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Small Business Server 2008 on a W2K domain?

  • 27-11-2008 5:30pm
    #1
    onechewy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭


    Hi,

    We have a W2K controlled domain with @25 users. Our current mail server (Softtalk Mail Server) is becoming more trouble than it's worth, and so we've decided we're going to go for Exchange.

    We could get Small Business Server for about the same price as Exchange, but as we have a W2K controlled domain already in place, can we set up SBS as just another machine in the network and will it play nice with W2K servers?

    All 2 cents' welcome! : )


Comments

  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Afaik, SBS has to be a domain controller and must be the only domain controller for that domain. I don't think you can join it to an existing domain as a member server.

    Exchange is a very expensive solution for such a small number of users. It's nice to have the whole thing AD-integrated, but have you looked at any other solutions?

    Hmail Server for example includes Active Directory integration so you don't have to mess about with passwords and the like. I've found it to be excellent, but granted I haven't used it in a production environment. It also includes APIs and such so that you can automate the creation of new users and fancy things like that.


  • #3
    onechewy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭onechewy


    Normally I would defo go for the freeware/opensource options, but we've had so many bad experiences with our current system (like all mails suddenly being viewable in all inboxes!) that we're willing to pay the price for enterprise level software that can instill a bit of confidence from the start. I don't have experience of Exchange myself, but I can't think of any bad press I've heard. Also, even though there's only 25 users, we have a massive amount of email traffic and nearly 100 shared IMAP folders with all sorts of filtering and configuration going on, so max capability is needed. I'm sure the hMailServer has got great functionality, but I think it's just time for us to go the whole hog.


  • #4
    qwertz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭qwertz


    Not quite correct, SBS 2008 must be the root DC but you can have an additional DC if you want to. That additional DC has to be a non-SBS server like Windows Server 2008 Standard.


  • #5
    onechewy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭onechewy


    or Windows 2000 Standard...?


  • #6
    qwertz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭qwertz


    Or 2000 or 2003. Misread the original post as 2008.


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