These are small offices. The corporate has about 18 computers. It will get really costly to add CAL's. I know you don't really need them, but I never really understood how they work.
The only network software they use is called Fame which holds the records and what not of their students. Not everyone would be using it at the same. You need to contact MS about licensing That was almost 5x cheaper and i was shocked.
Agreed, you need to look into MS Academic license costs. No one should be using SBS if it gets anywhere near more than 10 users. You need a CAL for every computer you connect to the domain unless you license per user. MvT is an IT service provider. I will license probably per user because not every computer is used at the same time. There is a staff computer that only gets used when someone needs to enter in grades. There probably 15 computers that need to access all the time.
No users will be in the cloud. Plus you get Exchange Online, Sharepoint, Lync, etc. I was moving them to Google Apps for their email since they pay per user right now. I don't think with you get licenses for installs of Office on the individual machine. That's the one thing with doing it all in the cloud, it has to be uploaded to use it. I do have the skill to setup up.
There are 21 computers some are mobile. I'd say that will increase if they remodel their top floor. As far as users it hasn't been determined because some teachers never use the computers.
I'd say anywhere from users. There are probably students, but they won't need access to any server stuff. They just use the two student computers for Word and some Internet usage. Because of this, I'd probably go with 08 R2. As far as availability, they just have one incoming line. I don't see the owner buying another line for failover. I know if I convince them to get a SonicWall TZ, you can do failover on a 3G, but I'm going to say failover for inet he won't spend the money on.
The license is not by accessing the server but by authentication. Will those students have logins? Then they need a CAL. And students is quite a bit more than SBS can handle. Stick with standard - even if you can get away without it today, it adds limitations that you don't need. There are two other points I would like to clarify - most of our network printers use 32 bit drivers and I am doubtful if 64 bit are available, are we looking to having to invest in new printers?
If the software is available at a price you are willing to pay, then do whatever seems best for your organization. If I had to pay full price for the software SBS Standard wins hands down as it is much less expensive and has the familiar managment console and will be supported until You cannot upgrade. It will require either a fresh installation or a migration, either will work fine. Printers on 32 bit clients should be fine and the choice of servers cannot be decided by this as there are only 64 bit servers now.
You may have to setup a print server or print directly to their IP. For study To get the functionality you require going beyond SBS, you would need to look at 2 Windows Server Standard licenses, which would give you 4 Server virtual machines each Server Standard allows 2 VM instances either on 1 or 2 physical servers.
Remote Desktop Services or SharePoint. All email and collaboration is done in the cloud through services such as Microsoft's Office The physical server runs a full copy of Windows Server R2 and handles user authentication and server management. Microsoft will provide an integration module for its Office hosted service that handles SSO single sign-on and user provisioning from the Essentials server dashboard. Through the use of additional Cloud Integration Modules, admins can create profiles for just about any other hosting provider, including Rackspace and Google.
Although it targets the very small network, Essentials includes some enterprise-grade services. For example, a built-in backup system covers the network clients as well as the server. We will eventually want to set up nightly replication for our external website hosted with OrcsWeb Nor does it include Business Intelligence Design studio which I will be making heavy use of for SRS Reports. Your second reply I'm not entirely sure I follow. I was pricing out the difference between 3 potential set ups.
Hence looking at SBS in the first place. I think we might be suffering some confusion from the use of 'SBS'? I use that to mean either Foundation, Essentials or Standard vs normal retail copies of the individual server products. We don't run any mailing lists. It's just serious overkill. The only rule we need as a business is a initial support address that gets forwarded to certain staff, and our domain host handles that admirably over POP3.
The initial query of this thread was to establish if there is anything in Standard that I might be missing out on by sticking to Essentials. MS's comparison charts love to emphasize all the great stuff in Standard but sometimes when you look close enough you realise most of it is in essentials or can be added.
Like the comparison matrix says standard for in house Sharepoint and Web hosting. Well sharepoint foundation is a free download, and Essentials has the exact same copy of IIS that Standard does so those are not features of Standard over Essentials.
Foundation makes me squirm also in that it is a pre-installed product tied to a specific server. If the server dies I have to purchase licensing all over again. I'm also tied to what the OEM's consider suitable servers.
What I would like to do is what Kevin mentioned. Get a beefier server and virtualise the two server products.
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