Re: Migrating off SBS to Microsoft Live Office

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Read his post.

She can't afford you.

It's a good solution if the business can afford it. But I spent 4 hours last night on a PSS call getting SP2 installed, could his wife afford that?

Is SBS a good solution? Yes.

Is it always the right affordable solution? No. Not lately anyway.





Leythos wrote:
On Tue, 08 May 2007 12:42:30 -0700, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS
Rocks [MVP] wrote:
Lately we'd be telling folks to not patch for any thing period.

Strange, I don't tell people to patch servers right away unless they read
the patch and it solves some critical issue they experience. As a matter
of practice I only download and wait for reports before installing
patches. That should be the standard IT practice for anyone running an OS.

There's patches out today. If the patch won't install and gives some
cryptic error will you help his wife?

Are you suggesting that there are no IT people anywhere near her? Are you
suggesting that she's so remote that they truck day-light into her
city/town?

If the patch wants to install over and over again (and I have two such
servers doing that annoying thing) will you help his wife?

See above.

If this is such a piece of cake why is there an industry of consultants
to support these little guys.

You just said that she can't get support, which way is it.

There are thousands of people with servers and workstations that don't
have dedicated support, not to mention that they have peer-peer networks
that require more maintenance than SBS does.

Are you saying that SBS is not a good solution for businesses with less
than 10 people? I can see merit in 2 users having a SBS server if they can
afford the OS and hardware.


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