Re: SBS 2003 Server Recommendations

With SQL I recommend putting in 4 GB of memory (the max possible). I'm not
sure what you mean by SSL Terminal Services-the SBS itself can't run as a TS
in application mode so you need a second server for that.

"Twinstar" <declude@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello All,

Newbie here whose been given the task to spec out a server to run
Microsoft SBS 2003. The company has 22 users, but can do quite a bit of
emailing, and most of their employees travel frequently. They also have a
couple applications that require SQL server so they'd like to use the SQL
server in SBS. This server would be hosted at a remote location to their
local office and users will access it via SSL Terminals Services. They
also plan to use it for some storage, currently needing about 8GB of
space.

I looked at the system reqs from Microsoft's site but it's vague, so I
figured I'd ask here. I was thinking about an HP Proliant DL Series server
with either dual processors or dual core processors, and about 3.4GHz and
about 2Gb RAM. As for the drives, they would be 15k rpm hot-swap SCSi
drives.
- Is there a preferred standard drive configuration to use? (ie, 2
mirrored drives for OS, and a RAID5 setup for the Data)
- Any suggestions for drive size? (ie. (2)18.4GB for OS and (3) 36GB
drives for RAID)

I appreciate any advise you can provide.

Thanks!

Troy



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