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How many users? &nbsp;you might be looking at the wrong version of SBS.
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How many users?  you might be looking at the wrong version of SBS.

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Hello,<br />
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We currently run a small enviroment with 2 Windows 2003 servers one of them being small business server 2003. At this time we currently do not use Exchange, sharepoint, IAS. We only use the servers for applications, file sharing, printers, and routing and remote access.<br />
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Since the SBS 2003 server is rather outdated we need to start thinking about an upgrade. I looked at SBS 2011 but it is siginifcantly more expensive than windows server 2008. Since we don't need exchange and we don't need sharepoint would upgrading simply to Windows server 2008 Standard be sufficient? Am I going to run in to any problems when trying to upgrade our small business server 2003 domain to a non small business server 2008 domain?<br />
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Thank you in advance for any help.
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Hello,

We currently run a small enviroment with 2 Windows 2003 servers one of them being small business server 2003. At this time we currently do not use Exchange, sharepoint, IAS. We only use the servers for applications, file sharing, printers, and routing and remote access.

Since the SBS 2003 server is rather outdated we need to start thinking about an upgrade. I looked at SBS 2011 but it is siginifcantly more expensive than windows server 2008. Since we don't need exchange and we don't need sharepoint would upgrading simply to Windows server 2008 Standard be sufficient? Am I going to run in to any problems when trying to upgrade our small business server 2003 domain to a non small business server 2008 domain?

Thank you in advance for any help.

Small Business Server 2003 to Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).