Would SBS work for us?
From: Rick Goebel (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/25/04
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:07:54 -0800
We are a travel agency with 14 workstations in our main
location connecting to the internet through a Nortel
Contivity 100 unit on an ADSL line. We have a second
major location with 5 workstations also connecting to the
internet through an Nortel Contivity 100 unit on an ADSL
line. We have 6 workstations in single-user locations
(some in client offices and some at home) connecting
directly to the internet mostly on ADSL but with two on
cable. Six people from the main location and two from
the secondary location at least occasionally work on
their own computers at home. Again, there is a mix of
ADSL and cable connections for these and no hardware
firewalls. We occasionally have to move someone from the
main location to one of the client locations to cover for
vacations.
Most users have a computer reservation system application
called Sabre installed on their workstations. In the
case of the home and client locations, these connect to
the Sabre mainframe via the internet by a software VPN
connection also installed on the workstation. The two
main locations connect to the Sabre mainframe via the
internet and the Nortel hardware. Nothing about Sabre
involves either of our servers.
Our public web site is located on our ISP's server and
our email goes to our Exchange server directly.
All users currently use MS Office 2000 (especially, and
in some cases only, Outlook) through an ICA connection on
a Citrix server. All users also run either TRAMS (a
travel agency accounting system) or ClientBase (a related
travel agency client database) from the Citrix server.
The single database for these two applications currently
lives on our domain controller/exchange server. The
supplier tells me that TRAMS and ClientBase can be
configured to connect to an SBS via software VPN.
All of the workstations in regular use are from Dell.
Most, like mine, are Optiplex GX50 with Celeron
processors, 128 MB of RAM and 18 GB hard drives running
XP Pro.
As the lease for our current servers ends this summer, I
am thinking of running all applications on the
workstations and consolidating server functions on one
SBS 2003 machine. I recognize that I would probably need
to add memory to the workstations.
Is anyone aware of anything about SBS that would prevent
or seriously limit it's use in our environment? I am
particularly concerned about any connection speed issues
and conflicts with the Sabre VPN.
Thanks
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