Action Pack w/SBS 2003

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From: Jim Behning (jimbehningmvp_at_atl.mindspring.com)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:33:51 GMT

First off we use white box servers. I have an Intel case, Intel
motherboard, Dual Xeon, 2 gigs of ram, Adaptec scsi hardware Raid 1
dual 36 gig scsi server which costs about $3,000 roraring away at 75
db. A noisy sucker. I have loaded SBS 2003 on a P3 600 with 384 megs
of ram and ide that works ok. One account will be using a P3 800 with
scsi for their production server. They are suffering with a Celeron
1000 and ide so the P3 with faster scsi will be a huge improvement.

My home server is a P4 2.8 with a gig of ram and 3 ide drives that
cost me less than a $1,000. Works fine for my lab, disaster recovery
and training scenarios. Lots of hard drives so I can ghost different
configurations before I blow them up experimenting.

I have looked at a few of the Dell low end servers and they look like
my high end workstations in heavier metal boxes. One server sitting at
one account doing nothing is just a P4 with ide. They are even passing
off Celerons as servers trying to grab rediculous low end price
points.

"Thomas Kroljic" <tkroljic@covad.net> wrote:

>I am interested in purchasing MS Action Pack so I can study and work with
>SBS 2003
>at my home office. I've looked at purchasing a Dell PowerEdge server (400SC)
>but am balking at the $1300+ price tag. I'm curious to see if I can find a
>better (less expensive) solution, especially since this (SBS 2003) is for my
>education and private use.
>
>What are some thoughts about installing this software on a new/used PC
>instead of a so called server machine? What about installing it on my
>existing Dell Inspiron laptop with 30gb HD, 512mb ram, with a Pentium 4 1.6
>GHz. (I've read where some folks have installed this software along with
>other operating systems usning Virtual PC or VMWare).
>
>I would like to find an inexpensive hardware solution to install SBS 2003
>on. What are other folks installing this software on for their own education
>and experience?
>
>Any comments or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank you,
>Thomas J. Kroljic
>

Jim B. SBS MVP
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