Re: SBS 2003 Std Edition and exchange2003

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Hi everyone.

firstly, thanks for all your replies. Most appreciated. One thing that has
come out from this that has me a little concerned is how well SBS scales, or
grows. Some other threads have indicated that there are some "hard coded"
limits to how big AD can grow on SBS and that you can only have one ADC with
SBS. I'm a little concerned about this as if this company takes off it will
probably in a fairly big way and could easily outgrow SBS. Is there a clear
and easy way to migrate from SBS2003 to a Win2003 Srv+Exch2003 Server setup?

As far as firewalls, a/v and antispam, they already have this in place and
should work fine with SBS. They have a dedicated SMTP daemon which handles
all their incoming/outgoinf mail and this handles spam and virus detection
and it passes on/ fetches mail from their existting mail system. As long as
I can tell Exchange for SBS to listen on a different port for SMTP
connections it should be ok.

Thanks to you all for all of your comments,

regards

Craig

"Craig Matchan" <cwigster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OfG4tRDrFHA.3604@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi all,
>
> sorry for this "noob" question, but I am new to SBS 2003. A friend of mine
> is contemplating a new e-mail system for his company. Currently the
> company is quite small, 12 staff. He has asked me about getting scheduling
> going, they used to use exchange at a previous place he used to work
> before we started up his new company.
>
> I have come up with a few possible solutions for him and SBS 2003 looks
> like a contender. I don't think a full blown exchange server is warrented
> at this point in time.
>
> From what I have seen on the SBS site, the main difference between SBS Std
> and SBS pro is the inclusion of SQLServer, RRAS and ISA. My main question
> is is the version of Exchange that comes with SBS knobbled in any way? Is
> it the same as Exchange2003 Std edition or are there more severe
> restrictions on it such as the size the mailstore db can grow to, or the
> number of users it can support?
>
> Currently they have a small number of servers running independently of
> each other (Win2k and Win2003 Std) with no AD.
>
> I am relatively compentent with Exchange2003 Std ans AD in general, but
> SBS is a new beast to me.
>
> Regards
>
> Craig
>


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