Then deploy Essential Business Server instead. Microsoft has placed this product to specifically meet this need. And there is a product SKU to "unbundle" SBS when necessary, although I've never had to use it. I have happily deployed SBS to customers you describe here because it *IS* a cost savings and got me in the door. You just have to be clear that there will be additional costs down the road when they outgrow the SBS 75 user limit.
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SMB question.. <snip> My main objection to SBS is deploying it in places which already have 40+ employees with growth expected. The inability to "unbundle" can mean buying things twice in a growth scenario. That's poor planning. (But not the fault of SBS; it's a mis-use of SBS.) (And I seem to recall some of the license terms have been loosened a bit in more recent releases. It's been a while.) But I don't see SBS as having a different underlying design than the unbundled products. I see it as a package deal, a "canned" configuration, a turn-key kit. That has value when appropriate, but it doesn't mean the component parts are different. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
