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Of course your administrative headaches could be significant. &nbsp;And why wouldn't you just use a NAS? &nbsp;I would never setup a server in a workgroup - especially with 30 workstations. &nbsp;How do you manage the workstations?
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Of course your administrative headaches could be significant.  And why wouldn't you just use a NAS?  I would never setup a server in a workgroup - especially with 30 workstations.  How do you manage the workstations?

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Thanks for the quick response
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Can Windows Server 2012 standard run in a peer to peer environment with 30 users. &nbsp;I just need to have a new server act as a large folder.
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Can Windows Server 2012 standard run in a peer to peer environment with 30 users.  I just need to have a new server act as a large folder.

Can Windows Server 2012 run in a peer to peer with 30 users

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