While Small Business Server 2008 is really getting pushed hard these days, after dealing with it I would stay away as much as possible unless you know there is a feature there that your users would value greatly - just for the mere convenience of having new software is not a good excuse. SBS 2003 is still an excellent product, and will run on far less expensive hardware, and also allows an additional member server to add extra capacity - great for any small business from 2-40 users with outsourced IT. I know there are several great features in 2008, but some of my clients dont even use the features of 2003 - why push something that is going to cost more in hardware and maintenance in the long run (more importantly - try not to call me when its broke). If you have full time in-house IT staff and a larger small biz (SBS has a 75 user limit) then moving forward with 2008 is probably in your best interest to minimize future upgrade needs.
We have visited server 2008, and have a few clients on SBS 2008, so I have been waste deep in it so far battling some issues that have thus far been no easy fix for myself or other MS experts that we have consulted with.
So just as a pointer my fellow "techies" that do dabble in the dark territory - the SBS2008 Newsgroup is an excellent resource (I know - ewww a newsgroup, but its web based also):
https://connect.microsoft.com/SBS08/community/discussion/richui/default.aspx
Open for viewing, register your Live ID (eww) to post.
And the SBS2008 repair guide:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sbs-2008-repair-guide(WS.10).aspx
hi there,
ReplyDeletei don't deny whatever you said about SBS 2008.but what i have observed is that people are migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 for their convenience.
anyway thanks for this good information. :)
keep posting