Hi All,
I'm just returning to the SBS world having dealt extensively with SBS2003 (not R2) in the past and, to be honest, the amount the technology, systems and practices have changed is somewhat overwhelming and I am finding I'm out of touch - I would be very grateful if someone could 'hold my hand' a little with some of the configuration options available I have chosen and some unknowns that I have
Users (to be allowed for)
Upto 20 office based
approx 20 on the road accessing Sharepoint, mail and receiving push notifications for their calender
Hardware
General - Intel case, Intel Motherboard, Redundant PSU, Interactive UPS
CPU - Intel Dual Physical with multi core (x4 probably) I'm assuming SBS still needs RAM not CPU
RAM - min 16GB ECC (comments on alternative memeory technologies)
SAS - HDD subsystem with 10K's - Mirrored aprrox 200Gb System, 500Gb Exchange, 1TB users + Docs etc
SAS - Next Gen Hardware firewall with AV, Anti Malware, VPN kebous etc etc
Questions
If SQL gets installed onto SBS box does it ease the loading if SQL is given its own dedicated drive (like Exchange)
Is SQL still necessary for a good Sharepoint experience
If SQL installed does the 'Companyweb' site get automatically configured to use SQL
Can SQL and Terminal Services be installed on a second server (below) and SQL play happily with the usual SBS wizards and defaults site etc.
How does the new (to me) virtulisation and Hyper-V play a part in the installation
If need be can Sharepoint Server be installed on top of Foundation without breaking any base functuality of SBS but giving all the paid for functionality
Lastly we have a basic Server'12 R2 foundoin HP AMD Turon 1.5 Ghz 8Gb based server and was considering to use this for TS and/or RDS and/or SQL
Thanks in advace
Lastly, has anyone started a 'Save SBS' campaign with Microsoft
Matt