Re: Going to SBS from traditional

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Jason
I think your company is a perfect candidate for SBS. And you would get some features you don't get with the standard products such as Remote Web Workplace.
But what is or could be critical in deciding this is why in the world you are running 4 servers with 25 users
Can you outline what is running on each and any Line of Business/Specialty applications you have?

There is a document about introducing an SBS server into an existing environment, but its been removed from the site, probably for revision with R2 but it can be done.

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"Jason" <shift838@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%232WdbHLvGHA.4872@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I know next to nothing about SBS, but I just started a sysadmin job at a
small company of 25 XP/Office 2003 users. There are four main Windows 2000
servers here, including one running standard Exchange 2003. This is the
first small company I've worked for and I have the impression that the
infrastructure is overly complicated for so few users (it doesn't help that
the last sysadmin left adbruptly). Looking toward the future, can SBS help
here?

Stable e-mail is critical to their business. Mailstores are under 10gb
total. Their primary application is run directly from shares on the file
server. It would be especially enticing if we could convert some of our
existing MS licenses to SBS rather than pay full price.

Anyway, any feedback appreciated.

Jason

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