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Advice on SBS upgrade

On Thu, 21 May 2009 07:03:00 -0700, Mike <...@discussions.microsoft.com

Hi,

I work for a small non-profit (35 employees), and we are running SBS 2003,
using Exchange and SQL.
Even in this economy, we are growing as an agency, and will possibly add 5
employees this year.
I'm looking at purchasing new server HW (current HW is 5 years old), and am
trying to decide if we should move to SBS 2008 or regular server when we
update. I know I'm not providing a lot of info here, but is there any reason
not to upgrade to SBS 2008 and just switch to Server 2008 and get Exchange
and SQL as stand along products?
I don't know that I have a business reason, and I can purchase SW fairly
cheap as a non-profit, but I'm trying to think of a reason not to go with
SBS, and I really can't think of one. I don't expect to have user limitation
problems anytime soon.
I'm just wondering if anyone else is thinking about this, and what your
process for determining is?

Thanks,

Mike



On Thu, 21 May 2009 07:24:15 -0700, Susan Bradley <...@pacbell.net

Remote access. Easier wizards to manage the setup. It's not trivial
anymore to setup Exchange and for a small firm that doesn't do it on a
daily basis, it takes reading up and research.

On Thu, 21 May 2009 08:57:12 -0700, "Charlie Russel - MVP" <...@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org

I can think of no valid reason to move to standalone server v. SBS 2k8. With
SBS 2k8 Premium (needed for the SQL) you'll get a second server license, and
SBS has several useful features that standalone server doesn't. You're not
of a size that moving off of SBS is in any urgency, so I would say, stay
with SBS.

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Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

"Mike" <...@microsoft.com...

Discussion Title: Advice on SBS upgrade
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