Re: advice on server and email setup
- From: "Les Connor [SBS MVP]" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:34:09 -0500
Yes, SBS would be a great fit and would provide the business with some huge benefits.
You have two choices:
a) make an investment in learning how to install, configure, and maintain your SBS yourself.
b) contract with an experienced SBS consultant to install and configure your SBS, and then decide how much of your time you'd like to invest in learning to maintain it.
The first choice is a good one if your primarly role in the business is IT support. It's not a great choice if you want this up and running quickly and fully functional right off the hop, or if your time is best spent doing something else.
The second choice will get you going in short order; you'll realize the benefits of SBS instantly, and you may very well find that out-sourcing the maintenance is an extremely affordable and satisfying experience :-)
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Les Connor [SBS MVP]
"Costas" <cpstechgroup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3D67BAEC-0B91-4A82-9E23-6AF291FE6C95@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
For the size of your business, SBS, in my opinion, is the right solution.
The best solution for the email questions, is to have Exchange installed and setup to receive and send emails directly. Will it require maintenance (running it)? Sure...like any other kind of systems, you need to know what to do when something happens. But it won't be neither expensive nor time consuming. But you will need an administrator of some kind. You can either be the one (in which case you have to come up to speed with learning how to run SBS) or hire someone to do that for you.
In my experience, there isn't a shortcut to this. It's an "evil" expense :) When it comes into systems, either you do it right from the start, or you are forced to do it right when the problems start surfacing (which tend to be more expensive)
Just my $0.02
Costas
"Squeeky Pete" <cfischer225@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1177595966.180029.312000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI have been asked by my company to set up our server. We had someone
in here but he did not do the job properly and now i must fix it
we have:
windows server 2003
used as a file shareing machine
12 xp machines
2 mac osx machines
what we want:
all users to be able to access file shares
shared contacts
email within the office
my questions to you experts with sbs. is it worth it to buy sbs and
put it on the machine i have now in place of server 2003? Also what
are my options with emails? some things off the top i can think of
are:
host our own email (seems like too much work and too much money
between anti spam message scanner and hiring someone to support it)
Have our isp host email, but set up exchange on sbs to pull the email
using something like pop and distribute it to clients.... is this
doable? are there any better solutions?
or have no exchnage and have each client pull email from thier pop
server, problem here is how can we share contacts?
what we want to do is whatever is cost efficient and something that
someone who is not an IT professional can support.
please help.
Cory
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