We are looking at upgrading our Small Bus server from 2000 to the most
recent version which I think is still 2003 correct? The issue we are
currently facing is that I am wondering if I should just ditch SBS 2000
completley and go with the purchase of stand alone products (i.e. separate
Server (domain controller) , separate SQL Server, separate Exchange
server)
and leave SBS as it is or to upgrade our current SBS 2000 to SBS 2003. I
am
thinking it will most likley be the cheapest and easiest for us to upgrade
from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003 (or later) - however, we really only want the
newer versions of Exchange and SQL server - specifically Exchange at this
point - and it might be nice to move right up to Exchange 2008 instead of
stopping at 2003. However, that may also entail some hardware upgrades (or
new server to purchase) if we do that...
Does anyone have any idea on cost to upgrade from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003 to
do
something like this and maybe some technical details of SBS 2003 ie. # of
concurrent users, max email database size (Exchange 2000 is 16gb - which
we
have already hit before)? I suspect this type of an upgrade will most
likely
be quite a job. Does anyone have any information to offer on this type of
a
venture?
Thanks, Brad
