I have been tasked with the planning of the next server “generation” at my company. I was hoping I could get some input from the users on a few different things.
The company is currently running a SBS 2000 server. Because of the user/device limit on SBS I am leaning towards a setup with Windows Server 2003.
This is what I have planned so far:
-1 New Server running Server 2003 used for File serving, A few applications, etc.
-1 new Server for Exchange (2003 or 2007)
-Reconfigure our current SBS server to be used for SQL Server alone.
Questions:
1) Does this sound like a reasonable Server configuration?
2) With Exchange Server, Do I need both a Server 2003 CAL and an Exchange Server CAL for each user/device that accesses the server? Or can I just get the Exchange CALs? I am fuzzy on how this works. Same thing with SQL Server?
3) Finally I am looking for some suggestions as far as backup solutions. We were thinking either going with a Drive Bay and purchasing a number of hard drives to use for backup purposes. Our other option was going with a Network Attached Storage Device and backing up to it. What do you guys think? any suggestions?
Thanks a lot for any help you can provide.