Would SBS work for us?
From: JCoria (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/25/04
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:48:07 -0800
Wow!
Your client PC's are bare minimum and I am suprised that
you are able to do anything with them, I bet they are
very slow.
You are headedin the right direction with consolodating
your server functions onto one unit, esp with your
current paradigm of the DBS on the domain controller.
Your bandwidth appeart to be the only limitation, as the
SBS 2003 can do the things that you are looking for. You
will need a beefy server HAL to handle all the remote
connections, security and exchange. It is a great
product. If there is someone local to you that can demo
SBS2003 and perhaps provide you with a migration plan,
that would be the best place to start. The new exchange
is awesome, as well as the Sharepoint Portal Services.
If you invest the time into the faceted fucntionality of
the SBS 2003, then you will more than likely improve your
workflow performance.
Good Luck
JCoria
>-----Original Message-----
>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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