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Microsoft Small Business Server 2003
An integrated solution that includes server-based solutions for e-mail, fax,
database, and security, with unified setup and centralized management.
Why Small Business Server 2003 Service pack 1is better for small businesses:
SBS 2003 SP1 isn't perfect.
It isn't for everyone. There are limitations to the product that are
listed in the lower section..but here's the thing. If you can live
with these minor 'warts', in return you get features that the big guys are
drooling over. Remember where SBS fits on the pricing SKU code range.
This is the 'first server in the firm", the one you begin with and grow
with. And as any small business knows...there are some things that you
do compromise on. But in reality, there are so many more features in
this product that make it so right for a small firm that to say it's
crippled or cut down or any other words like that, you just don't understand
the potential and possibilities of this box.
Microsoft's Small Business
Server 2003 sp1 is a business in a box. All it needs is your
commitment and imagination. To all small businesses my prescription
would be....take one box of SBS... add to it a few XP sp2 workstations....
add a little sweat equity and elbow grease and stand back and watch what
happens. SBS brings "automagic" to a small business.
Tentative information at this time...our OWN SP1 is slated for release
within 60 days of the end of March 2005
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Them |
US |
| Stuff inside |
Windows 2003 |
Small Business Server
2003 SP1 Standard |
Small Business Server
2003 SP1 Premium |
| Operating System |
Windows Server 2003
Standard SP1 |
Windows Server 2003 Standard SP1 |
Windows Server 2003 Standard SP1 |
| Mail Server |
Not even close |
Exchange 2003 SP1 [but download and add
SP2 so you can get 75 gigs of mail] |
Exchange 2003 SP1 [but download and
add SP2 so you can get 75 gigs of mail] |
| Email client |
Heck no |
Outlook 2003 sp1 |
Outlook 2003 sp1 |
| Shared Fax |
They stole it, we had it
already |
Had it in 2k, still have it |
Had it in 2k, still have it |
| Sharepoint |
You must manually go and
install it |
Ours installs "automagically"
[and now with added SP1] |
Ours installs "automagically"
|
| Routing and Remote
Access Services [RRAS] |
Alright, In there too |
It's the Firewall in the Standard version
[like a Linksys Nat'ing firewall can be set up to filter outbound but
not "out of the box that way"] |
Has ISA Server 2004 that can filter
inbound and outbound automatically |
| Group Policy Management
Console |
Must download it |
Ours is automagically installed, we have
a SBS group policy pre-built |
Ours is automagically installed, we have
a SBS group policy pre-built |
| ISA Server 2004 |
Sorry not included |
Only in Premium |
In this version |
| SQL Server 2000 sp4 |
You are joking right? |
Only in Premium |
Yup, in this version AND we now have
unlimited access to web applications |
| Front Page 2003 |
Dream on dude |
Only in Premium |
In this one |
| Cost |
$999 with 5 cals |
$599 with 5 cals |
$1,499 with 5 cals |
| CAL cost |
okay they got us on this
one BUT we license all the parts! |
$99 BUT we have a license for each "part" |
$99 BUT we have a license for each "part" |
| Wizards for ease of
setup |
Any wizard they have, they
got the idea from us |
Wizards are the "tao" of SBS |
"Go with the wizards - go with the force" |
| Monitoring email report |
AH HA! You don't
have that do you! |
An email report that summarizes web use,
events, backup. <SBSland
Drool item> |
Only SBS has this feature - and boy do we
get asked if this can be put on 'normal' Windows 2003 server [it can't] |
| Remote Web Workplace
|
Only we have it.
Envious now, aren't you? |
This is a web portal designed to make it
easier to have remote access for email and back to your Windows XP
desktops
<SBSland Drool item> |
neener neener Server 03 doesn't' have
this, HA! |
<SBSland Drool item> are those
things that are unique to SBS and cause others outside of SBS to 'drool
over'. Sorry we go 'em, you don't. Become an SBSer and you'll
get 'em.
Product Overview for Windows Small Business Server 2003:
Frequently Asked Questions About Windows Small Business Server 2003:
Top 10 Reasons to Use Windows Small Business Server 2003:
What are the limitations of
Small Business Server? So folks, here's the deal. For all that
goodness up above there's a catch. There always is in life isn't
there? SBS 2003 has a few warts... limitations...restrictions that
because of all those good things up there...we have to put a few
restrictions down here. That's life. I for one, will gladly take
the restrictions down here because the advantages from up there are just too
great. There are just too many "Pros" versus "Cons" in my book.
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Them |
US |
|
Limitations |
Windows 2003 |
Small Business Server
2003 Standard |
Small Business Server
2003 Premium |
| Users |
How many do you want? |
75 users/devices |
75 users/devices |
| Processors |
Four |
Two [but if you use hyperthreaded
processors it will use and see four] |
Two [but if you use hyperthreaded
processors it will use and see four] |
| RAM |
Hey wait, they have a max
of 4 gigs too in the Standard Version! |
4 gig |
4 gig |
| Fax Modems |
Same limit here too in the
Standard version |
4 max |
4 max |
| Terminal Server in
application mode |
okay... yeah they can do
this |
Nope we can't BUT we can set up a Windows
2003 member server to be a TS server and we don't have to buy separate
Windows server licenses. Besides it was never a good idea to do TS
in app mode on our Domain Controllers anyway. And trust me, as a
person who installed TS in app mode on my member server it made me sick
to think of all the thinks I might be loosening up on my domain
controller if I was allowed to do it. It was insane to do it
before...it's totally insane now. |
See the notes on Standard |
| Terminal Server in
Administration mode |
Yes |
Yes, that's now called Remote desktop to
the server |
See the notes in Standard |
| Pull off the parts to
other boxes? |
What parts? |
Nope, no can do, we must be all on this
one box |
Nope, no can do, we must be all on this
one box |
| Trusts to other domains |
Yeah, they can do that |
No, we cannot but we do have the
ability to do a Active Directory migration between the two boxes to get
the data from the old server box to
this new one. After 14 days the connection must be broken otherwise the new box will complain |
See the notes in Standard |
| Domain Controller
duties |
Whatever you want it to be |
Must be Primary Domain Controller and
root of forest |
See the notes in Standard |
| Child domains |
Yes |
Can't do that |
See the notes in Standard |
| Add addtional servers |
Yes |
Only member servers, or a backup domain
controller, but no other SBS servers |
See the notes in Standard |
| FSMO roles |
Yes |
Must be on SBS2k3 |
See the notes in Standard |
| SQL limited? |
What SQL? |
No SQL in standard [MSDE] |
Same as SQL Standard - BUT unlike SQL
standard we have unlimited access to web applications |
| Exchange limited? |
What Exchange? |
Same as Exchange Standard - i.e. 16 gig
|
See the notes in Standard |
| More on Exchange |
Hey, wait a sec, that's
the same limitations as Exchange 2003 Standard Edition |
One Mailbox Store/One Public Folder Store
called "Single Instance Storage" |
See the notes in Standard |
| Clustering |
In the Enterprise versions
only, not in Standard anyway |
Uh, what's clustering? |
Buy good hardware, run the Backup wizard |
| Bang for the buck |
See the notes in Standard |
If you can live with these limitations,
why would you buy normal server? |
See the notes in Standard |
