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Is my hardware good enough for SBS2003

We have about 20 users.
We are gonna run MS SmallBusinessServer 2003.
We are gonna use Exchange Server,  SQLServer and ISA Server included with SBS 2003

We are gonna purchase Dell PowerEdge 2600 Server with the following specs
Dual 3.06GHz Xeon 1M cache
Raid 10, 4X36GB, 15K rpm
2GB RAM
Dual power supply

Is the Dell server good enough to support both Exchange server and SQL server for 20 users access?

The company who makes the SQL application software suggest us a dedicated server for SQL, but that means we have to purchase
1. a second DELL server
2. Windows 2003 Server for 20 users
3. Windows SQLServer 2000 for 20 users

a lot more money to spend.

Any suggestions based on your real field experience?????

thx!!!

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TO: vtobusman

50 users is the max for SBS, how can your SBS2000 support 200 users?

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actually to be exact when you buy them they send you a floppy
and you have to run a setup on the floppy to add more licenses....
not as easy as going to control panel and clicking on licensing and turning the number up....
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TO: vtobusman
based on MS's statement, SBS only supports 50 users max, so i thought SBS will not let you add more than 50 users even you paid for it.

If i am not wrong, you are saying , SBS can take more than 50 users by
1. increasing the number up in Control Panel, or
2. run setup licensing diskette
am i understanding right?

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Here i attached something from MS site.

"Small Business Server runs on a single server computer, supporting a maximum of 50 connected client computers. When a business expands beyond the 50 computers, or when integrated applications are used extensively, it is recommended that you upgrade to BackOffice Server 2000."

Vtobusman, do you have more than 50 PCs connected to SBSserver?
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TO: Dovinshka
Thx for the comments

here is something i do not understand
"But apparently now you can keep track of how many licenses there are with SBS2003 than with the old SBS2000 where all you had to go with were the physical floppy license disks themselves.
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what are you trying to say?

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Now it does say that you can add as many users as you would like but simutanious connections hmmm 1 see your point

  well we have it runnn and its working i am guessing that our users are not connected to the server at all times.... are servers are located in out data center and the we have 4 remote offices acress calli some over 400 miles away...
all connected with ppp T1's..  so the front end  that the users use to access the SQL part is stored on a server locally at each office to keep the speed up but all of the data comes from the sbs 2000 .. all users use either outlook express or outlook and store there-mails locally using the pop insted of the exchange part where it stores everything on the server this is done for security reasons ( H.I.P.P.A. thing ) hnnn and i am guessing that the connections from the clients is so quick they get what the need and get off of the server...
  we have not had any issues yet ( except with backup's ) as for above question the only way to add more licenses to sbs2000 is with a floppy that you have to buy from a reseller.. you cant just go to the control panel and do this. when you install sbs2000 it converts your licensing to sbs licensing and its a physical process adding licenses.  with other versions of exchange or sql you would just go to the control panel and add users their..
with sbs2003 i dont know what they have changed but in any case it should be fine for what you are doing...
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thanks all you guys.
Techcity, what I mean is, that I have heard that there is a way to view the amount of concurrent licenses on the server, similar to that of licensing manager in Win2k/2k3 Server. I have had issues with clients misplacing lost diskettes, etc, and there is no other way to see where they are located other than the actual disk themselves. SBS2003 is supposed to have a feature, like that of the admin console, to tell how how many licenses are installed.

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Dual 3.06GHz Xeon 1M cache
Raid 10, 4X36GB, 15K rpm
2GB RAM
Dual power supply

You sure it's a RAID 10?  Cause if you only have 4x36GB drives then you can't, RAID 10 requires a minimum of 6 drives.