Excellent info! Thank you Christof!!! Now I don't have to talk to Dell...
Mike -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: NF: [NF] Question(s) about Windows Server software From: Christof Wollenhaupt <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 12/4/2012 12:51 AM
The current offering would be Windows 2012 Server Essentials which includes 25 user licenses. With your requirement that would be all you need if: - the computer has no more than two processors - you do not need more than 25 users - you don't need Hyper-V virtualization I'm running my servers without a domain controller. Works for the server, but not for some of the other MS products. Current pricing for the server is $501 or less. The license is upgradable to Windows 2012 Server Standard if you need more users, but then you are in the CAL area, already. If you don't want to go to 2012 yet, then Window Small Business Server 2011 Essentials would be sufficient. You don' t need the Exchange Server and SharePoint portal for a file server that is part of the regular SBS offering. The software runs on any Intel based hardware that is currently available. I've run it on a 4 year old notebook. It's more a matter of your requirements. How long of an outage of the system can your customer afford? How are you storing data redundant? In case of a computer breaks down, can you move the hard disks to a new system and keep running, or do they only work with a specific RAID controller? Christof --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---
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