Re: New SBS 2003 Setup recommendation

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On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:30:33 -0700 (PDT), jordan
<anderson.jea@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


1GB is way to little - get 3 or 4 GB and don't settle for less than 3GB.

If you are planning on going to 2008 next year your hardware may not
handle it.

A single CPU server with HT will work for that many people.

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I appreciate the responses, we are looking at moving to 2003 to gain
features/functionality while keeping existing hardware, with no plans
to move to 2008. I had figured 4gb of ram would be involved. Will the
single raid1 array be horrific?

I looked through my storage again I can work with Exchange being
limited to 75gb. 1 user(an owner) will require 6gb of mailbox but the
rest of the office can be made to work within an imposed limit.

Moving from 2000 to SBS 2003 allows us to move to a server platform
our software vendors will support until we move off of XP to something
hopefully better than Vista(no personal problem with vista, just app
compatibility issues).

Any other recommendations are most appreciated.
-Jordan
I have 30 users on P4 based server with an Itel server board,hardware
Raid 1 sata drives and 4 gigs of ram. No performance issues that I
have heard of.

Software assurance for the next version of SBS is still a good value.
You may in the next two years want to do SBS 2008 and it willbe less
with SA.
See what SBS support is working on
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/default.aspx
Check your SBS with the SBS Best Practices Analyzer
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/tags/BPA/default.aspx
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