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I have no experience at all with Small Business Server, and am about to jump into it for a friend. &nbsp;He has a small office and is looking to upgrade his infrastructure.<br />
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We are going to use SBS 2011 on a Dell or HP server.<br />
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My first question is around drive configuration. &nbsp;Does SBS allow putting the OS on one partition and putting Exchange and SQL data on another? &nbsp;Or does it by default put everything on C:?<br />
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What is the best practice? &nbsp;More than likely we will have a RAID 1 partition for the OS and a RAID 5 or 10 for Exchange (if possible).
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I have no experience at all with Small Business Server, and am about to jump into it for a friend.  He has a small office and is looking to upgrade his infrastructure.

We are going to use SBS 2011 on a Dell or HP server.

My first question is around drive configuration.  Does SBS allow putting the OS on one partition and putting Exchange and SQL data on another?  Or does it by default put everything on C:?

What is the best practice?  More than likely we will have a RAID 1 partition for the OS and a RAID 5 or 10 for Exchange (if possible).

SBS - drive configuration

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).