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Is is generally a bad idea to have &quot;non-essential&quot; applications on the windows sbs 2003 server machine? &nbsp;for example - should i have outlook (to send and receive emails), office, or say spybot installed on my server? &nbsp;I think i can live well enough without them - but I was just wondering what the experts thoughts on the subject are.
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Is is generally a bad idea to have "non-essential" applications on the windows sbs 2003 server machine?  for example - should i have outlook (to send and receive emails), office, or say spybot installed on my server?  I think i can live well enough without them - but I was just wondering what the experts thoughts on the subject are.

applications on server machine

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).